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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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8Exim version 4.90
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10
11JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
12 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
13 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
14 pairs of long lines into single ones.
15
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16PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
17 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
18
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19JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
20 This permits better logging.
21
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22JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
23 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
24 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
25 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
26 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 27 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 28
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29JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
30 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
31 "exiwhat" output.
32
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33PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
34 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
35 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
36
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37JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
38 than 255 are no longer allowed.
39
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40JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
41 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
42 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
43 client, there is no benefit for these.
44 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
45 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
46 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
47 is used (3.2.4 +).
48
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49PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
50 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
51
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52JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
53 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
54 erroneously found still-pending ones.
55
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56JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
57 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
58
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59JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
60 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
61 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
62 signature and again for transmission.
63
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64JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
65 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 66 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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68JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
69 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
70 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
71 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
72 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
73 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
74 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
75
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76JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
77 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
78 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 79 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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81PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
82 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
83 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
84 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
85 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
86 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
87 processing options.
88
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89JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
90 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
91 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
92 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
93 connections.
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95PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
96 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
97 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
98 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
99 versions.
100
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101JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
102 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
103 inaccessible.
104
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105JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
106 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
107 banner-time rejection.
108
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109JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
110 callout/hold.
111
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112PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
113 is the name of a transport.
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114 Fixes bug 2140.
115
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116HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
117
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118JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
119 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
120
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121JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
122 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
123 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
124 during compilation.
125
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9427e879 130JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 131 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 132
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133JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
134
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135PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
136 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
137
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138JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
139 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
140
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141JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
142 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
143 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
144 before acknowledging the chunk.
145
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146PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
147 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
148 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
149
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150JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
151 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
152 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
153 should.
154
155JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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156 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
157 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 159JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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160 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
161
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162JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
163 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
164 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
165 body hash calculated value.
166
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167JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
168 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
169 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
170
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171JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
172
173JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
174 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
175
176JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
177 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
178 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
179
180JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
181 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
182 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
183 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
184 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
185 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
186
187JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
188 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
189 past that check, despite the cost.
190
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191JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
192 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
193 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
194
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195PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
196 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
197 TLS library to consume.
198
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199PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
200
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201PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
202
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203JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
204 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
205 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
206 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
207 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
208 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
209 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
210
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211PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
212
213PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
214
215PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
216 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
217 should be warning-free.
218
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219JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
220
221HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
222 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
223
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224HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
225 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
226 general solution here.
227
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228PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
229 already-broken messages in the queue.
230
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231JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
232
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233JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
234
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239JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
240 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 241
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242JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
243 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
244 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
245
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246JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
247 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
248 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
249 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
250 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
251 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
252 if one fails this test.
253 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
254 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
255
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256JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
257 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
258
23bb6982 259JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 260 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 261
0bd1b1ed 262JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 263 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 264
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265JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
266 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
267
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268JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
269 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
270
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271JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
272
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273JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
274 certificate).
275
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276JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
277 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
278 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
279 connection after a verify cache hit.
280 Do not update it with the verify result either.
281
282JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
283 when routing results in more than one destination address.
284
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285JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
286 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
287 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
288 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
289 when the cutthrough connection is made).
290
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291JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
292 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
293
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294JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
295 Previously they were not counted.
296
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297JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
298 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
299 that needed the lookup.
300
4c04137d 301JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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302 distinguished as "(=".
303
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304JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
305 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
306
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307JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
308
309JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
310 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 311
4c04137d 312JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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313 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
314
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315JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
316 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
317 compatible.
318
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319JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
320 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
321 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
322 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
323
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324JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
325
f59aaaaa 326JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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327 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
328 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 329
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330JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
331 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
332 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
333 be lost.
334
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335JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
336 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
337 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
338 itself :(
339
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340JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
341 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
342 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
343
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344JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
345 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
346 options.
347
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348JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
349
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350PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
351 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
352
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353PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
354 are not in the system include path.
355
ad7fc6eb 356JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 357 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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358 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
359 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 360
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361JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
362 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
363 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
364
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365JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
366
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367HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
368 an incoming connection.
369
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370HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
371 to rspamd.
372
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373HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
374 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 375
87cb4a16 376JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 377 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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383JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
384 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
385 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
386 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 387
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388TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
389 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
390
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391TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
392 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
393 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
394 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
395 outgoing I= field.
396
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397JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
398 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
399 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
400 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
401 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
402 check on the next write.
403
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404HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
405 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
406 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
407 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
408 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
409
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410JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
411 mime_regex ACL conditions.
412
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413JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
414 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
415 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
416
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417JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
418 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
419 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
420 an authenticate fail is not an error.
421
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422HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
423 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
424
4c04137d 425JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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426 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
427
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428JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
429 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
430 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
431 distinct.
432
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433JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
434
435JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
436
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437JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
438
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439JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
440 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
441
98b98887 442JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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443 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
444
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445JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
446
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447JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
448 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
449
450JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
451
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452JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
453 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
454
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455JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
456
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457JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
458 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 459 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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460 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
461 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
462 they will retry in-clear.
463 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
464 at installation time.
465
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466HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
467 with the $config_file variable.
468
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469JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
470 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
471 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
472 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 473 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 474
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475GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
476 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
477 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
478 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
479 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
480
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481JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
482
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483JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
484 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
485 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
486 list order is no longer honoured.
487
4c04137d 488JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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489 for DKIM processing.
490
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491JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
492 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 493
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494JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
495 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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496 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
497 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 498
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499JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
500 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
501
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502JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
503 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
504
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505JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
506 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
507
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508JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
509
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510JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
511 cached by the daemon.
512
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513JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
514 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
515
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516JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
517 keys are given for lookup.
518
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519JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
520 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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521 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
522 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 523
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524JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
525 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
526 server-side so match that on older versions.
527
07c73177 528JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 529 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 530 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 531
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532JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
533 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
534
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535JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
536 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
537 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 538 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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539 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
540 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
541 initial truncated version.
542
ab9152ff 543JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 544
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545JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
546
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547JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
548 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
549
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550JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
551
bc3c7bb7 552HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 553
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554JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
555 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
556 induced overflows.
557
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558JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
559 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
560 stage.
561
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562JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
563 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
564
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565JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
566 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
567 former class.
568
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569JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
570 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
571 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
572
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573JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
574 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
575 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
576 extraction. Accept either.
577
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582JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
583 expanded.
584
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585JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
586
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587JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
588 it.
589
01a4a5c5 590JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 591 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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592 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
593 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
594
cb1d7830 595JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 596 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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597 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
598
610ff438 599JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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600 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
601 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
602 TLS connections
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604JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
605 sites use this now.
606
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607JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
608 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
609 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
610 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
611 have a dsn_lasthop option.
612
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613JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
614 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 615 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 616
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617JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
618
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619JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
620 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
621
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622JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
623 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
624
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625JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
626 /defer_ok option.
627
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628JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
629 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
630
fd4d8871 631JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 632 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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633 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
634
635JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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636 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
637 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 638
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639JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
640 timeout value per server.
641
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642JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
643 now have the list separator specified.
644
8a512ed5 645JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 646 option values.
8a512ed5 647
82c0c8ea 648JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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649 under OpenSSL.
650
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651JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
652
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653JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
654 rather than the verbs used.
655
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656JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
657 from 255 to 1024 chars.
658
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659JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
660
cfab9d68 661HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 662 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 663
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664JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
665 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
666
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667HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
668 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
669
4c04137d 670JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 671
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672JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
673
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674JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
675 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 676 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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677 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
678
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679JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
680
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681JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
682 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
683
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684JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
685 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
686
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687JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
688
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689JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
690
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691JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
692
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693JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
694 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
695
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696JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
697 added for tls authenticator.
698
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699HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
700
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705TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
706 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
707 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
708 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
709 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
710 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
711 the script parsing/test process like normal.
712
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713TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
714 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
715 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
716 function when detected.
717
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718JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
719 cause callback expansion.
720
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721TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
722 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
723 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
724 instead of bool when processing it.
725
0f06b4f2 726JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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727 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
728
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729JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
730
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731JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
732
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733TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
734
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735TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
736 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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738JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
739 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
740 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
741 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 742 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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743 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
744
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745JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
746 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
747 exceeded it.
748
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749JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
750 version 3.3.6 or later.
751
4c04137d 752JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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753 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
754 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 755 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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756 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
757 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
758 option is defined.
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760TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
761 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
762
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763JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
764 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
765 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
766 matches.
767
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768JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
769 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
770 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
771
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772JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
773 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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774
775JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
776 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
777 syntax errors.
778
3394b36a 779JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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780
781JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
782 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
783
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784TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
785 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
786 tarball.
787
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788JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
789
4c04137d 790JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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791 Bug 1561.
792
793JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
794 output list separator was used.
795
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799TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
800 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
801 return.
1f0ebb98 802
a612424f 803JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 804 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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806JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
807
808TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 809 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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815TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
816
817 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
818 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
819 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
820 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
821 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
822 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
823
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824TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
825 utilities have not been installed.
826
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827JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
828 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
829
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830TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
831 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
832
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833TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
834 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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835 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
836 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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838JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
839
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840TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
841 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
842
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843PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
844 not dns_use_dnssec.
845
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846JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
847
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848TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
849 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
850 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
851
8ddef691 852TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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853 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
854 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
855 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
856 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 857 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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859JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
860
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861JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
862 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
863
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864JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
865 failed delivery.
866
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867JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
868
511a6c14 869JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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870
871JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
872 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 873
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874JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
875 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
876
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877TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
878
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879JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
880
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881JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
882 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
883
884 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
885 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
886 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
887
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888TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
889 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
890 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
891 analysis.
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893JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
894
8c51eead 895JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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896 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
897 lookup).
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899TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
900 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
901 Schlichting.
35aba663 902
fd3b6a4a 903JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 904 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
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906TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
907 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
908
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909JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
910
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911TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
912 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
913 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
914
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915JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
916 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
917
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918JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
919 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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920 hosts_request_ocsp.
921
ed3bba5f 922JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 923 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 924 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
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926JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
927
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928TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
929 Christian Aistleitner.
930
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931JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
932
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933TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
934 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
935
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936JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
937 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
938
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939JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
940 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
941
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942TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
943 support and error reporting did not work properly.
944
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945TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
946 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
947
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948TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
949 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
950 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
951
0df4ab80
JH
952JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
953
66be95e0
PP
954PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
955 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
956 Jasper Wallace.
957
1bd0d12b
JH
958JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
959
0de7239e
TL
960TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
961 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
962 CVE-2014-2972
963
fd3b6a4a 964
2c422e6f 965Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
966-----------------
967
968PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
969
12f69989
PP
970PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
971 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
972
54c90be1
PP
973PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
974 by GnuTLS.
975
1f4a55da
PP
976PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
977 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
978 routines.
979
13363eba 980PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 981
66645890 982PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
983 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
984 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
985 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
986 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 987
a3fb9793 988PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
989 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
990 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
991 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 992 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 993 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 994
d27f98fe 995TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 996
6822b909
TL
997TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
998
e7568d51
TL
999TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1000 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1001
ae0e32ee 1002TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1003 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1004 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1005
1006TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1007
e2658fff
TL
1008TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1009
83712b39
TL
1010TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1011 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1012
976b7e9f
JH
1013JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1014
be4a1376
JH
1015JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1016
ec4b68e5
PP
1017PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1018
d7148a07
NM
1019NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1020 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1021
585121e2 1022JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1023
2519e60d
TL
1024PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1025 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1026 function.
a5f239e4 1027
13d08c90
PP
1028PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1029 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1030
bef3ea7f
JH
1031JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1032 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1033 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1034
846726c5
JH
1035JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1036
3a796370
JH
1037JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1038
ea722490 1039JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1040 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1041
b1b05573
JH
1042JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1043 Bugzilla 884.
1044
362145b5
JH
1045JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1046 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1047
3c0a92dc
JH
1048JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1049 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1050
6d7c6175
PP
1051PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1052 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1053 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1054
6f123593
JH
1055JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1056 authenticators.
1057
c8e2fc1e
JH
1058JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1059 for control.
1060
005ac57f
PP
1061PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1062
3f1df0e3
PP
1063PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1064 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1065 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1066 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1067
67bd1ab3
TF
1068TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1069
1070 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1071 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1072 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1073 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1074 the retry rules.
1075
1076 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1077 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1078 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1079
1080 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1081 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1082 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1083 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1084
1ddeb334
TF
1085 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1086 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1087 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1088 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1089 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1090 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1091 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1092
1093 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1094 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1095
326cdc37
TF
1096TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1097
1098 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1099
1100 Resent-From: f
1101
1102 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1103 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1104 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1105 username as equal to the username.
1106
1107 This change corrects that bug.
1108
f62514b3
GF
1109GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1110 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1111 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1112
eb505532
TF
1113TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1114
14c7b357
PP
1115PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1116 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1117 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1118 NULL dereference and crash.
1119
94eaf700
PP
1120JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1121
6f5a440a
PP
1122PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1123 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1124 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1125
514ee161
SC
1126SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1127
fd98a5c6
JH
1128JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1129 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1130 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1131 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1132 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1133 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1134 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1135 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1136 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1137 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1138 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1139
035c7f1e
PP
1140PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1141 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1142
ff284120
PP
1143PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1144 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1145 Bugzilla 880.
1146
26e72755
PP
1147PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1148 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1149 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1150 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1151 an empty string is now equivalent.
1152
0fbd9bff
PP
1153PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1154 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1155 not performing validation itself.
1156
700d22f3
PP
1157PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1158 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1159
fcc8e047
JH
1160JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1161 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1162
4c04137d 1163TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1164
8c020188
PP
1165PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1166 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1167 other false fix of the same issue.
1168 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1169 Bugzilla 1363.
1170
d13cdd30
PP
1171PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1172 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1173
e2fbf4a2
PP
1174PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1175 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1176 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1177
f4c1088b
PP
1178PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1179 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1180 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1181
c5c2182f
PP
1182TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1183
73431ca9
JH
1184JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1185
2d07a215
TL
1186TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1187 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1188
a30a8861
TL
1189TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1190 Alexander Miroch.
1191
33382dd9
TL
1192TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1193 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1194 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1195 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1196 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1197
046172e6
TL
1198TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1199 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1200
581d7bee 1201TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1202 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1203 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1204
1205TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1206 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1207 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1208 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1209
237b2cf2
TL
1210TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1211
9fc5a352
TL
1212TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1213 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1214 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1215
b10e4ec2
TL
1216TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1217
e2cebd74
TL
1218TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1219 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1220 interaction.
1221
1222TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1223 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1224
2519e60d
TL
1225TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1226 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1227
e78e6ecf 1228
4263f395
PP
1229Exim version 4.80.1
1230-------------------
1231
1232PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1233 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1234 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1235
ea722490 1236
b1770b6e 1237Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1238-----------------
1239
1240PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1241 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1242 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1243
23c7e742
NM
1244NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1245
b322aac8
NM
1246NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1247 improved.
1248
4a891427
NM
1249NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1250
c1e794ba 1251PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1252
97753960
PP
1253PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1254
1255PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1256 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1257
df6303fa
PP
1258PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1259 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1260
7e6a8985
PP
1261PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1262 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1263
f1e05cc7 1264PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1265 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1266 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1267
4c287009
PP
1268PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1269
b98bb9ac
PP
1270PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1271 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1272
4a6a987a
PP
1273PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1274
c45dd180 1275PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1276
7db8d074
PP
1277PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1278 non-compliant senders.
1279 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1280
eae0036b 1281NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1282 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1283 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1284
dec5017e
PP
1285PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1286 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1287 in spool file corruption.
1288
c80c5570
PP
1289PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1290 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1291 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1292 "Got SSL error 2".
1293
076b11e2
PP
1294TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1295 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1296 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1297
5407bfff
JH
1298JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1299 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1300
9e45c72b
PP
1301JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1302
e74376d8
PP
1303PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1304 diagnostics.
1305 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1306
4c04137d 1307PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1308 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1309 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1310
7be682ca
PP
1311PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1312 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1313 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1314 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1315
ef840681
PP
1316PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1317 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1318
5bfb4cdf
PP
1319PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1320 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1321 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1322 resolver implementation change.
1323
c6e95d22
PP
1324PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1325 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1326
9cbad13b
PP
1327PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1328
9ee44efb
PP
1329PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1330
6a6084f8
PP
1331PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1332 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1333
12dd53c7
PP
1334PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1335 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1336
9e45c72b 1337JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1338 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1339
17c76198
PP
1340PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1341 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1342 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1343 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1344 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1345
53947857 1346PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1347
eae0036b 1348PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1349 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1350 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1351
9e45c72b 1352JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1353
7390e768
PP
1354PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1355 read-only, out of scope).
1356 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1357
08488c86
PP
1358PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1359 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1360 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1361 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1362
6475bd82
PP
1363PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1364
81f91683
PP
1365PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1366 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1367 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1368 real issues in debug logging.
1369
5779e6aa
PP
1370PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1371 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1372
3375e053
PP
1373PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1374 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1375 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1376
1377PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1378 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1379 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1380 problems.
3375e053 1381
9d26b8c0
PP
1382PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1383 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1384
57eb9e91 1385PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1386 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1387 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1388 needs to override this, it can.
1389
16880d1a
PP
1390PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1391 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1392 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1393
a799883d
PP
1394PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1395 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1396 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1397 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1398
3ecab157 1399PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1400
0599f9cf 1401
867fcbf5
PP
1402Exim version 4.77
1403-----------------
1404
1405PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1406 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1407
f1a29782
TF
1408TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1409
ab42bd23
TK
1410TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1411 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1412
0ca0cf52
TF
1413TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1414 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1415
921b12ca
TF
1416TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1417 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1418 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1419
1420 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1421 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1422 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1423 not safe for signals.
1424
1425 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1426 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1427 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1428 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1429 exiwhat.
1430
c99ce5c9
TF
1431TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1432
1433 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1434 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1435 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1436 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1437 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1438
1439 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1440 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1441 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1442 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1443 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1444 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1445
1446 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1447 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1448 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1449 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1450
1451 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1452 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1453 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1454 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1455
1456 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1457 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1458 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1459 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1460 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1461 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1462 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1463 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1464 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1465
1466 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1467 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1468 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1469 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1470
1471 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1472 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1473 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1474 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1475 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1476 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1477 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1478 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1479 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1480 details in the main documentation.
1481
3634fc25
TF
1482TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1483
792e8a19
TF
1484TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1485
5901f0ab
TF
1486TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1487 repository when doing development or release builds.
1488
7f2a2a43
PP
1489PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1490 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1491
061b7ebd
PP
1492PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1493 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1494 Bugzilla 97.
1495
e12f8c32
PP
1496PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1497
9e949f00 1498PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1499 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1500
1501PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1502 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1503
555ae6af 1504PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1505 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1506
1507PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1508 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1509
6f7fe114
PP
1510PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1511 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1512
c566dd90
PP
1513PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1514 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1515 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1516 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1517
d6cc7c78 1518PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1519 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1520 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1521
0d0e4455
PP
1522PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1523
3399bb60 1524PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1525
1526PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1527 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1528
0ca0cf52 1529
10906672
PP
1530Exim version 4.76
1531-----------------
1532
1533PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1534
754a0503
PP
1535PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1536 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1537
c0c7b2da
PP
1538PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1539
e97d1f08
PP
1540PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1541
084c1d8c
PP
1542PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1543 Bugzilla 1098.
1544
4e7ee012
PP
1545PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1546 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1547
c8d52a00
PP
1548TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1549 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1550
54e7ce4a
PP
1551PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1552 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1553
5ee6f336
PP
1554PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1555 Bugzilla 1104.
1556
c8d52a00 1557TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1558 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1559
1560TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1561 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1562 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1563 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1564
1565PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1566 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1567
10906672 1568
aa097c4c
NM
1569Exim version 4.75
1570-----------------
1571
4c04137d 1572NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1573 Bugzilla 1073
1574
7f3d9eff
TF
1575TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1576 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1577 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1578
159f52d2
TF
1579TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1580 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1581
0cc9542a
PP
1582PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1583 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1584 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1585
f7274286
PP
1586PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1587 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1588
7b797365
PP
1589PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1590 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1591
caacae52
NM
1592NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1593 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1594
09dcaba9
NM
1595NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1596 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1597
bc19a55b
PP
1598PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1599 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1600
bd4c9759
NM
1601NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1602 Fixes bug 943.
1603
b72aab72
PP
1604PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1605 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1606
2fe76745
PP
1607PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1608 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1609
76aa570c
PP
1610PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1611 SQL string expansion failure details.
1612 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1613
f1e5fef5
PP
1614PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1615 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1616
4d805ee9
PP
1617PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1618 extern declarations in function scope.
1619 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1620
cd59ab18
PP
1621PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1622 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1623 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1624 a kernel bug).
1625
332f5cf3
PP
1626PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1627 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1628
29cfeb94
PP
1629PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1630 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1631
660242ad
PP
1632PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1633 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1634
bc4bc4c5
PP
1635PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1636 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1637
2e64baa9
NM
1638NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1639 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1640 Dennis Davis.
1641
4c04137d 1642PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1643
6bac1a9a
PP
1644PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1645
552193f0
NM
1646NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1647 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1648
1b587e48
TF
1649TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1650 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1651
aa097c4c 1652
8c07b69f
TF
1653Exim version 4.74
1654-----------------
1655
1656TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1657 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1658
c0ea85ab
TF
1659TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1660 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1661
0761d44e
TF
1662TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1663
0a349494
PP
1664DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1665 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1666 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1667
1668PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1669 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1670 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1671
fea24b2e
PP
1672PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1673 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1674 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1675 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1676
6545de78
PP
1677PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1678 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1679 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1680 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1681
1670ef10
PP
1682PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1683 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1684 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1685 arbitrary files.
1686
c0886197
PP
1687PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1688 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1689
b7487bce
PP
1690PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1691 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1692 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1693 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1694 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1695
8c07b69f 1696
97fd1e48 1697Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1698-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1699
1700PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1701 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1702 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1703
6901c596
PP
1704PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1705 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1706
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1707JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1708
77bb000f
PP
1709PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1710
a29e5231
PP
1711PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1712
ec5a0394 1713PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1714
55c75993
PP
1715PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1716
453a6645 1717PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1718 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1719 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1720 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1721
8544e77a
PP
1722PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1723 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1724 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1725 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1726 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1727
83e029d5
PP
1728PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1729
ed7f7860
PP
1730PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1731
7d9f747b
PP
1732PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1733
4b2241d2
PP
1734PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1735
10385c15
PP
1736PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1737
dbc4b90d
PP
1738PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1739
532be449
PP
1740PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1741
6a8de854 1742PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1743 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1744 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1745
5dc43717
JJ
1746JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1747
1748JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1749 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1750
3346ab01
PP
1751PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1752 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1753
491fab4c
PP
1754PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1755 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1756 Notification from John Horne.
1757
13eb9497
PP
1758PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1759 compatible.
1760
1761PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1762 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1763 it normally works.
1764
7f36d675
DW
1765DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1766 access.
1767
c1d94452
DW
1768DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1769 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1770 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1771
e2f5dc15
DW
1772DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1773 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1774 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1775 configuration file.
1776
cd25e41d
DW
1777DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1778 option (effectively making it always true).
1779
261dc43e
DW
1780DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1781 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1782
fa32850b
DW
1783DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1784 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1785
79d4bc3d
PP
1786PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1787 run-time user, instead of root.
1788
43236f35 1789PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1790 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1791
fb08281f
DW
1792DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1793 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1794 arguments.
3346ab01 1795
74935b98
DW
1796DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1797 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1798 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1799
90b6341f
DW
1800DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1801
57730b52
ML
1802NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1803
66581d1e 1804
465e92cf
JJ
1805Exim version 4.72
1806-----------------
1807
453a6645
PP
1808JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1809 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1810 typos
465e92cf 1811
453a6645
PP
1812JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1813 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1814 (Finput)
edae0343 1815
9bd3e22c
NM
1816NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1817 Patch from Alain Williams
1818
bb576ff7
NM
1819NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1820
5a1a5845
NM
1821NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1822 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1823
981a9fad
NM
1824NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1825 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1826
7fc497ee
NM
1827NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1828
1a41defa
JJ
1829JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1830
a466095c 1831NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1832 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1833
94a6bd0b
NM
1834TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1835
1836TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1837
1838MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1839 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1840 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1841
c1b141a8
NM
1842NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1843 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1844
b26eacf1 1845NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1846 Patch by Simon Arlott
1847
179c5980 1848PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1849 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1850
9bd3e22c 1851
7c6d71af
NM
1852Exim version 4.71
1853-----------------
1854
7d9f747b 1855TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1856
f013fb92
NM
1857NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1858
0eb8eedd
NM
1859NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1860
663ee6d9
NM
1861NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1862
177ebd9b
NM
1863NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1864
7c6d71af 1865
210f147e
NM
1866Exim version 4.70
1867-----------------
1868
cdd3bb85 1869TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1870 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1871
1872TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1873 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1874 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1875
1876TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1877 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1878 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1879
1880TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1881 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1882
210f147e
NM
1883NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1884 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1885 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1886 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1887
deafd5b3
NM
1888NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1889 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1890 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1891
089793a4
TF
1892TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1893
5f16ca82
TF
1894TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1895
dae9d94e 1896NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1897 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1898
7d9f747b 1899NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1900
06864c44
TF
1901TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1902 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1903 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1904 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1905
65a7d8c3 1906NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1907 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1908
23510047 1909TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1910
7d9f747b 1911NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1912
7d8eec3a 1913NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1914 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1915
89dec7b6
TF
1916TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1917 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1918
a99de90c
TF
1919TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1920 that they are available at delivery time.
1921
e2803e40
TF
1922TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1923
7199e1ee
TF
1924TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1925 incoming_port log selectors.
1926
e276e04b
TF
1927TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1928 setting expands to an empty string.
1929
ce552449 1930NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1931 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1932
e765a0f1 1933NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1934 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1935
4f054c63 1936NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1937 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1938
7d9f747b
PP
1939NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1940 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1941
7d9f747b
PP
1942NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1943 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1944
b52bc06e 1945NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1946 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1947
447de4b0
NM
1948NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1949
4c69d561 1950NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1951 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1952
d5c39246 1953NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1954 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1955
0b23848a
TK
1956TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1957
8f3414a1 1958NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1959 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1960
fb6f955d
NM
1961NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1962
1963NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1964
7d9f747b
PP
1965NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1966 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1967
7d9f747b
PP
1968NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1969 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1970
7d9f747b
PP
1971NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1972 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1973
7d9f747b
PP
1974NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1975 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1976
7d9f747b
PP
1977NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1978 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1979
7d9f747b
PP
1980NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1981 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1982
7d9f747b
PP
1983NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1984 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1985
7d9f747b 1986NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1987 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1988
7d9f747b 1989NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1990
7d9f747b
PP
1991NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1992 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1993
7d9f747b 1994NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1995
7d9f747b 1996NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1997
7d9f747b 1998NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1999
7d9f747b 2000NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2001
17792b53 2002NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2003 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2004
7d9f747b
PP
2005NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2006 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2007
91576cec 2008NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2009 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2010
7d9f747b
PP
2011NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2012 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2013
7d9f747b 2014NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2015
7d9f747b 2016NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2017
7d9f747b 2018NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2019
7d9f747b 2020NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2021
deafd5b3 2022
47db1125
NM
2023Exim version 4.69
2024-----------------
2025
4b3504d0
TK
2026TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2027 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2028 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2029
2030 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2031 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2032 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2033 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2034 build errors in sieve.c.
2035
81ea09ca
NM
2036NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2037 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2038 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2039
f13cddcb
SC
2040SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2041
7d9f747b 2042NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2043
7d9f747b 2044NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2045
7d9f747b 2046NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2047
2048
eb4c0de6
PH
2049Exim version 4.68
2050-----------------
2051
2052PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2053
6a3bceb1
PH
2054PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2055 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2056 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2057 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2058 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2059 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2060 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2061 for iplsearch lookups.
2062
2063 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2064 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2065 previously such lookups could never work.
2066
4c04137d 2067 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2068 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2069 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2070
2e30fa9d
TK
2071TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2072 version.
2073
0806a9c5
MH
2074MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2075 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2076 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2077 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2078 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2079 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2080
ae276964
TK
2081TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2082 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2083
0f2cbd1b
MH
2084MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2085 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2086 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2087 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2088 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2089 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2090
2b85bce7
PH
2091PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2092 local_scan API.
2093
93655c46
PH
2094PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2095
6c512171
PH
2096PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2097 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2098 encrypted.
2099
2100PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2101 by clients under certain conditions.
2102
aa6dc513
PH
2103PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2104 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2105
a96603a0
PH
2106PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2107
8f240103
PH
2108PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2109 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2110
2111PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2112
d677b2f2
PH
2113PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2114
d52120f2
PH
2115PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2116
64f2600a
PH
2117PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2118 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2119
8669f003
PH
2120PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2121
a4dc33a8
PH
2122PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2123 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2124
d6a60c0f
PH
2125PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2126
8f128379
PH
2127PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2128
8932dffe
PH
2129PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2130 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2131 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2132 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2133
ddea74fa 2134PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2135 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2136 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2137
ddea74fa 2138PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2139 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2140
ddea74fa
PH
2141PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2142
ce9f225c
PH
2143PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2144
19897d52
PH
2145PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2146
bc64a74d
PH
2147PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2148 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2149 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2150
eb4c0de6 2151
b4ed4da0
PH
2152Exim version 4.67
2153-----------------
2154
22ad45c9
MH
2155MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2156 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2157 Jan Srzednicki.
2158
b4ed4da0
PH
2159PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2160 issue a MAIL command.
2161
431b7361
PH
2162PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2163
2164 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2165
2166 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2167 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2168 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2169 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2170 item. This has been fixed.
2171
2172PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2173 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2174
83da1223
PH
2175PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2176 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2177
54fc8428
PH
2178PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2179 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2180 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2181
34c5e8dd
SC
2182SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2183
bbe15da8
PH
2184PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2185 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2186 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2187 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2188 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2189
0e8a9471
MH
2190MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2191 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2192 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2193
f0872424
PH
2194PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2195 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2196 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2197 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2198
b01dd148
PH
2199PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2200
6bf342e1
PH
2201PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2202
273f34d0
PH
2203PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2204 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2205 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2206 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2207 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2208
cf8b11a5
PH
2209PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2210
41c7c167
PH
2211PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2212 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2213 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2214 values).
2215
9c57cbc0
PH
2216PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2217
f3f065bb
PH
2218PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2219
047bdd8c
PH
2220PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2221
0ce9abe6
PH
2222PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2223
0e22dfd1
PH
2224PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2225
4c590bd1
PH
2226PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2227 no_callout_flush is set.
2228
09945f1e
PH
2229PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2230 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2231 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2232 fixed.
2233
c51b8e75
PH
2234PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2235
e28326d8 2236PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2237 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2238 other ACL rejections are.
2239
75b1493f
PH
2240PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2241 with slight modification.
2242
7c5214ec
PH
2243PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2244 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2245
4311097e
PH
2246PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2247 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2248 connection.
2249
29f89cad
PH
2250PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2251 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2252
5e687460
SC
2253SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2254
c3611384
PH
2255PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2256 expansion side effects.
2257
5a11a7b4
PH
2258PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2259 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2260 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2261 be the same.
2262
0e20aff9
MH
2263MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2264 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2265 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2266
ca86f471
PH
2267PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2268 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2269 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2270 were accidentally chopped off.
2271
a14e5636
PH
2272PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2273 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2274 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2275 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2276 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2277 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2278 pipelining has not been advertised.
2279
ec95d1a6
PH
2280PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2281
42855d71
PH
2282PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2283 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2284 This has been fixed.
2285
57c2c631
PH
2286PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2287 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2288 reported on Solaris.
2289
58c01c94
PH
2290PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2291 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2292 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2293 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2294 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2295 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2296 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2297
dee5a20a
PH
2298PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2299 cpus.
2300
d2ee6114
PH
2301PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2302
b2d5182b
PH
2303PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2304
79749a79
PH
2305PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2306 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2307 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2308 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2309 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2310 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2311
c456d9bb
PH
2312PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2313 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2314 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2315 host_all_ignored option.
2316
cd9868ec
PH
2317PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2318 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2319 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2320 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2321 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2322 is what is supposed to happen).
2323
ebeaf996
PH
2324PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2325 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2326 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2327 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2328 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2329 uses the Exim user.
2330
2679d413
PH
2331PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2332 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2333 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2334 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2335 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2336 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2337 users.
2338
84024b72
PH
2339PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2340
8005d38e
SC
2341SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2342 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2343 (Jez Hancock).
2344 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2345 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2346
3298c6c6
SC
2347SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2348
a43a27c5
PH
2349PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2350
58eb016e 2351PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2352 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2353 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2354 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2355 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2356 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2357 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2358 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2359 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2360 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2361 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2362
b43a74ea
PH
2363PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2364 advertised in response to EHLO.
2365
b4ed4da0 2366
5dd1517f
PH
2367Exim version 4.66
2368-----------------
2369
2370PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2371 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2372
2373 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2374 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2375
2376 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2377 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2378 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2379
2380 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2381 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2382 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2383 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2384 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2385
2386
93cfa765
TK
2387Exim version 4.65
2388-----------------
2389
2390TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2391 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2392 versions. (#438)
2393
d6066548
MH
2394MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2395 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2396 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2397
4362ff0d
PH
2398PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2399 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2400 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2401 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2402 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2403 rather than extend the field.
2404
93cfa765 2405
944e9e9c
TF
2406Exim version 4.64
2407-----------------
aa41d2de 2408
21d74bd9
TK
2409TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2410 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2411 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2412 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2413 these files.
2414
2415TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2416 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2417 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2418
2419TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2420 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2421 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2422
2423TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2424 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2425 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2426 in the field name.
2427
2b1c6e3a
PH
2428PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2429 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2430 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2431 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2432 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2433 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2434 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2435 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2436 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2437 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2438 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2439
1f872c80
PH
2440PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2441 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2442
2443PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2444 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2445 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2446 ignores EPIPE as well.
2447
d203e649
PH
2448PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2449 (quoted-printable decoding).
2450
cc2ed8f7 2451PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2452 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2453
ddfcd446
PH
2454PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2455
d45b1de8
PH
2456PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2457
2458PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2459
38a0a95f 2460PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2461 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2462
a2405d83
JJ
2463JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2464 in 4.64-PH/09.
2465
2466JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2467 miscellaneous code fixes
2468
6ea85e9a
PH
2469PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2470 rejections.
2471
26da7e20
PH
2472PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2473 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2474 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2475 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2476 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2477 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2478 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2479 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2480
14aa5a05 2481PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2482 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2483 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2484 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2485 function.
2486 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2487 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2488 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2489 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2490 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2491 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2492 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2493 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2494 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2495
ff75a1f7
PH
2496PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2497 decoding.
2498
e6f6568e
PH
2499PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2500 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2501 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2502 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2503 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2504 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2505 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2506 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2507
d6f6e0dc
PH
2508PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2509 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2510 list.
2511
322050c2
PH
2512PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2513 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2514 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2515 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2516 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2517 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2518 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2519 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2520 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2521 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2522 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2523 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2524 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2525
08955dd3
PH
2526PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2527 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2528 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2529 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2530 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2531 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2532 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2533
1eccaa59
PH
2534PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2535 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2536 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2537 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2538 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2539 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2540 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2541 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2542 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2543 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2544
602e59e5
PH
2545PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2546 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2547 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2548 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2549 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2550
411ef850
PH
2551PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2552 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2553 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2554 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2555 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2556 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2557 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2558
7befa435
PH
2559PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2560 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2561 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2562 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2563 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2564 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2565 been verified.
2566
48da4259 2567PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2568 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2569 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2570 and authorization.)
2571
48da4259
PH
2572PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2573 if any retry times were supplied.
2574
d1d5595c
PH
2575PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2576 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2577 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2578
0ef732d9
PH
2579PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2580
328895cc
PH
2581PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2582
fd700877
PH
2583PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2584 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2585 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2586 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2587 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2588 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2589
8dce1a6f
PH
2590PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2591 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2592
17af4a17
PH
2593PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2594 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2595 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2596
2597PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2598 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2599 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2600 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2601 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2602 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2603 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2604 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2605 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2606
2607 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2608 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2609 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2610 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2611 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2612 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2613 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2614 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2615 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2616
2617 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2618 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2619 hammering the server.
2620
c1114884
PH
2621PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2622 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2623
7a0743eb
PH
2624PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2625
0d85fa3f
PH
2626PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2627 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2628 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2629
1bf43b78
PH
2630PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2631 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2632 one case where this was not true.
2633
520de300
PH
2634PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2635 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2636 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2637 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2638 fails.
2639
48c7f9e2
PH
2640PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2641 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2642 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2643 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2644 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2645 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2646 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2647 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2648 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2649 smtp transport.
2650
99ea1c86
PH
2651PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2652 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2653 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2654 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2655
a2042e78
PH
2656PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2657 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2658
4fbcfc2e
PH
2659PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2660 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2661 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2662
aa41d2de
PH
2663PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2664
af561417
PH
2665PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2666
3cc66b45
PH
2667PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2668
194cc0e4
PH
2669PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2670 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2671 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2672 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2673
a401ddaa
PH
2674PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2675 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2676
4e88a19f
PH
2677PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2678 be meaningful with "accept".
2679
d7d7b289
SC
2680SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2681 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2682
2683SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2684 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2685 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2686
2687SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2688 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2689 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2690 there is data to show.
2691 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2692
2693SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2694 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2695 as well as the number of messages.
2696
2697SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2698 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2699 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2700
2701SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2702 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2703 have a flag are now skipped.
2704
2705SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2706 Added the -emptyok flag.
2707
2708SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2709 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2710
0ea2a468
JJ
2711JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2712 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2713 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2714
2715JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2716 match 4.64-PH/13
2717
2718JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2719 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2720
2721JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2722
2723JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2724 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2725
8a10f5a4
PH
2726PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2727
30e18802
PH
2728PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2729 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2730 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2731 contravention of the specifications.
2732
55728a4f
PH
2733PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2734 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2735 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2736
d7837193
PH
2737PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2738 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2739 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2740
87054a31
PH
2741PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2742
ea2c01d2
MH
2743MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2744 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2745 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2746 some point in the past.
2747
e4fa6968
PH
2748PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2749 transport during callout processing was broken.
2750
56f5d9bd
PH
2751PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2752 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2753
922e1c28
PH
2754PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2755 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2756
21eb6e72
PH
2757PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2758 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2759
a0540757
PH
2760PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2761
944e9e9c 2762
478be7b0
SC
2763Exim version 4.63
2764-----------------
2765
2766SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2767 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2768
2769SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2770 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2771 there is data to show.
2772 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2773
2774SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2775 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2776
2b965a65
TF
2777TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2778 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2779
45b91596
PH
2780TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2781 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2782
c59f5781
TF
2783TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2784 submissions from trusted users.
2785
90fc3069
TF
2786TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2787 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2788
6083aca0
TF
2789TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2790 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2791 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2792 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2793 there is now a framework to start from.
2794
765b530f
PH
2795PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2796 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2797 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2798
4e167a8c
PH
2799PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2800
4608d683
PH
2801PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2802
b8dc3e4a
PH
2803PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2804
5418e93b
PH
2805PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2806 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2807 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2808
b4a9bda2
PH
2809PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2810 libradius.
2811
45b91596
PH
2812PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2813 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2814 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2815
5547e2c5
PH
2816PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2817 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2818 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2819 its arguments.
2820
dbcef0ea
PH
2821PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2822 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2823 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2824 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2825 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2826
25257489
PH
2827PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2828 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2829
c816d124
PH
2830PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2831
a9ccd69a
PH
2832PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2833 operations in malware.c.
2834
75fa1910
PH
2835PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2836 signatures.
2837
a7d7aa58
PH
2838PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2839 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2840 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2841 all.
2842
42119b09
PH
2843PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2844 statements to "add_header".
2845
41609df5
PH
2846PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2847 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2848
a5bd321b
PH
2849PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2850 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2851 latter.
2852
e85a7ad5 2853PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2854 so that it is now:
2855
e85a7ad5
PH
2856 ${if or { \
2857 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2858 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2859 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2860 }{no}{yes}}
2861
e85a7ad5
PH
2862 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2863 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2864
d8fe1c03
PH
2865PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2866 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2867
16282d2b
PH
2868PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2869 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2870 any possible encoding problems.
2871
35d40a98
PH
2872PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2873 but not after initializing Perl.
2874
034d99ab
PH
2875PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2876 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2877 apparently, which is not desirable.
2878
6ec97b1b
PH
2879PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2880 queries.
2881
e22ca4ac
JJ
2882JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2883 --not options
2884
2885JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2886
33d73e3b
PH
2887PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2888 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2889 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2890 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2891
9ecb03f3
PH
2892PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2893 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2894 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2895
084efe8d
PH
2896PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2897 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2898 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2899 0.12.
2900
366fc9f0
PH
2901PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2902 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2903 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2904 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2905 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2906
c59f5781 2907
c887c79e
TF
2908Exim version 4.62
2909-----------------
2910
2911TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2912 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2913
1cce3af8
PH
2914PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2915 patch).
2916
afb3eaaf
PH
2917PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2918 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2919 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2920 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2921 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2922 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2923 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2924 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2925 451 error is used.
2926
e173618b
PH
2927PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2928
dd16e114
PH
2929PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2930 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2931 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2932
f7fd3850
PH
2933PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2934 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2935 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2936 odd errors.
2937
d87df92c
PH
2938PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2939 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2940
7e9f683d
PH
2941PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2942 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2943 option (which defaults to 0600).
2944
bfad5236
PH
2945PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2946
01c490df
PH
2947PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2948 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2949 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2950 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2951 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2952 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2953 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2954
d6629cdc
PH
2955PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2956
1cce3af8 2957
214e2000
PH
2958Exim version 4.61
2959-----------------
2960
2961PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2962 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2963 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2964 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2965 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2966 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2967 addresses as local.
2968
f9daeae0
PH
2969PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2970 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2971
7e66e54d
PH
2972PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2973
c8ea1597
PH
2974PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2975 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2976 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2977 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2978 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2979 grumble.
2980
911f6fde
PH
2981PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2982 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2983
47ca6d6c
PH
2984PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2985 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2986 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2987 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2988 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2989
ed0e9820
PH
2990PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2991 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2992 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2993 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2994
eff37e47
PH
2995PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2996 be the same on different OS.
2997
1921d2ea
PH
2998PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2999 testing.
3000
b3f69ca8
JJ
3001JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3002 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3003
3004JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3005 in 4.61-PH/06
3006
424a1c63
PH
3007PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3008 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3009 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3010 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3011 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3012 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3013 bounce message.
3014
7a100415
PH
3015PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3016 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3017 when Exim was called.
3018
19b9dc85
PH
3019PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3020 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3021
309bd837
PH
3022PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3023 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3024 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3025 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3026
59e82a2a
PH
3027PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3028 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3029 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3030 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3031 changes:
3032
3033 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3034 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3035 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3036
3037 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3038 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3039 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3040
9edc04ce
PH
3041PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3042 feature).
3043
1349e1e5
PH
3044PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3045 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3046 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3047 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3048 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3049 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3050 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3051 values from the SRV records were lost.
3052
ea49d0e1
PH
3053PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3054 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3055 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3056
064a94c9
PH
3057PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3058 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3059 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3060
727071f8
PH
3061PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3062 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3063 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3064 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3065 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3066 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3067 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3068 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3069 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3070 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3071
f78eb7c6
PH
3072PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3073 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3074 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3075
21c28500
PH
3076PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3077 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3078
3079PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3080 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3081 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3082 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3083 is given.
3084
1688f43b
PH
3085PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3086 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3087 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3088
3089PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3090 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3091 PH/23 above applies.
3092
9675b384
PH
3093PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3094 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3095 (for which there is an explicit test).
3096
6a3f1455
PH
3097PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3098
dac79d3e
PH
3099PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3100 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3101 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3102 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3103 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3104
5977a0b3
PH
3105PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3106 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3107 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3108 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3109
c91535f3
PH
3110PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3111 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3112 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3113
0d46a8c8
PH
3114PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3115
278c6e6c
PH
3116PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3117
2cbb4081
PH
3118PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3119 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3120 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3121
3eef829e
PH
3122PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3123 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3124 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3125 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3126 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3127
1ab95fa6
PH
3128PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3129 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3130 the message gets confusing).
3131
230205fc
PH
3132PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3133 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3134 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3135 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3136
75e0e026
PH
3137PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3138 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3139 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3140 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3141 same order.
3142
3143PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3144 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3145 the different processes.
3146
145396a6
PH
3147PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3148
3cd34f13
PH
3149PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3150
11121d3d
JJ
3151JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3152 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3153
3154JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3155 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3156
3157JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3158 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3159 messages matching specified criteria.
3160
8def5aaf
PH
3161PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3162
929ba01c
PH
3163PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3164 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3165
2632889e
PH
3166PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3167 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3168 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3169 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3170 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3171 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3172 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3173 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3174 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3175 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3176
944a9c55
PH
3177PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3178 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3179 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3180
4a23603b
PH
3181PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3182
4730f942
PH
3183PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3184 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3185 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3186 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3187 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3188 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3189 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3190 the variable.
3191
30dba1e6
PH
3192PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3193 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3194
382afc6b
PH
3195PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3196
a86229cf
PH
3197PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3198
50c99ba6
PH
3199PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3200
d35e429d
PH
3201PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3202 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3203 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3204 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3205 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3206 size of the count of files.
3207
f90d018c
PH
3208PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3209
75def545
PH
3210PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3211 used in LMTP mode:
3212
3213 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3214 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3215 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3216 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3217
3218 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3219 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3220 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3221
3222PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3223 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3224 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3225 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3226 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3227
c46782ef
PH
3228PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3229 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3230
71fafd95
PH
3231PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3232 will now be deprecated.
3233
2c5db4fd
PH
3234PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3235
9cf6b11a
JJ
3236JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3237 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3238 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3239
3240JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3241 with very large, slow to parse queues
3242
3243JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3244
3245JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3246
898d150f
PH
3247PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3248 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3249 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3250 SMTP output lines.
3251
46218253
PH
3252PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3253 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3254 Sieve code now uses this.
3255
e97957bc
PH
3256PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3257 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3258
81e509d7
PH
3259PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3260 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3261
3d240ff7
PH
3262PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3263
b37c4101
PH
3264PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3265 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3266 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3267 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3268 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3269
79378e0f
PH
3270PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3271 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3272 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3273 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3274
e49c7bb4
PH
3275PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3276
d114ec46
PH
3277PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3278
f3d7df6c
PH
3279PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3280 is preferred over IPv4.
3281
715ab376
PH
3282PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3283 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3284 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3285 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3286 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3287 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3288 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3289
6b31b150
PH
3290PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3291 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3292 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3293
3294PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3295
d515a917
PH
3296PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3297 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3298 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3299 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3300 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3301 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3302 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3303 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3304 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3305 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3306 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3307
9b8fadde
PH
3308PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3309 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3310 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3311
214e2000 3312
5de37277
PH
3313Exim version 4.60
3314-----------------
3315
cc38ddbf
PH
3316PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3317
3318 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3319 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3320
3321 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3322 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3323 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3324
72fdd6ae
PH
3325PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3326
3327 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3328 not a single digit.
3329
3330 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3331 string.
3332
3333 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3334 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3335 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3336 silly things.
3337
3338 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3339 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3340
3341 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3342 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3343
cb741023
PH
3344PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3345 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3346 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3347
f174f16e
PH
3348PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3349 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3350
c25242d7
PH
3351PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3352 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3353
3354 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3355
3356 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3357 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3358 this:
3359
3360 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3361
82c19f95
PH
3362PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3363 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3364 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3365 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3366 identical. For example:
3367
3368 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3369
3370 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3371 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3372 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3373
d7ffbc12
PH
3374PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3375 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3376 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3377 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3378
9f526266
PH
3379PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3380 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3381 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3382 message.
3383
87fcc8b9
PH
3384PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3385
3386 o fixes some comments
3387 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3388 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3389 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3390 and documents the missing references header update
3391
3392 and most important:
3393
3394 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3395 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3396 result)
3397
456682f5
PH
3398PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3399 Electronic Mail") by including:
3400
3401 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3402
3403 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3404 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3405 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3406 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3407 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3408
3409 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3410
3411 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3412
3413 The auto-replied keyword:
3414
3415 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3416 message by an automatic process,
3417
3418 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3419
3420 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3421 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3422
3423 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3424 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3425 other messages.
3426
3e46c1aa
PH
3427PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3428 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3429
49826d12
PH
3430PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3431
eba0c039
PH
3432PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3433 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3434 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3435
a0d6ba8a
PH
3436PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3437 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3438 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3439
f0917727
PH
3440PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3441 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3442 and treats the condition as false.
3443
096fee00
PH
3444PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3445
024bd3c2
PH
3446PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3447 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3448 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3449 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3450 not changing the active code.
3451
3452 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3453 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3454
3455 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3456 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3457
df199fec
PH
3458PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3459 (Bugzilla #53).
3460
d27f1df3
PH
3461PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3462 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3463 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3464 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3465 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3466 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3467 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3468 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3469 the text comparison.
3470
96776534
PH
3471PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3472 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3473 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3474 The same fix has been applied.
3475
5de37277 3476
9a799bc0
PH
3477Exim version 4.54
3478-----------------
3479
3480PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3481 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3482 It now does.
3483
99a4b039
PH
3484PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3485 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3486
3487PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3488
4b233853
PH
3489PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3490 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3491 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3492 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3493 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3494
8857ccfd
PH
3495TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3496 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3497 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3498 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3499 or /domain=).
3500
433a2980
PH
3501PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3502 testing suite.
3503
3e46c1aa 3504
9a799bc0 3505
e3a311ba
TK
3506Exim version 4.53
3507-----------------
3508
3509TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3510 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3511
13b685f9
PH
3512PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3513
395ff96d
PH
3514PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3515
5b68f6e4
PH
3516PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3517 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3518 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3519
1ab52c69
PH
3520PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3521 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3522 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3523
b07e6aa3
PH
3524PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3525 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3526 operating systems.
3527
254e032f
PH
3528PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3529 ${stat: expansion item.
3530
3af76a81
PH
3531PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3532 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3533
2548ba04
PH
3534PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3535 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3536 file for comments.
3537
b6c6011d
PH
3538PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3539
cf39cf57
PH
3540PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3541 setting.
3542
f1513293
PH
3543PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3544 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3545
727549a4
PH
3546TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3547
af46795e
PH
3548PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3549 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3550 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3551 the end of the subprocess.
3552
d7b47fd0
PH
3553PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3554 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3555 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3556 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3557 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3558
ee744174
JJ
3559JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3560
b582ab87
PH
3561TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3562
41a13e0a
PH
3563PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3564 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3565
f625cc5a
PH
3566PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3567
3568PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3569
21f7af35
PH
3570PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3571 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3572 HP-UX compiler.
3573
31480e42
PH
3574PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3575
2d280592
PH
3576PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3577 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3578 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3579
7cd1141b
PH
3580PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3581 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3582
3583PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3584 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3585
750af86e
PH
3586PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3587 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3588
3589 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3590 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3591
3592 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3593 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3594 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3595 contributed by a Radius user.
3596
3597PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3598 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3599
4304270b
TK
3600TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3601 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3602
750af86e
PH
3603PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3604 available.
3605
64ffc24f
PH
3606PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3607 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3608 received.
3609
5dd9625b
PH
3610PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3611 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3612 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3613 header lines when this was not necessary.
3614
5591031b
PH
3615PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3616
ba18e66a
PH
3617PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3618 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3619 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3620 exists".
3621
9cec981f
PH
3622PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3623 -bV or -d is used.
3624
aa2b5c79
PH
3625PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3626 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3627 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3628 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3629
48a53b7f
PH
3630PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3631
1c59d63b
PH
3632PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3633
671012da
TK
3634TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3635
1509d3a8
PH
3636PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3637
3638PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3639 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3640 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3641 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3642 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3643 settings.
3644
3645PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3646
2fe1a124
PH
3647PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3648 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3649 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3650 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3651 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3652 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3653 which is clearly wrong.
3654
8800895a
PH
3655PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3656
ccfdb010
PH
3657PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3658 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3659 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3660 subsequently added.
3661
1130bfb0
PH
3662PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3663 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3664
ebcb507f
PH
3665PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3666
c35e155c
PH
3667PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3668 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3669
95d1f782
PH
3670PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3671 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3672
fd6de02e
PH
3673PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3674 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3675
58de37c5
PH
3676PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3677 recipients, not senders.
3678
261cf466
TF
3679TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3680 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3681
3ee512ff
PH
3682PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3683
e08c430f
PH
3684PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3685
bef5a11f
PH
3686PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3687 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3688 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3689 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3690
7546de58
TF
3691TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3692
e5d5a95f
TF
3693TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3694 clock is set back in time.
3695
2e88a017
TF
3696TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3697 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3698
a5f65aa4
TF
3699TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3700 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3701
e7726cbf
PH
3702PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3703 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3704 (see PH/47 above).
3705
a7fdad5b
TF
3706TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3707 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3708 header rewrites.
3709
6af56900
PH
3710PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3711 type ("H").
3712
0925ede6
PH
3713PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3714
66afa403
TF
3715TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3716 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3717 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3718
0154e85a
TF
3719TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3720 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3721 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3722 helo verification defer as a failure.
3723
16f12c76
PH
3724PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3725 actual error message.
3726
bbe902f0 3727
e5a9dba6
PH
3728Exim version 4.52
3729-----------------
3730
3731TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3732
22c3b60b
PH
3733PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3734 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3735 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3736 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3737
06a9b4b5
PH
3738TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3739
c1ac6996
PH
3740PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3741 can still be requested.
3742
9c7a242c
PH
3743PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3744 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3745 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3746 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3747
87ba3f5f
PH
3748TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3749 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3750 circumstances, but probably never did.
3751
3752PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3753 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3754 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3755 in the header line.
3756
29aba418
TF
3757TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3758
fe0dab11
TF
3759TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3760 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3761
11d337a4
TK
3762TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3763
3764TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3765
415c8f3b
PH
3766PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3767 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3768 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3769 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3770 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3771 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3772
958541e9
PH
3773PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3774 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3775 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3776 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3777 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3778 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3779
c206415f
TK
3780TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3781 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3782
2a4be8f9
PH
3783PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3784 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3785
1cba11c5
SC
3786SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3787 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3788
4c04137d 3789SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3790
3791SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3792
3793SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3794
3795SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3796
3797SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3798
3799SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3800
1005d00e
TK
3801TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3802
3803TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3804 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3805 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3806
3807TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3808 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3809 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3810 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3811
9b4768fa
PH
3812PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3813 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3814 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3815
3816PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3817 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3818 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3819 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3820
0d7eb84a
PH
3821PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3822 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3823 to be made).
3824
3825PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3826 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3827 should work with maildirs and everything.
3828
40727bee
TK
3829TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3830 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3831
554d2369
TF
3832TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3833 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3834
1f922db1
PH
3835PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3836 function for BDB 4.3.
3837
ef213c3b
PH
3838PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3839
8ac170f3
PH
3840PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3841 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3842 involved.
3843
b1c749bb
PH
3844PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3845 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3846 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3847 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3848 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3849 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3850
4aac9b49
PH
3851PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3852 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3853 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3854 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3855 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3856 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3857 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3858 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3859
294520c8
TK
3860TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3861 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3862 details.
3863
5bd022fe
PH
3864PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3865 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3866
90e9ce59
PH
3867PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3868 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3869 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3870 test. It is now used for both.
3871
5ea81592
PH
3872PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3873 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3874 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3875 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3876 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3877 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3878
c6c2dc1d
PH
3879PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3880 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3881 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3882 string_vformat().
3883
fffffe4c
PH
3884PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3885 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3886 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3887
9a26b6b2
PH
3888PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3889 experimental DomainKeys support:
3890
3891 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3892 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3893 the control was given.
3894
3895 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3896
4aee0225
PH
3897PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3898
32d668a5
PH
3899PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3900
8187c3f3
PH
3901PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3902 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3903 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3904 db.h files).
3905
ff790e47 3906PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3907 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3908 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3909 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3910 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3911 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3912 course.
ff790e47 3913
5417f6d1
PH
3914PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3915 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3916 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3917 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3918 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3919 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3920
59cf8544
PH
3921PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3922 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3923 do -d+all out of habit.
3924
e7ad8a65
PH
3925PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3926 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3927 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3928
ade42478
PH
3929PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3930 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3931 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3932 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3933 record types that Exim uses.
3934
182ad5cf
PH
3935PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3936 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3937 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3938 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3939 non-existent file that was broken.
3940
b0d9fc80
TK
3941TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3942 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3943
3944TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3945 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3946 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3947
3948TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3949
47c7a64a
PH
3950PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3951 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3952 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3953 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3954 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3955 same time.
3956
a388bce4
SC
3957SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3958 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3959 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3960 at a slight CPU cost.
3961
3962SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3963 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3964
3965SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3966 by Marc Sherman.
3967
0793e4ed
SC
3968SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3969
c58b88df
PH
3970PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3971 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3972
e7ad8a65 3973
7982096b
PH
3974Exim version 4.51
3975-----------------
3976
1a46a8c5
PH
3977TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3978 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3979
2f079f46 3980TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3981
3982TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3983
3984PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3985 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3986
3987PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3988 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3989 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3990 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3991 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3992 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3993 file.
3994
3995PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3996 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3997 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3998 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3999 these two options.
4000
4001PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4002 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4003 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4004 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4005 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4006 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4007 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4008 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4009
4010PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4011 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4012
4013PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4014 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4015 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4016 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4017 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4018 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4019
4020PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4021 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4022 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4023 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4024
4025PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4026 Finch).
4027
4028PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4029 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4030
49c2d5ea
PH
4031PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4032 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4033 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4034 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4035 message.
49c2d5ea 4036
bf759a8b
PH
4037PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4038
83364d30
PH
4039PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4040 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4041
7999bbd7
PH
4042PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4043 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4044 to what was transported.)
4045
7dbf77c9
PH
4046TF/01 Added $received_time.
4047
74e0617f
PH
4048PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4049 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4050 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4051 spamd_address settings.
4052
2f079f46
PH
4053PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4054 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4055 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4056 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4057 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4058
8c841523
PH
4059PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4060
7766a4f0
PH
4061PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4062 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4063 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4064 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4065 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4066
8b417f2c
PH
4067PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4068 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4069
901f42cb
PH
4070PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4071 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4072 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4073 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4074 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4075 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4076 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4077 for failure.
4078
f9b9210e
PH
4079PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4080 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4081 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4082 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4083 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4084 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4085 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4086 "input=".
4087
54cdb463
PH
4088PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4089
cf00dad6
PH
4090PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4091 driver and ACL definitions.
4092
acb1b346
PH
4093PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4094 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4095
c5ddb310
PH
4096PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4097 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4098 understands it better than I do:
4099
4100 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4101 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4102
4103 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4104 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4105 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4106 => three warnings about OTP not working
4107 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4108
4109 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4110 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4111 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4112 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4113 for each call.)
4114 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4115 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4116
4117 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4118 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4119 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4120
31619da6
PH
4121PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4122 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4123 specified.
4124
bebaf0fc
PH
4125PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4126 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4127 "Linux".
4128
475fe28a
PH
4129PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4130 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4131 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4132
4133 warn !verify = sender
4134 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4135
4136 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4137 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4138
7e8bec7a
PH
4139PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4140
4141 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4142 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4143
4144 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4145 nomenclature these days.)
4146
e4a89c47
PH
4147PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4148 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4149
5ca2a9a1
PH
4150PH/30 In these circumstances:
4151 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4152 . First host does not offer TLS;
4153 . First host accepts first address;
4154 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4155 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4156 . Second host accepts second address.
4157 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4158 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4159 address.
7e8bec7a 4160
c688b954
PH
4161PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4162 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4163 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4164 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4165 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4166
fed77020
PH
4167PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4168 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4169
7fe1560f
PH
4170PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4171 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4172
ebb6e6d5
PH
4173PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4174 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4175 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4176
9c4e8f60
PH
4177PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4178 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4179 overlooked.
4180
4181PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4182
d7174846
PH
4183PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4184 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4185 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4186 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4187 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4188 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4189 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4190
4191 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4192 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4193 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4194 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4195 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4196
4197 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4198 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4199 routed further.
4200
cfe75fc3
PH
4201PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4202 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4203 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4204 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4205 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4206 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4207
be22d70e
PH
4208PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4209
0612b098
PH
4210PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4211 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4212 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4213 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4214 printable escape sequences.
4215
2e0c1448
PH
4216PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4217 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4218 body only.
4219
447d236c
PH
4220PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4221 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4222 are as follows:
4223
4224 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4225 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4226 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4227 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4228 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4229
4230 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4231 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4232 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4233
d20976dc
PH
4234PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4235
f656d135
PH
4236PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4237 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4238 play with."
4239
2e2a30b4
PH
4240PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4241 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4242 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4243 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4244 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4245 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4246 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4247 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4248 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4249 the log output.
4250
9176e9f0
PH
4251PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4252 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4253 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4254 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4255 "make".
4256
7982096b 4257
bbe902f0
PH
4258A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4259----------------------------------------
4260
4261Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4262changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4263needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4264in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4265that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4266release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4267from 4.43.
4268
4269I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
42704.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4271those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4272historical information.
4273
4274
f7b63901 4275Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4276-----------------
4277
5fe762f6
PH
4278 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4279
139059f6 4280 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4281 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4282
7086e875
PH
4283 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4284 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4285 place.
4286
35af9f61
PH
4287 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4288 filter fails to execute.
4289
b668c215
PH
4290 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4291 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4292 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4293 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4294 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4295
a494b1e1
PH
4296 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4297
4298 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4299 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4300 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4301 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4302
c5fcb476
PH
4303 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4304 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4305 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4306 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4307 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4308
69358f02
PH
4309 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4310
5be20824
PH
431110. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4312
eb2c0248
PH
431311. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4314 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4315 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4316 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4317
2a3eea10
PH
431812. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4319 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4320 sender verification.
4321
432213. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4323 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4324
23c7ff99
PH
432514. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4326
4deaf07d
PH
432715. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4328 connection timeout.
4329
926e1192
PH
433016. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4331 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4332
650edc6f
PH
433317. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4334 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4335
2c7db3f5
PH
433618. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4337 information about exactly what failed.
4338
3d235903
PH
433919. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4340
7c7ad977
PH
434120. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4342 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4343 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4344
981756db
PH
434521. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4346 It is now set to "smtps".
4347
d4eb88df
PH
434822. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4349 ignore_target_hosts.
4350
435123. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4352 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4353 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4354 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4355 "[x.x.x.x]".
4356
7d468ab8
PH
435724. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4358 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4359 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4360
436125. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4362 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4363 wake it up if nothing else does.
4364
62c0818f
PH
436526. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4366 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4367 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4368 end up negative.
4369
26034054
PH
437027. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4371 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4372
af66f652
PH
437328. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4374
90af77f4
PH
437529. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4376 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4377 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4378 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4379 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4380 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4381 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4382 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4383
d8ef3577
PH
438430. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4385 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4386 than one IP address.
4387
5cb8cbc6
PH
438831. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4389 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4390 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4391 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4392
14702f5b
PH
439332. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4394 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4395 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4396 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4397 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4398 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4399
063b1e99
PH
440033. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4401 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4402 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4403 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4404
652e1b65
PH
440534. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4406 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4407 respected.
4408
6f0c9a4f
PH
440935. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4410 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4411 $sender_host_address.
4412
33397d19
PH
441336. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4414 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4415 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4416 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4417 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4418 very small.
4419
7bb56e1f
PH
442037. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4421
4422 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4423 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4424
ea3bc19b
PH
4425 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4426 just the host names, not the priorities.
4427
4428 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4429 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4430 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4431
ea3bc19b 4432 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4433 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4434
0bcb2a0e
PH
443538. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4436 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4437 domain.
4438
2ac0e484
PH
443939. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4440
4e1fde53
PH
444140. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4442 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4443
de365ded
PH
444441. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4445 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4446 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4447
f05da2e8
PH
444842. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4449
d6453af2
PH
445043. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4451
f7b63901
PH
445244. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4453
445445. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4455 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4456 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4457 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4458 because the tests only now provoked it.
4459
a444213a
PH
446046. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4461 (this can affect the format of dates).
4462
0ec020ea
PH
446347. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4464 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4465 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4466 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4467
b1206957
PH
446848. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4469
447049. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4471 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4472 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4473 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4474
26dd5a95
PH
447550. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4476 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4477 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4478
343b2385
PH
447951. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4480 autoreply.
4481
1c5466b9
PH
448252. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4483 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4484 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4485 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4486 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4487 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4488 is going on).
4489
55ee9ee3
PH
449053. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4491 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4492 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4493 the line.
4494
d38f8232
PH
449554. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4496 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4497 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4498
4499 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4500 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4501 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4502 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4503 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4504 so I produce this patch..."
4505
3295e65b
PH
4506 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4507 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4508 is not defined.
4509
7102e136
PH
451055. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4511 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4512 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4513 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4514 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4515
3ca0ba97
PH
451656. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4517
c2bcbe20
PH
451857. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4519 long debug lines gets shown.
4520
18ce445d
PH
452158. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4522 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4523
1f5b4c3d
PH
452459. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4525
4526 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4527 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4528 of $primary_hostname.
4529
b975ba52
PH
453060. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4531 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4532 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4533 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4534 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4535 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4536 by change 4.50/55 above.
4537
4538 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4539 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4540 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4541 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4542 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4543 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4544 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4545
454661. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4547 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4548 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4549 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4550
17ffcae7
PH
455162. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4552 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4553
d95f9fdb
PH
455463. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4555 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4556 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4557 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4558 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4559
86b8287f
PH
456064. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4561 This has been fixed.
4562
60dc5e56
PH
456365. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4564 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4565 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4566 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4567 the caching.)
4568
533244af
PH
456966. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4570
a5a28604
PH
457167. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4572 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4573 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4574 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4575
7e634d24
PH
457668. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4577 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4578
3e11c26b
PH
457969. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4580 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4581 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4582
6729cf78
PH
458370. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4584 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4585 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4586 message there.
4587
00f00ca5
PH
458871. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4589 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4590 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4591
c9bdd01c
PH
459272. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4593 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4594 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4595 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4596
d43194df
PH
459773. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4598 during host lookups.
4599
fe5b5d0b
PH
460074. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4601 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4602
4603 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4604
76a2d7ba
PH
460575. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4606 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4607 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4608 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4609 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4610 background.
4611
461276. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4613 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4614
04f7d5b9
PH
461577. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4616 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4617 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4618
bc60667e
PH
461978. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4620
bb6e88ff
PH
462179. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4622 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4623 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4624 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4625 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4626 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4627 process earlier.
4628
1e70f85b
PH
462980. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4630 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4631 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4632 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4633 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4634
463581. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4636 tables).
4637
4e01f9d6
PH
463882. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4639
1ee1cef2
PH
464083. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4641 "vacation" handling.
4642
6e2b4ccc
PH
464384. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4644 OS variants using glibc.
4645
8e669ac1
PH
464685. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4647
495ae4b0 4648
bbe902f0
PH
4649----------------------------------------------------
4650See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4651----------------------------------------------------
4652
4653
4654Exim version 4.44
4655-----------------
4656
4657 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4658 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4659 transport
4660
4661 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4662 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4663 place.
4664
4665 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4666 filter fails to execute.
4667
4668 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4669 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4670 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4671 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4672 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4673
4674 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4675 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4676 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4677 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4678
4679 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4680 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4681 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4682 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4683 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4684
4685 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4686
4687 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4688 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4689 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4690 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4691
4692 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4693 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4694 sender verification.
4695
469610. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4697 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4698
469911. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4700 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4701
470212. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4703 ignore_target_hosts.
4704
470513. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4706 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4707 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4708 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4709 "[x.x.x.x]".
4710
471114. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4712 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4713 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4714
471515. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4716 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4717 wake it up if nothing else does.
4718
471916. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4720 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4721 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4722 end up negative.
4723
472417. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4725 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4726
ea3a6f44 472718. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4728
472919. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4730 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4731 empty pattern.
4732
473320. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4734 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4735 one IP address.
4736
ea3a6f44
NM
473721. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4738 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4739 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4740 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4741 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4742 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4743
ea3a6f44
NM
474422. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4745 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4746 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4747
474823. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4749 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4750 $sender_host_address.
4751
475224. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4753
ea3a6f44
NM
475425. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4755 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4756 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4757
475826. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4759 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4760
ea3a6f44
NM
476127. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4762 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4763
ea3a6f44
NM
476428. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4765 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4766 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4767 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4768
476929. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4770 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4771 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4772
ea3a6f44
NM
477330. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4774 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4775 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4776 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4777
ea3a6f44
NM
477831. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4779 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4780 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4781
ea3a6f44
NM
478231. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4783 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4784
ea3a6f44
NM
478532. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4786 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4787 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4788 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4789 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4790 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4791 is going on).
bbe902f0 4792
ea3a6f44
NM
479333. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4794 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4795 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4796 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4797 CAN-2005-0021
4798
ea3a6f44
NM
479934. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4800 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4801 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4802 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4803 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4804 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4805 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4806
4807 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4808 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4809 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4810 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4811 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4812 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4813 CAN-2005-0021
4814
ea3a6f44
NM
481535. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4816 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4817 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4818 CAN-2005-0022
4819
ea3a6f44
NM
482036. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4821 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4822 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4823 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4824 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4825
ea3a6f44
NM
482637. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4827 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4828 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4829 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4830 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4831
ea3a6f44
NM
483238. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4833 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4834 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4835 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4836 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4837
4838
495ae4b0
PH
4839Exim version 4.43
4840-----------------
4841
4842 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4843 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4844 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4845 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4846 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4847 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4848 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4849
4850 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4851 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4852 the delivery.
4853
4854 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4855
4856 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4857
4858 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4859 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4860 to local_scan().
4861
4862 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4863 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4864 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4865 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4866 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4867
4868 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4869 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4870
4871 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4872
4873 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4874
487510. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4876 header_sender only.
4877
487811. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4879 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4880
488112. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4882 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4883 affecting debugging statements).
4884
488513. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4886
488714. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4888 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4889 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4890 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4891 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4892 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4893 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4894 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4895 after the received time, and all would be well.
4896
489715. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4898 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4899 condition in an expansion string.
4900
490116. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4902
490317. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4904 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4905 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4906 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4907 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4908 job under whatever limits there are.
4909
491018. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4911
491219. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4913 space).
4914
491520. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4916 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4917 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4918 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4919 return path is set.
4920
492121. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4922 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4923 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4924 binary data in such strings.
4925
492622. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4927
492823. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4929 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4930 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4931 failure, which is pointless.
4932
493324. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4934
493525. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4936
493726. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4938 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4939 Sender: header lines.
4940
494127. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4942 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4943 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4944
494528. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4946 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4947 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4948 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4949 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4950 happens.
4951
495229. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4953 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4954 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4955 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4956 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4957
495830. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4959 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4960 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4961 1024.
4962
496331. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4964 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4965
496632. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4967 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4968
496933. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4970
497132. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4972
497333. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4974
497534. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4976 syntax error.
4977
497835. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4979
498036. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4981
498237. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4983 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4984 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4985 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4986
498738. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4988 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4989
4990
4991Exim version 4.42
4992-----------------
4993
4994 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4995 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4996 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4997 it was not quoted.
4998 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4999 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5000 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5001 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5002 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5003 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5004
5005 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5006 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5007 verification failure".
5008
5009 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5010 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5011 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5012 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5013
5014 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5015 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5016 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5017 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5018 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5019 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5020 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5021 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5022 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5023 treated as a timeout.
5024
5025 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5026 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5027 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5028 not set for Exim filters).
5029
5030 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5031 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5032 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5033
5034 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5035
5036 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5037 try to make them clearer.
5038
5039 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5040 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5041
5042 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5043
5044 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5045
504610. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5047 only the Cygwin environment.
5048
504911. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5050 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5051 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5052 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5053 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5054
505512. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5056 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5057 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5058 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5059 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5060 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5061 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5062
506313. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5064 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5065
506614. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5067
5068 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5069 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5070 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5071
5072 To: susanne@some.where
5073
5074 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5075 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5076 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5077 of addresses in From: header lines).
5078
5079 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5080 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5081 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5082
5083 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5084 treated as non-personal.
5085
5086 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5087 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5088
508915. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5090
509116. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5092
509317. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5094 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5095 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5096
509718. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5098 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5099
510019. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5101 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5102 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5103 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5104 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5105 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5106
510720. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5108 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5109 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5110 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5111 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5112 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5113 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5114 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5115
5116 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5117
511821. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5119 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5120
512122. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5122 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5123 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5124
512523. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5126 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5127
512824. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5129 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5130 rather than long int.
5131
513225. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5133
513426. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5135
5136
5137Exim version 4.41
5138-----------------
5139
5140 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5141 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5142 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5143 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5144 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5145 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5146
5147
5148Exim version 4.40
5149-----------------
5150
5151 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5152 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5153
5154 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5155 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5156 socklen_t is defined.
5157
5158 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5159 always exist.
5160
5161 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5162 configured.
5163
5164 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5165 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5166 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5167 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5168 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5169
5170 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5171 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5172 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5173 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5174
5175 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5176 of flapping under certain conditions.
5177
5178 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5179 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5180 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5181
5182 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5183
518410. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5185
518611. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5187 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5188 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5189 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5190
519112. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5192 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5193 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5194 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5195 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5196 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5197 preserved with the message after it was received.
5198
519913. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5200 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5201 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5202 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5203 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5204 test suite worked just fine.
5205
520614. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5207 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5208 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5209
521015. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5211 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5212 string.
5213
521416. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5215 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5216 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5217 does not fully solve it.
5218
521917. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5220 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5221 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5222 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5223 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5224
522518. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5226 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5227 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5228
522919. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5230 string, for example:
5231
5232 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5233
5234 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5235 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5236 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5237 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5238 the routers could not see them.
5239
524020. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5241 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5242
524321. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5244 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5245 output).
5246
524722. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5248 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5249 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5250 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5251 that needed quoting.
5252
525323. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5254 was not being matched caselessly.
5255
525624. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5257 backslashes.
5258
525925. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5260 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5261 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5262 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5263 when use_sender is false.
5264
526526. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5266
526727. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5268
526928. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5270
527129. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5272 the configuration file.
5273
527430. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5275 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5276
527731. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5278
527932. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5280 bytes in the message body.
5281
528233. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5283 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5284 delivery.
5285
528634. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5287
528835. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5289
529036. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5291 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5292 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5293 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5294 another IP address.
5295
5296
5297Exim version 4.34
5298-----------------
5299
5300 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5301 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5302
5303 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5304 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5305 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5306 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5307 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5308
5309 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5310 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5311
5312 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5313 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5314 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5315
5316 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5317 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5318 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5319
5320 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5321 for routers.
5322
5323 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5324 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5325 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5326 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5327 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5328 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5329 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5330
5331
5332Exim version 4.33
5333-----------------
5334
5335 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5336 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5337 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5338 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5339 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5340 default (and expected) setting.
5341
5342 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5343 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5344 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5345 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5346
5347 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5348 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5349
5350 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5351 in domain lists.
5352
5353 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5354 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5355 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5356 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5357 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5358 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5359
5360 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5361 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5362 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5363
5364 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5365 part (NOT match_host).
5366
5367 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5368
5369 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5370 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5371 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5372 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5373 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5374 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5375 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5376 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5377 the same named file.
5378
537910. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5380 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5381 when Exim is built.
5382
538311. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5384 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5385 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5386 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5387 a host name.
5388
538912. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5390 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5391 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5392
539313. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5394
539514. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5396
539715. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5398
539916. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5400 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5401
540217. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5403 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5404 before starting the TLS session.
5405
540618. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5407
540819. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5409 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5410
541120. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5412 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5413 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5414 colon in the middle).
5415
5416
5417Exim version 4.32
5418-----------------
5419
5420 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5421 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5422 multiple configurations are in use.
5423
5424 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5425 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5426 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5427 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5428 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5429 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5430
5431 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5432 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5433
5434 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5435 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5436 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5437
5438 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5439 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5440 occurs.
5441
5442 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5443 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5444
5445 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5446
5447 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5448 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5449
5450 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5451
5452 -prval:sval
5453
5454 is equivalent to
5455
5456 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5457
5458 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5459 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5460 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5461 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5462 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5463
546410. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5465 Exim's behaviour:
5466
5467 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5468 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5469 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5470 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5471 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5472 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5473
5474 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5475 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5476 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5477 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5478 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5479 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5480 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5481 string.
5482
5483 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5484 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5485 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5486 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5487 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5488
548911. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5490
549112. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5492 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5493 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5494
549513. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5496
549714. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5498 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5499 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5500 information.
5501
550215. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5503 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5504
550516. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5506 Three changes have been made:
5507
5508 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5509 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5510 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5511 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5512 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5513
5514 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5515 been restored.
5516
5517 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5518 the modified behaviour.
5519
5520
5521Exim version 4.31
5522-----------------
5523
5524 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5525 Larry Rosenman.
5526
5527 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5528 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5529
5530 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5531 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5532 try to track down a specific problem.
5533
5534 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5535 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5536 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5537
5538 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5539 warning.
5540
5541 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5542 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5543 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5544 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5545 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5546 some earlier ones do not.
5547
5548 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5549
5550 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5551 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5552 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5553 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5554 address literals are enabled, of course).
5555
5556 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5557
555810. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5559 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5560 by a command such as
5561
5562 exim -f "" ...
5563
5564 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5565
556611. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5567
556812. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5569 remained set. It is now erased.
5570
557113. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5572 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5573
557414. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5575 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5576 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5577 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5578 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5579 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5580 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5581 appropriate error code.
5582
558315. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5584 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5585 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5586 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5587 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5588 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5589
559016. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5591 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5592 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5593
559417. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5595 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5596 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5597 terminate the header.
5598
559918. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5600 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5601 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5602
560319. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5604 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5605 (4.30/29). In particular:
5606
5607 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5608 imposed.
5609
5610 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5611 to write a maildirsize file.
5612
5613 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5614 the transport, the new value overrides.
5615
5616 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5617 count.
5618
561920. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5620 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5621 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5622 space or a tab.
5623
562421. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5625 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5626 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5627 the fallback hosts.
5628
562922. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5630 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5631 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5632
563323. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5634 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5635 using a union.
5636
563724. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5638 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5639 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5640
564125. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5642
564326. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5644
564527. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5646
564728. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5648 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5649 become corrupted.
5650
565129. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5652 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5653 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5654 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5655 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5656 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5657 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5658 too great.
5659
566030. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5661 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5662 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5663 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5664 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5665 incorrectly.
5666
566731. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5668 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5669 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5670 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5671 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5672 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5673 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5674 cached value only when the same options are set.
5675
567632. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5677
567833. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5679 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5680 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5681 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5682 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5683
568434: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5685 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5686 it is clearly obsolete.
5687
568835. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5689 transport.
5690
569136. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5692 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5693 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5694 times.
5695
569637. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5697 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5698 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5699 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5700 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5701
570238. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5703 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5704 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5705 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5706
570739. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5708
5709 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5710
5711 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5712 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5713 2^31.
5714
571540. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5716 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5717 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5718 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5719 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5720 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5721 $localpart_data.
5722
572341. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5724 with the -f command-line option.
5725
572642. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5727 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5728 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5729 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5730 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5731 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5732
573343. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5734 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5735 line.
5736
573744. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5738 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5739 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5740 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5741 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5742 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5743 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5744 buffer is too small.
5745
574645. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5747 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5748
574946. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5750 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5751 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5752 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5753 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5754 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5755 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5756 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5757 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5758
575947. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5760 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5761 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5762
576348. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5764 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5765 ACL").
5766
576749. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5768 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5769 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5770 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5771 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5772
577350. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5774 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5775 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5776 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5777 is set.
5778
577951. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5780
578152. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5782
578353. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5784 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5785
578654. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5787 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5788 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5789
579055. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5791 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5792 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5793 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5794 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5795
579656. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5797 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5798 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5799 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5800 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5801 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5802 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5803
580457. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5805 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5806 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5807 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5808 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5809 the test of how many are available.
5810
581158. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5812 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5813 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5814 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
495ae4b0
PH
5815 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5816 new message is started.
5817
581859. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5819 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5820
582160. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5822 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5823
582461. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5825 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5826 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5827 is no long logged.
5828
582962. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5830 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5831 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5832 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5833 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5834 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5835 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5836
583763. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5838 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5839 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5840 interpreted as octal.
5841
584264. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5843 setting.
5844
584565. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5846 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5847 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5848 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5849 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5850 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5851
585266. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5853 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5854 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5855 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5856
5857 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5858 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5859 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5860 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5861
5862 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5863 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5864 is a bug fix.
5865
5866 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5867 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5868
586967. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5870
587168. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5872 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5873 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5874 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5875
587669. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5877 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5878 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5879 supplied", which is not helpful.
5880
588170. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5882 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5883 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5884
588571. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5886 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5887 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5888 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5889 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5890 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5891 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5892 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5893
589472. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5895 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5896 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5897 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5898 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5899
590073. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5901 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5902 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5903 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 5904 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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5905 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5906
590774. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5908 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5909 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5910
591175. Added write_rejectlog option.
5912
591376. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5914 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5915 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5916 variables.
5917
591877. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5919
592078. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5921 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5922 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5923 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5924 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5925 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5926 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5927 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5928
592979. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5930 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5931 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5932 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5933 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5934
593580. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5936 Haardt.
5937
593881. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5939 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5940 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5941 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5942 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5943 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5944 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5945 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5946 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5947
5948
5949Exim version 4.30
5950-----------------
5951
5952 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5953 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5954 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5955
5956 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5957 fixed.
5958
5959 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5960 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5961 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5962
5963 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5964 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5965 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5966 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5967 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 5968 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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5970 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5971 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5972 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5973 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5974 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5975 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5976 the Exim test suite.
5977
5978 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5979 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5980 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5981 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5982
5983 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5984 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5985 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5986 specify it in this variable.
5987
5988 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5989 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5990 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5991 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5992
5993 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5994 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5995 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5996 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5997
5998 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5999 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6000 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6001 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6002 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6003
6004 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6005
600610. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6007 they are logged.
6008
600911. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6010 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6011 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6012 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6013 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6014
601512. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6016 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6017
601813. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6019 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6020 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6021 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6022 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6023
602414. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6025 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6026
602715. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6028 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6029 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6030
603116. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6032 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6033
603417. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6035 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6036
603718. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6038 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6039 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6040
604119. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6042 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6043
604420. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6045 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6046 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6047 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6048
604921. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6050
605122. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6052 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6053 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6054 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6055
605623. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6057
605824. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6059 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6060
606125. Added .include_if_exists.
6062
606326. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6064 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6065 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6066 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6067 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6068 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6069
607027. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6071
607228. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6073 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6074 this.
6075
607629. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6077
607830. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6079 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6080
6081 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6082 550 Sender verify failed
6083
6084 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6085 the final line of the response.
6086
608731. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6088 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6089 all other user lookups.
6090
609132. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6092 delivery time.
6093
609433. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6095 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6096 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6097 result into an int without checking.
6098
609934. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6100 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6101 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6102
610335. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6104 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6105 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6106 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6107
610836. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6109 correctly.
6110
611137. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6112 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6113
611438. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6115 to the empty sender.
6116
611739. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6118 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6119 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6120 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6121 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6122 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6123 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6124 panic log.
6125
612640. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6127 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6128 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6129 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6130 used.
6131
613241. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6133 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6134
613542. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6136 timestamps.
6137
613843. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6139 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6140
614144. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6142
614345. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6144 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6145 logs.
6146
614746. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6148 as soon as it is encountered.
6149
615047. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6151
615248. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6153 rewritten to "<>".
6154
615549. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6156 recognizes a tab character.
6157
615850. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6159 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6160 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6161 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6162
616351. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6164
616552. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6166 crash.
6167
616853. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6169
617054. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6171
617255. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6173 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6174 2822.
6175
617656. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6177 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6178 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6179 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6180 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6181
618257. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6183 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6184
618558. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6186 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6187 list (.included file names were always shown).
6188
618959. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6190 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6191 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6192 root at that time.
6193
619460. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6195 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6196
619761. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6198
619962. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6200
620163. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6202
620364. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6204 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6205 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6206 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6207 failures to open the logs.
6208
620965. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6210 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6211 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6212 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6213 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6214 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6215 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6216
6217
6218Exim version 4.24
6219-----------------
6220
6221 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6222 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6223 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6224 change 4.23/1.
6225
6226 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6227 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6228 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6229
6230 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6231 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6232 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6233
6234 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6235 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6236 causing some misleading effects.
6237
6238 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6239 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6240 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6241
6242 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6243 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6244 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6245 queue-runner function directly.
6246
6247
6248Exim version 4.23
6249-----------------
6250
6251 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6252 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6253
6254 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6255 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6256 was always written to the default place.
6257
6258 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6259 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6260 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6261
6262 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6263
6264 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6265
6266 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6267 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6268 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6269
6270 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6271 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6272 must start.
6273
6274 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6275 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6276 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6277
6278 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6279 command line option is disabled.
6280
6281 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6282 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6283
6284 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6285
6286 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6287
6288 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6289 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6290
629110. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6292
629311. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6294 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6295 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6296 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6297 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6298 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6299
630012. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6301 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6302 timeout.
6303
630413. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6305 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6306
630714. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6308 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6309
631015. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6311 received was valid base64.
6312
631316. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6314 name of the variable that was being set.
6315
631617. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6317
631818. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6319 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6320 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6321 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6322 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6323 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6324
632519. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6326
632720. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6328 nor realm was specified.
6329
633021. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6331 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6332 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6333 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6334
633522. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6336 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6337 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6338
633923. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6340 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6341 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6342
634324. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6344 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6345 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6346 some systems use these upper case variants.
6347
634825. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6349 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6350 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6351 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6352
635326. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6354
635527. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6356 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6357
635828. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6359 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6360 expansion variable.
6361
636229. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6363
636430. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6365 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6366 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6367 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6368
636931. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6370 using it.
6371
637232. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6373 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6374 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6375
637633. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6377 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6378
637934. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6380 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6381 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6382 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6383
638435. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6385 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6386 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6387
638836. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6389
639037. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6391 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6392 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6393 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6394 aborted.
6395
639638. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6397 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6398 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6399
640039. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6401
640240. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6403 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6404
640541. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6406 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6407
640842. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6409 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6410 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6411 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6412 when emails are that large.
6413
6414
6415
6416Exim version 4.22
6417-----------------
6418
6419 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6420 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6421
6422 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6423 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6424 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6425
6426 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6427 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6428 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6429
6430 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6431 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6432 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6433 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6434 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6435
6436 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6437 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6438 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6439 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6440 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6441 ever.
6442
6443 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6444 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6445 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6446 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6447 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6448 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6449 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6450 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6451 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6452 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6453 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6454 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6455 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6456 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6457
6458 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6459 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6460 parameterised it.
6461
6462 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6463 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6464 error should be diagnosed.
6465
6466 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6467 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6468 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6469 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6470 appeared instead of "NULL".
6471
647210. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6473 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6474 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6475 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6476 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6477 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6478 proceeds).
6479
6480 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6481 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6482 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6483
6484
6485Exim version 4.21
6486-----------------
6487
6488 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6489 or receiver verification errors.
6490
6491 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6492 name.
6493
6494 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6495 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6496 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6497 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6498
6499 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6500 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6501 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6502 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6503 shouldn't happen again.
6504
6505 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6506 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6507 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6508
6509 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6510 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6511
6512 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6513
6514 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6515 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6516
6517 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6518 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6519 RFC.
6520
652110. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6522 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6523 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6524
652511. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6526 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6527 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6528 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6529
653012. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6531 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6532 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6533 to define what should happen).
6534
653513. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6536 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6537 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6538
653914. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6540
654115. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6542
654316. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6544 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6545
4c04137d 654617. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6547 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6548 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6549 structure in all cases.
6550
6551 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6552 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6553 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6554 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6555
655618. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6557 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6558 domain name.
6559
656019. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6561 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6562
656320. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6564 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6565
656621. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6567 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6568 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6569
657022. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6571 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6572 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6573
657423. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6575 the book and for uniformity.
6576
657724. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6578
657925. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6580 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6581 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6582 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6583 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6584 non-existent command as the problem.
6585
658626. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6587 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6588 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6589
659027. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6591
659228. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6593 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6594 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6595
659629. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6597 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6598 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6599 timestamps using strftime().
6600
660130. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6602 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6603
660432. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6605 transport-time rewrites.
6606
660733. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6608 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6609 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6610 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6611
661234. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6613 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6614
661535. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6616 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6617 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6618 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6619 comma and a space.
6620
662136. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6622 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6623 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6624 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6625 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6626 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6627 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6628
662937. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6630 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6631 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6632 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6633 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6634
663538. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6636 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6637 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6638 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6639 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6640 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6641 remaining text gets split now.
6642
664339. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6644 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6645 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6646 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6647
664840. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6649 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6650 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6651 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6652 $return_path.
6653
665441. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6655 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6656 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6657 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6658 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6659 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6660 passed through if needed.
6661
666242. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6663 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6664 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6665 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6666 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6667 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6668
666943. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6670 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6671 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6672 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6673 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6674
667544. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6676 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6677 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6678 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6679 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6680
668145. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6682 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6683 noticed.
6684
668546. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6686 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6687 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6688 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6689 mayhem of various kinds.
6690
669147. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6692 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6693 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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6694 the right test for positive values.
6695
669648. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6697 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6698 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6699 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6700 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6701 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6702 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6703 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6704 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6705 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6706 envelope.
6707
670849. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6709 module.
6710
671150. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6712 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6713 forbidding it.
6714
671551. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6716 the existing equality matching.
6717
671852. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6719 dealing with inode numbers.
6720
672153. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6722 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6723 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6724
672554. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6726 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6727 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6728 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6729 local_scan().
6730
673155. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6732 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6733 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6734 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6735 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6736 relay addresses has also been removed.
6737
673856. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6739
674057. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6741 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6742 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6743
674458. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6745 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6746 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6747 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6748 processing applies to CR:
6749
6750 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6751 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6752
6753 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6754 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6755 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6756 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6757
675859. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6759 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6760 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6761
676260. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6763 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6764 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6765 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6766 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6767 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6768 arisen.
6769
677061. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6771 program routers.
6772
677362. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6774 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6775 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6776 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6777 adds:
6778
6779 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6780
6781 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6782
6783 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6784
678563. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6786 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6787 not considered personal.
6788
678964. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6790
679165. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6792
679366. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6794
679567. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6796 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6797 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6798 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6799 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6800 header lines, and spool format errors.
6801
680268. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6803 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6804 for more flexibility.
6805
680669. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6807 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6808 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6809
681070. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6811 Sabourenkov.
6812
681371. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6814 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6815 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6816 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6817 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6818 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6819 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6820 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6821 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6822
682372. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6824 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6825 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6826 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6827 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6828 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6829 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6830
683173. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6832 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6833 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6834
683574. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6836 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6837 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6838 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6839 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6840 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6841 instead of killing the process with assert().
6842
684375. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6844 than Unicode encoding.
6845
684676. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6847 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6848 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6849 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6850
685177. Added process_log_path.
6852
685378. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6854 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6855
685679. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6857 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6858
685980. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6860 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6861 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6862
686381. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6864 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6865 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6866 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6867 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6868 were applied:
6869
6870 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6871 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6872 as invalid.
6873
687482. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6875 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6876 they will be used during message reception.
6877
6878
6879Exim version 4.20
6880-----------------
6881
6882The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6883
6884****