PAM: fix crash in the pam expansion condition. Bug 2489
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1This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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9JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
10 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
11 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
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13JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
14
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15JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
16 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
17 option.
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19JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
20 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
21 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
22
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23JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
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25JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
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27JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
28 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
29 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
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35JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
36 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
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39 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
40 its own TCP segment.
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42JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
43 each verb.
44
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45JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
46
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47JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
48
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49JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
50 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
51
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52JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
53 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
54 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
55 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
56 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
57 suitably configured).
58
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60 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
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62JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
63 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
64 crash could result.
65
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66JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
67 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
68
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69JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
70 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
71 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
72 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
73 to this system.
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75JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
76 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
77 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
78
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79JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
80 output.
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82JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
83 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
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00c0dd4e 86 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
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87 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
88 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
89 input).
90
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91HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
92 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
93 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
94 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
95 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
96
7d8d08c4 97HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
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98 shared (NFS) environment.
99
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101 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
102 affected.
103
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104JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
105 on some platforms for bit 31.
106
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107JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
108 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
109 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
110 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
111 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
112 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
113 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
114 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
115
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116JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
117
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118JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
119 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
120
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121JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
122 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
123 facility.
124
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125JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
126 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
127 documentation.
128
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129JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
130 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
131 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
132 not do so.
133
59c0959a 134JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
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135 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
136 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
137
138JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
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139 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
140 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
141 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
142 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
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144JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
145 reject under TFO.
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efad2f41 147JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
4e48d56c 148 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
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149 be requested on all coneections.
150
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151JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
152 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
153
6ee11061 154PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
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156JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
157 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
158 one for these; the option was ignored.
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160JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
161 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
162 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
163 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
164
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165JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
166 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
167 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
168 standards.
169
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171 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
172 error ignored was made.
173
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174JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
175
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176JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
177 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
178 values, to catch one form of exploit.
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180JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
181 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
182 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
183
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184JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
185 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
186 causing a segfault.
187
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188JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
189 them in our smtp response.
190
9c6881f8 191JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
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192 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
193 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
194 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
195 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
196
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197JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
198 link count into consideration.
199
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200HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
201 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
202
203JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
204 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
205 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
206 surprise.
207
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209
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210JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
211
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212JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
213
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214JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
215 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
216 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
217 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
218
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222 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
223 active.
224
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225JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
226 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
227 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
228
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230 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
231 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
232
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233JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
234 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
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235 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
236 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
237 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
238 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
239 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
240 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
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243 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
244 resulted in an indefinite loop.
245
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246JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
247 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
248 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
249
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254JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
255 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
256
257JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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258 non-signal-safe functions being used.
259
260JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
261 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
262 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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264JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
265 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
266 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
267
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268JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
269 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
270 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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271 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
272 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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273 messed with.
274
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275PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
276 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
277
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278JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
279 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
280 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
281 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
282 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
283 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
284 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
285
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286JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
287 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
288
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289JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
290 legitimate.
291
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292JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
293 Previously this would segfault.
294
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295JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
296 segfault.
297
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298JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
299 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
300 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
301 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
302 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
303 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
304
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306
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307JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
308 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
309 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
310 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
311
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312JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
313
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314JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
315 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
316 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
317 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
318
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323JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
324 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
325 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
326
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327JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
328 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
329 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
330
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332
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333JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
334 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
335 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
336 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
337
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338PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
339 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
340 promised '?' replacement.
341
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342PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
343
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344JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
345 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
346 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
347 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
348 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
349
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350JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
351 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
352 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
353
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354JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
355 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
356 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
357
7ea1237c 358JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 359 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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360 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
361
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362JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
363 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
364 hope that is portable enough.
365
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366JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
367 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
368 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
369 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
370
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371JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
372 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
373 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
374
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375JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
376 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
377 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
378 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
379
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380JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
381 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
382
75c121f0 383JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 384 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
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385 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
386 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
387
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388JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
389 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
390 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
391
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392JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
393 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
394 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
395 the previous G, M, k.
396
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397JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
398 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
399 it was unset.
400
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401JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
402 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
403 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
404 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
405
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406JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
407 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
408
de6f74f2 409JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
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410 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
411 off past the nul-terimation.
412
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413JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
414 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
415 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
416 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
417 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
418
aa6e77af 419JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
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421JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
422 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
423 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
424 actually does fail.
425
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426AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
427 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
428
429JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
430 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
431 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
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433JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
434 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
435 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
436
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437JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
438 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
439
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c39c8870 444GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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445 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
446 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
447 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
448 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
449 be defined in redis_servers.
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451GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
452 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
453
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454JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
455 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
456 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
457 extant use locations.
458
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459JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
460 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
461
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462JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
463 Previously only the last row was returned.
464
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465JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
466 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
467 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
468 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
469 input.
470
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471JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
472 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
473 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
474 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
475 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
476 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
477 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
478 Main pool for expansions.
479 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
480 active in the testsuite.
481 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
482
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483JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
484 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
485 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
486 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
487 round-robin DNS.
488
5b6f7658
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489JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
490 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
491 failure response.
492
c11d665d
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493JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
494 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
495 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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496
497JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
498 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
499 ClamAV interface method is removed.
c11d665d 500
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501JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
502 rows affected is given instead).
503
96508de1
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504JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
505 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
506
06fdb9f7
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507JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
508 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
509 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
510 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
511 for all multi-message initiating connections.
512
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513JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
514 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
515 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
516
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517JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
518 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
519 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
520 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
521 separate.
522
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523JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
524 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
525 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
526 fake-reject.
527
cf3cd306
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528HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
529
744976d4
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530JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
531 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
532
aab9a843 533PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 534 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 535 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 536
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537JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
538 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
539 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
540 and send a quit.
541
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542JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
543 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
544
85e03244
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545JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
546 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
547 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
548
c0635b6d
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549JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
550 for the build is renamed.
551
b808677c
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552JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
553 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
554 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
555
6678c382
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556JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
557 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
558 result replacing the original.
559
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560JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
561 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
562 and the resources needed to be freed.
563
15ae19f9
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564JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
565
e6532c4a
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566JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
567 was not propagated.
568
2556b3c6
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569JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
570 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
571 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
572 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
573
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574JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
575 length value. Previously this would segfault.
576
71bb51e0
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577HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
578 newer versions of the scanner.
579
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580JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
581 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
582 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
583 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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584 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
585 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
586 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
e04bfa34 587
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588JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
589 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
590 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
591 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
592 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
593 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
594 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
595 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
596 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
597 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
598
c9cf9ac4
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599JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
600 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
601
b3b37076
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602JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
603
830832c9
HSHR
604HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
605 allows proper process termination in container environments.
606
f64e8b5f
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607JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
608 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
609
8f0776b5
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610JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
611 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
612 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
613
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614JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
615 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
616 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 617 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 618
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619JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
620 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
621 would be spooled.
622
405074ad
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623PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
624 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
625
eb445b04
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626HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
627 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
628 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
629 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
630 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
ad93c40f 631
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632JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
633 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
634 lines.
635
a28050f8
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636JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
637 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
638
ddd16464
PP
639PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
640 suffix list.
641
321ef002
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642JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
643 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
644 "bare" representation.
645
3203e7ba
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646JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
647 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
648 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
649 corrupted the output.
650
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654
655JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
656 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
657 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
658 pairs of long lines into single ones.
659
856d1e16
PP
660PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
661 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
662
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663JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
664 This permits better logging.
665
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666JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
667 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
668 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
669 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
670 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 671 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 672
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673JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
674 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
675 "exiwhat" output.
676
98913c8e
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677PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
678 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
679 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
680
8d909960
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681JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
682 than 255 are no longer allowed.
683
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684JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
685 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
686 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
687 client, there is no benefit for these.
688 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
689 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
690 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
691 is used (3.2.4 +).
692
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693PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
694 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
695
4c2471ca
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696JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
697 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
698 erroneously found still-pending ones.
699
4e910c01
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700JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
701 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
702
42055a33
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703JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
704 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
705 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
706 signature and again for transmission.
707
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708JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
709 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 710 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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712JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
713 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
714 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
715 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
716 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
717 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
718 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
719
40525d07
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720JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
721 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
722 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 723 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 724
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725PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
726 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
727 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
728 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
729 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
730 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
731 processing options.
732
a5ffa9b4
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733JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
734 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
735 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
736 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
737 connections.
925ac8e4 738
6600985a
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739PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
740 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
741 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
742 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
743 versions.
744
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745JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
746 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
747 inaccessible.
748
e69636bc
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749JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
750 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
751 banner-time rejection.
752
a843a57e
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753JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
754 callout/hold.
755
8e041ae0
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756PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
757 is the name of a transport.
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758 Fixes bug 2140.
759
35a04365
HSHR
760HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
761
4226691b
JH
762JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
763 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
764
d185889f
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765JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
766 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
767 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
768 during compilation.
769
0a6c178c
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770JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
771 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
772 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 773 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 774
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775JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
776 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
777 initial verify call returned a defer.
778
ad1a76fe 779JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
14de8063
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780 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
781
ad1a76fe
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782JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
783 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
784
135e9496
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785JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
786 if present. Previously it was ignored.
787
f2ed27cf
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788JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
789 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
790
7eb0e5d2
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791JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
792 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
793 extensible.
794
4f9f4be4
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795PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
796 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
797
dc4de9cc
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798PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
799 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
800 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
801
ea18931d
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802JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
803 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
804 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
805 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
806
0768462d 807HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
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808 and confused the parent.
809
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810JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
811 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
812
9e0ed81f
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813JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
814 for log purposes.
815
2540f2f8
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816JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
817 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
818 out-of-order delivery.
819
e5ab0ba9
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820JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
821 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
822 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
823 error for the HELO.
824
e99a3a6c
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825JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
826 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
827 desynchronisation.
828
18067c75
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829JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
830 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
831 one run was done. Bug 2189.
832
72934ba7
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833JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
834 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
835 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
836 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
837 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
838 message is still "Temporary local problem".
839
625667b6
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840JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
841 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
b488395f
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842 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
843
844HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
845 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
846 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 847
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848JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
849 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
850 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
851 though a different problem.
852
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9427e879 857JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 858 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 859
7b283890
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860JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
861
4c57a40e
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862PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
863 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
864
5d036699
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865JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
866 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
867
f4630439
JH
868JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
869 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
870 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
871 before acknowledging the chunk.
872
f988ce57
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873PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
874 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
875 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
876
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877JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
878 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
879 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
880 should.
881
882JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
b895f4b2
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883 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
884 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 885
bd8fbe36 886JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
902fbd69
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887 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
888
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889JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
890 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
891 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
892 body hash calculated value.
893
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894JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
895 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
896 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
897
44e6651b
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898JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
899
900JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
901 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
902
903JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
904 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
905 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
906
907JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
908 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
909 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
910 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
911 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
912 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
913
914JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
915 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
916 past that check, despite the cost.
917
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918JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
919 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
920 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
921
f700ea4d
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922PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
923 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
924 TLS library to consume.
925
da88acae
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926PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
927
f6ef9370
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928PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
929
90341c71
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930JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
931 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
932 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
933 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
934 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
935 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
936 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
937
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938PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
939
940PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
941
942PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
943 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
944 should be warning-free.
945
8b2b9480
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946JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
947
948HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
949 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
950
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951HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
952 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
953 general solution here.
954
7dc5f827
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955PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
956 already-broken messages in the queue.
957
4bb432cb
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958JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
959
3b1a84c8
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960JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
961
902fbd69 962
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963Exim version 4.88
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4c57a40e 965
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966JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
967 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 968
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969JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
970 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
971 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
972
4b0fe319
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973JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
974 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
975 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
976 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
977 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
978 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
979 if one fails this test.
980 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
981 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
982
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983JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
984 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
985
23bb6982 986JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 987 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 988
0bd1b1ed 989JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 990 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 991
20b9a2dc
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992JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
993 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
994
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995JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
996 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
997
1a6230a3
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998JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
999
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1000JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1001 certificate).
1002
98c82a3d
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1003JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1004 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1005 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1006 connection after a verify cache hit.
1007 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1008
1009JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1010 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1011
ae8386f0
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1012JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1013 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1014 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1015 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1016 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1017
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1018JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1019 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1020
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1021JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1022 Previously they were not counted.
1023
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1024JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1025 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1026 that needed the lookup.
1027
4c04137d 1028JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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1029 distinguished as "(=".
1030
1435d4b2
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1031JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1032 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1033
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1034JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1035
1036JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1037 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 1038
4c04137d 1039JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
72a201e2
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1040 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1041
1c788856
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1042JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1043 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1044 compatible.
1045
e3b1f624
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1046JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1047 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1048 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1049 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1050
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1051JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1052
f59aaaaa 1053JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2d009132
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1054 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1055 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 1056
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1057JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1058 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1059 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1060 be lost.
1061
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1062JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1063 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1064 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1065 itself :(
1066
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1067JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1068 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1069 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1070
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1071JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1072 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1073 options.
1074
ae5afa61
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1075JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1076
317e40ac
PP
1077PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1078 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1079
8b0fb68e
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1080PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1081 are not in the system include path.
1082
ad7fc6eb 1083JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 1084 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
ad7fc6eb
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1085 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1086 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 1087
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1088JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1089 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1090 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1091
5ddc9771
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1092JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1093
8d73599f
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1094HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1095 an incoming connection.
1096
446415f5
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1097HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1098 to rspamd.
1099
8e53a4fc
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1100HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1101 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 1102
87cb4a16 1103JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 1104 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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1105
1106
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4c57a40e 1109
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1110JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1111 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1112 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1113 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 1114
6c6d6e48
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1115TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1116 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1117
ac881e27
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1118TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1119 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1120 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1121 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1122 outgoing I= field.
1123
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1124JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1125 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1126 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1127 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1128 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1129 check on the next write.
1130
f1b81d81
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1131HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1132 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1133 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1134 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1135 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1136
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1137JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1138 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1139
895fbaf2
JH
1140JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1141 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1142 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1143
805bb5c3
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1144JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1145 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1146 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1147 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1148
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1149HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1150 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1151
4c04137d 1152JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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JH
1153 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1154
6f6dedcc
JH
1155JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1156 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1157 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1158 distinct.
1159
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1160JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1161
1162JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1163
ec0eb1a3
JH
1164JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1165
41e93589
JH
1166JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1167 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1168
98b98887 1169JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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1170 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1171
98b98887
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1172JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1173
858e91c2
JH
1174JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1175 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1176
1177JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1178
6ff55e50
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1179JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1180 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1181
3b957582
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1182JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1183
23f3dc67
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1184JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1185 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 1186 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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1187 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1188 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1189 they will retry in-clear.
1190 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1191 at installation time.
1192
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1193HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1194 with the $config_file variable.
1195
5ef5dd52
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1196JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1197 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1198 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1199 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 1200 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 1201
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1202GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1203 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1204 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1205 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1206 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1207
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1208JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1209
7f06582c
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1210JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1211 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1212 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1213 list order is no longer honoured.
1214
4c04137d 1215JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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1216 for DKIM processing.
1217
f0989ec0
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1218JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1219 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 1220
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1221JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1222 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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1223 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1224 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 1225
8c5d388a
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1226JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1227 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1228
2d8d625b
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1229JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1230 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1231
0cbf2b82
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1232JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1233 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1234
f2f2c91b
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1235JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1236
ce325893
JH
1237JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1238 cached by the daemon.
1239
de78e2d5
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1240JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1241 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1242
379ba7d0
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1243JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1244 keys are given for lookup.
1245
f444c2c7
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1246JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1247 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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1248 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1249 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 1250
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1251JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1252 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1253 server-side so match that on older versions.
1254
07c73177 1255JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 1256 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 1257 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 1258
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1259JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1260 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1261
1bc460a6
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1262JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1263 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1264 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 1265 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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1266 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1267 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1268 initial truncated version.
1269
ab9152ff 1270JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 1271
67e87fcf
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1272JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1273
ab9152ff
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1274JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1275 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1276
af483912
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1277JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1278
bc3c7bb7 1279HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 1280
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1281JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1282 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1283 induced overflows.
1284
59eaad2b
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1285JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1286 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1287 stage.
1288
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1289JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1290 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1291
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1292JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1293 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1294 former class.
1295
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1296JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1297 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1298 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1299
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1300JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1301 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1302 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1303 extraction. Accept either.
1304
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4c57a40e 1308
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1309JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1310 expanded.
1311
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1312JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1313
ad07e9ad
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1314JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1315 it.
1316
01a4a5c5 1317JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1318 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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1319 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1320 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1321
cb1d7830 1322JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1323 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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1324 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1325
610ff438 1326JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1327 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1328 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1329 TLS connections
610ff438 1330
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1331JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1332 sites use this now.
1333
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1334JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1335 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1336 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1337 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1338 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1339
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1340JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1341 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1342 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1343
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1344JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1345
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1346JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1347 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1348
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1349JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1350 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1351
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1352JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1353 /defer_ok option.
1354
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1355JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1356 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1357
fd4d8871 1358JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1359 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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1360 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1361
1362JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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1363 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1364 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1365
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1366JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1367 timeout value per server.
1368
2ad78978
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1369JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1370 now have the list separator specified.
1371
8a512ed5 1372JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1373 option values.
8a512ed5 1374
82c0c8ea 1375JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
f69979cf
JH
1376 under OpenSSL.
1377
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1378JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1379
82c0c8ea
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1380JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1381 rather than the verbs used.
1382
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1383JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1384 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1385
6c9ed72e
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1386JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1387
cfab9d68 1388HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1389 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1390
f846c8f5
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1391JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1392 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1393
fd4c285c
HSHR
1394HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1395 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1396
4c04137d 1397JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1398
d2a2c69b
JH
1399JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1400
8241d8dd
JH
1401JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1402 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1403 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
8241d8dd
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1404 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1405
1f12df4d
JH
1406JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1407
1f155f8e
JH
1408JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1409 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1410
1705dd20
JH
1411JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1412 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1413
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1414JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1415
474f71bf
JH
1416JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1417
7137ca4b
JH
1418JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1419
dcb1095c
JH
1420JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1421 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1422
2f460950
JH
1423JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1424 added for tls authenticator.
1425
2f680c0c
HSHR
1426HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1427
9c695f6d 1428
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1429Exim version 4.85
1430-----------------
4c57a40e 1431
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1432TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1433 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1434 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1435 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1436 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1437 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1438 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1439
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1440TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1441 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1442 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1443 function when detected.
1444
a9b8ec8b
JH
1445JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1446 cause callback expansion.
1447
6286d7c4
TL
1448TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1449 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1450 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1451 instead of bool when processing it.
1452
0f06b4f2 1453JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
d567a64d
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1454 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1455
be36e572
JH
1456JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1457
ac4ef9bd
JH
1458JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1459
0eb51736
TL
1460TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1461
c713ca4b
TL
1462TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1463 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1464
bd21a787
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1465JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1466 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1467 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1468 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1469 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
bd21a787
WB
1470 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1471
8bc732e8
JH
1472JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1473 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1474 exceeded it.
1475
a7fec7a7
JH
1476JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1477 version 3.3.6 or later.
1478
4c04137d 1479JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
774ef2d7
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1480 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1481 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1482 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
723fe533
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1483 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1484 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1485 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1486
eca4debb
TL
1487TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1488 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1489
8d692470
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1490JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1491 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1492 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1493 matches.
1494
e9477a08
JH
1495JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1496 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1497 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1498
ad4c5ff9
JH
1499JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1500 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
JH
1501
1502JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1503 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1504 syntax errors.
1505
3394b36a 1506JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
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1507
1508JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1509 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1510
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1511TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1512 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1513 tarball.
1514
ad4c5ff9
JH
1515JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1516
4c04137d 1517JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
JH
1518 Bug 1561.
1519
1520JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1521 output list separator was used.
1522
8bc732e8 1523
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1525-----------------
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1526TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1527 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1528 return.
1f0ebb98 1529
a612424f 1530JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1531 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
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1532
1533JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1534
1535TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1536 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1537
1f0ebb98 1538
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1539Exim version 4.83
1540-----------------
1541
1542TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1543
1544 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1545 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1546 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1547 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1548 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1549 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1550
7245734e
TF
1551TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1552 utilities have not been installed.
1553
fd5dad68
JH
1554JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1555 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1556
5428a946
TL
1557TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1558 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1559
a3c86431
TL
1560TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1561 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
8ded8589
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1562 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1563 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1564
aa26e137
JH
1565JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1566
5a1b8443
WB
1567TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1568 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1569
72c9e342
PP
1570PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1571 not dns_use_dnssec.
1572
76f44207
WB
1573JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1574
770747fd
MFM
1575TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1576 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1577 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1578
8ddef691 1579TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
982650ec
TL
1580 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1581 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1582 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1583 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1584 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1585
b9c2e32f
AR
1586JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1587
e45a1c37
JH
1588JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1589 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1590
67d81c10
JH
1591JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1592 failed delivery.
1593
b1f8e4f8
JH
1594JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1595
511a6c14 1596JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1597
1598JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1599 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1600
51c7471d
JH
1601JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1602 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1603
3695be34
TL
1604TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1605
1e06383a
TL
1606JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1607
76146973
JH
1608JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1609 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1610
1611 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1612 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1613 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1614
8c8b8274
TL
1615TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1616 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1617 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1618 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1619
35aba663
JH
1620JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1621
8c51eead 1622JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1623 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1624 lookup).
8c51eead 1625
deae092e
HS
1626TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1627 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1628 Schlichting.
35aba663 1629
fd3b6a4a 1630JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1631 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1632
8d91c6dc
LT
1633TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1634 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1635
2b4a568d
JH
1636JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1637
d2af03f4
HS
1638TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1639 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1640 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1641
9d1c15ef
JH
1642JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1643 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1644
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JH
1645JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1646 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
1647 hosts_request_ocsp.
1648
ed3bba5f 1649JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1650 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1651 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1652
8ccd00b1
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1653JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1654
8ded8589
TL
1655TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1656 Christian Aistleitner.
1657
f2de3a33
JH
1658JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1659
6eb02f88
TL
1660TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1661 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1662
00bff6f6
JH
1663JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1664 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1665
071c51f7
JH
1666JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1667 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1668
a6d4c44e
TF
1669TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1670 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1671
3ae173e7
ACK
1672TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1673 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1674
c13d09b8
TL
1675TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1676 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1677 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1678
0df4ab80
JH
1679JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1680
66be95e0
PP
1681PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1682 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1683 Jasper Wallace.
1684
1bd0d12b
JH
1685JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1686
0de7239e
TL
1687TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1688 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1689 CVE-2014-2972
1690
fd3b6a4a 1691
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1694
1695PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1696
12f69989
PP
1697PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1698 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1699
54c90be1
PP
1700PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1701 by GnuTLS.
1702
1f4a55da
PP
1703PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1704 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1705 routines.
1706
13363eba 1707PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1708
66645890 1709PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
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1710 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1711 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1712 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1713 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1714
a3fb9793 1715PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1716 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1717 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1718 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1719 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1720 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1721
d27f98fe 1722TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1723
6822b909
TL
1724TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1725
e7568d51
TL
1726TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1727 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1728
ae0e32ee 1729TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1730 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1731 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
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1732
1733TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1734
e2658fff
TL
1735TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1736
83712b39
TL
1737TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1738 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1739
976b7e9f
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1740JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1741
be4a1376
JH
1742JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1743
ec4b68e5
PP
1744PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1745
d7148a07
NM
1746NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1747 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1748
585121e2 1749JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1750
2519e60d
TL
1751PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1752 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1753 function.
a5f239e4 1754
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1755PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1756 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1757
bef3ea7f
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1758JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1759 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1760 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1761
846726c5
JH
1762JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1763
3a796370
JH
1764JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1765
ea722490 1766JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1767 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1768
b1b05573
JH
1769JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1770 Bugzilla 884.
1771
362145b5
JH
1772JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1773 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1774
3c0a92dc
JH
1775JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1776 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1777
6d7c6175
PP
1778PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1779 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1780 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1781
6f123593
JH
1782JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1783 authenticators.
1784
c8e2fc1e
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1785JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1786 for control.
1787
005ac57f
PP
1788PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1789
3f1df0e3
PP
1790PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1791 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1792 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1793 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1794
67bd1ab3
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1795TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1796
1797 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1798 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1799 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1800 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1801 the retry rules.
1802
1803 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1804 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1805 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1806
1807 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1808 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1809 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1810 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1811
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1812 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1813 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1814 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1815 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1816 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1817 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1818 delivery, as in LMTP.
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1819
1820 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1821 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1822
326cdc37
TF
1823TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1824
1825 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1826
1827 Resent-From: f
1828
1829 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1830 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1831 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1832 username as equal to the username.
1833
1834 This change corrects that bug.
1835
f62514b3
GF
1836GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1837 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1838 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1839
eb505532
TF
1840TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1841
14c7b357
PP
1842PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1843 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1844 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1845 NULL dereference and crash.
1846
94eaf700
PP
1847JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1848
6f5a440a
PP
1849PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1850 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1851 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1852
514ee161
SC
1853SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1854
fd98a5c6
JH
1855JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1856 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1857 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1858 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1859 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1860 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1861 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1862 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1863 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1864 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1865 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1866
035c7f1e
PP
1867PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1868 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1869
ff284120
PP
1870PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1871 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1872 Bugzilla 880.
1873
26e72755
PP
1874PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1875 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1876 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1877 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1878 an empty string is now equivalent.
1879
0fbd9bff
PP
1880PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1881 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1882 not performing validation itself.
1883
700d22f3
PP
1884PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1885 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1886
fcc8e047
JH
1887JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1888 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1889
4c04137d 1890TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1891
8c020188
PP
1892PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1893 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1894 other false fix of the same issue.
1895 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1896 Bugzilla 1363.
1897
d13cdd30
PP
1898PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1899 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1900
e2fbf4a2
PP
1901PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1902 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1903 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1904
f4c1088b
PP
1905PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1906 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1907 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1908
c5c2182f
PP
1909TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1910
73431ca9
JH
1911JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1912
2d07a215
TL
1913TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1914 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1915
a30a8861
TL
1916TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1917 Alexander Miroch.
1918
33382dd9
TL
1919TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1920 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1921 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1922 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1923 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1924
046172e6
TL
1925TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1926 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1927
581d7bee 1928TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1929 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1930 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1931
1932TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1933 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1934 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1935 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1936
237b2cf2
TL
1937TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1938
9fc5a352
TL
1939TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1940 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1941 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1942
b10e4ec2
TL
1943TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1944
e2cebd74
TL
1945TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1946 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1947 interaction.
1948
1949TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1950 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1951
2519e60d
TL
1952TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1953 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1954
e78e6ecf 1955
4263f395
PP
1956Exim version 4.80.1
1957-------------------
1958
1959PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1960 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1961 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1962
ea722490 1963
b1770b6e 1964Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1965-----------------
1966
1967PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1968 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1969 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1970
23c7e742
NM
1971NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1972
b322aac8
NM
1973NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1974 improved.
1975
4a891427
NM
1976NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1977
c1e794ba 1978PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1979
97753960
PP
1980PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1981
1982PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1983 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1984
df6303fa
PP
1985PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1986 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1987
7e6a8985
PP
1988PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1989 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1990
f1e05cc7 1991PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1992 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1993 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1994
4c287009
PP
1995PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1996
b98bb9ac
PP
1997PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1998 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1999
4a6a987a
PP
2000PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2001
c45dd180 2002PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 2003
7db8d074
PP
2004PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2005 non-compliant senders.
2006 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2007
eae0036b 2008NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 2009 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
2010 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2011
dec5017e
PP
2012PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2013 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2014 in spool file corruption.
2015
c80c5570
PP
2016PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2017 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2018 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2019 "Got SSL error 2".
2020
076b11e2
PP
2021TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2022 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2023 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2024
5407bfff
JH
2025JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2026 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2027
9e45c72b
PP
2028JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2029
e74376d8
PP
2030PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2031 diagnostics.
2032 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2033
4c04137d 2034PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
2035 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2036 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2037
7be682ca
PP
2038PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2039 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
2040 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2041 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 2042
ef840681
PP
2043PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2044 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2045
5bfb4cdf
PP
2046PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2047 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2048 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2049 resolver implementation change.
2050
c6e95d22
PP
2051PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2052 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2053
9cbad13b
PP
2054PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2055
9ee44efb
PP
2056PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2057
6a6084f8
PP
2058PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2059 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2060
12dd53c7
PP
2061PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2062 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2063
9e45c72b 2064JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
2065 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2066
17c76198
PP
2067PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2068 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2069 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2070 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 2071 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 2072
53947857 2073PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 2074
eae0036b 2075PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
2076 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2077 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 2078
9e45c72b 2079JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 2080
7390e768
PP
2081PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2082 read-only, out of scope).
2083 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2084
08488c86
PP
2085PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2086 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2087 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2088 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2089
6475bd82
PP
2090PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2091
81f91683
PP
2092PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2093 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2094 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2095 real issues in debug logging.
2096
5779e6aa
PP
2097PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2098 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2099
3375e053
PP
2100PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2101 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2102 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2103
2104PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2105 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
2106 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2107 problems.
3375e053 2108
9d26b8c0
PP
2109PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2110 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2111
57eb9e91 2112PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
2113 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2114 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2115 needs to override this, it can.
2116
16880d1a
PP
2117PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2118 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2119 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2120
a799883d
PP
2121PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2122 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2123 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2124 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2125
3ecab157 2126PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 2127
0599f9cf 2128
867fcbf5
PP
2129Exim version 4.77
2130-----------------
2131
2132PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2133 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2134
f1a29782
TF
2135TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2136
ab42bd23
TK
2137TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2138 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 2139
0ca0cf52
TF
2140TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2141 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2142
921b12ca
TF
2143TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2144 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2145 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2146
2147 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2148 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2149 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2150 not safe for signals.
2151
2152 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2153 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2154 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2155 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2156 exiwhat.
2157
c99ce5c9
TF
2158TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2159
2160 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2161 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2162 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2163 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 2164 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
2165
2166 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2167 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2168 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2169 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2170 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2171 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2172
2173 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2174 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2175 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2176 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2177
2178 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2179 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2180 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2181 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2182
2183 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2184 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2185 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2186 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2187 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2188 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2189 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2190 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2191 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2192
2193 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2194 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2195 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2196 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2197
2198 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2199 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2200 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2201 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2202 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2203 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2204 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2205 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2206 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2207 details in the main documentation.
2208
3634fc25
TF
2209TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2210
792e8a19
TF
2211TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2212
5901f0ab
TF
2213TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2214 repository when doing development or release builds.
2215
7f2a2a43
PP
2216PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2217 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 2218
061b7ebd
PP
2219PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2220 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2221 Bugzilla 97.
2222
e12f8c32
PP
2223PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2224
9e949f00 2225PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
2226 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2227
2228PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2229 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 2230
555ae6af 2231PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
2232 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2233
2234PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2235 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 2236
6f7fe114
PP
2237PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2238 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2239
c566dd90
PP
2240PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2241 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
2242 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2243 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 2244
d6cc7c78 2245PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
2246 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2247 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2248
0d0e4455
PP
2249PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2250
3399bb60 2251PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
2252
2253PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2254 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2255
0ca0cf52 2256
10906672
PP
2257Exim version 4.76
2258-----------------
2259
2260PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2261
754a0503
PP
2262PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2263 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2264
c0c7b2da
PP
2265PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2266
e97d1f08
PP
2267PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2268
084c1d8c
PP
2269PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2270 Bugzilla 1098.
2271
4e7ee012
PP
2272PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2273 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 2274
c8d52a00
PP
2275TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2276 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2277
54e7ce4a
PP
2278PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2279 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2280
5ee6f336
PP
2281PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2282 Bugzilla 1104.
2283
c8d52a00 2284TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
2285 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2286
2287TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2288 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2289 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2290 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2291
2292PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2293 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2294
10906672 2295
aa097c4c
NM
2296Exim version 4.75
2297-----------------
2298
4c04137d 2299NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2300 Bugzilla 1073
2301
7f3d9eff
TF
2302TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2303 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2304 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2305
159f52d2
TF
2306TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2307 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2308
0cc9542a
PP
2309PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2310 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2311 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2312
f7274286
PP
2313PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2314 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2315
7b797365
PP
2316PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2317 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2318
caacae52
NM
2319NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2320 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2321
09dcaba9
NM
2322NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2323 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2324
bc19a55b
PP
2325PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2326 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2327
bd4c9759
NM
2328NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2329 Fixes bug 943.
2330
b72aab72
PP
2331PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2332 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2333
2fe76745
PP
2334PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2335 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2336
76aa570c
PP
2337PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2338 SQL string expansion failure details.
2339 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2340
f1e5fef5
PP
2341PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2342 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2343
4d805ee9
PP
2344PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2345 extern declarations in function scope.
2346 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2347
cd59ab18
PP
2348PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2349 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2350 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2351 a kernel bug).
2352
332f5cf3
PP
2353PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2354 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2355
29cfeb94
PP
2356PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2357 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2358
660242ad
PP
2359PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2360 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2361
bc4bc4c5
PP
2362PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2363 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2364
2e64baa9
NM
2365NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2366 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2367 Dennis Davis.
2368
4c04137d 2369PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2370
6bac1a9a
PP
2371PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2372
552193f0
NM
2373NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2374 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2375
1b587e48
TF
2376TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2377 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2378
aa097c4c 2379
8c07b69f
TF
2380Exim version 4.74
2381-----------------
2382
2383TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2384 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2385
c0ea85ab
TF
2386TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2387 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2388
0761d44e
TF
2389TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2390
0a349494
PP
2391DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2392 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2393 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2394
2395PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2396 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2397 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2398
fea24b2e
PP
2399PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2400 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2401 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2402 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2403
6545de78
PP
2404PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2405 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2406 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2407 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2408
1670ef10
PP
2409PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2410 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2411 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2412 arbitrary files.
2413
c0886197
PP
2414PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2415 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2416
b7487bce
PP
2417PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2418 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2419 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2420 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2421 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2422
8c07b69f 2423
97fd1e48 2424Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2425-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2426
2427PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2428 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2429 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2430
6901c596
PP
2431PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2432 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2433
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2434JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2435
77bb000f
PP
2436PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2437
a29e5231
PP
2438PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2439
ec5a0394 2440PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2441
55c75993
PP
2442PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2443
453a6645 2444PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2445 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2446 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2447 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2448
8544e77a
PP
2449PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2450 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2451 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2452 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2453 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2454
83e029d5
PP
2455PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2456
ed7f7860
PP
2457PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2458
7d9f747b
PP
2459PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2460
4b2241d2
PP
2461PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2462
10385c15
PP
2463PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2464
dbc4b90d
PP
2465PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2466
532be449
PP
2467PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2468
6a8de854 2469PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2470 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2471 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2472
5dc43717
JJ
2473JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2474
2475JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2476 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2477
3346ab01
PP
2478PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2479 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2480
491fab4c
PP
2481PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2482 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2483 Notification from John Horne.
2484
13eb9497
PP
2485PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2486 compatible.
2487
2488PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2489 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2490 it normally works.
2491
7f36d675
DW
2492DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2493 access.
2494
c1d94452
DW
2495DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2496 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2497 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2498
e2f5dc15
DW
2499DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2500 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2501 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2502 configuration file.
2503
cd25e41d
DW
2504DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2505 option (effectively making it always true).
2506
261dc43e
DW
2507DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2508 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2509
fa32850b
DW
2510DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2511 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2512
79d4bc3d
PP
2513PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2514 run-time user, instead of root.
2515
43236f35 2516PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2517 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2518
fb08281f
DW
2519DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2520 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2521 arguments.
3346ab01 2522
74935b98
DW
2523DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2524 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2525 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2526
90b6341f
DW
2527DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2528
57730b52
ML
2529NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2530
66581d1e 2531
465e92cf
JJ
2532Exim version 4.72
2533-----------------
2534
453a6645
PP
2535JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2536 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2537 typos
465e92cf 2538
453a6645
PP
2539JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2540 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2541 (Finput)
edae0343 2542
9bd3e22c
NM
2543NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2544 Patch from Alain Williams
2545
bb576ff7
NM
2546NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2547
5a1a5845
NM
2548NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2549 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2550
981a9fad
NM
2551NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2552 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2553
7fc497ee
NM
2554NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2555
1a41defa
JJ
2556JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2557
a466095c 2558NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2559 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2560
94a6bd0b
NM
2561TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2562
2563TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2564
2565MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2566 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2567 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2568
c1b141a8
NM
2569NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2570 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2571
b26eacf1 2572NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2573 Patch by Simon Arlott
2574
179c5980 2575PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2576 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2577
9bd3e22c 2578
7c6d71af
NM
2579Exim version 4.71
2580-----------------
2581
7d9f747b 2582TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2583
f013fb92
NM
2584NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2585
0eb8eedd
NM
2586NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2587
663ee6d9
NM
2588NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2589
177ebd9b
NM
2590NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2591
7c6d71af 2592
210f147e
NM
2593Exim version 4.70
2594-----------------
2595
cdd3bb85 2596TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2597 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2598
2599TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2600 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2601 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2602
2603TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2604 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2605 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2606
2607TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2608 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2609
210f147e
NM
2610NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2611 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2612 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2613 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2614
deafd5b3
NM
2615NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2616 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2617 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2618
089793a4
TF
2619TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2620
5f16ca82
TF
2621TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2622
dae9d94e 2623NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2624 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2625
7d9f747b 2626NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2627
06864c44
TF
2628TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2629 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2630 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2631 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2632
65a7d8c3 2633NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2634 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2635
23510047 2636TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2637
7d9f747b 2638NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2639
7d8eec3a 2640NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2641 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2642
89dec7b6
TF
2643TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2644 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2645
a99de90c
TF
2646TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2647 that they are available at delivery time.
2648
e2803e40
TF
2649TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2650
7199e1ee
TF
2651TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2652 incoming_port log selectors.
2653
e276e04b
TF
2654TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2655 setting expands to an empty string.
2656
ce552449 2657NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2658 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2659
e765a0f1 2660NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2661 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2662
4f054c63 2663NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2664 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2665
7d9f747b
PP
2666NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2667 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2668
7d9f747b
PP
2669NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2670 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2671
b52bc06e 2672NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2673 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2674
447de4b0
NM
2675NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2676
4c69d561 2677NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2678 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2679
d5c39246 2680NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2681 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2682
0b23848a
TK
2683TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2684
8f3414a1 2685NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2686 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2687
fb6f955d
NM
2688NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2689
2690NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2691
7d9f747b
PP
2692NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2693 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2694
7d9f747b
PP
2695NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2696 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2697
7d9f747b
PP
2698NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2699 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2700
7d9f747b
PP
2701NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2702 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2703
7d9f747b
PP
2704NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2705 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2706
7d9f747b
PP
2707NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2708 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2709
7d9f747b
PP
2710NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2711 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2712
7d9f747b 2713NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2714 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2715
7d9f747b 2716NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2717
7d9f747b
PP
2718NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2719 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2720
7d9f747b 2721NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2722
7d9f747b 2723NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2724
7d9f747b 2725NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2726
7d9f747b 2727NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2728
17792b53 2729NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2730 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2731
7d9f747b
PP
2732NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2733 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2734
91576cec 2735NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2736 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2737
7d9f747b
PP
2738NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2739 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2740
7d9f747b 2741NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2742
7d9f747b 2743NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2744
7d9f747b 2745NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2746
7d9f747b 2747NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2748
deafd5b3 2749
47db1125
NM
2750Exim version 4.69
2751-----------------
2752
4b3504d0
TK
2753TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2754 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2755 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2756
2757 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2758 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2759 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2760 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2761 build errors in sieve.c.
2762
81ea09ca
NM
2763NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2764 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2765 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2766
f13cddcb
SC
2767SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2768
7d9f747b 2769NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2770
7d9f747b 2771NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2772
7d9f747b 2773NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2774
2775
eb4c0de6
PH
2776Exim version 4.68
2777-----------------
2778
2779PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2780
6a3bceb1
PH
2781PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2782 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2783 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2784 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2785 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2786 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2787 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2788 for iplsearch lookups.
2789
2790 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2791 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2792 previously such lookups could never work.
2793
4c04137d 2794 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2795 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2796 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2797
2e30fa9d
TK
2798TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2799 version.
2800
0806a9c5
MH
2801MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2802 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2803 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2804 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2805 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2806 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2807
ae276964
TK
2808TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2809 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2810
0f2cbd1b
MH
2811MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2812 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2813 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2814 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2815 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2816 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2817
2b85bce7
PH
2818PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2819 local_scan API.
2820
93655c46
PH
2821PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2822
6c512171
PH
2823PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2824 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2825 encrypted.
2826
2827PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2828 by clients under certain conditions.
2829
aa6dc513
PH
2830PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2831 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2832
a96603a0
PH
2833PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2834
8f240103
PH
2835PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2836 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2837
2838PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2839
d677b2f2
PH
2840PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2841
d52120f2
PH
2842PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2843
64f2600a
PH
2844PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2845 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2846
8669f003
PH
2847PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2848
a4dc33a8
PH
2849PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2850 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2851
d6a60c0f
PH
2852PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2853
8f128379
PH
2854PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2855
8932dffe
PH
2856PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2857 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2858 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2859 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2860
ddea74fa 2861PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2862 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2863 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2864
ddea74fa 2865PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2866 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2867
ddea74fa
PH
2868PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2869
ce9f225c
PH
2870PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2871
19897d52
PH
2872PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2873
bc64a74d
PH
2874PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2875 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2876 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2877
eb4c0de6 2878
b4ed4da0
PH
2879Exim version 4.67
2880-----------------
2881
22ad45c9
MH
2882MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2883 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2884 Jan Srzednicki.
2885
b4ed4da0
PH
2886PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2887 issue a MAIL command.
2888
431b7361
PH
2889PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2890
2891 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2892
2893 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2894 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2895 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2896 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2897 item. This has been fixed.
2898
2899PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2900 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2901
83da1223
PH
2902PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2903 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2904
54fc8428
PH
2905PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2906 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2907 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2908
34c5e8dd
SC
2909SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2910
bbe15da8
PH
2911PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2912 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2913 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2914 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2915 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2916
0e8a9471
MH
2917MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2918 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2919 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2920
f0872424
PH
2921PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2922 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2923 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2924 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2925
b01dd148
PH
2926PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2927
6bf342e1
PH
2928PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2929
273f34d0
PH
2930PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2931 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2932 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2933 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2934 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2935
cf8b11a5
PH
2936PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2937
41c7c167
PH
2938PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2939 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2940 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2941 values).
2942
9c57cbc0
PH
2943PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2944
f3f065bb
PH
2945PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2946
047bdd8c
PH
2947PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2948
0ce9abe6
PH
2949PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2950
0e22dfd1
PH
2951PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2952
4c590bd1
PH
2953PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2954 no_callout_flush is set.
2955
09945f1e
PH
2956PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2957 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2958 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2959 fixed.
2960
c51b8e75
PH
2961PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2962
e28326d8 2963PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2964 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2965 other ACL rejections are.
2966
75b1493f
PH
2967PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2968 with slight modification.
2969
7c5214ec
PH
2970PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2971 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2972
4311097e
PH
2973PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2974 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2975 connection.
2976
29f89cad
PH
2977PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2978 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2979
5e687460
SC
2980SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2981
c3611384
PH
2982PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2983 expansion side effects.
2984
5a11a7b4
PH
2985PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2986 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2987 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2988 be the same.
2989
0e20aff9
MH
2990MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2991 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2992 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2993
ca86f471
PH
2994PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2995 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2996 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2997 were accidentally chopped off.
2998
a14e5636
PH
2999PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3000 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3001 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3002 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3003 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3004 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3005 pipelining has not been advertised.
3006
ec95d1a6
PH
3007PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3008
42855d71
PH
3009PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3010 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3011 This has been fixed.
3012
57c2c631
PH
3013PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3014 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3015 reported on Solaris.
3016
58c01c94
PH
3017PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3018 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3019 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3020 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3021 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3022 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3023 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3024
dee5a20a
PH
3025PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3026 cpus.
3027
d2ee6114
PH
3028PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3029
b2d5182b
PH
3030PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3031
79749a79
PH
3032PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3033 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
3034 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3035 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3036 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3037 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 3038
c456d9bb
PH
3039PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3040 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3041 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3042 host_all_ignored option.
3043
cd9868ec
PH
3044PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3045 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3046 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3047 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3048 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3049 is what is supposed to happen).
3050
ebeaf996
PH
3051PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3052 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3053 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3054 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3055 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3056 uses the Exim user.
3057
2679d413
PH
3058PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3059 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3060 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3061 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3062 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3063 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3064 users.
3065
84024b72
PH
3066PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3067
8005d38e
SC
3068SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3069 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3070 (Jez Hancock).
3071 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3072 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3073
3298c6c6
SC
3074SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3075
a43a27c5
PH
3076PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3077
58eb016e 3078PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
3079 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3080 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3081 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3082 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3083 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3084 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3085 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 3086 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
3087 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3088 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 3089
b43a74ea
PH
3090PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3091 advertised in response to EHLO.
3092
b4ed4da0 3093
5dd1517f
PH
3094Exim version 4.66
3095-----------------
3096
3097PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3098 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3099
3100 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3101 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3102
3103 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3104 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3105 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3106
3107 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3108 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3109 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3110 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3111 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3112
3113
93cfa765
TK
3114Exim version 4.65
3115-----------------
3116
3117TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3118 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3119 versions. (#438)
3120
d6066548
MH
3121MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3122 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3123 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3124
4362ff0d
PH
3125PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3126 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3127 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3128 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3129 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3130 rather than extend the field.
3131
93cfa765 3132
944e9e9c
TF
3133Exim version 4.64
3134-----------------
aa41d2de 3135
21d74bd9
TK
3136TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3137 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3138 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3139 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3140 these files.
3141
3142TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3143 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3144 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3145
3146TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3147 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3148 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
3149
3150TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3151 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3152 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3153 in the field name.
3154
2b1c6e3a
PH
3155PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3156 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3157 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3158 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3159 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3160 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3161 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3162 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3163 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3164 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3165 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3166
1f872c80
PH
3167PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3168 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
3169
3170PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3171 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3172 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3173 ignores EPIPE as well.
3174
d203e649
PH
3175PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3176 (quoted-printable decoding).
3177
cc2ed8f7 3178PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 3179 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 3180
ddfcd446
PH
3181PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3182
d45b1de8
PH
3183PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3184
3185PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3186
38a0a95f 3187PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 3188 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 3189
a2405d83
JJ
3190JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3191 in 4.64-PH/09.
3192
3193JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3194 miscellaneous code fixes
3195
6ea85e9a
PH
3196PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3197 rejections.
3198
26da7e20
PH
3199PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3200 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3201 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3202 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3203 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3204 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3205 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3206 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 3207
14aa5a05 3208PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 3209 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
3210 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3211 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3212 function.
3213 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3214 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3215 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3216 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3217 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3218 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3219 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3220 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3221 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3222
ff75a1f7
PH
3223PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3224 decoding.
3225
e6f6568e
PH
3226PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3227 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3228 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3229 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3230 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3231 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3232 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3233 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3234
d6f6e0dc
PH
3235PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3236 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3237 list.
3238
322050c2
PH
3239PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3240 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3241 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3242 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3243 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3244 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3245 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3246 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3247 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3248 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3249 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3250 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3251 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3252
08955dd3
PH
3253PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3254 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3255 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3256 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3257 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3258 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3259 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3260
1eccaa59
PH
3261PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3262 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3263 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3264 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3265 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3266 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3267 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3268 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3269 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3270 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3271
602e59e5
PH
3272PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3273 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3274 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3275 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3276 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3277
411ef850
PH
3278PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3279 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3280 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3281 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3282 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3283 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3284 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3285
7befa435
PH
3286PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3287 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3288 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3289 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3290 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3291 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3292 been verified.
3293
48da4259 3294PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3295 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3296 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3297 and authorization.)
3298
48da4259
PH
3299PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3300 if any retry times were supplied.
3301
d1d5595c
PH
3302PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3303 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3304 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3305
0ef732d9
PH
3306PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3307
328895cc
PH
3308PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3309
fd700877
PH
3310PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3311 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3312 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3313 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3314 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3315 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3316
8dce1a6f
PH
3317PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3318 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3319
17af4a17
PH
3320PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3321 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3322 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3323
3324PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3325 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3326 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3327 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3328 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3329 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3330 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3331 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3332 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3333
3334 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3335 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3336 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3337 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3338 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3339 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3340 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3341 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3342 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3343
3344 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3345 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3346 hammering the server.
3347
c1114884
PH
3348PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3349 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3350
7a0743eb
PH
3351PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3352
0d85fa3f
PH
3353PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3354 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3355 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3356
1bf43b78
PH
3357PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3358 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3359 one case where this was not true.
3360
520de300
PH
3361PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3362 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3363 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3364 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3365 fails.
3366
48c7f9e2
PH
3367PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3368 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3369 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3370 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3371 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3372 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3373 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3374 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3375 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3376 smtp transport.
3377
99ea1c86
PH
3378PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3379 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3380 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3381 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3382
a2042e78
PH
3383PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3384 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3385
4fbcfc2e
PH
3386PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3387 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3388 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3389
aa41d2de
PH
3390PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3391
af561417
PH
3392PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3393
3cc66b45
PH
3394PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3395
194cc0e4
PH
3396PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3397 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3398 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3399 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3400
a401ddaa
PH
3401PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3402 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3403
4e88a19f
PH
3404PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3405 be meaningful with "accept".
3406
d7d7b289
SC
3407SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3408 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3409
3410SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3411 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3412 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3413
3414SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3415 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3416 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3417 there is data to show.
3418 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3419
3420SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3421 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3422 as well as the number of messages.
3423
3424SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3425 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3426 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3427
3428SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3429 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3430 have a flag are now skipped.
3431
3432SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3433 Added the -emptyok flag.
3434
3435SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3436 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3437
0ea2a468
JJ
3438JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3439 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3440 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3441
3442JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3443 match 4.64-PH/13
3444
3445JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3446 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3447
3448JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3449
3450JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3451 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3452
8a10f5a4
PH
3453PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3454
30e18802
PH
3455PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3456 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3457 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3458 contravention of the specifications.
3459
55728a4f
PH
3460PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3461 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3462 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3463
d7837193
PH
3464PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3465 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3466 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3467
87054a31
PH
3468PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3469
ea2c01d2
MH
3470MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3471 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3472 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3473 some point in the past.
3474
e4fa6968
PH
3475PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3476 transport during callout processing was broken.
3477
56f5d9bd
PH
3478PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3479 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3480
922e1c28
PH
3481PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3482 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3483
21eb6e72
PH
3484PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3485 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3486
a0540757
PH
3487PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3488
944e9e9c 3489
478be7b0
SC
3490Exim version 4.63
3491-----------------
3492
3493SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3494 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3495
3496SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3497 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3498 there is data to show.
3499 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3500
3501SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3502 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3503
2b965a65
TF
3504TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3505 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3506
45b91596
PH
3507TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3508 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3509
c59f5781
TF
3510TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3511 submissions from trusted users.
3512
90fc3069
TF
3513TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3514 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3515
6083aca0
TF
3516TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3517 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3518 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3519 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3520 there is now a framework to start from.
3521
765b530f
PH
3522PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3523 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3524 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3525
4e167a8c
PH
3526PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3527
4608d683
PH
3528PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3529
b8dc3e4a
PH
3530PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3531
5418e93b
PH
3532PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3533 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3534 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3535
b4a9bda2
PH
3536PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3537 libradius.
3538
45b91596
PH
3539PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3540 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3541 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3542
5547e2c5
PH
3543PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3544 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3545 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3546 its arguments.
3547
dbcef0ea
PH
3548PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3549 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3550 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3551 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3552 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3553
25257489
PH
3554PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3555 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3556
c816d124
PH
3557PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3558
a9ccd69a
PH
3559PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3560 operations in malware.c.
3561
75fa1910
PH
3562PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3563 signatures.
3564
a7d7aa58
PH
3565PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3566 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3567 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3568 all.
3569
42119b09
PH
3570PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3571 statements to "add_header".
3572
41609df5
PH
3573PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3574 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3575
a5bd321b
PH
3576PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3577 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3578 latter.
3579
e85a7ad5 3580PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3581 so that it is now:
3582
e85a7ad5
PH
3583 ${if or { \
3584 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3585 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3586 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3587 }{no}{yes}}
3588
e85a7ad5
PH
3589 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3590 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3591
d8fe1c03
PH
3592PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3593 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3594
16282d2b
PH
3595PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3596 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3597 any possible encoding problems.
3598
35d40a98
PH
3599PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3600 but not after initializing Perl.
3601
034d99ab
PH
3602PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3603 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3604 apparently, which is not desirable.
3605
6ec97b1b
PH
3606PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3607 queries.
3608
e22ca4ac
JJ
3609JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3610 --not options
3611
3612JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3613
33d73e3b
PH
3614PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3615 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3616 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3617 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3618
9ecb03f3
PH
3619PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3620 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3621 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3622
084efe8d
PH
3623PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3624 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3625 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3626 0.12.
3627
366fc9f0
PH
3628PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3629 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3630 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3631 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3632 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3633
c59f5781 3634
c887c79e
TF
3635Exim version 4.62
3636-----------------
3637
3638TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3639 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3640
1cce3af8
PH
3641PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3642 patch).
3643
afb3eaaf
PH
3644PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3645 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3646 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3647 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3648 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3649 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3650 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3651 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3652 451 error is used.
3653
e173618b
PH
3654PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3655
dd16e114
PH
3656PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3657 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3658 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3659
f7fd3850
PH
3660PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3661 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3662 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3663 odd errors.
3664
d87df92c
PH
3665PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3666 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3667
7e9f683d
PH
3668PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3669 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3670 option (which defaults to 0600).
3671
bfad5236
PH
3672PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3673
01c490df
PH
3674PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3675 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3676 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3677 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3678 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3679 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3680 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3681
d6629cdc
PH
3682PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3683
1cce3af8 3684
214e2000
PH
3685Exim version 4.61
3686-----------------
3687
3688PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3689 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3690 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3691 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3692 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3693 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3694 addresses as local.
3695
f9daeae0
PH
3696PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3697 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3698
7e66e54d
PH
3699PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3700
c8ea1597
PH
3701PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3702 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3703 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3704 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3705 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3706 grumble.
3707
911f6fde
PH
3708PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3709 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3710
47ca6d6c
PH
3711PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3712 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3713 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3714 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3715 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3716
ed0e9820
PH
3717PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3718 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3719 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3720 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3721
eff37e47
PH
3722PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3723 be the same on different OS.
3724
1921d2ea
PH
3725PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3726 testing.
3727
b3f69ca8
JJ
3728JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3729 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3730
3731JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3732 in 4.61-PH/06
3733
424a1c63
PH
3734PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3735 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3736 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3737 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3738 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3739 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3740 bounce message.
3741
7a100415
PH
3742PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3743 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3744 when Exim was called.
3745
19b9dc85
PH
3746PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3747 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3748
309bd837
PH
3749PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3750 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3751 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3752 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3753
59e82a2a
PH
3754PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3755 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3756 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3757 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3758 changes:
3759
3760 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3761 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3762 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3763
3764 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3765 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3766 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3767
9edc04ce
PH
3768PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3769 feature).
3770
1349e1e5
PH
3771PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3772 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3773 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3774 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3775 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3776 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3777 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3778 values from the SRV records were lost.
3779
ea49d0e1
PH
3780PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3781 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3782 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3783
064a94c9
PH
3784PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3785 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3786 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3787
727071f8
PH
3788PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3789 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3790 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3791 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3792 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3793 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3794 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3795 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3796 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3797 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3798
f78eb7c6
PH
3799PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3800 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3801 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3802
21c28500
PH
3803PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3804 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3805
3806PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3807 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3808 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3809 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3810 is given.
3811
1688f43b
PH
3812PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3813 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3814 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3815
3816PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3817 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3818 PH/23 above applies.
3819
9675b384
PH
3820PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3821 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3822 (for which there is an explicit test).
3823
6a3f1455
PH
3824PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3825
dac79d3e
PH
3826PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3827 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3828 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3829 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3830 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3831
5977a0b3
PH
3832PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3833 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3834 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3835 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3836
c91535f3
PH
3837PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3838 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3839 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3840
0d46a8c8
PH
3841PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3842
278c6e6c
PH
3843PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3844
2cbb4081
PH
3845PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3846 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3847 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3848
3eef829e
PH
3849PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3850 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3851 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3852 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3853 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3854
1ab95fa6
PH
3855PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3856 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3857 the message gets confusing).
3858
230205fc
PH
3859PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3860 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3861 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3862 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3863
75e0e026
PH
3864PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3865 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3866 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3867 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3868 same order.
3869
3870PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3871 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3872 the different processes.
3873
145396a6
PH
3874PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3875
3cd34f13
PH
3876PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3877
11121d3d
JJ
3878JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3879 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3880
3881JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3882 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3883
3884JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3885 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3886 messages matching specified criteria.
3887
8def5aaf
PH
3888PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3889
929ba01c
PH
3890PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3891 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3892
2632889e
PH
3893PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3894 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3895 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3896 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3897 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3898 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3899 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3900 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3901 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3902 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3903
944a9c55
PH
3904PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3905 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3906 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3907
4a23603b
PH
3908PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3909
4730f942
PH
3910PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3911 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3912 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3913 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3914 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3915 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3916 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3917 the variable.
3918
30dba1e6
PH
3919PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3920 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3921
382afc6b
PH
3922PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3923
a86229cf
PH
3924PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3925
50c99ba6
PH
3926PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3927
d35e429d
PH
3928PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3929 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3930 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3931 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3932 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3933 size of the count of files.
3934
f90d018c
PH
3935PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3936
75def545
PH
3937PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3938 used in LMTP mode:
3939
3940 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3941 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3942 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3943 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3944
3945 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3946 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3947 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3948
3949PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3950 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3951 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3952 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3953 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3954
c46782ef
PH
3955PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3956 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3957
71fafd95
PH
3958PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3959 will now be deprecated.
3960
2c5db4fd
PH
3961PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3962
9cf6b11a
JJ
3963JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3964 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3965 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3966
3967JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3968 with very large, slow to parse queues
3969
3970JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3971
3972JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3973
898d150f
PH
3974PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3975 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3976 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3977 SMTP output lines.
3978
46218253
PH
3979PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3980 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3981 Sieve code now uses this.
3982
e97957bc
PH
3983PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3984 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3985
81e509d7
PH
3986PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3987 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3988
3d240ff7
PH
3989PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3990
b37c4101
PH
3991PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3992 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3993 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3994 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3995 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3996
79378e0f
PH
3997PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3998 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3999 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4000 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4001
e49c7bb4
PH
4002PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4003
d114ec46
PH
4004PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4005
f3d7df6c
PH
4006PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4007 is preferred over IPv4.
4008
715ab376
PH
4009PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4010 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4011 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4012 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4013 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4014 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4015 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4016
6b31b150
PH
4017PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4018 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4019 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4020
4021PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4022
d515a917
PH
4023PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4024 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4025 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4026 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4027 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4028 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4029 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4030 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4031 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4032 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4033 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4034
9b8fadde
PH
4035PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4036 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4037 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4038
214e2000 4039
5de37277
PH
4040Exim version 4.60
4041-----------------
4042
cc38ddbf
PH
4043PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4044
4045 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4046 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4047
4048 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4049 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4050 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 4051
72fdd6ae
PH
4052PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4053
4054 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4055 not a single digit.
4056
4057 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4058 string.
4059
4060 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4061 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4062 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4063 silly things.
4064
4065 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4066 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4067
4068 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4069 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 4070
cb741023
PH
4071PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4072 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4073 "/bin:/usr/bin".
4074
f174f16e
PH
4075PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4076 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 4077
c25242d7
PH
4078PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4079 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4080
4081 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4082
4083 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4084 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4085 this:
4086
4087 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4088
82c19f95
PH
4089PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4090 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4091 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4092 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4093 identical. For example:
4094
4095 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4096
4097 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4098 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4099 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4100
d7ffbc12
PH
4101PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4102 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4103 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4104 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4105
9f526266
PH
4106PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4107 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4108 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4109 message.
4110
87fcc8b9
PH
4111PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4112
4113 o fixes some comments
4114 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4115 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4116 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4117 and documents the missing references header update
4118
4119 and most important:
4120
4121 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 4122 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
4123 result)
4124
456682f5
PH
4125PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4126 Electronic Mail") by including:
4127
4128 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4129
4130 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 4131 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
4132 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4133 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4134 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4135
4136 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4137
4138 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4139
4140 The auto-replied keyword:
4141
4142 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4143 message by an automatic process,
4144
4145 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4146
4147 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4148 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4149
4150 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4151 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4152 other messages.
4153
3e46c1aa
PH
4154PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4155 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 4156
49826d12
PH
4157PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4158
eba0c039
PH
4159PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4160 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4161 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4162
a0d6ba8a
PH
4163PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4164 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4165 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4166
f0917727
PH
4167PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4168 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4169 and treats the condition as false.
4170
096fee00
PH
4171PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4172
024bd3c2
PH
4173PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4174 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4175 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4176 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4177 not changing the active code.
4178
4179 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4180 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4181
4182 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4183 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4184
df199fec
PH
4185PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4186 (Bugzilla #53).
4187
d27f1df3
PH
4188PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4189 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4190 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4191 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4192 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4193 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4194 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4195 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4196 the text comparison.
4197
96776534
PH
4198PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4199 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4200 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4201 The same fix has been applied.
4202
5de37277 4203
9a799bc0
PH
4204Exim version 4.54
4205-----------------
4206
4207PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4208 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4209 It now does.
4210
99a4b039
PH
4211PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4212 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4213
4214PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4215
4b233853
PH
4216PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4217 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4218 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4219 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4220 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4221
8857ccfd
PH
4222TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4223 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4224 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4225 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4226 or /domain=).
4227
433a2980
PH
4228PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4229 testing suite.
4230
3e46c1aa 4231
9a799bc0 4232
e3a311ba
TK
4233Exim version 4.53
4234-----------------
4235
4236TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4237 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4238
13b685f9
PH
4239PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4240
395ff96d
PH
4241PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4242
5b68f6e4
PH
4243PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4244 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4245 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4246
1ab52c69
PH
4247PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4248 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4249 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4250
b07e6aa3
PH
4251PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4252 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4253 operating systems.
4254
254e032f
PH
4255PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4256 ${stat: expansion item.
4257
3af76a81
PH
4258PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4259 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4260
2548ba04
PH
4261PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4262 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4263 file for comments.
4264
b6c6011d
PH
4265PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4266
cf39cf57
PH
4267PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4268 setting.
4269
f1513293
PH
4270PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4271 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4272
727549a4
PH
4273TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4274
af46795e
PH
4275PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4276 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4277 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4278 the end of the subprocess.
4279
d7b47fd0
PH
4280PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4281 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4282 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4283 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4284 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4285
ee744174
JJ
4286JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4287
b582ab87
PH
4288TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4289
41a13e0a
PH
4290PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4291 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4292
f625cc5a
PH
4293PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4294
4295PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4296
21f7af35
PH
4297PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4298 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4299 HP-UX compiler.
4300
31480e42
PH
4301PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4302
2d280592
PH
4303PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4304 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4305 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4306
7cd1141b
PH
4307PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4308 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4309
4310PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4311 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4312
750af86e
PH
4313PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4314 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4315
4316 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4317 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4318
4319 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4320 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4321 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4322 contributed by a Radius user.
4323
4324PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4325 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4326
4304270b
TK
4327TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4328 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4329
750af86e
PH
4330PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4331 available.
4332
64ffc24f
PH
4333PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4334 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4335 received.
4336
5dd9625b
PH
4337PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4338 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4339 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4340 header lines when this was not necessary.
4341
5591031b
PH
4342PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4343
ba18e66a
PH
4344PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4345 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4346 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4347 exists".
4348
9cec981f
PH
4349PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4350 -bV or -d is used.
4351
aa2b5c79
PH
4352PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4353 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4354 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4355 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4356
48a53b7f
PH
4357PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4358
1c59d63b
PH
4359PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4360
671012da
TK
4361TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4362
1509d3a8
PH
4363PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4364
4365PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4366 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4367 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4368 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4369 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4370 settings.
4371
4372PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4373
2fe1a124
PH
4374PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4375 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4376 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4377 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4378 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4379 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4380 which is clearly wrong.
4381
8800895a
PH
4382PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4383
ccfdb010
PH
4384PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4385 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4386 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4387 subsequently added.
4388
1130bfb0
PH
4389PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4390 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4391
ebcb507f
PH
4392PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4393
c35e155c
PH
4394PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4395 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4396
95d1f782
PH
4397PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4398 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4399
fd6de02e
PH
4400PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4401 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4402
58de37c5
PH
4403PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4404 recipients, not senders.
4405
261cf466
TF
4406TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4407 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4408
3ee512ff
PH
4409PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4410
e08c430f
PH
4411PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4412
bef5a11f
PH
4413PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4414 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4415 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4416 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4417
7546de58
TF
4418TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4419
e5d5a95f
TF
4420TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4421 clock is set back in time.
4422
2e88a017
TF
4423TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4424 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4425
a5f65aa4
TF
4426TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4427 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4428
e7726cbf
PH
4429PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4430 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4431 (see PH/47 above).
4432
a7fdad5b
TF
4433TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4434 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4435 header rewrites.
4436
6af56900
PH
4437PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4438 type ("H").
4439
0925ede6
PH
4440PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4441
66afa403
TF
4442TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4443 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4444 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4445
0154e85a
TF
4446TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4447 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4448 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4449 helo verification defer as a failure.
4450
16f12c76
PH
4451PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4452 actual error message.
4453
bbe902f0 4454
e5a9dba6
PH
4455Exim version 4.52
4456-----------------
4457
4458TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4459
22c3b60b
PH
4460PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4461 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4462 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4463 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4464
06a9b4b5
PH
4465TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4466
c1ac6996
PH
4467PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4468 can still be requested.
4469
9c7a242c
PH
4470PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4471 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4472 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4473 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4474
87ba3f5f
PH
4475TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4476 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4477 circumstances, but probably never did.
4478
4479PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4480 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4481 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4482 in the header line.
4483
29aba418
TF
4484TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4485
fe0dab11
TF
4486TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4487 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4488
11d337a4
TK
4489TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4490
4491TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4492
415c8f3b
PH
4493PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4494 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4495 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4496 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4497 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4498 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4499
958541e9
PH
4500PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4501 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4502 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4503 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4504 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4505 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4506
c206415f
TK
4507TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4508 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4509
2a4be8f9
PH
4510PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4511 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4512
1cba11c5
SC
4513SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4514 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4515
4c04137d 4516SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4517
4518SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4519
4520SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4521
4522SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4523
4524SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4525
4526SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4527
1005d00e
TK
4528TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4529
4530TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4531 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4532 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4533
4534TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4535 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4536 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4537 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4538
9b4768fa
PH
4539PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4540 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4541 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4542
4543PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4544 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4545 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4546 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4547
0d7eb84a
PH
4548PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4549 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4550 to be made).
4551
4552PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4553 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4554 should work with maildirs and everything.
4555
40727bee
TK
4556TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4557 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4558
554d2369
TF
4559TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4560 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4561
1f922db1
PH
4562PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4563 function for BDB 4.3.
4564
ef213c3b
PH
4565PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4566
8ac170f3
PH
4567PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4568 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4569 involved.
4570
b1c749bb
PH
4571PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4572 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4573 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4574 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4575 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4576 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4577
4aac9b49
PH
4578PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4579 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4580 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4581 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4582 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4583 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4584 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4585 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4586
294520c8
TK
4587TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4588 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4589 details.
4590
5bd022fe
PH
4591PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4592 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4593
90e9ce59
PH
4594PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4595 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4596 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4597 test. It is now used for both.
4598
5ea81592
PH
4599PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4600 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4601 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4602 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4603 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4604 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4605
c6c2dc1d
PH
4606PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4607 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4608 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4609 string_vformat().
4610
fffffe4c
PH
4611PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4612 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4613 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4614
9a26b6b2
PH
4615PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4616 experimental DomainKeys support:
4617
4618 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4619 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4620 the control was given.
4621
4622 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4623
4aee0225
PH
4624PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4625
32d668a5
PH
4626PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4627
8187c3f3
PH
4628PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4629 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4630 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4631 db.h files).
4632
ff790e47 4633PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4634 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4635 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4636 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4637 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4638 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4639 course.
ff790e47 4640
5417f6d1
PH
4641PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4642 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4643 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4644 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4645 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4646 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4647
59cf8544
PH
4648PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4649 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4650 do -d+all out of habit.
4651
e7ad8a65
PH
4652PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4653 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4654 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4655
ade42478
PH
4656PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4657 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4658 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4659 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4660 record types that Exim uses.
4661
182ad5cf
PH
4662PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4663 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4664 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4665 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4666 non-existent file that was broken.
4667
b0d9fc80
TK
4668TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4669 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4670
4671TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4672 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4673 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4674
4675TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4676
47c7a64a
PH
4677PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4678 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4679 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4680 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4681 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4682 same time.
4683
a388bce4
SC
4684SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4685 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4686 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4687 at a slight CPU cost.
4688
4689SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4690 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4691
4692SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4693 by Marc Sherman.
4694
0793e4ed
SC
4695SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4696
c58b88df
PH
4697PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4698 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4699
e7ad8a65 4700
7982096b
PH
4701Exim version 4.51
4702-----------------
4703
1a46a8c5
PH
4704TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4705 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4706
2f079f46 4707TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4708
4709TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4710
4711PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4712 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4713
4714PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4715 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4716 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4717 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4718 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4719 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4720 file.
4721
4722PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4723 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4724 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4725 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4726 these two options.
4727
4728PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4729 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4730 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4731 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4732 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4733 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4734 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4735 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4736
4737PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4738 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4739
4740PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4741 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4742 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4743 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4744 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4745 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4746
4747PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4748 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4749 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4750 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4751
4752PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4753 Finch).
4754
4755PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4756 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4757
49c2d5ea
PH
4758PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4759 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4760 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4761 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4762 message.
49c2d5ea 4763
bf759a8b
PH
4764PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4765
83364d30
PH
4766PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4767 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4768
7999bbd7
PH
4769PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4770 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4771 to what was transported.)
4772
7dbf77c9
PH
4773TF/01 Added $received_time.
4774
74e0617f
PH
4775PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4776 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4777 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4778 spamd_address settings.
4779
2f079f46
PH
4780PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4781 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4782 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4783 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4784 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4785
8c841523
PH
4786PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4787
7766a4f0
PH
4788PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4789 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4790 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4791 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4792 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4793
8b417f2c
PH
4794PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4795 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4796
901f42cb
PH
4797PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4798 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4799 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4800 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4801 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4802 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4803 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4804 for failure.
4805
f9b9210e
PH
4806PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4807 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4808 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4809 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4810 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4811 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4812 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4813 "input=".
4814
54cdb463
PH
4815PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4816
cf00dad6
PH
4817PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4818 driver and ACL definitions.
4819
acb1b346
PH
4820PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4821 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4822
c5ddb310
PH
4823PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4824 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4825 understands it better than I do:
4826
4827 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4828 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4829
4830 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4831 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4832 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4833 => three warnings about OTP not working
4834 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4835
4836 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4837 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4838 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4839 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4840 for each call.)
4841 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4842 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4843
4844 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4845 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4846 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4847
31619da6
PH
4848PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4849 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4850 specified.
4851
bebaf0fc
PH
4852PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4853 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4854 "Linux".
4855
475fe28a
PH
4856PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4857 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4858 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4859
4860 warn !verify = sender
4861 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4862
4863 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4864 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4865
7e8bec7a
PH
4866PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4867
4868 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4869 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4870
4871 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4872 nomenclature these days.)
4873
e4a89c47
PH
4874PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4875 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4876
5ca2a9a1
PH
4877PH/30 In these circumstances:
4878 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4879 . First host does not offer TLS;
4880 . First host accepts first address;
4881 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4882 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4883 . Second host accepts second address.
4884 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4885 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4886 address.
7e8bec7a 4887
c688b954
PH
4888PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4889 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4890 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4891 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4892 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4893
fed77020
PH
4894PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4895 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4896
7fe1560f
PH
4897PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4898 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4899
ebb6e6d5
PH
4900PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4901 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4902 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4903
9c4e8f60
PH
4904PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4905 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4906 overlooked.
4907
4908PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4909
d7174846
PH
4910PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4911 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4912 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4913 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4914 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4915 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4916 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4917
4918 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4919 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4920 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4921 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4922 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4923
4924 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4925 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4926 routed further.
4927
cfe75fc3
PH
4928PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4929 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4930 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4931 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4932 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4933 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4934
be22d70e
PH
4935PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4936
0612b098
PH
4937PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4938 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4939 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4940 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4941 printable escape sequences.
4942
2e0c1448
PH
4943PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4944 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4945 body only.
4946
447d236c
PH
4947PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4948 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4949 are as follows:
4950
4951 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4952 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4953 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4954 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4955 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4956
4957 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4958 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4959 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4960
d20976dc
PH
4961PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4962
f656d135
PH
4963PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4964 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4965 play with."
4966
2e2a30b4
PH
4967PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4968 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4969 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4970 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4971 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4972 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4973 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4974 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4975 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4976 the log output.
4977
9176e9f0
PH
4978PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4979 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4980 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4981 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4982 "make".
4983
7982096b 4984
bbe902f0
PH
4985A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4986----------------------------------------
4987
4988Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4989changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4990needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4991in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4992that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4993release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4994from 4.43.
4995
4996I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
49974.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4998those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4999historical information.
5000
5001
f7b63901 5002Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
5003-----------------
5004
5fe762f6
PH
5005 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5006
139059f6 5007 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 5008 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 5009
7086e875
PH
5010 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5011 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5012 place.
5013
35af9f61
PH
5014 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5015 filter fails to execute.
5016
b668c215
PH
5017 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5018 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5019 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5020 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5021 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5022
a494b1e1
PH
5023 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5024
5025 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5026 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5027 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5028 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 5029
c5fcb476
PH
5030 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5031 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5032 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5033 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5034 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5035
69358f02
PH
5036 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5037
5be20824
PH
503810. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5039
eb2c0248
PH
504011. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5041 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5042 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5043 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5044
2a3eea10
PH
504512. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5046 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5047 sender verification.
5048
504913. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5050 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5051
23c7ff99
PH
505214. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5053
4deaf07d
PH
505415. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5055 connection timeout.
5056
926e1192
PH
505716. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5058 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5059
650edc6f
PH
506017. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5061 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5062
2c7db3f5
PH
506318. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5064 information about exactly what failed.
5065
3d235903
PH
506619. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5067
7c7ad977
PH
506820. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5069 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5070 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5071
981756db
PH
507221. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5073 It is now set to "smtps".
5074
d4eb88df
PH
507522. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5076 ignore_target_hosts.
5077
507823. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5079 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5080 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5081 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5082 "[x.x.x.x]".
5083
7d468ab8
PH
508424. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5085 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5086 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5087
508825. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5089 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5090 wake it up if nothing else does.
5091
62c0818f
PH
509226. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5093 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5094 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5095 end up negative.
5096
26034054
PH
509727. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5098 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5099
af66f652
PH
510028. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5101
90af77f4
PH
510229. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5103 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5104 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5105 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5106 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5107 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5108 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5109 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5110
d8ef3577
PH
511130. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5112 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5113 than one IP address.
5114
5cb8cbc6
PH
511531. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5116 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5117 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5118 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5119
14702f5b
PH
512032. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5121 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5122 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5123 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5124 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5125 1024 to 2048 bytes.
5126
063b1e99
PH
512733. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5128 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5129 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5130 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5131
652e1b65
PH
513234. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5133 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5134 respected.
5135
6f0c9a4f
PH
513635. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5137 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5138 $sender_host_address.
5139
33397d19
PH
514036. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5141 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5142 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5143 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5144 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5145 very small.
5146
7bb56e1f
PH
514737. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5148
5149 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5150 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5151
ea3bc19b
PH
5152 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5153 just the host names, not the priorities.
5154
5155 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
5156 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5157 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 5158
ea3bc19b 5159 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 5160 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 5161
0bcb2a0e
PH
516238. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5163 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5164 domain.
5165
2ac0e484
PH
516639. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5167
4e1fde53
PH
516840. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5169 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5170
de365ded
PH
517141. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5172 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5173 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5174
f05da2e8
PH
517542. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5176
d6453af2
PH
517743. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5178
f7b63901
PH
517944. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5180
518145. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5182 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5183 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5184 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5185 because the tests only now provoked it.
5186
a444213a
PH
518746. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5188 (this can affect the format of dates).
5189
0ec020ea
PH
519047. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5191 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5192 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5193 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5194
b1206957
PH
519548. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5196
519749. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5198 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5199 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5200 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5201
26dd5a95
PH
520250. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5203 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5204 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5205
343b2385
PH
520651. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5207 autoreply.
5208
1c5466b9
PH
520952. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5210 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5211 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5212 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5213 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5214 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5215 is going on).
5216
55ee9ee3
PH
521753. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5218 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5219 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5220 the line.
5221
d38f8232
PH
522254. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5223 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5224 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5225
5226 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5227 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5228 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5229 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5230 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5231 so I produce this patch..."
5232
3295e65b
PH
5233 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5234 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5235 is not defined.
5236
7102e136
PH
523755. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5238 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
5239 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5240 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 5241 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 5242
3ca0ba97
PH
524356. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5244
c2bcbe20
PH
524557. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5246 long debug lines gets shown.
5247
18ce445d
PH
524858. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5249 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5250
1f5b4c3d
PH
525159. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5252
5253 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5254 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5255 of $primary_hostname.
5256
b975ba52
PH
525760. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5258 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5259 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5260 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
5261 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5262 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5263 by change 4.50/55 above.
5264
5265 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5266 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5267 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5268 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5269 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5270 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 5271 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
5272
527361. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5274 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5275 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 5276 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 5277
17ffcae7
PH
527862. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5279 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5280
d95f9fdb
PH
528163. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5282 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5283 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5284 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5285 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5286
86b8287f
PH
528764. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5288 This has been fixed.
5289
60dc5e56
PH
529065. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5291 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5292 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5293 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5294 the caching.)
5295
533244af
PH
529666. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5297
a5a28604
PH
529867. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5299 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5300 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5301 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5302
7e634d24
PH
530368. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5304 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5305
3e11c26b
PH
530669. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5307 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5308 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5309
6729cf78
PH
531070. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5311 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5312 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5313 message there.
5314
00f00ca5
PH
531571. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5316 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5317 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5318
c9bdd01c
PH
531972. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5320 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5321 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5322 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5323
d43194df
PH
532473. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5325 during host lookups.
5326
fe5b5d0b
PH
532774. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5328 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5329
5330 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5331
76a2d7ba
PH
533275. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5333 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5334 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5335 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5336 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5337 background.
5338
533976. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5340 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5341
04f7d5b9
PH
534277. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5343 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5344 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5345
bc60667e
PH
534678. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5347
bb6e88ff
PH
534879. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5349 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5350 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5351 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5352 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5353 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5354 process earlier.
5355
1e70f85b
PH
535680. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5357 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5358 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5359 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5360 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5361
536281. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5363 tables).
5364
4e01f9d6
PH
536582. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5366
1ee1cef2
PH
536783. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5368 "vacation" handling.
5369
6e2b4ccc
PH
537084. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5371 OS variants using glibc.
5372
8e669ac1
PH
537385. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5374
495ae4b0 5375
bbe902f0
PH
5376----------------------------------------------------
5377See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5378----------------------------------------------------
5379
5380
5381Exim version 4.44
5382-----------------
5383
5384 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5385 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5386 transport
5387
5388 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5389 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5390 place.
5391
5392 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5393 filter fails to execute.
5394
5395 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5396 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5397 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5398 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5399 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5400
5401 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5402 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5403 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5404 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5405
5406 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5407 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5408 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5409 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5410 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5411
5412 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5413
5414 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5415 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5416 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5417 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5418
5419 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5420 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5421 sender verification.
5422
542310. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5424 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5425
542611. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5427 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5428
542912. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5430 ignore_target_hosts.
5431
543213. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5433 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5434 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5435 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5436 "[x.x.x.x]".
5437
543814. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5439 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5440 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5441
544215. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5443 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5444 wake it up if nothing else does.
5445
544616. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5447 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5448 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5449 end up negative.
5450
545117. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5452 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5453
ea3a6f44 545418. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5455
545619. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5457 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5458 empty pattern.
5459
546020. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5461 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5462 one IP address.
5463
ea3a6f44
NM
546421. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5465 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5466 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5467 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5468 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5469 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5470
ea3a6f44
NM
547122. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5472 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5473 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5474
547523. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5476 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5477 $sender_host_address.
5478
547924. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5480
ea3a6f44
NM
548125. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5482 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5483 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5484
548526. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5486 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5487
ea3a6f44
NM
548827. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5489 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5490
ea3a6f44
NM
549128. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5492 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5493 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5494 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5495
549629. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5497 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5498 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5499
ea3a6f44
NM
550030. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5501 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5502 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5503 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5504
ea3a6f44
NM
550531. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5506 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5507 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5508
ea3a6f44
NM
550931. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5510 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5511
ea3a6f44
NM
551232. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5513 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5514 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5515 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5516 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5517 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5518 is going on).
bbe902f0 5519
ea3a6f44
NM
552033. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5521 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5522 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5523 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5524 CAN-2005-0021
5525
ea3a6f44
NM
552634. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5527 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5528 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5529 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5530 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5531 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5532 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5533
5534 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5535 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5536 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5537 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5538 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5539 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5540 CAN-2005-0021
5541
ea3a6f44
NM
554235. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5543 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5544 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5545 CAN-2005-0022
5546
ea3a6f44
NM
554736. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5548 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5549 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5550 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5551 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5552
ea3a6f44
NM
555337. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5554 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5555 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5556 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5557 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5558
ea3a6f44
NM
555938. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5560 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5561 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5562 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5563 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5564
5565
495ae4b0
PH
5566Exim version 4.43
5567-----------------
5568
5569 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5570 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5571 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5572 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5573 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5574 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5575 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5576
5577 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5578 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5579 the delivery.
5580
5581 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5582
5583 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5584
5585 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5586 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5587 to local_scan().
5588
5589 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5590 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5591 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5592 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5593 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5594
5595 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5596 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5597
5598 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5599
5600 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5601
560210. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5603 header_sender only.
5604
560511. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5606 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5607
560812. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5609 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5610 affecting debugging statements).
5611
561213. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5613
561414. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5615 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5616 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5617 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5618 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5619 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5620 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5621 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5622 after the received time, and all would be well.
5623
562415. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5625 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5626 condition in an expansion string.
5627
562816. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5629
563017. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5631 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5632 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5633 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5634 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5635 job under whatever limits there are.
5636
563718. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5638
563919. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5640 space).
5641
564220. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5643 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5644 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5645 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5646 return path is set.
5647
564821. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5649 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5650 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5651 binary data in such strings.
5652
565322. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5654
565523. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5656 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5657 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5658 failure, which is pointless.
5659
566024. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5661
566225. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5663
566426. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5665 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5666 Sender: header lines.
5667
566827. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5669 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5670 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5671
567228. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5673 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5674 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5675 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5676 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5677 happens.
5678
567929. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5680 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5681 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5682 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5683 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5684
568530. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5686 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5687 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5688 1024.
5689
569031. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5691 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5692
569332. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5694 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5695
569633. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5697
569832. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5699
570033. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5701
570234. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5703 syntax error.
5704
570535. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5706
570736. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5708
570937. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5710 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5711 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5712 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5713
571438. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5715 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5716
5717
5718Exim version 4.42
5719-----------------
5720
5721 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5722 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5723 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5724 it was not quoted.
5725 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5726 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5727 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5728 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5729 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5730 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5731
5732 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5733 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5734 verification failure".
5735
5736 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5737 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5738 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5739 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5740
5741 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5742 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5743 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5744 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5745 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5746 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5747 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5748 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5749 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5750 treated as a timeout.
5751
5752 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5753 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5754 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5755 not set for Exim filters).
5756
5757 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5758 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5759 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5760
5761 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5762
5763 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5764 try to make them clearer.
5765
5766 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5767 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5768
5769 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5770
5771 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5772
577310. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5774 only the Cygwin environment.
5775
577611. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5777 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5778 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5779 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5780 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5781
578212. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5783 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5784 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5785 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5786 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5787 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5788 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5789
579013. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5791 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5792
579314. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5794
5795 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5796 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5797 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5798
5799 To: susanne@some.where
5800
5801 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5802 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5803 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5804 of addresses in From: header lines).
5805
5806 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5807 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5808 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5809
5810 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5811 treated as non-personal.
5812
5813 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5814 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5815
581615. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5817
581816. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5819
582017. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5821 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5822 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5823
582418. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5825 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5826
582719. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5828 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5829 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5830 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5831 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5832 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5833
583420. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5835 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5836 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5837 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5838 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5839 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5840 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5841 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5842
5843 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5844
584521. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5846 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5847
584822. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5849 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5850 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5851
585223. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5853 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5854
585524. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5856 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5857 rather than long int.
5858
585925. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5860
586126. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5862
5863
5864Exim version 4.41
5865-----------------
5866
5867 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5868 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5869 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5870 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5871 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5872 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5873
5874
5875Exim version 4.40
5876-----------------
5877
5878 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5879 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5880
5881 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5882 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5883 socklen_t is defined.
5884
5885 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5886 always exist.
5887
5888 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5889 configured.
5890
5891 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5892 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5893 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5894 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5895 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5896
5897 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5898 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5899 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5900 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5901
5902 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5903 of flapping under certain conditions.
5904
5905 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5906 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5907 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5908
5909 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5910
591110. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5912
591311. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5914 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5915 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5916 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5917
591812. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5919 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5920 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5921 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5922 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5923 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5924 preserved with the message after it was received.
5925
592613. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5927 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5928 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5929 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5930 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5931 test suite worked just fine.
5932
593314. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5934 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5935 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5936
593715. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5938 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5939 string.
5940
594116. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5942 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5943 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5944 does not fully solve it.
5945
594617. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5947 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5948 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5949 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5950 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5951
595218. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5953 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5954 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5955
595619. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5957 string, for example:
5958
5959 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5960
5961 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5962 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5963 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5964 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5965 the routers could not see them.
5966
596720. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5968 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5969
597021. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5971 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5972 output).
5973
597422. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5975 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5976 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5977 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5978 that needed quoting.
5979
598023. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5981 was not being matched caselessly.
5982
598324. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5984 backslashes.
5985
598625. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5987 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5988 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5989 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5990 when use_sender is false.
5991
599226. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5993
599427. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5995
599628. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5997
599829. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5999 the configuration file.
6000
600130. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6002 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6003
600431. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6005
600632. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6007 bytes in the message body.
6008
600933. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6010 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6011 delivery.
6012
601334. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6014
601535. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6016
601736. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6018 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6019 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6020 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6021 another IP address.
6022
6023
6024Exim version 4.34
6025-----------------
6026
6027 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6028 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6029
6030 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6031 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6032 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6033 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6034 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6035
6036 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6037 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6038
6039 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6040 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6041 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6042
6043 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6044 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6045 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6046
6047 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6048 for routers.
6049
6050 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6051 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6052 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6053 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6054 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6055 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6056 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6057
6058
6059Exim version 4.33
6060-----------------
6061
6062 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6063 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6064 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6065 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6066 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6067 default (and expected) setting.
6068
6069 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6070 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6071 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6072 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6073
6074 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6075 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6076
6077 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6078 in domain lists.
6079
6080 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6081 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6082 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6083 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6084 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6085 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6086
6087 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6088 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6089 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6090
6091 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6092 part (NOT match_host).
6093
6094 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6095
6096 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6097 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6098 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6099 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6100 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6101 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6102 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6103 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6104 the same named file.
6105
610610. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6107 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6108 when Exim is built.
6109
611011. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6111 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6112 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6113 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6114 a host name.
6115
611612. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6117 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6118 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6119
612013. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6121
612214. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6123
612415. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6125
612616. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6127 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6128
612917. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6130 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6131 before starting the TLS session.
6132
613318. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6134
613519. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6136 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6137
613820. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6139 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6140 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6141 colon in the middle).
6142
6143
6144Exim version 4.32
6145-----------------
6146
6147 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6148 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6149 multiple configurations are in use.
6150
6151 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6152 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6153 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6154 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6155 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6156 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6157
6158 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6159 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6160
6161 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6162 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6163 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6164
6165 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6166 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6167 occurs.
6168
6169 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6170 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6171
6172 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6173
6174 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6175 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6176
6177 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6178
6179 -prval:sval
6180
6181 is equivalent to
6182
6183 -oMr rval -oMs sval
6184
6185 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6186 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6187 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6188 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6189 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6190
619110. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6192 Exim's behaviour:
6193
6194 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6195 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6196 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6197 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6198 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6199 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6200
6201 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6202 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6203 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6204 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6205 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6206 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6207 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6208 string.
6209
6210 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6211 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6212 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6213 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6214 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6215
621611. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6217
621812. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6219 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6220 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6221
622213. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6223
622414. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6225 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6226 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6227 information.
6228
622915. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6230 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6231
623216. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6233 Three changes have been made:
6234
6235 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6236 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6237 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6238 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6239 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6240
6241 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6242 been restored.
6243
6244 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6245 the modified behaviour.
6246
6247
6248Exim version 4.31
6249-----------------
6250
6251 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6252 Larry Rosenman.
6253
6254 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6255 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6256
6257 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6258 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6259 try to track down a specific problem.
6260
6261 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6262 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6263 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6264
6265 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6266 warning.
6267
6268 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6269 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6270 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6271 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6272 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6273 some earlier ones do not.
6274
6275 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6276
6277 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6278 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6279 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6280 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6281 address literals are enabled, of course).
6282
6283 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6284
628510. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6286 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6287 by a command such as
6288
6289 exim -f "" ...
6290
6291 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6292
629311. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6294
629512. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6296 remained set. It is now erased.
6297
629813. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6299 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6300
630114. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6302 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6303 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6304 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6305 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6306 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6307 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6308 appropriate error code.
6309
631015. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6311 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6312 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6313 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6314 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6315 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6316
631716. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6318 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6319 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6320
632117. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6322 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6323 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6324 terminate the header.
6325
632618. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6327 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6328 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6329
633019. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6331 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6332 (4.30/29). In particular:
6333
6334 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6335 imposed.
6336
6337 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6338 to write a maildirsize file.
6339
6340 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6341 the transport, the new value overrides.
6342
6343 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6344 count.
6345
634620. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6347 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6348 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6349 space or a tab.
6350
635121. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6352 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6353 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6354 the fallback hosts.
6355
635622. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6357 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6358 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6359
636023. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6361 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6362 using a union.
6363
636424. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6365 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6366 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6367
636825. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6369
637026. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6371
637227. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6373
637428. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6375 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6376 become corrupted.
6377
637829. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6379 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6380 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6381 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6382 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6383 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6384 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6385 too great.
6386
638730. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6388 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6389 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6390 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6391 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6392 incorrectly.
6393
639431. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6395 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6396 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6397 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6398 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6399 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6400 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6401 cached value only when the same options are set.
6402
640332. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6404
640533. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6406 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6407 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6408 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6409 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6410
641134: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6412 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6413 it is clearly obsolete.
6414
641535. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6416 transport.
6417
641836. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6419 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6420 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6421 times.
6422
642337. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6424 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6425 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6426 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6427 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6428
642938. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6430 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6431 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6432 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6433
643439. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6435
6436 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6437
6438 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6439 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6440 2^31.
6441
644240. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6443 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6444 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6445 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6446 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6447 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6448 $localpart_data.
6449
645041. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6451 with the -f command-line option.
6452
645342. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6454 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6455 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6456 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6457 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6458 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6459
646043. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6461 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6462 line.
6463
646444. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6465 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6466 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6467 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6468 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6469 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6470 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6471 buffer is too small.
6472
647345. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6474 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6475
647646. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6477 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6478 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6479 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6480 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6481 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6482 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6483 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6484 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6485
648647. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6487 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6488 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6489
649048. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6491 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6492 ACL").
6493
649449. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6495 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6496 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6497 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6498 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6499
650050. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6501 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6502 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6503 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6504 is set.
6505
650651. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6507
650852. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6509
651053. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6511 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6512
651354. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6514 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6515 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6516
651755. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6518 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6519 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6520 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6521 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6522
652356. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6524 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6525 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6526 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6527 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6528 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6529 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6530
653157. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6532 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6533 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6534 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6535 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6536 the test of how many are available.
6537
653858. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6539 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6540 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6541 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6542 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6543 new message is started.
6544
654559. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6546 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6547
654860. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6549 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6550
655161. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6552 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6553 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6554 is no long logged.
6555
655662. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6557 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6558 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6559 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6560 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6561 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6562 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6563
656463. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6565 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6566 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6567 interpreted as octal.
6568
656964. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6570 setting.
6571
657265. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6573 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6574 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6575 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6576 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6577 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6578
657966. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6580 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6581 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6582 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6583
6584 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6585 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6586 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6587 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6588
6589 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6590 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6591 is a bug fix.
6592
6593 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6594 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6595
659667. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6597
659868. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6599 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6600 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6601 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6602
660369. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6604 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6605 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6606 supplied", which is not helpful.
6607
660870. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6609 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6610 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6611
661271. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6613 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6614 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6615 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6616 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6617 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6618 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6619 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6620
662172. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6622 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6623 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6624 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6625 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6626
662773. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6628 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6629 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6630 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6631 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6632 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6633
663474. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6635 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6636 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6637
663875. Added write_rejectlog option.
6639
664076. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6641 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6642 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6643 variables.
6644
664577. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6646
664778. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6648 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6649 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6650 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6651 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6652 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6653 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6654 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6655
665679. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6657 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6658 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6659 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6660 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6661
666280. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6663 Haardt.
6664
666581. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6666 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6667 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6668 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6669 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6670 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6671 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6672 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6673 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6674
6675
6676Exim version 4.30
6677-----------------
6678
6679 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6680 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6681 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6682
6683 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6684 fixed.
6685
6686 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6687 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6688 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6689
6690 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6691 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6692 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6693 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6694 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6695 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6697 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6698 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6699 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6700 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6701 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6702 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6703 the Exim test suite.
6704
6705 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6706 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6707 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6708 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6709
6710 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6711 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6712 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6713 specify it in this variable.
6714
6715 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6716 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6717 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6718 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6719
6720 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6721 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6722 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6723 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6724
6725 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6726 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6727 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6728 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6729 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6730
6731 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6732
673310. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6734 they are logged.
6735
673611. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6737 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6738 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6739 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6740 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6741
674212. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6743 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6744
674513. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6746 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6747 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6748 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6749 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6750
675114. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6752 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6753
675415. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6755 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6756 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6757
675816. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6759 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6760
676117. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6762 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6763
676418. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6765 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6766 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6767
676819. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6769 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6770
677120. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6772 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6773 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6774 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6775
677621. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6777
677822. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6779 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6780 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6781 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6782
678323. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6784
678524. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6786 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6787
678825. Added .include_if_exists.
6789
679026. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6791 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6792 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6793 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6794 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6795 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6796
679727. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6798
679928. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6800 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6801 this.
6802
680329. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6804
680530. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6806 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6807
6808 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6809 550 Sender verify failed
6810
6811 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6812 the final line of the response.
6813
681431. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6815 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6816 all other user lookups.
6817
681832. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6819 delivery time.
6820
682133. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6822 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6823 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6824 result into an int without checking.
6825
682634. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6827 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6828 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
495ae4b0
PH
6829
683035. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6831 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6832 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6833 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6834
683536. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6836 correctly.
6837
683837. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6839 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6840
684138. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6842 to the empty sender.
6843
684439. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6845 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6846 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6847 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6848 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6849 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6850 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6851 panic log.
6852
685340. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6854 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6855 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6856 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6857 used.
6858
685941. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6860 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6861
686242. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6863 timestamps.
6864
686543. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6866 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6867
686844. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6869
687045. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6871 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6872 logs.
6873
687446. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6875 as soon as it is encountered.
6876
687747. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6878
687948. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6880 rewritten to "<>".
6881
688249. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6883 recognizes a tab character.
6884
688550. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6886 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6887 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6888 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6889
689051. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6891
689252. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6893 crash.
6894
689553. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6896
689754. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6898
689955. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6900 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6901 2822.
6902
690356. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6904 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6905 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6906 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6907 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6908
690957. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6910 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6911
691258. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6913 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6914 list (.included file names were always shown).
6915
691659. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6917 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6918 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6919 root at that time.
6920
692160. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6922 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6923
692461. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6925
692662. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6927
692863. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6929
693064. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6931 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6932 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6933 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6934 failures to open the logs.
6935
693665. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6937 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6938 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6939 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6940 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6941 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6942 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6943
6944
6945Exim version 4.24
6946-----------------
6947
6948 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6949 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6950 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6951 change 4.23/1.
6952
6953 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6954 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6955 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6956
6957 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6958 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6959 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6960
6961 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6962 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6963 causing some misleading effects.
6964
6965 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6966 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6967 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6968
6969 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6970 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6971 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6972 queue-runner function directly.
6973
6974
6975Exim version 4.23
6976-----------------
6977
6978 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6979 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6980
6981 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6982 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6983 was always written to the default place.
6984
6985 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6986 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6987 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6988
6989 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6990
6991 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6992
6993 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6994 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6995 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6996
6997 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6998 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6999 must start.
7000
7001 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7002 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7003 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7004
7005 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7006 command line option is disabled.
7007
7008 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7009 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7010
7011 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7012
7013 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7014
7015 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7016 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7017
701810. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7019
702011. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7021 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7022 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7023 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7024 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7025 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7026
702712. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7028 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7029 timeout.
7030
703113. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7032 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7033
703414. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7035 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7036
703715. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7038 received was valid base64.
7039
704016. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7041 name of the variable that was being set.
7042
704317. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7044
704518. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7046 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7047 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7048 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7049 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7050 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7051
705219. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7053
705420. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7055 nor realm was specified.
7056
705721. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7058 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7059 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7060 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7061
706222. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7063 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7064 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7065
706623. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7067 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7068 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7069
707024. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7071 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7072 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7073 some systems use these upper case variants.
7074
707525. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7076 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7077 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7078 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7079
708026. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7081
708227. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7083 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7084
708528. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7086 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7087 expansion variable.
7088
708929. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7090
709130. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7092 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7093 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7094 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7095
709631. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7097 using it.
7098
709932. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7100 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7101 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7102
710333. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7104 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7105
710634. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7107 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7108 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7109 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7110
711135. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7112 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7113 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7114
711536. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7116
711737. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7118 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7119 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7120 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7121 aborted.
7122
712338. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7124 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7125 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7126
712739. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7128
712940. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7130 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7131
713241. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7133 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7134
713542. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7136 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7137 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7138 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7139 when emails are that large.
7140
7141
7142
7143Exim version 4.22
7144-----------------
7145
7146 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7147 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7148
7149 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7150 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7151 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7152
7153 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7154 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7155 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7156
7157 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7158 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7159 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7160 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7161 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7162
7163 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7164 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7165 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7166 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7167 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7168 ever.
7169
7170 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7171 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7172 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7173 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7174 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7175 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7176 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7177 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7178 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7179 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7180 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7181 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7182 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7183 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7184
7185 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7186 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7187 parameterised it.
7188
7189 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7190 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7191 error should be diagnosed.
7192
7193 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7194 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7195 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7196 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7197 appeared instead of "NULL".
7198
719910. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7200 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7201 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7202 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7203 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7204 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7205 proceeds).
7206
7207 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7208 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7209 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7210
7211
7212Exim version 4.21
7213-----------------
7214
7215 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7216 or receiver verification errors.
7217
7218 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7219 name.
7220
7221 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7222 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7223 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7224 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7225
7226 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7227 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7228 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7229 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7230 shouldn't happen again.
7231
7232 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7233 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7234 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7235
7236 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7237 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7238
7239 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7240
7241 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7242 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7243
7244 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7245 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7246 RFC.
7247
724810. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7249 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7250 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7251
725211. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7253 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7254 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7255 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7256
725712. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7258 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7259 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7260 to define what should happen).
7261
726213. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7263 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7264 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7265
726614. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7267
726815. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7269
727016. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7271 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7272
4c04137d 727317. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
7274 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7275 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7276 structure in all cases.
7277
7278 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7279 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7280 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7281 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7282
728318. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7284 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7285 domain name.
7286
728719. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7288 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7289
729020. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7291 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7292
729321. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7294 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7295 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7296
729722. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7298 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7299 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7300
730123. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7302 the book and for uniformity.
7303
730424. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7305
730625. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7307 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
PH
7308 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7309 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7310 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7311 non-existent command as the problem.
7312
731326. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7314 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7315 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7316
731727. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7318
731928. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7320 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7321 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7322
732329. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7324 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7325 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7326 timestamps using strftime().
7327
732830. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7329 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7330
733132. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7332 transport-time rewrites.
7333
733433. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7335 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7336 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7337 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7338
733934. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7340 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7341
734235. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7343 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7344 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7345 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7346 comma and a space.
7347
734836. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7349 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7350 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7351 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7352 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7353 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7354 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7355
735637. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7357 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7358 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7359 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7360 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7361
736238. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7363 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7364 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7365 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7366 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7367 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7368 remaining text gets split now.
7369
737039. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7371 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7372 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7373 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7374
737540. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7376 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7377 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7378 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7379 $return_path.
7380
738141. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7382 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7383 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7384 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7385 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7386 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7387 passed through if needed.
7388
738942. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7390 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7391 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7392 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7393 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7394 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7395
739643. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7397 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7398 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7399 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7400 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7401
740244. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7403 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7404 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7405 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7406 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7407
740845. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7409 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7410 noticed.
7411
741246. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7413 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7414 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7415 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7416 mayhem of various kinds.
7417
741847. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7419 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7420 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
PH
7421 the right test for positive values.
7422
742348. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7424 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7425 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7426 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7427 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7428 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7429 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7430 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7431 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7432 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7433 envelope.
7434
743549. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7436 module.
7437
743850. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7439 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7440 forbidding it.
7441
744251. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7443 the existing equality matching.
7444
744552. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7446 dealing with inode numbers.
7447
744853. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7449 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7450 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7451
745254. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7453 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7454 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7455 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7456 local_scan().
7457
745855. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7459 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7460 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7461 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7462 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7463 relay addresses has also been removed.
7464
746556. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7466
746757. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7468 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7469 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7470
747158. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7472 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7473 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7474 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7475 processing applies to CR:
7476
7477 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7478 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7479
7480 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7481 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7482 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7483 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7484
748559. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7486 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7487 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7488
748960. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7490 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7491 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7492 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7493 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7494 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7495 arisen.
7496
749761. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7498 program routers.
7499
750062. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7501 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7502 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7503 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7504 adds:
7505
7506 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7507
7508 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7509
7510 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7511
751263. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7513 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7514 not considered personal.
7515
751664. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7517
751865. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7519
752066. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7521
752267. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7523 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7524 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7525 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7526 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7527 header lines, and spool format errors.
7528
752968. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7530 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7531 for more flexibility.
7532
753369. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7534 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7535 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7536
753770. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7538 Sabourenkov.
7539
754071. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7541 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7542 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7543 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7544 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7545 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7546 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7547 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7548 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7549
755072. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7551 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7552 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7553 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7554 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7555 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7556 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7557
755873. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7559 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7560 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7561
756274. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7563 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7564 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7565 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7566 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7567 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7568 instead of killing the process with assert().
7569
757075. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7571 than Unicode encoding.
7572
757376. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7574 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7575 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7576 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7577
757877. Added process_log_path.
7579
758078. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7581 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7582
758379. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7584 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7585
758680. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7587 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7588 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7589
759081. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7591 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7592 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7593 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7594 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7595 were applied:
7596
7597 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7598 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7599 as invalid.
7600
760182. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7602 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7603 they will be used during message reception.
7604
7605
7606Exim version 4.20
7607-----------------
7608
7609The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7610
7611****