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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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4Exim version 4.88
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6JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
7 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
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9JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
10 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
11 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
12
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13JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
14 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
15 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
16 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
17 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
18 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
19 if one fails this test.
20 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
21 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
22
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23JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
24 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
25
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26JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
27 selfsigned certificate for inbound TLS connections.
28
0bd1b1ed 29JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 30 in rewrites and routers.
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32JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
33 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
34
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35JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
36 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
37
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38JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
39
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40JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
41 certificate).
42
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43JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
44 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
45 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
46 connection after a verify cache hit.
47 Do not update it with the verify result either.
48
49JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
50 when routing results in more than one destination address.
51
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52JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
53 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
54 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
55 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
56 when the cutthrough connection is made).
57
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58JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
59 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
60
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61JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
62 Previously they were not counted.
63
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64JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
65 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
66 that needed the lookup.
67
803628d5 68JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a norml message arrival "<="; now
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69 distinguished as "(=".
70
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71JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
72 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
73
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74JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
75
76JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
77 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 78
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79JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quaratine results,
80 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
81
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82JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
83 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
84 compatible.
85
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86JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
87 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
88 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
89 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
90
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91JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
92
d7bed771 93JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the sourcecode
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94 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
95 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 96
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97JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
98 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
99 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
100 be lost.
101
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103Exim version 4.87
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105JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
106 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
107 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
108 client dropping the TLS connection.
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110TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
111 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
112
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113TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
114 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
115 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
116 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
117 outgoing I= field.
118
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119JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
120 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
121 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
122 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
123 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
124 check on the next write.
125
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126HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
127 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
128 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
129 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
130 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
131
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132JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
133 mime_regex ACL conditions.
134
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135JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
136 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
137 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
138
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139JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
140 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
141 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
142 an authenticate fail is not an error.
143
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144HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
145 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
146
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147JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
148 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
149
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150JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
151 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
152 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
153 distinct.
154
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155JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
156
157JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
158
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159JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
160
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161JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
162 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
163
98b98887 164JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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165 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
166
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167JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
168
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169JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
170 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
171
172JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
173
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174JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
175 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
176
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177JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
178
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179JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
180 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
181 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
182 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
183 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
184 they will retry in-clear.
185 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
186 at installation time.
187
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188HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
189 with the $config_file variable.
190
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191JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
192 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
193 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
194 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
195 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx reponse.
196
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197GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
198 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
199 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
200 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
201 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
202
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203JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
204
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205JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
206 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
207 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
208 list order is no longer honoured.
209
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210JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalisation
211 for DKIM processing.
212
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213JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
214 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 215
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216JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
217 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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218 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
219 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 220
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221JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
222 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
223
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224JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
225 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
226
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227JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
228 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
229
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230JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
231
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232JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
233 cached by the daemon.
234
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235JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
236 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
237
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238JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
239 keys are given for lookup.
240
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241JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
242 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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243 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
244 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 245
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246JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
247 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
248 server-side so match that on older versions.
249
07c73177 250JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 251 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 252 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 253
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254JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
255 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
256
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257JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
258 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
259 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 260 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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261 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
262 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
263 initial truncated version.
264
ab9152ff 265JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 266
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267JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
268
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269JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
270 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
271
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272JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
273
bc3c7bb7 274HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 275
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276JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
277 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
278 induced overflows.
279
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280JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
281 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
282 stage.
283
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284JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
285 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
286
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287JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
288 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
289 former class.
290
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291JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
292 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
293 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
294
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295JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
296 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
297 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
298 extraction. Accept either.
299
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304JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
305 expanded.
306
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307JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
308
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309JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
310 it.
311
01a4a5c5 312JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 313 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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314 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
315 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
316
cb1d7830 317JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 318 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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319 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
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610ff438 321JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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322 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
323 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
324 TLS connections
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326JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
327 sites use this now.
328
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329JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
330 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
331 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
332 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
333 have a dsn_lasthop option.
334
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335JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
336 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 337 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 338
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339JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
340
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341JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
342 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
343
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344JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
345 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
346
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347JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
348 /defer_ok option.
349
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350JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
351 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
352
fd4d8871 353JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 354 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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355 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
356
357JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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358 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
359 specify a port-range.
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361JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
362 timeout value per server.
363
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364JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
365 now have the list separator specified.
366
8a512ed5 367JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 368 option values.
8a512ed5 369
82c0c8ea 370JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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371 under OpenSSL.
372
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373JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
374
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375JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
376 rather than the verbs used.
377
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378JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
379 from 255 to 1024 chars.
380
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381JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
382
cfab9d68 383HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 384 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 385
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386JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
387 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
388
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389HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
390 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
391
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392JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
393
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394JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
395
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396JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
397 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
398 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
399 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
400
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401JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
402
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403JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
404 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
405
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406JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
407 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
408
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409JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
410
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411JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
412
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413JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
414
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415JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
416 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
417
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418JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
419 added for tls authenticator.
420
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421HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
422
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426TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
427 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
428 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
429 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
430 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
431 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
432 the script parsing/test process like normal.
433
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434TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
435 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
436 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
437 function when detected.
438
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439JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
440 cause callback expansion.
441
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442TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
443 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
444 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
445 instead of bool when processing it.
446
0f06b4f2 447JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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448 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
449
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450JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
451
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452JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
453
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454TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
455
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456TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
457 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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459JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
460 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
461 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
462 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
463 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
464 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
465
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466JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
467 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
468 exceeded it.
469
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470JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
471 version 3.3.6 or later.
472
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473JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
474 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
475 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 476 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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477 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
478 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
479 option is defined.
774ef2d7 480
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481TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
482 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
483
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484JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
485 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
486 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
487 matches.
488
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489JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
490 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
491 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
492
ad4c5ff9
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493JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
494 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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495
496JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
497 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
498 syntax errors.
499
3394b36a 500JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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501
502JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
503 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
504
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505TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
506 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
507 tarball.
508
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509JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
510
511JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
512 Bug 1561.
513
514JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
515 output list separator was used.
516
8bc732e8 517
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518Exim version 4.84
519-----------------
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520TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
521 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
522 return.
1f0ebb98 523
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524JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
525 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
526
527JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
528
529TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 530 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 531
1f0ebb98 532
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533Exim version 4.83
534-----------------
535
536TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
537
538 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
539 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
540 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
541 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
542 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
543 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
544
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545TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
546 utilities have not been installed.
547
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548JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
549 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
550
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551TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
552 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
553
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554TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
555 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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556 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
557 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 558
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559JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
560
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561TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
562 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
563
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564PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
565 not dns_use_dnssec.
566
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567JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
568
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569TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
570 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
571 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
572
8ddef691 573TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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574 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
575 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
576 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
577 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 578 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 579
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580JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
581
e45a1c37
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582JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
583 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
584
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585JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
586 failed delivery.
587
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588JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
589
511a6c14 590JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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591
592JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
593 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 594
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595JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
596 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
597
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598TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
599
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600JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
601
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602JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
603 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
604
605 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
606 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
607 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
608
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609TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
610 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
611 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
612 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 613
35aba663
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614JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
615
8c51eead 616JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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617 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
618 lookup).
8c51eead 619
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620TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
621 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
622 Schlichting.
35aba663 623
fd3b6a4a 624JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 625 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 626
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627TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
628 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
629
2b4a568d
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630JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
631
d2af03f4
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632TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
633 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
634 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
635
9d1c15ef
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636JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
637 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
638
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639JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
640 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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641 hosts_request_ocsp.
642
ed3bba5f 643JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 644 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 645 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 646
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647JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
648
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649TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
650 Christian Aistleitner.
651
f2de3a33
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652JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
653
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654TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
655 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
656
00bff6f6
JH
657JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
658 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
659
071c51f7
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660JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
661 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
662
a6d4c44e
TF
663TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
664 support and error reporting did not work properly.
665
3ae173e7
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666TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
667 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
668
c13d09b8
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669TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
670 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
671 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
672
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673JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
674
66be95e0
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675PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
676 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
677 Jasper Wallace.
678
1bd0d12b
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679JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
680
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681TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
682 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
683 CVE-2014-2972
684
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688
689PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
690
12f69989
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691PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
692 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
693
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694PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
695 by GnuTLS.
696
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697PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
698 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
699 routines.
700
13363eba 701PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 702
66645890 703PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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704 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
705 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
706 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
707 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 708
a3fb9793 709PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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710 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
711 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
712 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 713 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 714 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 715
d27f98fe 716TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 717
6822b909
TL
718TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
719
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720TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
721 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
722
ae0e32ee 723TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 724 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 725 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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726
727TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 728
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729TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
730
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731TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
732 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
733
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734JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
735
be4a1376
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736JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
737
ec4b68e5
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738PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
739
d7148a07
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740NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
741 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 742
585121e2 743JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 744
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745PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
746 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
747 function.
a5f239e4 748
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749PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
750 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
751
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752JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
753 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
754 "acl = name arg..."
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756JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
757
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758JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
759
ea722490 760JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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761 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
762
b1b05573
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763JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
764 Bugzilla 884.
765
362145b5
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766JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
767 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
768
3c0a92dc
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769JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
770 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
771
6d7c6175
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772PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
773 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 774 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 775
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776JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
777 authenticators.
778
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779JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
780 for control.
781
005ac57f
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782PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
783
3f1df0e3
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784PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
785 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
786 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
787 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
788
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789TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
790
791 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
792 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
793 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
794 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
795 the retry rules.
796
797 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
798 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
799 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
800
801 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
802 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
803 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
804 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
805
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806 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
807 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
808 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
809 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
810 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
811 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
812 delivery, as in LMTP.
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813
814 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
815 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
816
326cdc37
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817TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
818
819 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
820
821 Resent-From: f
822
823 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
824 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
825 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
826 username as equal to the username.
827
828 This change corrects that bug.
829
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830GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
831 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
832 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
833
eb505532
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834TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
835
14c7b357
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836PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
837 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
838 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
839 NULL dereference and crash.
840
94eaf700
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841JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
842
6f5a440a
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843PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
844 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
845 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
846
514ee161
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847SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
848
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849JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
850 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
851 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
852 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
853 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
854 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
855 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
856 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
857 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
858 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
859 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
860
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861PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
862 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
863
ff284120
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864PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
865 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
866 Bugzilla 880.
867
26e72755
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868PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
869 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
870 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
871 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
872 an empty string is now equivalent.
873
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874PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
875 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
876 not performing validation itself.
877
700d22f3
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878PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
879 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
880
fcc8e047
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881JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
882 Bugzilla 321, 823.
883
7142daca
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884TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
885
8c020188
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886PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
887 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
888 other false fix of the same issue.
889 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
890 Bugzilla 1363.
891
d13cdd30
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892PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
893 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
894
e2fbf4a2
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895PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
896 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
897 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
898
f4c1088b
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899PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
900 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
901 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
902
c5c2182f
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903TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
904
73431ca9
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905JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
906
2d07a215
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907TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
908 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
909
a30a8861
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910TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
911 Alexander Miroch.
912
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913TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
914 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
915 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
916 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
917 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 918
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919TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
920 the src/util/ subdirectory.
921
581d7bee 922TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 923 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
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924 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
925
926TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
927 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
928 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
929 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
930
237b2cf2
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931TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
932
9fc5a352
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933TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
934 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
935 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 936
b10e4ec2
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937TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
938
e2cebd74
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939TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
940 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
941 interaction.
942
943TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
944 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
945
2519e60d
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946TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
947 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
948
e78e6ecf 949
4263f395
PP
950Exim version 4.80.1
951-------------------
952
953PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
954 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 955 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 956
ea722490 957
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960
961PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
962 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
963 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
964
23c7e742
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965NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
966
b322aac8
NM
967NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
968 improved.
969
4a891427
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970NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
971
c1e794ba 972PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 973
97753960
PP
974PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
975
976PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
977 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
978
df6303fa
PP
979PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
980 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
981
7e6a8985
PP
982PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
983 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
984
f1e05cc7 985PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
986 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
987 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 988
4c287009
PP
989PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
990
b98bb9ac
PP
991PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
992 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
993
4a6a987a
PP
994PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
995
c45dd180 996PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 997
7db8d074
PP
998PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
999 non-compliant senders.
1000 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1001
eae0036b 1002NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1003 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1004 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1005
dec5017e
PP
1006PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1007 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1008 in spool file corruption.
1009
c80c5570
PP
1010PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1011 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1012 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1013 "Got SSL error 2".
1014
076b11e2
PP
1015TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1016 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1017 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1018
5407bfff
JH
1019JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1020 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1021
9e45c72b
PP
1022JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1023
e74376d8
PP
1024PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1025 diagnostics.
1026 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1027
da3ad30d
PP
1028PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
1029 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1030 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1031
7be682ca
PP
1032PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1033 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1034 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1035 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1036
ef840681
PP
1037PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1038 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1039
5bfb4cdf
PP
1040PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1041 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1042 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1043 resolver implementation change.
1044
c6e95d22
PP
1045PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1046 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1047
9cbad13b
PP
1048PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1049
9ee44efb
PP
1050PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1051
6a6084f8
PP
1052PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1053 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1054
12dd53c7
PP
1055PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1056 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1057
9e45c72b 1058JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1059 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1060
17c76198
PP
1061PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1062 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1063 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1064 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1065 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1066
53947857 1067PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1068
eae0036b 1069PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1070 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1071 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1072
9e45c72b 1073JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1074
7390e768
PP
1075PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1076 read-only, out of scope).
1077 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1078
08488c86
PP
1079PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1080 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1081 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1082 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1083
6475bd82
PP
1084PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1085
81f91683
PP
1086PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1087 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1088 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1089 real issues in debug logging.
1090
5779e6aa
PP
1091PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1092 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1093
3375e053
PP
1094PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1095 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1096 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1097
1098PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1099 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1100 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1101 problems.
3375e053 1102
9d26b8c0
PP
1103PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1104 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1105
57eb9e91 1106PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1107 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1108 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1109 needs to override this, it can.
1110
16880d1a
PP
1111PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1112 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1113 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1114
a799883d
PP
1115PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1116 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1117 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1118 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1119
3ecab157 1120PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1121
0599f9cf 1122
867fcbf5
PP
1123Exim version 4.77
1124-----------------
1125
1126PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1127 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1128
f1a29782
TF
1129TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1130
ab42bd23
TK
1131TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1132 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1133
0ca0cf52
TF
1134TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1135 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1136
921b12ca
TF
1137TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1138 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1139 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1140
1141 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1142 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1143 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1144 not safe for signals.
1145
1146 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1147 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1148 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1149 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1150 exiwhat.
1151
c99ce5c9
TF
1152TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1153
1154 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1155 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1156 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1157 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1158 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1159
1160 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1161 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1162 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1163 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1164 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1165 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1166
1167 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1168 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1169 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1170 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1171
1172 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1173 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1174 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1175 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1176
1177 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1178 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1179 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1180 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1181 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1182 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1183 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1184 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1185 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1186
1187 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1188 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1189 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1190 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1191
1192 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1193 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1194 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1195 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1196 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1197 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1198 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1199 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1200 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1201 details in the main documentation.
1202
3634fc25
TF
1203TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1204
792e8a19
TF
1205TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1206
5901f0ab
TF
1207TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1208 repository when doing development or release builds.
1209
7f2a2a43
PP
1210PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1211 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1212
061b7ebd
PP
1213PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1214 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1215 Bugzilla 97.
1216
e12f8c32
PP
1217PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1218
9e949f00 1219PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1220 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1221
1222PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1223 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1224
555ae6af 1225PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1226 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1227
1228PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1229 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1230
6f7fe114
PP
1231PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1232 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1233
c566dd90
PP
1234PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1235 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1236 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1237 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1238
d6cc7c78 1239PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1240 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1241 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1242
0d0e4455
PP
1243PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1244
3399bb60 1245PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1246
1247PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1248 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1249
0ca0cf52 1250
10906672
PP
1251Exim version 4.76
1252-----------------
1253
1254PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1255
754a0503
PP
1256PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1257 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1258
c0c7b2da
PP
1259PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1260
e97d1f08
PP
1261PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1262
084c1d8c
PP
1263PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1264 Bugzilla 1098.
1265
4e7ee012
PP
1266PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1267 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1268
c8d52a00
PP
1269TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1270 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1271
54e7ce4a
PP
1272PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1273 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1274
5ee6f336
PP
1275PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1276 Bugzilla 1104.
1277
c8d52a00 1278TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1279 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1280
1281TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1282 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1283 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1284 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1285
1286PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1287 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1288
10906672 1289
aa097c4c
NM
1290Exim version 4.75
1291-----------------
1292
4c9ef03a 1293NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1294 Bugzilla 1073
1295
7f3d9eff
TF
1296TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1297 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1298 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1299
159f52d2
TF
1300TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1301 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1302
0cc9542a
PP
1303PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1304 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1305 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1306
f7274286
PP
1307PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1308 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1309
7b797365
PP
1310PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1311 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1312
caacae52
NM
1313NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1314 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1315
09dcaba9
NM
1316NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1317 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1318
bc19a55b
PP
1319PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1320 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1321
bd4c9759
NM
1322NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1323 Fixes bug 943.
1324
b72aab72
PP
1325PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1326 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1327
2fe76745
PP
1328PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1329 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1330
76aa570c
PP
1331PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1332 SQL string expansion failure details.
1333 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1334
f1e5fef5
PP
1335PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1336 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1337
4d805ee9
PP
1338PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1339 extern declarations in function scope.
1340 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1341
cd59ab18
PP
1342PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1343 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1344 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1345 a kernel bug).
1346
332f5cf3
PP
1347PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1348 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1349
29cfeb94
PP
1350PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1351 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1352
660242ad
PP
1353PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1354 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1355
bc4bc4c5
PP
1356PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1357 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1358
2e64baa9
NM
1359NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1360 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1361 Dennis Davis.
1362
bddd7526
PP
1363PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1364
6bac1a9a
PP
1365PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1366
552193f0
NM
1367NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1368 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1369
1b587e48
TF
1370TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1371 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1372
aa097c4c 1373
8c07b69f
TF
1374Exim version 4.74
1375-----------------
1376
1377TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1378 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1379
c0ea85ab
TF
1380TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1381 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1382
0761d44e
TF
1383TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1384
0a349494
PP
1385DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1386 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1387 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1388
1389PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1390 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1391 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1392
fea24b2e
PP
1393PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1394 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1395 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1396 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1397
6545de78
PP
1398PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1399 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1400 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1401 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1402
1670ef10
PP
1403PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1404 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1405 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1406 arbitrary files.
1407
c0886197
PP
1408PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1409 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1410
b7487bce
PP
1411PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1412 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1413 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1414 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1415 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1416
8c07b69f 1417
97fd1e48 1418Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1419-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1420
1421PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1422 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1423 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1424
6901c596
PP
1425PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1426 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1427
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1428JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1429
77bb000f
PP
1430PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1431
a29e5231
PP
1432PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1433
ec5a0394 1434PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1435
55c75993
PP
1436PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1437
453a6645 1438PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1439 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1440 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1441 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1442
8544e77a
PP
1443PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1444 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1445 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1446 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1447 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1448
83e029d5
PP
1449PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1450
ed7f7860
PP
1451PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1452
7d9f747b
PP
1453PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1454
4b2241d2
PP
1455PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1456
10385c15
PP
1457PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1458
dbc4b90d
PP
1459PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1460
532be449
PP
1461PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1462
6a8de854 1463PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1464 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1465 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1466
5dc43717
JJ
1467JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1468
1469JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1470 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1471
3346ab01
PP
1472PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1473 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1474
491fab4c
PP
1475PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1476 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1477 Notification from John Horne.
1478
13eb9497
PP
1479PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1480 compatible.
1481
1482PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1483 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1484 it normally works.
1485
7f36d675
DW
1486DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1487 access.
1488
c1d94452
DW
1489DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1490 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1491 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1492
e2f5dc15
DW
1493DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1494 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1495 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1496 configuration file.
1497
cd25e41d
DW
1498DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1499 option (effectively making it always true).
1500
261dc43e
DW
1501DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1502 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1503
fa32850b
DW
1504DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1505 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1506
79d4bc3d
PP
1507PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1508 run-time user, instead of root.
1509
43236f35 1510PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1511 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1512
fb08281f
DW
1513DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1514 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1515 arguments.
3346ab01 1516
74935b98
DW
1517DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1518 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1519 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1520
90b6341f
DW
1521DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1522
57730b52
ML
1523NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1524
66581d1e 1525
465e92cf
JJ
1526Exim version 4.72
1527-----------------
1528
453a6645
PP
1529JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1530 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1531 typos
465e92cf 1532
453a6645
PP
1533JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1534 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1535 (Finput)
edae0343 1536
9bd3e22c
NM
1537NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1538 Patch from Alain Williams
1539
bb576ff7
NM
1540NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1541
5a1a5845
NM
1542NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1543 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1544
981a9fad
NM
1545NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1546 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1547
7fc497ee
NM
1548NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1549
1a41defa
JJ
1550JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1551
a466095c 1552NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1553 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1554
94a6bd0b
NM
1555TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1556
1557TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1558
1559MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1560 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1561 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1562
c1b141a8
NM
1563NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1564 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1565
b26eacf1 1566NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1567 Patch by Simon Arlott
1568
179c5980 1569PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1570 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1571
9bd3e22c 1572
7c6d71af
NM
1573Exim version 4.71
1574-----------------
1575
7d9f747b 1576TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1577
f013fb92
NM
1578NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1579
0eb8eedd
NM
1580NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1581
663ee6d9
NM
1582NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1583
177ebd9b
NM
1584NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1585
7c6d71af 1586
210f147e
NM
1587Exim version 4.70
1588-----------------
1589
cdd3bb85 1590TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1591 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1592
1593TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1594 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1595 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1596
1597TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1598 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1599 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1600
1601TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1602 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1603
210f147e
NM
1604NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1605 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1606 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1607 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1608
deafd5b3
NM
1609NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1610 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1611 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1612
089793a4
TF
1613TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1614
5f16ca82
TF
1615TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1616
dae9d94e 1617NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1618 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1619
7d9f747b 1620NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1621
06864c44
TF
1622TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1623 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1624 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1625 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1626
65a7d8c3 1627NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1628 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1629
23510047 1630TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1631
7d9f747b 1632NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1633
7d8eec3a 1634NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1635 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1636
89dec7b6
TF
1637TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1638 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1639
a99de90c
TF
1640TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1641 that they are available at delivery time.
1642
e2803e40
TF
1643TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1644
7199e1ee
TF
1645TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1646 incoming_port log selectors.
1647
e276e04b
TF
1648TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1649 setting expands to an empty string.
1650
ce552449 1651NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1652 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1653
e765a0f1 1654NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1655 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1656
4f054c63 1657NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1658 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1659
7d9f747b
PP
1660NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1661 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1662
7d9f747b
PP
1663NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1664 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1665
b52bc06e 1666NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1667 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1668
447de4b0
NM
1669NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1670
4c69d561 1671NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1672 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1673
d5c39246 1674NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1675 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1676
0b23848a
TK
1677TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1678
8f3414a1 1679NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1680 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1681
fb6f955d
NM
1682NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1683
1684NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1685
7d9f747b
PP
1686NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1687 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1688
7d9f747b
PP
1689NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1690 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1691
7d9f747b
PP
1692NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1693 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1694
7d9f747b
PP
1695NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1696 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1697
7d9f747b
PP
1698NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1699 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1700
7d9f747b
PP
1701NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1702 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1703
7d9f747b
PP
1704NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1705 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1706
7d9f747b 1707NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1708 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1709
7d9f747b 1710NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1711
7d9f747b
PP
1712NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1713 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1714
7d9f747b 1715NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1716
7d9f747b 1717NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1718
7d9f747b 1719NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1720
7d9f747b 1721NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1722
17792b53 1723NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1724 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1725
7d9f747b
PP
1726NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1727 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1728
91576cec 1729NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1730 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1731
7d9f747b
PP
1732NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1733 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1734
7d9f747b 1735NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1736
7d9f747b 1737NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1738
7d9f747b 1739NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1740
7d9f747b 1741NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1742
deafd5b3 1743
47db1125
NM
1744Exim version 4.69
1745-----------------
1746
4b3504d0
TK
1747TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1748 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1749 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1750
1751 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1752 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1753 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1754 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1755 build errors in sieve.c.
1756
81ea09ca
NM
1757NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1758 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1759 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1760
f13cddcb
SC
1761SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1762
7d9f747b 1763NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1764
7d9f747b 1765NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1766
7d9f747b 1767NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1768
1769
eb4c0de6
PH
1770Exim version 4.68
1771-----------------
1772
1773PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1774
6a3bceb1
PH
1775PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1776 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1777 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1778 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1779 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1780 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1781 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1782 for iplsearch lookups.
1783
1784 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1785 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1786 previously such lookups could never work.
1787
1788 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1789 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1790 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1791
2e30fa9d
TK
1792TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1793 version.
1794
0806a9c5
MH
1795MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1796 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1797 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1798 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1799 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1800 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1801
ae276964
TK
1802TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1803 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1804
0f2cbd1b
MH
1805MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1806 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1807 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1808 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1809 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1810 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1811
2b85bce7
PH
1812PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1813 local_scan API.
1814
93655c46
PH
1815PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1816
6c512171
PH
1817PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1818 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1819 encrypted.
1820
1821PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1822 by clients under certain conditions.
1823
aa6dc513
PH
1824PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1825 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1826
a96603a0
PH
1827PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1828
8f240103
PH
1829PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1830 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1831
1832PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1833
d677b2f2
PH
1834PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1835
d52120f2
PH
1836PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1837
64f2600a
PH
1838PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1839 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1840
8669f003
PH
1841PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1842
a4dc33a8
PH
1843PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1844 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1845
d6a60c0f
PH
1846PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1847
8f128379
PH
1848PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1849
8932dffe
PH
1850PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1851 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1852 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1853 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1854
ddea74fa 1855PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1856 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1857 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1858
ddea74fa 1859PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1860 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1861
ddea74fa
PH
1862PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1863
ce9f225c
PH
1864PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1865
19897d52
PH
1866PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1867
bc64a74d
PH
1868PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1869 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1870 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1871
eb4c0de6 1872
b4ed4da0
PH
1873Exim version 4.67
1874-----------------
1875
22ad45c9
MH
1876MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1877 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1878 Jan Srzednicki.
1879
b4ed4da0
PH
1880PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1881 issue a MAIL command.
1882
431b7361
PH
1883PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1884
1885 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1886
1887 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1888 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1889 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1890 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1891 item. This has been fixed.
1892
1893PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1894 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1895
83da1223
PH
1896PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1897 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1898
54fc8428
PH
1899PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1900 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1901 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1902
34c5e8dd
SC
1903SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1904
bbe15da8
PH
1905PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1906 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1907 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1908 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1909 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1910
0e8a9471
MH
1911MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1912 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1913 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1914
f0872424
PH
1915PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1916 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1917 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1918 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1919
b01dd148
PH
1920PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1921
6bf342e1
PH
1922PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1923
273f34d0
PH
1924PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1925 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1926 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1927 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1928 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1929
cf8b11a5
PH
1930PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1931
41c7c167
PH
1932PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1933 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1934 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1935 values).
1936
9c57cbc0
PH
1937PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1938
f3f065bb
PH
1939PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1940
047bdd8c
PH
1941PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1942
0ce9abe6
PH
1943PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1944
0e22dfd1
PH
1945PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1946
4c590bd1
PH
1947PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1948 no_callout_flush is set.
1949
09945f1e
PH
1950PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1951 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1952 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1953 fixed.
1954
c51b8e75
PH
1955PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1956
e28326d8
PH
1957PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1958 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1959 other ACL rejections are.
1960
75b1493f
PH
1961PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1962 with slight modification.
1963
7c5214ec
PH
1964PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1965 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1966
4311097e
PH
1967PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1968 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1969 connection.
1970
29f89cad
PH
1971PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1972 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1973
5e687460
SC
1974SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1975
c3611384
PH
1976PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1977 expansion side effects.
1978
5a11a7b4
PH
1979PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1980 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1981 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1982 be the same.
1983
0e20aff9
MH
1984MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1985 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1986 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1987
ca86f471
PH
1988PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1989 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1990 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1991 were accidentally chopped off.
1992
a14e5636
PH
1993PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1994 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1995 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1996 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1997 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1998 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1999 pipelining has not been advertised.
2000
ec95d1a6
PH
2001PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2002
42855d71
PH
2003PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2004 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2005 This has been fixed.
2006
57c2c631
PH
2007PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2008 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2009 reported on Solaris.
2010
58c01c94
PH
2011PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2012 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2013 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2014 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2015 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2016 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2017 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2018
dee5a20a
PH
2019PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2020 cpus.
2021
d2ee6114
PH
2022PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2023
b2d5182b
PH
2024PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2025
79749a79
PH
2026PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2027 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2028 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2029 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2030 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2031 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2032
c456d9bb
PH
2033PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2034 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2035 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2036 host_all_ignored option.
2037
cd9868ec
PH
2038PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2039 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2040 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2041 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2042 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2043 is what is supposed to happen).
2044
ebeaf996
PH
2045PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2046 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2047 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2048 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2049 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2050 uses the Exim user.
2051
2679d413
PH
2052PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2053 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2054 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2055 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2056 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2057 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2058 users.
2059
84024b72
PH
2060PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2061
8005d38e
SC
2062SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2063 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2064 (Jez Hancock).
2065 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2066 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2067
3298c6c6
SC
2068SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2069
a43a27c5
PH
2070PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2071
58eb016e 2072PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2073 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2074 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2075 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2076 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2077 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2078 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2079 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2080 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2081 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2082 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2083
b43a74ea
PH
2084PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2085 advertised in response to EHLO.
2086
b4ed4da0 2087
5dd1517f
PH
2088Exim version 4.66
2089-----------------
2090
2091PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2092 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2093
2094 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2095 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2096
2097 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2098 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2099 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2100
2101 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2102 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2103 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2104 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2105 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2106
2107
93cfa765
TK
2108Exim version 4.65
2109-----------------
2110
2111TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2112 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2113 versions. (#438)
2114
d6066548
MH
2115MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2116 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2117 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2118
4362ff0d
PH
2119PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2120 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2121 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2122 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2123 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2124 rather than extend the field.
2125
93cfa765 2126
944e9e9c
TF
2127Exim version 4.64
2128-----------------
aa41d2de 2129
21d74bd9
TK
2130TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2131 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2132 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2133 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2134 these files.
2135
2136TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2137 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2138 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2139
2140TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2141 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2142 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2143
2144TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2145 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2146 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2147 in the field name.
2148
2b1c6e3a
PH
2149PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2150 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2151 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2152 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2153 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2154 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2155 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2156 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2157 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2158 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2159 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2160
1f872c80
PH
2161PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2162 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2163
2164PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2165 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2166 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2167 ignores EPIPE as well.
2168
d203e649
PH
2169PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2170 (quoted-printable decoding).
2171
cc2ed8f7 2172PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2173 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2174
ddfcd446
PH
2175PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2176
d45b1de8
PH
2177PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2178
2179PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2180
38a0a95f 2181PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2182 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2183
a2405d83
JJ
2184JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2185 in 4.64-PH/09.
2186
2187JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2188 miscellaneous code fixes
2189
6ea85e9a
PH
2190PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2191 rejections.
2192
26da7e20
PH
2193PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2194 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2195 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2196 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2197 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2198 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2199 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2200 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2201
14aa5a05 2202PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2203 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2204 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2205 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2206 function.
2207 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2208 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2209 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2210 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2211 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2212 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2213 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2214 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2215 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2216
ff75a1f7
PH
2217PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2218 decoding.
2219
e6f6568e
PH
2220PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2221 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2222 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2223 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2224 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2225 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2226 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2227 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2228
d6f6e0dc
PH
2229PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2230 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2231 list.
2232
322050c2
PH
2233PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2234 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2235 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2236 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2237 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2238 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2239 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2240 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2241 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2242 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2243 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2244 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2245 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2246
08955dd3
PH
2247PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2248 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2249 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2250 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2251 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2252 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2253 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2254
1eccaa59
PH
2255PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2256 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2257 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2258 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2259 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2260 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2261 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2262 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2263 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2264 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2265
602e59e5
PH
2266PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2267 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2268 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2269 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2270 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2271
411ef850
PH
2272PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2273 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2274 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2275 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2276 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2277 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2278 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2279
7befa435
PH
2280PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2281 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2282 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2283 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2284 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2285 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2286 been verified.
2287
48da4259 2288PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2289 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2290 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2291 and authorization.)
2292
48da4259
PH
2293PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2294 if any retry times were supplied.
2295
d1d5595c
PH
2296PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2297 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2298 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2299
0ef732d9
PH
2300PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2301
328895cc
PH
2302PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2303
fd700877
PH
2304PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2305 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2306 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2307 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2308 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2309 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2310
8dce1a6f
PH
2311PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2312 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2313
17af4a17
PH
2314PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2315 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2316 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2317
2318PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2319 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2320 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2321 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2322 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2323 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2324 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2325 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2326 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2327
2328 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2329 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2330 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2331 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2332 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2333 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2334 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2335 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2336 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2337
2338 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2339 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2340 hammering the server.
2341
c1114884
PH
2342PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2343 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2344
7a0743eb
PH
2345PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2346
0d85fa3f
PH
2347PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2348 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2349 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2350
1bf43b78
PH
2351PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2352 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2353 one case where this was not true.
2354
520de300
PH
2355PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2356 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2357 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2358 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2359 fails.
2360
48c7f9e2
PH
2361PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2362 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2363 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2364 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2365 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2366 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2367 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2368 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2369 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2370 smtp transport.
2371
99ea1c86
PH
2372PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2373 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2374 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2375 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2376
a2042e78
PH
2377PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2378 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2379
4fbcfc2e
PH
2380PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2381 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2382 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2383
aa41d2de
PH
2384PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2385
af561417
PH
2386PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2387
3cc66b45
PH
2388PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2389
194cc0e4
PH
2390PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2391 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2392 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2393 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2394
a401ddaa
PH
2395PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2396 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2397
4e88a19f
PH
2398PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2399 be meaningful with "accept".
2400
d7d7b289
SC
2401SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2402 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2403
2404SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2405 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2406 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2407
2408SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2409 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2410 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2411 there is data to show.
2412 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2413
2414SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2415 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2416 as well as the number of messages.
2417
2418SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2419 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2420 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2421
2422SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2423 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2424 have a flag are now skipped.
2425
2426SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2427 Added the -emptyok flag.
2428
2429SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2430 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2431
0ea2a468
JJ
2432JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2433 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2434 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2435
2436JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2437 match 4.64-PH/13
2438
2439JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2440 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2441
2442JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2443
2444JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2445 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2446
8a10f5a4
PH
2447PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2448
30e18802
PH
2449PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2450 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2451 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2452 contravention of the specifications.
2453
55728a4f
PH
2454PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2455 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2456 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2457
d7837193
PH
2458PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2459 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2460 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2461
87054a31
PH
2462PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2463
ea2c01d2
MH
2464MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2465 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2466 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2467 some point in the past.
2468
e4fa6968
PH
2469PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2470 transport during callout processing was broken.
2471
56f5d9bd
PH
2472PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2473 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2474
922e1c28
PH
2475PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2476 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2477
21eb6e72
PH
2478PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2479 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2480
a0540757
PH
2481PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2482
944e9e9c 2483
478be7b0
SC
2484Exim version 4.63
2485-----------------
2486
2487SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2488 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2489
2490SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2491 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2492 there is data to show.
2493 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2494
2495SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2496 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2497
2b965a65
TF
2498TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2499 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2500
45b91596
PH
2501TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2502 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2503
c59f5781
TF
2504TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2505 submissions from trusted users.
2506
90fc3069
TF
2507TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2508 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2509
6083aca0
TF
2510TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2511 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2512 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2513 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2514 there is now a framework to start from.
2515
765b530f
PH
2516PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2517 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2518 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2519
4e167a8c
PH
2520PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2521
4608d683
PH
2522PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2523
b8dc3e4a
PH
2524PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2525
5418e93b
PH
2526PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2527 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2528 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2529
b4a9bda2
PH
2530PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2531 libradius.
2532
45b91596
PH
2533PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2534 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2535 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2536
5547e2c5
PH
2537PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2538 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2539 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2540 its arguments.
2541
dbcef0ea
PH
2542PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2543 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2544 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2545 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2546 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2547
25257489
PH
2548PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2549 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2550
c816d124
PH
2551PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2552
a9ccd69a
PH
2553PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2554 operations in malware.c.
2555
75fa1910
PH
2556PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2557 signatures.
2558
a7d7aa58
PH
2559PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2560 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2561 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2562 all.
2563
42119b09
PH
2564PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2565 statements to "add_header".
2566
41609df5
PH
2567PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2568 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2569
a5bd321b
PH
2570PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2571 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2572 latter.
2573
e85a7ad5 2574PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2575 so that it is now:
2576
e85a7ad5
PH
2577 ${if or { \
2578 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2579 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2580 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2581 }{no}{yes}}
2582
e85a7ad5
PH
2583 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2584 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2585
d8fe1c03
PH
2586PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2587 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2588
16282d2b
PH
2589PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2590 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2591 any possible encoding problems.
2592
35d40a98
PH
2593PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2594 but not after initializing Perl.
2595
034d99ab
PH
2596PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2597 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2598 apparently, which is not desirable.
2599
6ec97b1b
PH
2600PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2601 queries.
2602
e22ca4ac
JJ
2603JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2604 --not options
2605
2606JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2607
33d73e3b
PH
2608PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2609 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2610 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2611 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2612
9ecb03f3
PH
2613PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2614 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2615 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2616
084efe8d
PH
2617PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2618 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2619 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2620 0.12.
2621
366fc9f0
PH
2622PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2623 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2624 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2625 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2626 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2627
c59f5781 2628
c887c79e
TF
2629Exim version 4.62
2630-----------------
2631
2632TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2633 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2634
1cce3af8
PH
2635PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2636 patch).
2637
afb3eaaf
PH
2638PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2639 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2640 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2641 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2642 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2643 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2644 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2645 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2646 451 error is used.
2647
e173618b
PH
2648PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2649
dd16e114
PH
2650PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2651 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2652 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2653
f7fd3850
PH
2654PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2655 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2656 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2657 odd errors.
2658
d87df92c
PH
2659PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2660 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2661
7e9f683d
PH
2662PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2663 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2664 option (which defaults to 0600).
2665
bfad5236
PH
2666PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2667
01c490df
PH
2668PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2669 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2670 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2671 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2672 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2673 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2674 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2675
d6629cdc
PH
2676PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2677
1cce3af8 2678
214e2000
PH
2679Exim version 4.61
2680-----------------
2681
2682PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2683 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2684 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2685 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2686 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2687 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2688 addresses as local.
2689
f9daeae0
PH
2690PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2691 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2692
7e66e54d
PH
2693PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2694
c8ea1597
PH
2695PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2696 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2697 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2698 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2699 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2700 grumble.
2701
911f6fde
PH
2702PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2703 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2704
47ca6d6c
PH
2705PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2706 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2707 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2708 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2709 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2710
ed0e9820
PH
2711PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2712 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2713 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2714 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2715
eff37e47
PH
2716PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2717 be the same on different OS.
2718
1921d2ea
PH
2719PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2720 testing.
2721
b3f69ca8
JJ
2722JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2723 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2724
2725JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2726 in 4.61-PH/06
2727
424a1c63
PH
2728PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2729 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2730 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2731 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2732 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2733 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2734 bounce message.
2735
7a100415
PH
2736PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2737 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2738 when Exim was called.
2739
19b9dc85
PH
2740PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2741 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2742
309bd837
PH
2743PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2744 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2745 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2746 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2747
59e82a2a
PH
2748PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2749 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2750 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2751 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2752 changes:
2753
2754 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2755 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2756 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2757
2758 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2759 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2760 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2761
9edc04ce
PH
2762PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2763 feature).
2764
1349e1e5
PH
2765PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2766 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2767 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2768 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2769 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2770 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2771 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2772 values from the SRV records were lost.
2773
ea49d0e1
PH
2774PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2775 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2776 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2777
064a94c9
PH
2778PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2779 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2780 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2781
727071f8
PH
2782PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2783 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2784 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2785 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2786 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2787 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2788 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2789 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2790 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2791 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2792
f78eb7c6
PH
2793PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2794 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2795 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2796
21c28500
PH
2797PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2798 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2799
2800PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2801 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2802 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2803 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2804 is given.
2805
1688f43b
PH
2806PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2807 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2808 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2809
2810PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2811 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2812 PH/23 above applies.
2813
9675b384
PH
2814PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2815 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2816 (for which there is an explicit test).
2817
6a3f1455
PH
2818PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2819
dac79d3e
PH
2820PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2821 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2822 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2823 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2824 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2825
5977a0b3
PH
2826PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2827 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2828 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2829 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2830
c91535f3
PH
2831PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2832 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2833 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2834
0d46a8c8
PH
2835PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2836
278c6e6c
PH
2837PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2838
2cbb4081
PH
2839PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2840 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2841 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2842
3eef829e
PH
2843PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2844 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2845 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2846 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2847 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2848
1ab95fa6
PH
2849PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2850 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2851 the message gets confusing).
2852
230205fc
PH
2853PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2854 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2855 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2856 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2857
75e0e026
PH
2858PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2859 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2860 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2861 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2862 same order.
2863
2864PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2865 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2866 the different processes.
2867
145396a6
PH
2868PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2869
3cd34f13
PH
2870PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2871
11121d3d
JJ
2872JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2873 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2874
2875JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2876 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2877
2878JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2879 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2880 messages matching specified criteria.
2881
8def5aaf
PH
2882PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2883
929ba01c
PH
2884PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2885 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2886
2632889e
PH
2887PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2888 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2889 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2890 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2891 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2892 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2893 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2894 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2895 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2896 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2897
944a9c55
PH
2898PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2899 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2900 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2901
4a23603b
PH
2902PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2903
4730f942
PH
2904PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2905 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2906 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2907 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2908 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2909 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2910 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2911 the variable.
2912
30dba1e6
PH
2913PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2914 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2915
382afc6b
PH
2916PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2917
a86229cf
PH
2918PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2919
50c99ba6
PH
2920PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2921
d35e429d
PH
2922PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2923 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2924 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2925 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2926 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2927 size of the count of files.
2928
f90d018c
PH
2929PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2930
75def545
PH
2931PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2932 used in LMTP mode:
2933
2934 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2935 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2936 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2937 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2938
2939 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2940 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2941 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2942
2943PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2944 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2945 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2946 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2947 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2948
c46782ef
PH
2949PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2950 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2951
71fafd95
PH
2952PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2953 will now be deprecated.
2954
2c5db4fd
PH
2955PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2956
9cf6b11a
JJ
2957JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2958 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2959 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2960
2961JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2962 with very large, slow to parse queues
2963
2964JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2965
2966JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2967
898d150f
PH
2968PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2969 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2970 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2971 SMTP output lines.
2972
46218253
PH
2973PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2974 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2975 Sieve code now uses this.
2976
e97957bc
PH
2977PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2978 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2979
81e509d7
PH
2980PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2981 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2982
3d240ff7
PH
2983PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2984
b37c4101
PH
2985PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2986 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2987 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2988 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2989 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2990
79378e0f
PH
2991PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2992 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2993 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2994 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2995
e49c7bb4
PH
2996PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2997
d114ec46
PH
2998PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2999
f3d7df6c
PH
3000PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3001 is preferred over IPv4.
3002
715ab376
PH
3003PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3004 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3005 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3006 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3007 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3008 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3009 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3010
6b31b150
PH
3011PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3012 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3013 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3014
3015PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3016
d515a917
PH
3017PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3018 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3019 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3020 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3021 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3022 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3023 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3024 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3025 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3026 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3027 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3028
9b8fadde
PH
3029PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3030 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3031 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3032
214e2000 3033
5de37277
PH
3034Exim version 4.60
3035-----------------
3036
cc38ddbf
PH
3037PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3038
3039 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3040 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3041
3042 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3043 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3044 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3045
72fdd6ae
PH
3046PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3047
3048 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3049 not a single digit.
3050
3051 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3052 string.
3053
3054 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3055 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3056 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3057 silly things.
3058
3059 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3060 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3061
3062 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3063 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3064
cb741023
PH
3065PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3066 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3067 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3068
f174f16e
PH
3069PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3070 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3071
c25242d7
PH
3072PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3073 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3074
3075 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3076
3077 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3078 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3079 this:
3080
3081 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3082
82c19f95
PH
3083PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3084 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3085 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3086 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3087 identical. For example:
3088
3089 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3090
3091 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3092 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3093 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3094
d7ffbc12
PH
3095PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3096 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3097 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3098 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3099
9f526266
PH
3100PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3101 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3102 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3103 message.
3104
87fcc8b9
PH
3105PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3106
3107 o fixes some comments
3108 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3109 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3110 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3111 and documents the missing references header update
3112
3113 and most important:
3114
3115 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3116 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
3117 result)
3118
456682f5
PH
3119PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3120 Electronic Mail") by including:
3121
3122 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3123
3124 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3125 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
3126 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3127 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3128 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3129
3130 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3131
3132 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3133
3134 The auto-replied keyword:
3135
3136 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3137 message by an automatic process,
3138
3139 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3140
3141 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3142 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3143
3144 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3145 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3146 other messages.
3147
3e46c1aa
PH
3148PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3149 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3150
49826d12
PH
3151PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3152
eba0c039
PH
3153PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3154 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3155 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3156
a0d6ba8a
PH
3157PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3158 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3159 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3160
f0917727
PH
3161PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3162 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3163 and treats the condition as false.
3164
096fee00
PH
3165PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3166
024bd3c2
PH
3167PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3168 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3169 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3170 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3171 not changing the active code.
3172
3173 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3174 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3175
3176 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3177 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3178
df199fec
PH
3179PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3180 (Bugzilla #53).
3181
d27f1df3
PH
3182PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3183 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3184 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3185 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3186 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3187 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3188 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3189 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3190 the text comparison.
3191
96776534
PH
3192PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3193 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3194 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3195 The same fix has been applied.
3196
5de37277 3197
9a799bc0
PH
3198Exim version 4.54
3199-----------------
3200
3201PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3202 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3203 It now does.
3204
99a4b039
PH
3205PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3206 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3207
3208PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3209
4b233853
PH
3210PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3211 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3212 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3213 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3214 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3215
8857ccfd
PH
3216TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3217 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3218 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3219 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3220 or /domain=).
3221
433a2980
PH
3222PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3223 testing suite.
3224
3e46c1aa 3225
9a799bc0 3226
e3a311ba
TK
3227Exim version 4.53
3228-----------------
3229
3230TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3231 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3232
13b685f9
PH
3233PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3234
395ff96d
PH
3235PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3236
5b68f6e4
PH
3237PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3238 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3239 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3240
1ab52c69
PH
3241PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3242 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3243 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3244
b07e6aa3
PH
3245PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3246 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3247 operating systems.
3248
254e032f
PH
3249PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3250 ${stat: expansion item.
3251
3af76a81
PH
3252PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3253 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3254
2548ba04
PH
3255PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3256 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3257 file for comments.
3258
b6c6011d
PH
3259PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3260
cf39cf57
PH
3261PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3262 setting.
3263
f1513293
PH
3264PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3265 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3266
727549a4
PH
3267TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3268
af46795e
PH
3269PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3270 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3271 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3272 the end of the subprocess.
3273
d7b47fd0
PH
3274PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3275 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3276 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3277 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3278 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3279
ee744174
JJ
3280JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3281
b582ab87
PH
3282TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3283
41a13e0a
PH
3284PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3285 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3286
f625cc5a
PH
3287PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3288
3289PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3290
21f7af35
PH
3291PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3292 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3293 HP-UX compiler.
3294
31480e42
PH
3295PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3296
2d280592
PH
3297PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3298 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3299 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3300
7cd1141b
PH
3301PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3302 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3303
3304PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3305 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3306
750af86e
PH
3307PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3308 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3309
3310 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3311 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3312
3313 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3314 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3315 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3316 contributed by a Radius user.
3317
3318PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3319 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3320
4304270b
TK
3321TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3322 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3323
750af86e
PH
3324PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3325 available.
3326
64ffc24f
PH
3327PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3328 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3329 received.
3330
5dd9625b
PH
3331PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3332 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3333 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3334 header lines when this was not necessary.
3335
5591031b
PH
3336PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3337
ba18e66a
PH
3338PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3339 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3340 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3341 exists".
3342
9cec981f
PH
3343PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3344 -bV or -d is used.
3345
aa2b5c79
PH
3346PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3347 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3348 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3349 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3350
48a53b7f
PH
3351PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3352
1c59d63b
PH
3353PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3354
671012da
TK
3355TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3356
1509d3a8
PH
3357PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3358
3359PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3360 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3361 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3362 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3363 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3364 settings.
3365
3366PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3367
2fe1a124
PH
3368PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3369 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3370 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3371 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3372 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3373 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3374 which is clearly wrong.
3375
8800895a
PH
3376PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3377
ccfdb010
PH
3378PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3379 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3380 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3381 subsequently added.
3382
1130bfb0
PH
3383PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3384 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3385
ebcb507f
PH
3386PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3387
c35e155c
PH
3388PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3389 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3390
95d1f782
PH
3391PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3392 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3393
fd6de02e
PH
3394PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3395 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3396
58de37c5
PH
3397PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3398 recipients, not senders.
3399
261cf466
TF
3400TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3401 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3402
3ee512ff
PH
3403PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3404
e08c430f
PH
3405PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3406
bef5a11f
PH
3407PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3408 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3409 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3410 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3411
7546de58
TF
3412TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3413
e5d5a95f
TF
3414TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3415 clock is set back in time.
3416
2e88a017
TF
3417TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3418 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3419
a5f65aa4
TF
3420TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3421 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3422
e7726cbf
PH
3423PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3424 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3425 (see PH/47 above).
3426
a7fdad5b
TF
3427TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3428 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3429 header rewrites.
3430
6af56900
PH
3431PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3432 type ("H").
3433
0925ede6
PH
3434PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3435
66afa403
TF
3436TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3437 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3438 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3439
0154e85a
TF
3440TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3441 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3442 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3443 helo verification defer as a failure.
3444
16f12c76
PH
3445PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3446 actual error message.
3447
bbe902f0 3448
e5a9dba6
PH
3449Exim version 4.52
3450-----------------
3451
3452TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3453
22c3b60b
PH
3454PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3455 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3456 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3457 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3458
06a9b4b5
PH
3459TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3460
c1ac6996
PH
3461PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3462 can still be requested.
3463
9c7a242c
PH
3464PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3465 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3466 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3467 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3468
87ba3f5f
PH
3469TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3470 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3471 circumstances, but probably never did.
3472
3473PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3474 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3475 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3476 in the header line.
3477
29aba418
TF
3478TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3479
fe0dab11
TF
3480TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3481 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3482
11d337a4
TK
3483TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3484
3485TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3486
415c8f3b
PH
3487PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3488 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3489 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3490 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3491 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3492 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3493
958541e9
PH
3494PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3495 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3496 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3497 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3498 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3499 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3500
c206415f
TK
3501TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3502 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3503
2a4be8f9
PH
3504PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3505 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3506
1cba11c5
SC
3507SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3508 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3509
3510SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3511
3512SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3513
3514SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3515
3516SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3517
3518SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3519
3520SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3521
1005d00e
TK
3522TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3523
3524TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3525 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3526 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3527
3528TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3529 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3530 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3531 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3532
9b4768fa
PH
3533PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3534 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3535 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3536
3537PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3538 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3539 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3540 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3541
0d7eb84a
PH
3542PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3543 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3544 to be made).
3545
3546PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3547 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3548 should work with maildirs and everything.
3549
40727bee
TK
3550TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3551 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3552
554d2369
TF
3553TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3554 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3555
1f922db1
PH
3556PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3557 function for BDB 4.3.
3558
ef213c3b
PH
3559PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3560
8ac170f3
PH
3561PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3562 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3563 involved.
3564
b1c749bb
PH
3565PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3566 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3567 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3568 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3569 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3570 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3571
4aac9b49
PH
3572PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3573 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3574 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3575 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3576 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3577 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3578 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3579 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3580
294520c8
TK
3581TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3582 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3583 details.
3584
5bd022fe
PH
3585PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3586 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3587
90e9ce59
PH
3588PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3589 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3590 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3591 test. It is now used for both.
3592
5ea81592
PH
3593PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3594 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3595 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3596 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3597 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3598 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3599
c6c2dc1d
PH
3600PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3601 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3602 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3603 string_vformat().
3604
fffffe4c
PH
3605PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3606 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3607 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3608
9a26b6b2
PH
3609PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3610 experimental DomainKeys support:
3611
3612 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3613 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3614 the control was given.
3615
3616 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3617
4aee0225
PH
3618PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3619
32d668a5
PH
3620PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3621
8187c3f3
PH
3622PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3623 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3624 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3625 db.h files).
3626
ff790e47 3627PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3628 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3629 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3630 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3631 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3632 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3633 course.
ff790e47 3634
5417f6d1
PH
3635PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3636 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3637 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3638 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3639 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3640 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3641
59cf8544
PH
3642PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3643 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3644 do -d+all out of habit.
3645
e7ad8a65
PH
3646PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3647 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3648 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3649
ade42478
PH
3650PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3651 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3652 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3653 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3654 record types that Exim uses.
3655
182ad5cf
PH
3656PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3657 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3658 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3659 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3660 non-existent file that was broken.
3661
b0d9fc80
TK
3662TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3663 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3664
3665TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3666 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3667 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3668
3669TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3670
47c7a64a
PH
3671PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3672 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3673 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3674 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3675 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3676 same time.
3677
a388bce4
SC
3678SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3679 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3680 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3681 at a slight CPU cost.
3682
3683SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3684 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3685
3686SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3687 by Marc Sherman.
3688
0793e4ed
SC
3689SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3690
c58b88df
PH
3691PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3692 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3693
e7ad8a65 3694
7982096b
PH
3695Exim version 4.51
3696-----------------
3697
1a46a8c5
PH
3698TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3699 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3700
2f079f46 3701TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3702
3703TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3704
3705PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3706 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3707
3708PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3709 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3710 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3711 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3712 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3713 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3714 file.
3715
3716PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3717 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3718 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3719 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3720 these two options.
3721
3722PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3723 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3724 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3725 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3726 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3727 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3728 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3729 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3730
3731PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3732 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3733
3734PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3735 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3736 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3737 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3738 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3739 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3740
3741PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3742 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3743 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3744 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3745
3746PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3747 Finch).
3748
3749PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3750 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3751
49c2d5ea
PH
3752PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3753 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3754 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3755 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3756 message.
49c2d5ea 3757
bf759a8b
PH
3758PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3759
83364d30
PH
3760PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3761 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3762
7999bbd7
PH
3763PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3764 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3765 to what was transported.)
3766
7dbf77c9
PH
3767TF/01 Added $received_time.
3768
74e0617f
PH
3769PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3770 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3771 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3772 spamd_address settings.
3773
2f079f46
PH
3774PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3775 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3776 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3777 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3778 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3779
8c841523
PH
3780PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3781
7766a4f0
PH
3782PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3783 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3784 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3785 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3786 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3787
8b417f2c
PH
3788PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3789 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3790
901f42cb
PH
3791PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3792 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3793 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3794 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3795 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3796 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3797 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3798 for failure.
3799
f9b9210e
PH
3800PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3801 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3802 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3803 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3804 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3805 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3806 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3807 "input=".
3808
54cdb463
PH
3809PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3810
cf00dad6
PH
3811PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3812 driver and ACL definitions.
3813
acb1b346
PH
3814PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3815 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3816
c5ddb310
PH
3817PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3818 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3819 understands it better than I do:
3820
3821 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3822 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3823
3824 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3825 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3826 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3827 => three warnings about OTP not working
3828 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3829
3830 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3831 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3832 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3833 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3834 for each call.)
3835 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3836 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3837
3838 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3839 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3840 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3841
31619da6
PH
3842PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3843 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3844 specified.
3845
bebaf0fc
PH
3846PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3847 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3848 "Linux".
3849
475fe28a
PH
3850PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3851 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3852 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3853
3854 warn !verify = sender
3855 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3856
3857 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3858 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3859
7e8bec7a
PH
3860PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3861
3862 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3863 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3864
3865 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3866 nomenclature these days.)
3867
e4a89c47
PH
3868PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3869 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3870
5ca2a9a1
PH
3871PH/30 In these circumstances:
3872 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3873 . First host does not offer TLS;
3874 . First host accepts first address;
3875 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3876 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3877 . Second host accepts second address.
3878 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3879 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3880 address.
7e8bec7a 3881
c688b954
PH
3882PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3883 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3884 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3885 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3886 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3887
fed77020
PH
3888PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3889 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3890
7fe1560f
PH
3891PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3892 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3893
ebb6e6d5
PH
3894PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3895 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3896 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3897
9c4e8f60
PH
3898PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3899 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3900 overlooked.
3901
3902PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3903
d7174846
PH
3904PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3905 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3906 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3907 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3908 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3909 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3910 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3911
3912 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3913 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3914 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3915 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3916 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3917
3918 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3919 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3920 routed further.
3921
cfe75fc3
PH
3922PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3923 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3924 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3925 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3926 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3927 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3928
be22d70e
PH
3929PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3930
0612b098
PH
3931PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3932 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3933 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3934 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3935 printable escape sequences.
3936
2e0c1448
PH
3937PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3938 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3939 body only.
3940
447d236c
PH
3941PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3942 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3943 are as follows:
3944
3945 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3946 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3947 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3948 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3949 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3950
3951 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3952 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3953 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3954
d20976dc
PH
3955PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3956
f656d135
PH
3957PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3958 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3959 play with."
3960
2e2a30b4
PH
3961PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3962 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3963 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3964 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3965 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3966 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3967 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3968 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3969 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3970 the log output.
3971
9176e9f0
PH
3972PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3973 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3974 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3975 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3976 "make".
3977
7982096b 3978
bbe902f0
PH
3979A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3980----------------------------------------
3981
3982Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3983changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3984needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3985in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3986that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3987release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3988from 4.43.
3989
3990I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
39914.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3992those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3993historical information.
3994
3995
f7b63901 3996Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3997-----------------
3998
5fe762f6
PH
3999 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4000
139059f6 4001 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4002 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4003
7086e875
PH
4004 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4005 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4006 place.
4007
35af9f61
PH
4008 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4009 filter fails to execute.
4010
b668c215
PH
4011 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4012 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4013 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4014 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4015 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4016
a494b1e1
PH
4017 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4018
4019 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4020 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4021 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4022 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4023
c5fcb476
PH
4024 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4025 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4026 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4027 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4028 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4029
69358f02
PH
4030 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4031
5be20824
PH
403210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4033
eb2c0248
PH
403411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4035 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4036 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4037 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4038
2a3eea10
PH
403912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4040 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4041 sender verification.
4042
404313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4044 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4045
23c7ff99
PH
404614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4047
4deaf07d
PH
404815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4049 connection timeout.
4050
926e1192
PH
405116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4052 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4053
650edc6f
PH
405417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4055 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4056
2c7db3f5
PH
405718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4058 information about exactly what failed.
4059
3d235903
PH
406019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4061
7c7ad977
PH
406220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4063 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4064 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4065
981756db
PH
406621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4067 It is now set to "smtps".
4068
d4eb88df
PH
406922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4070 ignore_target_hosts.
4071
407223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4073 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4074 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4075 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4076 "[x.x.x.x]".
4077
7d468ab8
PH
407824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4079 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4080 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4081
408225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4083 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4084 wake it up if nothing else does.
4085
62c0818f
PH
408626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4087 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4088 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4089 end up negative.
4090
26034054
PH
409127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4092 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4093
af66f652
PH
409428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4095
90af77f4
PH
409629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4097 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4098 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4099 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4100 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4101 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4102 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4103 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4104
d8ef3577
PH
410530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4106 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4107 than one IP address.
4108
5cb8cbc6
PH
410931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4110 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4111 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4112 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4113
14702f5b
PH
411432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4115 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4116 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4117 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4118 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4119 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4120
063b1e99
PH
412133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4122 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4123 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4124 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4125
652e1b65
PH
412634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4127 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4128 respected.
4129
6f0c9a4f
PH
413035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4131 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4132 $sender_host_address.
4133
33397d19
PH
413436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4135 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4136 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4137 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4138 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4139 very small.
4140
7bb56e1f
PH
414137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4142
4143 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4144 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4145
ea3bc19b
PH
4146 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4147 just the host names, not the priorities.
4148
4149 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4150 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4151 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4152
ea3bc19b 4153 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4154 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4155
0bcb2a0e
PH
415638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4157 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4158 domain.
4159
2ac0e484
PH
416039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4161
4e1fde53
PH
416240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4163 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4164
de365ded
PH
416541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4166 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4167 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4168
f05da2e8
PH
416942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4170
d6453af2
PH
417143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4172
f7b63901
PH
417344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4174
417545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4176 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4177 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4178 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4179 because the tests only now provoked it.
4180
a444213a
PH
418146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4182 (this can affect the format of dates).
4183
0ec020ea
PH
418447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4185 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4186 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4187 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4188
b1206957
PH
418948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4190
419149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4192 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4193 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4194 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4195
26dd5a95
PH
419650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4197 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4198 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4199
343b2385
PH
420051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4201 autoreply.
4202
1c5466b9
PH
420352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4204 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4205 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4206 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4207 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4208 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4209 is going on).
4210
55ee9ee3
PH
421153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4212 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4213 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4214 the line.
4215
d38f8232
PH
421654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4217 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4218 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4219
4220 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4221 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4222 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4223 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4224 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4225 so I produce this patch..."
4226
3295e65b
PH
4227 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4228 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4229 is not defined.
4230
7102e136
PH
423155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4232 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4233 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4234 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4235 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4236
3ca0ba97
PH
423756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4238
c2bcbe20
PH
423957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4240 long debug lines gets shown.
4241
18ce445d
PH
424258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4243 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4244
1f5b4c3d
PH
424559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4246
4247 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4248 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4249 of $primary_hostname.
4250
b975ba52
PH
425160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4252 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4253 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4254 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4255 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4256 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4257 by change 4.50/55 above.
4258
4259 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4260 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4261 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4262 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4263 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4264 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4265 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4266
426761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4268 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4269 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4270 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4271
17ffcae7
PH
427262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4273 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4274
d95f9fdb
PH
427563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4276 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4277 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4278 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4279 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4280
86b8287f
PH
428164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4282 This has been fixed.
4283
60dc5e56
PH
428465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4285 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4286 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4287 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4288 the caching.)
4289
533244af
PH
429066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4291
a5a28604
PH
429267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4293 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4294 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4295 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4296
7e634d24
PH
429768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4298 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4299
3e11c26b
PH
430069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4301 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4302 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4303
6729cf78
PH
430470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4305 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4306 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4307 message there.
4308
00f00ca5
PH
430971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4310 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4311 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4312
c9bdd01c
PH
431372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4314 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4315 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4316 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4317
d43194df
PH
431873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4319 during host lookups.
4320
fe5b5d0b
PH
432174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4322 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4323
4324 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4325
76a2d7ba
PH
432675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4327 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4328 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4329 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4330 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4331 background.
4332
433376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4334 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4335
04f7d5b9
PH
433677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4337 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4338 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4339
bc60667e
PH
434078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4341
bb6e88ff
PH
434279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4343 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4344 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4345 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4346 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4347 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4348 process earlier.
4349
1e70f85b
PH
435080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4351 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4352 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4353 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4354 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4355
435681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4357 tables).
4358
4e01f9d6
PH
435982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4360
1ee1cef2
PH
436183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4362 "vacation" handling.
4363
6e2b4ccc
PH
436484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4365 OS variants using glibc.
4366
8e669ac1
PH
436785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4368
495ae4b0 4369
bbe902f0
PH
4370----------------------------------------------------
4371See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4372----------------------------------------------------
4373
4374
4375Exim version 4.44
4376-----------------
4377
4378 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4379 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4380 transport
4381
4382 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4383 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4384 place.
4385
4386 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4387 filter fails to execute.
4388
4389 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4390 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4391 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4392 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4393 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4394
4395 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4396 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4397 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4398 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4399
4400 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4401 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4402 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4403 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4404 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4405
4406 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4407
4408 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4409 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4410 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4411 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4412
4413 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4414 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4415 sender verification.
4416
441710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4418 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4419
442011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4421 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4422
442312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4424 ignore_target_hosts.
4425
442613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4427 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4428 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4429 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4430 "[x.x.x.x]".
4431
443214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4433 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4434 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4435
443615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4437 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4438 wake it up if nothing else does.
4439
444016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4441 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4442 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4443 end up negative.
4444
444517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4446 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4447
ea3a6f44 444818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4449
445019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4451 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4452 empty pattern.
4453
445420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4455 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4456 one IP address.
4457
ea3a6f44
NM
445821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4459 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4460 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4461 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4462 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4463 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4464
ea3a6f44
NM
446522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4466 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4467 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4468
446923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4470 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4471 $sender_host_address.
4472
447324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4474
ea3a6f44
NM
447525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4476 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4477 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4478
447926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4480 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4481
ea3a6f44
NM
448227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4483 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4484
ea3a6f44
NM
448528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4486 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4487 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4488 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4489
449029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4491 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4492 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4493
ea3a6f44
NM
449430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4495 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4496 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4497 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4498
ea3a6f44
NM
449931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4500 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4501 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4502
ea3a6f44
NM
450331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4504 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4505
ea3a6f44
NM
450632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4507 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4508 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4509 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4510 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4511 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4512 is going on).
bbe902f0 4513
ea3a6f44
NM
451433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4515 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4516 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4517 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4518 CAN-2005-0021
4519
ea3a6f44
NM
452034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4521 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4522 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4523 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4524 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4525 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4526 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4527
4528 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4529 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4530 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4531 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4532 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4533 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4534 CAN-2005-0021
4535
ea3a6f44
NM
453635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4537 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4538 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4539 CAN-2005-0022
4540
ea3a6f44
NM
454136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4542 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4543 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4544 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4545 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4546
ea3a6f44
NM
454737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4548 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4549 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4550 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4551 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4552
ea3a6f44
NM
455338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4554 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4555 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4556 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4557 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4558
4559
495ae4b0
PH
4560Exim version 4.43
4561-----------------
4562
4563 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4564 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4565 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4566 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4567 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4568 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4569 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4570
4571 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4572 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4573 the delivery.
4574
4575 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4576
4577 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4578
4579 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4580 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4581 to local_scan().
4582
4583 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4584 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4585 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4586 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4587 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4588
4589 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4590 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4591
4592 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4593
4594 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4595
459610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4597 header_sender only.
4598
459911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4600 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4601
460212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4603 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4604 affecting debugging statements).
4605
460613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4607
460814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4609 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4610 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4611 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4612 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4613 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4614 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4615 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4616 after the received time, and all would be well.
4617
461815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4619 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4620 condition in an expansion string.
4621
462216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4623
462417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4625 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4626 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4627 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4628 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4629 job under whatever limits there are.
4630
463118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4632
463319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4634 space).
4635
463620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4637 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4638 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4639 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4640 return path is set.
4641
464221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4643 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4644 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4645 binary data in such strings.
4646
464722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4648
464923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4650 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4651 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4652 failure, which is pointless.
4653
465424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4655
465625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4657
465826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4659 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4660 Sender: header lines.
4661
466227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4663 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4664 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4665
466628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4667 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4668 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4669 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4670 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4671 happens.
4672
467329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4674 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4675 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4676 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4677 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4678
467930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4680 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4681 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4682 1024.
4683
468431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4685 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4686
468732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4688 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4689
469033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4691
469232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4693
469433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4695
469634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4697 syntax error.
4698
469935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4700
470136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4702
470337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4704 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4705 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4706 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4707
470838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4709 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4710
4711
4712Exim version 4.42
4713-----------------
4714
4715 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4716 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4717 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4718 it was not quoted.
4719 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4720 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4721 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4722 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4723 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4724 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4725
4726 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4727 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4728 verification failure".
4729
4730 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4731 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4732 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4733 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4734
4735 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4736 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4737 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4738 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4739 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4740 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4741 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4742 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4743 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4744 treated as a timeout.
4745
4746 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4747 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4748 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4749 not set for Exim filters).
4750
4751 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4752 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4753 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4754
4755 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4756
4757 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4758 try to make them clearer.
4759
4760 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4761 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4762
4763 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4764
4765 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4766
476710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4768 only the Cygwin environment.
4769
477011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4771 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4772 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4773 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4774 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4775
477612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4777 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4778 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4779 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4780 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4781 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4782 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4783
478413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4785 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4786
478714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4788
4789 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4790 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4791 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4792
4793 To: susanne@some.where
4794
4795 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4796 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4797 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4798 of addresses in From: header lines).
4799
4800 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4801 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4802 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4803
4804 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4805 treated as non-personal.
4806
4807 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4808 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4809
481015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4811
481216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4813
481417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4815 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4816 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4817
481818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4819 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4820
482119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4822 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4823 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4824 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4825 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4826 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4827
482820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4829 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4830 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4831 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4832 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4833 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4834 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4835 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4836
4837 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4838
483921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4840 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4841
484222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4843 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4844 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4845
484623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4847 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4848
484924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4850 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4851 rather than long int.
4852
485325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4854
485526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4856
4857
4858Exim version 4.41
4859-----------------
4860
4861 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4862 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4863 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4864 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4865 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4866 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4867
4868
4869Exim version 4.40
4870-----------------
4871
4872 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4873 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4874
4875 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4876 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4877 socklen_t is defined.
4878
4879 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4880 always exist.
4881
4882 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4883 configured.
4884
4885 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4886 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4887 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4888 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4889 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4890
4891 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4892 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4893 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4894 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4895
4896 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4897 of flapping under certain conditions.
4898
4899 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4900 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4901 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4902
4903 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4904
490510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4906
490711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4908 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4909 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4910 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4911
491212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4913 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4914 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4915 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4916 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4917 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4918 preserved with the message after it was received.
4919
492013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4921 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4922 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4923 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4924 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4925 test suite worked just fine.
4926
492714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4928 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4929 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4930
493115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4932 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4933 string.
4934
493516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4936 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4937 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4938 does not fully solve it.
4939
494017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4941 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4942 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4943 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4944 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4945
494618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4947 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4948 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4949
495019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4951 string, for example:
4952
4953 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4954
4955 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4956 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4957 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4958 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4959 the routers could not see them.
4960
496120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4962 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4963
496421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4965 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4966 output).
4967
496822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4969 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4970 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4971 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4972 that needed quoting.
4973
497423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4975 was not being matched caselessly.
4976
497724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4978 backslashes.
4979
498025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4981 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4982 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4983 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4984 when use_sender is false.
4985
498626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4987
498827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4989
499028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4991
499229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4993 the configuration file.
4994
499530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4996 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4997
499831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4999
500032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5001 bytes in the message body.
5002
500333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5004 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5005 delivery.
5006
500734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5008
500935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5010
501136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5012 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5013 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5014 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5015 another IP address.
5016
5017
5018Exim version 4.34
5019-----------------
5020
5021 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5022 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5023
5024 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5025 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5026 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5027 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5028 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5029
5030 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5031 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5032
5033 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5034 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5035 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5036
5037 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5038 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5039 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5040
5041 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5042 for routers.
5043
5044 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5045 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5046 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5047 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5048 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5049 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5050 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5051
5052
5053Exim version 4.33
5054-----------------
5055
5056 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5057 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5058 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5059 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5060 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5061 default (and expected) setting.
5062
5063 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5064 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5065 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5066 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5067
5068 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5069 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5070
5071 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5072 in domain lists.
5073
5074 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5075 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5076 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5077 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5078 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5079 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5080
5081 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5082 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5083 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5084
5085 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5086 part (NOT match_host).
5087
5088 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5089
5090 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5091 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5092 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5093 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5094 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5095 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5096 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5097 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5098 the same named file.
5099
510010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5101 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5102 when Exim is built.
5103
510411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5105 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5106 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5107 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5108 a host name.
5109
511012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5111 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5112 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5113
511413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5115
511614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5117
511815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5119
512016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5121 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5122
512317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5124 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5125 before starting the TLS session.
5126
512718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5128
512919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5130 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5131
513220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5133 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5134 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5135 colon in the middle).
5136
5137
5138Exim version 4.32
5139-----------------
5140
5141 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5142 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5143 multiple configurations are in use.
5144
5145 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5146 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5147 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5148 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5149 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5150 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5151
5152 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5153 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5154
5155 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5156 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5157 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5158
5159 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5160 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5161 occurs.
5162
5163 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5164 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5165
5166 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5167
5168 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5169 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5170
5171 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5172
5173 -prval:sval
5174
5175 is equivalent to
5176
5177 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5178
5179 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5180 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5181 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5182 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5183 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5184
518510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5186 Exim's behaviour:
5187
5188 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5189 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5190 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5191 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5192 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5193 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5194
5195 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5196 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5197 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5198 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5199 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5200 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5201 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5202 string.
5203
5204 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5205 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5206 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5207 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5208 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5209
521011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5211
521212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5213 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5214 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5215
521613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5217
521814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5219 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5220 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5221 information.
5222
522315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5224 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5225
522616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5227 Three changes have been made:
5228
5229 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5230 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5231 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5232 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5233 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5234
5235 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5236 been restored.
5237
5238 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5239 the modified behaviour.
5240
5241
5242Exim version 4.31
5243-----------------
5244
5245 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5246 Larry Rosenman.
5247
5248 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5249 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5250
5251 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5252 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5253 try to track down a specific problem.
5254
5255 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5256 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5257 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5258
5259 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5260 warning.
5261
5262 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5263 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5264 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5265 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5266 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5267 some earlier ones do not.
5268
5269 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5270
5271 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5272 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5273 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5274 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5275 address literals are enabled, of course).
5276
5277 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5278
527910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5280 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5281 by a command such as
5282
5283 exim -f "" ...
5284
5285 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5286
528711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5288
528912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5290 remained set. It is now erased.
5291
529213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5293 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5294
529514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5296 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5297 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5298 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5299 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5300 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5301 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5302 appropriate error code.
5303
530415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5305 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5306 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5307 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5308 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5309 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5310
531116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5312 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5313 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5314
531517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5316 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5317 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5318 terminate the header.
5319
532018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5321 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5322 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5323
532419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5325 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5326 (4.30/29). In particular:
5327
5328 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5329 imposed.
5330
5331 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5332 to write a maildirsize file.
5333
5334 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5335 the transport, the new value overrides.
5336
5337 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5338 count.
5339
534020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5341 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5342 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5343 space or a tab.
5344
534521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5346 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5347 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5348 the fallback hosts.
5349
535022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5351 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5352 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5353
535423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5355 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5356 using a union.
5357
535824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5359 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5360 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5361
536225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5363
536426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5365
536627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5367
536828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5369 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5370 become corrupted.
5371
537229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5373 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5374 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5375 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5376 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5377 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5378 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5379 too great.
5380
538130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5382 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5383 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5384 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5385 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5386 incorrectly.
5387
538831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5389 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5390 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5391 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5392 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5393 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5394 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5395 cached value only when the same options are set.
5396
539732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5398
539933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5400 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5401 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5402 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5403 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5404
540534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5406 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5407 it is clearly obsolete.
5408
540935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5410 transport.
5411
541236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5413 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5414 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5415 times.
5416
541737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5418 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5419 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5420 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5421 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5422
542338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5424 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5425 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5426 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5427
542839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5429
5430 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5431
5432 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5433 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5434 2^31.
5435
543640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5437 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5438 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5439 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5440 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5441 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5442 $localpart_data.
5443
544441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5445 with the -f command-line option.
5446
544742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5448 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5449 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5450 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5451 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5452 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5453
545443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5455 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5456 line.
5457
545844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5459 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5460 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5461 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5462 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5463 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5464 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5465 buffer is too small.
5466
546745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5468 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5469
547046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5471 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5472 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5473 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5474 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5475 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5476 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5477 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5478 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5479
548047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5481 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5482 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5483
548448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5485 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5486 ACL").
5487
548849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5489 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5490 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5491 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5492 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5493
549450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5495 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5496 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5497 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5498 is set.
5499
550051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5501
550252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5503
550453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5505 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5506
550754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5508 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5509 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5510
551155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5512 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5513 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5514 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5515 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5516
551756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5518 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5519 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5520 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5521 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5522 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5523 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5524
552557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5526 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5527 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5528 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5529 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5530 the test of how many are available.
5531
553258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5533 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5534 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5535 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5536 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5537 new message is started.
5538
553959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5540 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5541
554260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5543 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5544
554561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5546 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5547 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5548 is no long logged.
5549
555062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5551 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5552 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5553 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5554 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5555 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5556 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5557
555863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5559 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5560 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5561 interpreted as octal.
5562
556364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5564 setting.
5565
556665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5567 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5568 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5569 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5570 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5571 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5572
557366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5574 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5575 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5576 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5577
5578 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5579 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5580 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5581 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5582
5583 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5584 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5585 is a bug fix.
5586
5587 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5588 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5589
559067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5591
559268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5593 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5594 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5595 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5596
559769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5598 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5599 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5600 supplied", which is not helpful.
5601
560270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5603 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5604 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5605
560671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5607 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5608 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5609 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5610 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5611 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5612 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5613 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5614
561572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5616 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5617 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5618 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5619 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5620
562173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5622 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5623 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5624 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5625 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5626 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5627
562874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5629 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5630 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5631
563275. Added write_rejectlog option.
5633
563476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5635 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5636 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5637 variables.
5638
563977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5640
564178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5642 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5643 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5644 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5645 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5646 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5647 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5648 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5649
565079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5651 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5652 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5653 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5654 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5655
565680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5657 Haardt.
5658
565981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5660 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5661 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5662 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5663 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5664 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5665 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5666 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5667 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5668
5669
5670Exim version 4.30
5671-----------------
5672
5673 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5674 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5675 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5676
5677 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5678 fixed.
5679
5680 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5681 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5682 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5683
5684 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5685 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5686 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5687 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5688 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5689 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5690
5691 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5692 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5693 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5694 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5695 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5696 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5697 the Exim test suite.
5698
5699 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5700 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5701 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5702 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5703
5704 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5705 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5706 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5707 specify it in this variable.
5708
5709 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5710 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5711 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5712 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5713
5714 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5715 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5716 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5717 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5718
5719 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5720 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5721 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5722 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5723 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5724
5725 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5726
572710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5728 they are logged.
5729
573011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5731 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5732 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5733 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5734 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5735
573612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5737 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5738
573913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5740 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5741 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5742 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5743 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5744
574514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5746 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5747
574815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5749 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5750 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5751
575216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5753 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5754
575517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5756 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5757
575818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5759 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5760 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5761
576219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5763 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5764
576520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5766 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5767 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5768 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5769
577021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5771
577222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5773 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5774 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5775 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5776
577723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5778
577924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5780 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5781
578225. Added .include_if_exists.
5783
578426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5785 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5786 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5787 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5788 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5789 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5790
579127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5792
579328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5794 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5795 this.
5796
579729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5798
579930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5800 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5801
5802 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5803 550 Sender verify failed
5804
5805 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5806 the final line of the response.
5807
580831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5809 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5810 all other user lookups.
5811
581232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5813 delivery time.
5814
581533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5816 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5817 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5818 result into an int without checking.
5819
582034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5821 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5822 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5823
582435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5825 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5826 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5827 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5828
582936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5830 correctly.
5831
583237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5833 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5834
583538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5836 to the empty sender.
5837
583839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5839 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5840 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5841 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5842 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5843 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5844 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5845 panic log.
5846
584740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5848 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5849 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5850 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5851 used.
5852
585341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5854 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5855
585642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5857 timestamps.
5858
585943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5860 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5861
586244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5863
586445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5865 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5866 logs.
5867
586846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5869 as soon as it is encountered.
5870
587147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5872
587348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5874 rewritten to "<>".
5875
587649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5877 recognizes a tab character.
5878
587950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5880 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5881 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5882 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5883
588451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5885
588652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5887 crash.
5888
588953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5890
589154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5892
589355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5894 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5895 2822.
5896
589756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5898 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5899 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5900 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5901 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5902
590357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5904 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5905
590658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5907 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5908 list (.included file names were always shown).
5909
591059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5911 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5912 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5913 root at that time.
5914
591560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5916 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5917
591861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5919
592062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5921
592263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5923
592464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5925 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5926 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5927 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5928 failures to open the logs.
5929
593065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5931 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5932 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5933 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5934 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5935 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5936 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5937
5938
5939Exim version 4.24
5940-----------------
5941
5942 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5943 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5944 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5945 change 4.23/1.
5946
5947 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5948 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5949 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5950
5951 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5952 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5953 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5954
5955 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5956 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5957 causing some misleading effects.
5958
5959 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5960 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5961 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5962
5963 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5964 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5965 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5966 queue-runner function directly.
5967
5968
5969Exim version 4.23
5970-----------------
5971
5972 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5973 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5974
5975 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5976 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5977 was always written to the default place.
5978
5979 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5980 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5981 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5982
5983 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5984
5985 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5986
5987 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5988 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5989 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5990
5991 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5992 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5993 must start.
5994
5995 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5996 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5997 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5998
5999 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6000 command line option is disabled.
6001
6002 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6003 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6004
6005 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6006
6007 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6008
6009 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6010 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6011
601210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6013
601411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6015 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6016 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6017 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6018 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6019 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6020
602112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6022 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6023 timeout.
6024
602513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6026 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6027
602814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6029 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6030
603115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6032 received was valid base64.
6033
603416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6035 name of the variable that was being set.
6036
603717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6038
603918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6040 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6041 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6042 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6043 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6044 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6045
604619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6047
604820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6049 nor realm was specified.
6050
605121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6052 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6053 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6054 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6055
605622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6057 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6058 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6059
606023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6061 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6062 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6063
606424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6065 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6066 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6067 some systems use these upper case variants.
6068
606925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6070 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6071 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6072 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6073
607426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6075
607627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6077 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6078
607928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6080 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6081 expansion variable.
6082
608329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6084
608530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6086 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6087 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6088 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6089
609031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6091 using it.
6092
609332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6094 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6095 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6096
609733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6098 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6099
610034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6101 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6102 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6103 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6104
610535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6106 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6107 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6108
610936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6110
611137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6112 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6113 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6114 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6115 aborted.
6116
611738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6118 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6119 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6120
612139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6122
612340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6124 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6125
612641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6127 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6128
612942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6130 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6131 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6132 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6133 when emails are that large.
6134
6135
6136
6137Exim version 4.22
6138-----------------
6139
6140 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6141 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6142
6143 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6144 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6145 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6146
6147 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6148 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6149 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6150
6151 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6152 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6153 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6154 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6155 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6156
6157 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6158 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6159 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6160 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6161 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6162 ever.
6163
6164 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6165 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6166 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6167 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6168 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6169 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6170 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6171 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6172 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6173 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6174 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6175 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6176 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6177 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6178
6179 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6180 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6181 parameterised it.
6182
6183 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6184 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6185 error should be diagnosed.
6186
6187 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6188 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6189 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6190 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6191 appeared instead of "NULL".
6192
619310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6194 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6195 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6196 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6197 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6198 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6199 proceeds).
6200
6201 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6202 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6203 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6204
6205
6206Exim version 4.21
6207-----------------
6208
6209 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6210 or receiver verification errors.
6211
6212 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6213 name.
6214
6215 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6216 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6217 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6218 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6219
6220 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6221 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6222 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6223 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6224 shouldn't happen again.
6225
6226 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6227 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6228 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6229
6230 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6231 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6232
6233 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6234
6235 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6236 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6237
6238 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6239 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6240 RFC.
6241
624210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6243 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6244 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6245
624611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6247 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6248 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6249 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6250
625112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6252 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6253 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6254 to define what should happen).
6255
625613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6257 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6258 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6259
626014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6261
626215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6263
626416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6265 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6266
626717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6268 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6269 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6270 structure in all cases.
6271
6272 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6273 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6274 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6275 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6276
627718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6278 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6279 domain name.
6280
628119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6282 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6283
628420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6285 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6286
628721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6288 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6289 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6290
629122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6292 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6293 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6294
629523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6296 the book and for uniformity.
6297
629824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6299
630025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6301 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6302 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6303 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6304 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6305 non-existent command as the problem.
6306
630726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6308 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6309 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6310
631127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6312
631328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6314 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6315 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6316
631729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6318 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6319 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6320 timestamps using strftime().
6321
632230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6323 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6324
632532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6326 transport-time rewrites.
6327
632833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6329 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6330 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6331 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6332
633334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6334 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6335
633635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6337 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6338 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6339 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6340 comma and a space.
6341
634236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6343 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6344 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6345 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6346 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6347 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6348 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6349
635037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6351 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6352 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6353 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6354 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6355
635638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6357 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6358 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6359 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6360 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6361 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6362 remaining text gets split now.
6363
636439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6365 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6366 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6367 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6368
636940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6370 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6371 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6372 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6373 $return_path.
6374
637541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6376 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6377 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6378 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6379 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6380 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6381 passed through if needed.
6382
638342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6384 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6385 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6386 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6387 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6388 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6389
639043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6391 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6392 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6393 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6394 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6395
639644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6397 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6398 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6399 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6400 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6401
640245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6403 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6404 noticed.
6405
640646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6407 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6408 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6409 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6410 mayhem of various kinds.
6411
641247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6413 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6414 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6415 the right test for positive values.
6416
641748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6418 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6419 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6420 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6421 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6422 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6423 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6424 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6425 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6426 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6427 envelope.
6428
642949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6430 module.
6431
643250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6433 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6434 forbidding it.
6435
643651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6437 the existing equality matching.
6438
643952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6440 dealing with inode numbers.
6441
644253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6443 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6444 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6445
644654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6447 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6448 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6449 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6450 local_scan().
6451
645255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6453 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6454 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6455 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6456 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6457 relay addresses has also been removed.
6458
645956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6460
646157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6462 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6463 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6464
646558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6466 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6467 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6468 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6469 processing applies to CR:
6470
6471 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6472 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6473
6474 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6475 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6476 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6477 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6478
647959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6480 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6481 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6482
648360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6484 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6485 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6486 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6487 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6488 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6489 arisen.
6490
649161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6492 program routers.
6493
649462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6495 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6496 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6497 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6498 adds:
6499
6500 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6501
6502 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6503
6504 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6505
650663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6507 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6508 not considered personal.
6509
651064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6511
651265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6513
651466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6515
651667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6517 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6518 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6519 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6520 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6521 header lines, and spool format errors.
6522
652368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6524 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6525 for more flexibility.
6526
652769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6528 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6529 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6530
653170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6532 Sabourenkov.
6533
653471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6535 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6536 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6537 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6538 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6539 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6540 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6541 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6542 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6543
654472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6545 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6546 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6547 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6548 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6549 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6550 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6551
655273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6553 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6554 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6555
655674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6557 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6558 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6559 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6560 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6561 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6562 instead of killing the process with assert().
6563
656475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6565 than Unicode encoding.
6566
656776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6568 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6569 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6570 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6571
657277. Added process_log_path.
6573
657478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6575 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6576
657779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6578 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6579
658080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6581 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6582 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6583
658481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6585 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6586 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6587 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6588 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6589 were applied:
6590
6591 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6592 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6593 as invalid.
6594
659582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6596 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6597 they will be used during message reception.
6598
6599
6600Exim version 4.20
6601-----------------
6602
6603The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6604
6605****