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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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6JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
7 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
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9JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
10 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
11 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
12
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13JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
14 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
15 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
16 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
17 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
18 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
19 if one fails this test.
20 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
21 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
22
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23JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
24 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
25
23bb6982 26JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 27 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 28
0bd1b1ed 29JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 30 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 31
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32JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
33 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
34
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35JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
36 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
37
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38JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
39
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40JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
41 certificate).
42
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43JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
44 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
45 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
46 connection after a verify cache hit.
47 Do not update it with the verify result either.
48
49JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
50 when routing results in more than one destination address.
51
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52JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
53 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
54 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
55 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
56 when the cutthrough connection is made).
57
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58JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
59 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
60
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61JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
62 Previously they were not counted.
63
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64JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
65 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
66 that needed the lookup.
67
803628d5 68JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a norml message arrival "<="; now
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69 distinguished as "(=".
70
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71JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
72 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
73
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74JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
75
76JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
77 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
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79JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quaratine results,
80 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
81
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82JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
83 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
84 compatible.
85
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86JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
87 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
88 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
89 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
90
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91JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
92
f59aaaaa 93JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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94 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
95 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 96
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97JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
98 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
99 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
100 be lost.
101
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102JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
103 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
104 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
105 itself :(
106
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107JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
108 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
109 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
110
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111JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
112 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
113 options.
114
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115JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
116
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117PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
118 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
119
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120PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
121 are not in the system include path.
122
ad7fc6eb 123JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 124 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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125 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
126 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 127
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128JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
129 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
130 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
131
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135JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
136 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
137 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
138 client dropping the TLS connection.
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140TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
141 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
142
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143TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
144 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
145 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
146 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
147 outgoing I= field.
148
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149JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
150 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
151 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
152 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
153 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
154 check on the next write.
155
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156HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
157 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
158 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
159 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
160 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
161
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162JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
163 mime_regex ACL conditions.
164
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165JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
166 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
167 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
168
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169JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
170 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
171 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
172 an authenticate fail is not an error.
173
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174HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
175 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
176
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177JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
178 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
179
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180JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
181 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
182 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
183 distinct.
184
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185JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
186
187JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
188
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189JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
190
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191JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
192 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
193
98b98887 194JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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195 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
196
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197JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
198
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199JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
200 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
201
202JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
203
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204JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
205 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
206
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207JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
208
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209JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
210 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
211 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
212 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
213 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
214 they will retry in-clear.
215 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
216 at installation time.
217
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218HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
219 with the $config_file variable.
220
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221JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
222 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
223 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
224 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
225 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx reponse.
226
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227GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
228 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
229 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
230 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
231 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
232
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233JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
234
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235JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
236 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
237 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
238 list order is no longer honoured.
239
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240JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalisation
241 for DKIM processing.
242
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243JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
244 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 245
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246JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
247 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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248 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
249 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 250
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251JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
252 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
253
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254JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
255 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
256
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257JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
258 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
259
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260JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
261
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262JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
263 cached by the daemon.
264
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265JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
266 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
267
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268JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
269 keys are given for lookup.
270
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271JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
272 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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273 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
274 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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276JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
277 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
278 server-side so match that on older versions.
279
07c73177 280JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 281 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 282 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 283
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284JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
285 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
286
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287JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
288 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
289 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 290 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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291 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
292 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
293 initial truncated version.
294
ab9152ff 295JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 296
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297JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
298
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299JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
300 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
301
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302JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
303
bc3c7bb7 304HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 305
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306JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
307 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
308 induced overflows.
309
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310JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
311 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
312 stage.
313
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314JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
315 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
316
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317JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
318 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
319 former class.
320
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321JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
322 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
323 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
324
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325JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
326 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
327 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
328 extraction. Accept either.
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332Exim version 4.86
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334JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
335 expanded.
336
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337JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
338
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339JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
340 it.
341
01a4a5c5 342JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 343 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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344 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
345 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
346
cb1d7830 347JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 348 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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349 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
350
610ff438 351JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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352 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
353 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
354 TLS connections
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356JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
357 sites use this now.
358
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359JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
360 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
361 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
362 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
363 have a dsn_lasthop option.
364
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365JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
366 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 367 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 368
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369JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
370
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371JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
372 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
373
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374JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
375 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
376
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377JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
378 /defer_ok option.
379
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380JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
381 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
382
fd4d8871 383JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 384 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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385 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
386
387JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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388 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
389 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 390
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391JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
392 timeout value per server.
393
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394JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
395 now have the list separator specified.
396
8a512ed5 397JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 398 option values.
8a512ed5 399
82c0c8ea 400JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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401 under OpenSSL.
402
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403JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
404
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405JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
406 rather than the verbs used.
407
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408JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
409 from 255 to 1024 chars.
410
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411JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
412
cfab9d68 413HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 414 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 415
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416JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
417 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
418
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419HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
420 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
421
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422JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
423
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424JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
425
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426JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
427 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
428 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
429 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
430
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431JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
432
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433JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
434 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
435
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436JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
437 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
438
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439JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
440
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441JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
442
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443JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
444
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445JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
446 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
447
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448JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
449 added for tls authenticator.
450
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451HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
452
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456TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
457 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
458 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
459 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
460 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
461 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
462 the script parsing/test process like normal.
463
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464TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
465 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
466 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
467 function when detected.
468
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469JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
470 cause callback expansion.
471
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472TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
473 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
474 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
475 instead of bool when processing it.
476
0f06b4f2 477JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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478 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
479
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480JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
481
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482JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
483
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484TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
485
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486TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
487 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 488
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489JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
490 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
491 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
492 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
493 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
494 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
495
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496JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
497 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
498 exceeded it.
499
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500JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
501 version 3.3.6 or later.
502
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503JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
504 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
505 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 506 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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507 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
508 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
509 option is defined.
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511TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
512 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
513
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514JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
515 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
516 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
517 matches.
518
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519JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
520 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
521 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
522
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523JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
524 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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525
526JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
527 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
528 syntax errors.
529
3394b36a 530JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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531
532JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
533 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
534
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535TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
536 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
537 tarball.
538
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539JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
540
541JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
542 Bug 1561.
543
544JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
545 output list separator was used.
546
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548Exim version 4.84
549-----------------
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550TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
551 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
552 return.
1f0ebb98 553
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554JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
555 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
556
557JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
558
559TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 560 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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565
566TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
567
568 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
569 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
570 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
571 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
572 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
573 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
574
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575TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
576 utilities have not been installed.
577
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578JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
579 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
580
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581TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
582 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
583
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584TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
585 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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586 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
587 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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589JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
590
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591TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
592 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
593
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594PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
595 not dns_use_dnssec.
596
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597JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
598
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599TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
600 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
601 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
602
8ddef691 603TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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604 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
605 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
606 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
607 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 608 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 609
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610JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
611
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612JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
613 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
614
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615JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
616 failed delivery.
617
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618JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
619
511a6c14 620JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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621
622JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
623 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 624
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625JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
626 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
627
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628TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
629
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630JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
631
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632JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
633 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
634
635 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
636 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
637 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
638
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639TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
640 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
641 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
642 analysis.
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644JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
645
8c51eead 646JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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647 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
648 lookup).
8c51eead 649
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650TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
651 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
652 Schlichting.
35aba663 653
fd3b6a4a 654JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 655 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
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657TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
658 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
659
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660JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
661
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662TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
663 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
664 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
665
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666JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
667 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
668
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669JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
670 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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671 hosts_request_ocsp.
672
ed3bba5f 673JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 674 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 675 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
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677JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
678
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679TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
680 Christian Aistleitner.
681
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682JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
683
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684TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
685 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
686
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687JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
688 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
689
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690JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
691 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
692
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693TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
694 support and error reporting did not work properly.
695
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696TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
697 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
698
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699TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
700 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
701 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
702
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703JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
704
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705PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
706 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
707 Jasper Wallace.
708
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709JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
710
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711TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
712 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
713 CVE-2014-2972
714
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718
719PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
720
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721PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
722 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
723
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724PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
725 by GnuTLS.
726
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727PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
728 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
729 routines.
730
13363eba 731PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 732
66645890 733PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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734 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
735 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
736 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
737 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 738
a3fb9793 739PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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740 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
741 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
742 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 743 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 744 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 745
d27f98fe 746TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 747
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748TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
749
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750TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
751 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
752
ae0e32ee 753TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 754 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 755 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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756
757TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
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759TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
760
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761TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
762 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
763
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764JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
765
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766JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
767
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768PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
769
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770NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
771 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 772
585121e2 773JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
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775PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
776 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
777 function.
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779PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
780 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
781
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782JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
783 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
784 "acl = name arg..."
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786JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
787
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788JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
789
ea722490 790JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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791 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
792
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793JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
794 Bugzilla 884.
795
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796JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
797 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
798
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799JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
800 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
801
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802PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
803 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 804 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 805
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806JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
807 authenticators.
808
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809JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
810 for control.
811
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812PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
813
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814PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
815 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
816 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
817 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
818
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819TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
820
821 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
822 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
823 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
824 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
825 the retry rules.
826
827 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
828 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
829 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
830
831 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
832 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
833 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
834 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
835
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836 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
837 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
838 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
839 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
840 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
841 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
842 delivery, as in LMTP.
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844 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
845 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
846
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847TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
848
849 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
850
851 Resent-From: f
852
853 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
854 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
855 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
856 username as equal to the username.
857
858 This change corrects that bug.
859
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860GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
861 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
862 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
863
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864TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
865
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866PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
867 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
868 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
869 NULL dereference and crash.
870
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871JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
872
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873PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
874 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
875 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
876
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877SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
878
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879JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
880 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
881 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
882 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
883 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
884 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
885 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
886 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
887 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
888 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
889 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
890
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891PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
892 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
893
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894PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
895 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
896 Bugzilla 880.
897
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898PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
899 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
900 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
901 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
902 an empty string is now equivalent.
903
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904PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
905 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
906 not performing validation itself.
907
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908PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
909 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
910
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911JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
912 Bugzilla 321, 823.
913
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914TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
915
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916PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
917 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
918 other false fix of the same issue.
919 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
920 Bugzilla 1363.
921
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922PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
923 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
924
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925PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
926 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
927 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
928
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929PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
930 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
931 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
932
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933TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
934
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935JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
936
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937TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
938 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
939
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940TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
941 Alexander Miroch.
942
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943TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
944 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
945 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
946 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
947 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 948
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949TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
950 the src/util/ subdirectory.
951
581d7bee 952TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 953 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
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954 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
955
956TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
957 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
958 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
959 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
960
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961TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
962
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963TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
964 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
965 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 966
b10e4ec2
TL
967TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
968
e2cebd74
TL
969TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
970 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
971 interaction.
972
973TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
974 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
975
2519e60d
TL
976TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
977 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
978
e78e6ecf 979
4263f395
PP
980Exim version 4.80.1
981-------------------
982
983PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
984 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 985 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 986
ea722490 987
b1770b6e 988Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
989-----------------
990
991PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
992 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
993 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
994
23c7e742
NM
995NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
996
b322aac8
NM
997NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
998 improved.
999
4a891427
NM
1000NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1001
c1e794ba 1002PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1003
97753960
PP
1004PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1005
1006PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1007 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1008
df6303fa
PP
1009PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1010 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1011
7e6a8985
PP
1012PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1013 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1014
f1e05cc7 1015PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1016 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1017 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1018
4c287009
PP
1019PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1020
b98bb9ac
PP
1021PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1022 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1023
4a6a987a
PP
1024PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1025
c45dd180 1026PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1027
7db8d074
PP
1028PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1029 non-compliant senders.
1030 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1031
eae0036b 1032NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1033 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1034 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1035
dec5017e
PP
1036PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1037 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1038 in spool file corruption.
1039
c80c5570
PP
1040PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1041 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1042 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1043 "Got SSL error 2".
1044
076b11e2
PP
1045TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1046 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1047 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1048
5407bfff
JH
1049JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1050 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1051
9e45c72b
PP
1052JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1053
e74376d8
PP
1054PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1055 diagnostics.
1056 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1057
da3ad30d
PP
1058PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
1059 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1060 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1061
7be682ca
PP
1062PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1063 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1064 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1065 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1066
ef840681
PP
1067PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1068 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1069
5bfb4cdf
PP
1070PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1071 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1072 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1073 resolver implementation change.
1074
c6e95d22
PP
1075PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1076 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1077
9cbad13b
PP
1078PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1079
9ee44efb
PP
1080PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1081
6a6084f8
PP
1082PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1083 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1084
12dd53c7
PP
1085PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1086 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1087
9e45c72b 1088JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1089 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1090
17c76198
PP
1091PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1092 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1093 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1094 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1095 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1096
53947857 1097PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1098
eae0036b 1099PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1100 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1101 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1102
9e45c72b 1103JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1104
7390e768
PP
1105PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1106 read-only, out of scope).
1107 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1108
08488c86
PP
1109PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1110 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1111 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1112 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1113
6475bd82
PP
1114PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1115
81f91683
PP
1116PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1117 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1118 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1119 real issues in debug logging.
1120
5779e6aa
PP
1121PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1122 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1123
3375e053
PP
1124PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1125 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1126 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1127
1128PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1129 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1130 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1131 problems.
3375e053 1132
9d26b8c0
PP
1133PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1134 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1135
57eb9e91 1136PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1137 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1138 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1139 needs to override this, it can.
1140
16880d1a
PP
1141PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1142 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1143 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1144
a799883d
PP
1145PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1146 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1147 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1148 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1149
3ecab157 1150PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1151
0599f9cf 1152
867fcbf5
PP
1153Exim version 4.77
1154-----------------
1155
1156PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1157 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1158
f1a29782
TF
1159TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1160
ab42bd23
TK
1161TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1162 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1163
0ca0cf52
TF
1164TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1165 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1166
921b12ca
TF
1167TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1168 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1169 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1170
1171 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1172 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1173 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1174 not safe for signals.
1175
1176 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1177 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1178 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1179 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1180 exiwhat.
1181
c99ce5c9
TF
1182TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1183
1184 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1185 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1186 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1187 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1188 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1189
1190 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1191 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1192 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1193 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1194 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1195 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1196
1197 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1198 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1199 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1200 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1201
1202 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1203 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1204 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1205 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1206
1207 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1208 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1209 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1210 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1211 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1212 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1213 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1214 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1215 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1216
1217 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1218 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1219 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1220 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1221
1222 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1223 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1224 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1225 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1226 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1227 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1228 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1229 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1230 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1231 details in the main documentation.
1232
3634fc25
TF
1233TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1234
792e8a19
TF
1235TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1236
5901f0ab
TF
1237TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1238 repository when doing development or release builds.
1239
7f2a2a43
PP
1240PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1241 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1242
061b7ebd
PP
1243PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1244 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1245 Bugzilla 97.
1246
e12f8c32
PP
1247PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1248
9e949f00 1249PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1250 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1251
1252PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1253 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1254
555ae6af 1255PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1256 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1257
1258PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1259 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1260
6f7fe114
PP
1261PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1262 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1263
c566dd90
PP
1264PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1265 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1266 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1267 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1268
d6cc7c78 1269PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1270 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1271 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1272
0d0e4455
PP
1273PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1274
3399bb60 1275PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1276
1277PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1278 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1279
0ca0cf52 1280
10906672
PP
1281Exim version 4.76
1282-----------------
1283
1284PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1285
754a0503
PP
1286PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1287 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1288
c0c7b2da
PP
1289PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1290
e97d1f08
PP
1291PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1292
084c1d8c
PP
1293PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1294 Bugzilla 1098.
1295
4e7ee012
PP
1296PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1297 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1298
c8d52a00
PP
1299TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1300 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1301
54e7ce4a
PP
1302PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1303 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1304
5ee6f336
PP
1305PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1306 Bugzilla 1104.
1307
c8d52a00 1308TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1309 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1310
1311TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1312 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1313 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1314 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1315
1316PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1317 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1318
10906672 1319
aa097c4c
NM
1320Exim version 4.75
1321-----------------
1322
4c9ef03a 1323NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1324 Bugzilla 1073
1325
7f3d9eff
TF
1326TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1327 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1328 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1329
159f52d2
TF
1330TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1331 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1332
0cc9542a
PP
1333PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1334 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1335 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1336
f7274286
PP
1337PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1338 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1339
7b797365
PP
1340PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1341 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1342
caacae52
NM
1343NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1344 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1345
09dcaba9
NM
1346NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1347 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1348
bc19a55b
PP
1349PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1350 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1351
bd4c9759
NM
1352NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1353 Fixes bug 943.
1354
b72aab72
PP
1355PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1356 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1357
2fe76745
PP
1358PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1359 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1360
76aa570c
PP
1361PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1362 SQL string expansion failure details.
1363 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1364
f1e5fef5
PP
1365PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1366 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1367
4d805ee9
PP
1368PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1369 extern declarations in function scope.
1370 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1371
cd59ab18
PP
1372PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1373 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1374 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1375 a kernel bug).
1376
332f5cf3
PP
1377PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1378 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1379
29cfeb94
PP
1380PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1381 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1382
660242ad
PP
1383PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1384 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1385
bc4bc4c5
PP
1386PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1387 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1388
2e64baa9
NM
1389NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1390 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1391 Dennis Davis.
1392
bddd7526
PP
1393PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1394
6bac1a9a
PP
1395PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1396
552193f0
NM
1397NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1398 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1399
1b587e48
TF
1400TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1401 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1402
aa097c4c 1403
8c07b69f
TF
1404Exim version 4.74
1405-----------------
1406
1407TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1408 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1409
c0ea85ab
TF
1410TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1411 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1412
0761d44e
TF
1413TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1414
0a349494
PP
1415DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1416 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1417 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1418
1419PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1420 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1421 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1422
fea24b2e
PP
1423PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1424 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1425 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1426 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1427
6545de78
PP
1428PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1429 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1430 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1431 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1432
1670ef10
PP
1433PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1434 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1435 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1436 arbitrary files.
1437
c0886197
PP
1438PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1439 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1440
b7487bce
PP
1441PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1442 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1443 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1444 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1445 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1446
8c07b69f 1447
97fd1e48 1448Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1449-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1450
1451PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1452 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1453 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1454
6901c596
PP
1455PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1456 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1457
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1458JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1459
77bb000f
PP
1460PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1461
a29e5231
PP
1462PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1463
ec5a0394 1464PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1465
55c75993
PP
1466PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1467
453a6645 1468PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1469 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1470 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1471 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1472
8544e77a
PP
1473PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1474 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1475 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1476 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1477 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1478
83e029d5
PP
1479PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1480
ed7f7860
PP
1481PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1482
7d9f747b
PP
1483PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1484
4b2241d2
PP
1485PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1486
10385c15
PP
1487PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1488
dbc4b90d
PP
1489PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1490
532be449
PP
1491PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1492
6a8de854 1493PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1494 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1495 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1496
5dc43717
JJ
1497JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1498
1499JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1500 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1501
3346ab01
PP
1502PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1503 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1504
491fab4c
PP
1505PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1506 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1507 Notification from John Horne.
1508
13eb9497
PP
1509PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1510 compatible.
1511
1512PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1513 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1514 it normally works.
1515
7f36d675
DW
1516DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1517 access.
1518
c1d94452
DW
1519DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1520 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1521 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1522
e2f5dc15
DW
1523DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1524 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1525 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1526 configuration file.
1527
cd25e41d
DW
1528DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1529 option (effectively making it always true).
1530
261dc43e
DW
1531DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1532 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1533
fa32850b
DW
1534DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1535 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1536
79d4bc3d
PP
1537PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1538 run-time user, instead of root.
1539
43236f35 1540PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1541 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1542
fb08281f
DW
1543DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1544 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1545 arguments.
3346ab01 1546
74935b98
DW
1547DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1548 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1549 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1550
90b6341f
DW
1551DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1552
57730b52
ML
1553NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1554
66581d1e 1555
465e92cf
JJ
1556Exim version 4.72
1557-----------------
1558
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PP
1559JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1560 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1561 typos
465e92cf 1562
453a6645
PP
1563JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1564 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1565 (Finput)
edae0343 1566
9bd3e22c
NM
1567NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1568 Patch from Alain Williams
1569
bb576ff7
NM
1570NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1571
5a1a5845
NM
1572NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1573 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1574
981a9fad
NM
1575NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1576 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1577
7fc497ee
NM
1578NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1579
1a41defa
JJ
1580JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1581
a466095c 1582NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1583 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1584
94a6bd0b
NM
1585TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1586
1587TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1588
1589MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1590 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1591 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1592
c1b141a8
NM
1593NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1594 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1595
b26eacf1 1596NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1597 Patch by Simon Arlott
1598
179c5980 1599PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1600 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1601
9bd3e22c 1602
7c6d71af
NM
1603Exim version 4.71
1604-----------------
1605
7d9f747b 1606TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1607
f013fb92
NM
1608NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1609
0eb8eedd
NM
1610NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1611
663ee6d9
NM
1612NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1613
177ebd9b
NM
1614NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1615
7c6d71af 1616
210f147e
NM
1617Exim version 4.70
1618-----------------
1619
cdd3bb85 1620TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1621 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1622
1623TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1624 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1625 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1626
1627TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1628 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1629 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1630
1631TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1632 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1633
210f147e
NM
1634NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1635 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1636 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1637 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1638
deafd5b3
NM
1639NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1640 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1641 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1642
089793a4
TF
1643TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1644
5f16ca82
TF
1645TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1646
dae9d94e 1647NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1648 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1649
7d9f747b 1650NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1651
06864c44
TF
1652TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1653 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1654 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1655 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1656
65a7d8c3 1657NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1658 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1659
23510047 1660TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1661
7d9f747b 1662NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1663
7d8eec3a 1664NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1665 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1666
89dec7b6
TF
1667TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1668 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1669
a99de90c
TF
1670TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1671 that they are available at delivery time.
1672
e2803e40
TF
1673TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1674
7199e1ee
TF
1675TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1676 incoming_port log selectors.
1677
e276e04b
TF
1678TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1679 setting expands to an empty string.
1680
ce552449 1681NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1682 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1683
e765a0f1 1684NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1685 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1686
4f054c63 1687NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1688 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1689
7d9f747b
PP
1690NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1691 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1692
7d9f747b
PP
1693NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1694 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1695
b52bc06e 1696NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1697 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1698
447de4b0
NM
1699NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1700
4c69d561 1701NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1702 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1703
d5c39246 1704NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1705 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1706
0b23848a
TK
1707TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1708
8f3414a1 1709NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1710 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1711
fb6f955d
NM
1712NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1713
1714NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1715
7d9f747b
PP
1716NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1717 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1718
7d9f747b
PP
1719NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1720 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1721
7d9f747b
PP
1722NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1723 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1724
7d9f747b
PP
1725NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1726 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1727
7d9f747b
PP
1728NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1729 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1730
7d9f747b
PP
1731NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1732 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1733
7d9f747b
PP
1734NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1735 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1736
7d9f747b 1737NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1738 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1739
7d9f747b 1740NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1741
7d9f747b
PP
1742NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1743 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1744
7d9f747b 1745NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1746
7d9f747b 1747NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1748
7d9f747b 1749NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1750
7d9f747b 1751NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1752
17792b53 1753NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1754 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1755
7d9f747b
PP
1756NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1757 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1758
91576cec 1759NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1760 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1761
7d9f747b
PP
1762NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1763 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1764
7d9f747b 1765NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1766
7d9f747b 1767NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1768
7d9f747b 1769NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1770
7d9f747b 1771NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1772
deafd5b3 1773
47db1125
NM
1774Exim version 4.69
1775-----------------
1776
4b3504d0
TK
1777TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1778 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1779 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1780
1781 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1782 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1783 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1784 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1785 build errors in sieve.c.
1786
81ea09ca
NM
1787NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1788 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1789 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1790
f13cddcb
SC
1791SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1792
7d9f747b 1793NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1794
7d9f747b 1795NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1796
7d9f747b 1797NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1798
1799
eb4c0de6
PH
1800Exim version 4.68
1801-----------------
1802
1803PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1804
6a3bceb1
PH
1805PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1806 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1807 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1808 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1809 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1810 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1811 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1812 for iplsearch lookups.
1813
1814 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1815 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1816 previously such lookups could never work.
1817
1818 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1819 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1820 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1821
2e30fa9d
TK
1822TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1823 version.
1824
0806a9c5
MH
1825MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1826 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1827 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1828 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1829 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1830 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1831
ae276964
TK
1832TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1833 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1834
0f2cbd1b
MH
1835MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1836 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1837 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1838 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1839 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1840 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1841
2b85bce7
PH
1842PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1843 local_scan API.
1844
93655c46
PH
1845PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1846
6c512171
PH
1847PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1848 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1849 encrypted.
1850
1851PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1852 by clients under certain conditions.
1853
aa6dc513
PH
1854PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1855 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1856
a96603a0
PH
1857PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1858
8f240103
PH
1859PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1860 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1861
1862PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1863
d677b2f2
PH
1864PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1865
d52120f2
PH
1866PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1867
64f2600a
PH
1868PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1869 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1870
8669f003
PH
1871PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1872
a4dc33a8
PH
1873PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1874 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1875
d6a60c0f
PH
1876PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1877
8f128379
PH
1878PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1879
8932dffe
PH
1880PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1881 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1882 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1883 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1884
ddea74fa 1885PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1886 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1887 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1888
ddea74fa 1889PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1890 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1891
ddea74fa
PH
1892PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1893
ce9f225c
PH
1894PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1895
19897d52
PH
1896PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1897
bc64a74d
PH
1898PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1899 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1900 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1901
eb4c0de6 1902
b4ed4da0
PH
1903Exim version 4.67
1904-----------------
1905
22ad45c9
MH
1906MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1907 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1908 Jan Srzednicki.
1909
b4ed4da0
PH
1910PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1911 issue a MAIL command.
1912
431b7361
PH
1913PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1914
1915 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1916
1917 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1918 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1919 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1920 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1921 item. This has been fixed.
1922
1923PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1924 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1925
83da1223
PH
1926PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1927 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1928
54fc8428
PH
1929PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1930 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1931 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1932
34c5e8dd
SC
1933SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1934
bbe15da8
PH
1935PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1936 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1937 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1938 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1939 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1940
0e8a9471
MH
1941MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1942 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1943 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1944
f0872424
PH
1945PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1946 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1947 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1948 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1949
b01dd148
PH
1950PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1951
6bf342e1
PH
1952PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1953
273f34d0
PH
1954PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1955 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1956 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1957 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1958 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1959
cf8b11a5
PH
1960PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1961
41c7c167
PH
1962PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1963 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1964 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1965 values).
1966
9c57cbc0
PH
1967PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1968
f3f065bb
PH
1969PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1970
047bdd8c
PH
1971PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1972
0ce9abe6
PH
1973PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1974
0e22dfd1
PH
1975PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1976
4c590bd1
PH
1977PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1978 no_callout_flush is set.
1979
09945f1e
PH
1980PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1981 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1982 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1983 fixed.
1984
c51b8e75
PH
1985PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1986
e28326d8
PH
1987PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1988 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1989 other ACL rejections are.
1990
75b1493f
PH
1991PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1992 with slight modification.
1993
7c5214ec
PH
1994PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1995 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1996
4311097e
PH
1997PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1998 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1999 connection.
2000
29f89cad
PH
2001PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2002 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2003
5e687460
SC
2004SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2005
c3611384
PH
2006PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2007 expansion side effects.
2008
5a11a7b4
PH
2009PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2010 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2011 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2012 be the same.
2013
0e20aff9
MH
2014MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2015 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2016 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2017
ca86f471
PH
2018PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2019 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2020 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2021 were accidentally chopped off.
2022
a14e5636
PH
2023PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2024 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2025 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2026 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2027 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2028 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2029 pipelining has not been advertised.
2030
ec95d1a6
PH
2031PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2032
42855d71
PH
2033PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2034 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2035 This has been fixed.
2036
57c2c631
PH
2037PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2038 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2039 reported on Solaris.
2040
58c01c94
PH
2041PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2042 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2043 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2044 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2045 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2046 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2047 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2048
dee5a20a
PH
2049PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2050 cpus.
2051
d2ee6114
PH
2052PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2053
b2d5182b
PH
2054PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2055
79749a79
PH
2056PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2057 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2058 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2059 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2060 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2061 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2062
c456d9bb
PH
2063PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2064 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2065 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2066 host_all_ignored option.
2067
cd9868ec
PH
2068PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2069 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2070 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2071 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2072 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2073 is what is supposed to happen).
2074
ebeaf996
PH
2075PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2076 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2077 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2078 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2079 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2080 uses the Exim user.
2081
2679d413
PH
2082PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2083 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2084 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2085 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2086 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2087 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2088 users.
2089
84024b72
PH
2090PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2091
8005d38e
SC
2092SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2093 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2094 (Jez Hancock).
2095 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2096 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2097
3298c6c6
SC
2098SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2099
a43a27c5
PH
2100PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2101
58eb016e 2102PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2103 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2104 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2105 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2106 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2107 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2108 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2109 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2110 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2111 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2112 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2113
b43a74ea
PH
2114PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2115 advertised in response to EHLO.
2116
b4ed4da0 2117
5dd1517f
PH
2118Exim version 4.66
2119-----------------
2120
2121PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2122 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2123
2124 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2125 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2126
2127 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2128 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2129 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2130
2131 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2132 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2133 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2134 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2135 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2136
2137
93cfa765
TK
2138Exim version 4.65
2139-----------------
2140
2141TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2142 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2143 versions. (#438)
2144
d6066548
MH
2145MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2146 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2147 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2148
4362ff0d
PH
2149PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2150 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2151 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2152 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2153 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2154 rather than extend the field.
2155
93cfa765 2156
944e9e9c
TF
2157Exim version 4.64
2158-----------------
aa41d2de 2159
21d74bd9
TK
2160TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2161 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2162 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2163 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2164 these files.
2165
2166TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2167 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2168 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2169
2170TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2171 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2172 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2173
2174TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2175 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2176 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2177 in the field name.
2178
2b1c6e3a
PH
2179PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2180 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2181 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2182 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2183 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2184 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2185 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2186 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2187 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2188 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2189 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2190
1f872c80
PH
2191PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2192 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2193
2194PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2195 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2196 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2197 ignores EPIPE as well.
2198
d203e649
PH
2199PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2200 (quoted-printable decoding).
2201
cc2ed8f7 2202PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2203 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2204
ddfcd446
PH
2205PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2206
d45b1de8
PH
2207PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2208
2209PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2210
38a0a95f 2211PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2212 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2213
a2405d83
JJ
2214JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2215 in 4.64-PH/09.
2216
2217JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2218 miscellaneous code fixes
2219
6ea85e9a
PH
2220PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2221 rejections.
2222
26da7e20
PH
2223PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2224 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2225 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2226 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2227 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2228 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2229 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2230 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2231
14aa5a05 2232PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2233 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2234 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2235 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2236 function.
2237 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2238 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2239 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2240 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2241 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2242 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2243 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2244 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2245 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2246
ff75a1f7
PH
2247PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2248 decoding.
2249
e6f6568e
PH
2250PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2251 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2252 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2253 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2254 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2255 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2256 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2257 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2258
d6f6e0dc
PH
2259PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2260 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2261 list.
2262
322050c2
PH
2263PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2264 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2265 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2266 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2267 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2268 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2269 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2270 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2271 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2272 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2273 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2274 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2275 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2276
08955dd3
PH
2277PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2278 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2279 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2280 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2281 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2282 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2283 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2284
1eccaa59
PH
2285PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2286 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2287 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2288 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2289 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2290 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2291 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2292 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2293 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2294 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2295
602e59e5
PH
2296PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2297 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2298 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2299 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2300 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2301
411ef850
PH
2302PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2303 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2304 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2305 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2306 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2307 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2308 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2309
7befa435
PH
2310PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2311 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2312 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2313 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2314 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2315 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2316 been verified.
2317
48da4259 2318PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2319 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2320 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2321 and authorization.)
2322
48da4259
PH
2323PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2324 if any retry times were supplied.
2325
d1d5595c
PH
2326PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2327 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2328 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2329
0ef732d9
PH
2330PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2331
328895cc
PH
2332PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2333
fd700877
PH
2334PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2335 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2336 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2337 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2338 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2339 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2340
8dce1a6f
PH
2341PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2342 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2343
17af4a17
PH
2344PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2345 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2346 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2347
2348PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2349 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2350 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2351 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2352 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2353 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2354 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2355 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2356 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2357
2358 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2359 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2360 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2361 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2362 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2363 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2364 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2365 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2366 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2367
2368 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2369 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2370 hammering the server.
2371
c1114884
PH
2372PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2373 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2374
7a0743eb
PH
2375PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2376
0d85fa3f
PH
2377PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2378 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2379 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2380
1bf43b78
PH
2381PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2382 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2383 one case where this was not true.
2384
520de300
PH
2385PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2386 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2387 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2388 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2389 fails.
2390
48c7f9e2
PH
2391PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2392 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2393 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2394 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2395 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2396 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2397 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2398 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2399 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2400 smtp transport.
2401
99ea1c86
PH
2402PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2403 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2404 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2405 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2406
a2042e78
PH
2407PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2408 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2409
4fbcfc2e
PH
2410PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2411 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2412 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2413
aa41d2de
PH
2414PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2415
af561417
PH
2416PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2417
3cc66b45
PH
2418PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2419
194cc0e4
PH
2420PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2421 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2422 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2423 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2424
a401ddaa
PH
2425PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2426 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2427
4e88a19f
PH
2428PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2429 be meaningful with "accept".
2430
d7d7b289
SC
2431SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2432 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2433
2434SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2435 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2436 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2437
2438SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2439 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2440 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2441 there is data to show.
2442 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2443
2444SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2445 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2446 as well as the number of messages.
2447
2448SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2449 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2450 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2451
2452SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2453 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2454 have a flag are now skipped.
2455
2456SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2457 Added the -emptyok flag.
2458
2459SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2460 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2461
0ea2a468
JJ
2462JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2463 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2464 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2465
2466JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2467 match 4.64-PH/13
2468
2469JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2470 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2471
2472JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2473
2474JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2475 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2476
8a10f5a4
PH
2477PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2478
30e18802
PH
2479PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2480 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2481 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2482 contravention of the specifications.
2483
55728a4f
PH
2484PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2485 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2486 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2487
d7837193
PH
2488PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2489 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2490 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2491
87054a31
PH
2492PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2493
ea2c01d2
MH
2494MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2495 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2496 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2497 some point in the past.
2498
e4fa6968
PH
2499PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2500 transport during callout processing was broken.
2501
56f5d9bd
PH
2502PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2503 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2504
922e1c28
PH
2505PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2506 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2507
21eb6e72
PH
2508PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2509 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2510
a0540757
PH
2511PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2512
944e9e9c 2513
478be7b0
SC
2514Exim version 4.63
2515-----------------
2516
2517SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2518 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2519
2520SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2521 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2522 there is data to show.
2523 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2524
2525SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2526 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2527
2b965a65
TF
2528TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2529 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2530
45b91596
PH
2531TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2532 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2533
c59f5781
TF
2534TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2535 submissions from trusted users.
2536
90fc3069
TF
2537TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2538 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2539
6083aca0
TF
2540TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2541 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2542 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2543 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2544 there is now a framework to start from.
2545
765b530f
PH
2546PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2547 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2548 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2549
4e167a8c
PH
2550PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2551
4608d683
PH
2552PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2553
b8dc3e4a
PH
2554PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2555
5418e93b
PH
2556PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2557 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2558 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2559
b4a9bda2
PH
2560PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2561 libradius.
2562
45b91596
PH
2563PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2564 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2565 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2566
5547e2c5
PH
2567PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2568 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2569 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2570 its arguments.
2571
dbcef0ea
PH
2572PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2573 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2574 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2575 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2576 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2577
25257489
PH
2578PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2579 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2580
c816d124
PH
2581PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2582
a9ccd69a
PH
2583PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2584 operations in malware.c.
2585
75fa1910
PH
2586PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2587 signatures.
2588
a7d7aa58
PH
2589PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2590 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2591 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2592 all.
2593
42119b09
PH
2594PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2595 statements to "add_header".
2596
41609df5
PH
2597PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2598 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2599
a5bd321b
PH
2600PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2601 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2602 latter.
2603
e85a7ad5 2604PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2605 so that it is now:
2606
e85a7ad5
PH
2607 ${if or { \
2608 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2609 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2610 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2611 }{no}{yes}}
2612
e85a7ad5
PH
2613 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2614 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2615
d8fe1c03
PH
2616PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2617 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2618
16282d2b
PH
2619PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2620 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2621 any possible encoding problems.
2622
35d40a98
PH
2623PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2624 but not after initializing Perl.
2625
034d99ab
PH
2626PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2627 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2628 apparently, which is not desirable.
2629
6ec97b1b
PH
2630PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2631 queries.
2632
e22ca4ac
JJ
2633JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2634 --not options
2635
2636JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2637
33d73e3b
PH
2638PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2639 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2640 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2641 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2642
9ecb03f3
PH
2643PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2644 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2645 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2646
084efe8d
PH
2647PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2648 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2649 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2650 0.12.
2651
366fc9f0
PH
2652PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2653 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2654 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2655 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2656 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2657
c59f5781 2658
c887c79e
TF
2659Exim version 4.62
2660-----------------
2661
2662TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2663 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2664
1cce3af8
PH
2665PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2666 patch).
2667
afb3eaaf
PH
2668PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2669 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2670 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2671 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2672 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2673 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2674 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2675 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2676 451 error is used.
2677
e173618b
PH
2678PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2679
dd16e114
PH
2680PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2681 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2682 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2683
f7fd3850
PH
2684PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2685 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2686 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2687 odd errors.
2688
d87df92c
PH
2689PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2690 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2691
7e9f683d
PH
2692PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2693 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2694 option (which defaults to 0600).
2695
bfad5236
PH
2696PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2697
01c490df
PH
2698PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2699 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2700 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2701 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2702 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2703 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2704 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2705
d6629cdc
PH
2706PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2707
1cce3af8 2708
214e2000
PH
2709Exim version 4.61
2710-----------------
2711
2712PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2713 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2714 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2715 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2716 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2717 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2718 addresses as local.
2719
f9daeae0
PH
2720PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2721 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2722
7e66e54d
PH
2723PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2724
c8ea1597
PH
2725PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2726 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2727 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2728 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2729 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2730 grumble.
2731
911f6fde
PH
2732PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2733 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2734
47ca6d6c
PH
2735PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2736 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2737 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2738 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2739 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2740
ed0e9820
PH
2741PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2742 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2743 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2744 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2745
eff37e47
PH
2746PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2747 be the same on different OS.
2748
1921d2ea
PH
2749PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2750 testing.
2751
b3f69ca8
JJ
2752JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2753 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2754
2755JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2756 in 4.61-PH/06
2757
424a1c63
PH
2758PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2759 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2760 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2761 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2762 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2763 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2764 bounce message.
2765
7a100415
PH
2766PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2767 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2768 when Exim was called.
2769
19b9dc85
PH
2770PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2771 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2772
309bd837
PH
2773PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2774 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2775 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2776 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2777
59e82a2a
PH
2778PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2779 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2780 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2781 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2782 changes:
2783
2784 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2785 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2786 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2787
2788 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2789 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2790 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2791
9edc04ce
PH
2792PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2793 feature).
2794
1349e1e5
PH
2795PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2796 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2797 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2798 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2799 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2800 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2801 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2802 values from the SRV records were lost.
2803
ea49d0e1
PH
2804PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2805 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2806 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2807
064a94c9
PH
2808PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2809 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2810 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2811
727071f8
PH
2812PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2813 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2814 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2815 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2816 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2817 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2818 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2819 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2820 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2821 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2822
f78eb7c6
PH
2823PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2824 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2825 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2826
21c28500
PH
2827PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2828 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2829
2830PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2831 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2832 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2833 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2834 is given.
2835
1688f43b
PH
2836PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2837 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2838 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2839
2840PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2841 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2842 PH/23 above applies.
2843
9675b384
PH
2844PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2845 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2846 (for which there is an explicit test).
2847
6a3f1455
PH
2848PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2849
dac79d3e
PH
2850PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2851 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2852 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2853 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2854 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2855
5977a0b3
PH
2856PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2857 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2858 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2859 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2860
c91535f3
PH
2861PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2862 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2863 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2864
0d46a8c8
PH
2865PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2866
278c6e6c
PH
2867PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2868
2cbb4081
PH
2869PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2870 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2871 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2872
3eef829e
PH
2873PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2874 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2875 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2876 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2877 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2878
1ab95fa6
PH
2879PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2880 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2881 the message gets confusing).
2882
230205fc
PH
2883PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2884 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2885 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2886 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2887
75e0e026
PH
2888PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2889 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2890 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2891 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2892 same order.
2893
2894PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2895 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2896 the different processes.
2897
145396a6
PH
2898PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2899
3cd34f13
PH
2900PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2901
11121d3d
JJ
2902JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2903 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2904
2905JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2906 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2907
2908JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2909 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2910 messages matching specified criteria.
2911
8def5aaf
PH
2912PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2913
929ba01c
PH
2914PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2915 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2916
2632889e
PH
2917PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2918 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2919 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2920 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2921 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2922 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2923 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2924 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2925 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2926 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2927
944a9c55
PH
2928PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2929 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2930 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2931
4a23603b
PH
2932PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2933
4730f942
PH
2934PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2935 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2936 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2937 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2938 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2939 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2940 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2941 the variable.
2942
30dba1e6
PH
2943PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2944 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2945
382afc6b
PH
2946PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2947
a86229cf
PH
2948PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2949
50c99ba6
PH
2950PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2951
d35e429d
PH
2952PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2953 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2954 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2955 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2956 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2957 size of the count of files.
2958
f90d018c
PH
2959PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2960
75def545
PH
2961PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2962 used in LMTP mode:
2963
2964 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2965 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2966 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2967 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2968
2969 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2970 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2971 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2972
2973PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2974 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2975 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2976 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2977 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2978
c46782ef
PH
2979PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2980 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2981
71fafd95
PH
2982PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2983 will now be deprecated.
2984
2c5db4fd
PH
2985PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2986
9cf6b11a
JJ
2987JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2988 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2989 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2990
2991JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2992 with very large, slow to parse queues
2993
2994JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2995
2996JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2997
898d150f
PH
2998PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2999 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3000 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3001 SMTP output lines.
3002
46218253
PH
3003PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3004 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3005 Sieve code now uses this.
3006
e97957bc
PH
3007PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3008 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3009
81e509d7
PH
3010PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3011 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3012
3d240ff7
PH
3013PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3014
b37c4101
PH
3015PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3016 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3017 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3018 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3019 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3020
79378e0f
PH
3021PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3022 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3023 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3024 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3025
e49c7bb4
PH
3026PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3027
d114ec46
PH
3028PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3029
f3d7df6c
PH
3030PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3031 is preferred over IPv4.
3032
715ab376
PH
3033PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3034 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3035 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3036 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3037 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3038 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3039 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3040
6b31b150
PH
3041PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3042 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3043 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3044
3045PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3046
d515a917
PH
3047PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3048 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3049 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3050 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3051 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3052 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3053 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3054 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3055 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3056 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3057 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3058
9b8fadde
PH
3059PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3060 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3061 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3062
214e2000 3063
5de37277
PH
3064Exim version 4.60
3065-----------------
3066
cc38ddbf
PH
3067PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3068
3069 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3070 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3071
3072 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3073 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3074 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3075
72fdd6ae
PH
3076PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3077
3078 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3079 not a single digit.
3080
3081 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3082 string.
3083
3084 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3085 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3086 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3087 silly things.
3088
3089 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3090 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3091
3092 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3093 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3094
cb741023
PH
3095PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3096 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3097 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3098
f174f16e
PH
3099PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3100 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3101
c25242d7
PH
3102PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3103 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3104
3105 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3106
3107 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3108 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3109 this:
3110
3111 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3112
82c19f95
PH
3113PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3114 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3115 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3116 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3117 identical. For example:
3118
3119 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3120
3121 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3122 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3123 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3124
d7ffbc12
PH
3125PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3126 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3127 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3128 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3129
9f526266
PH
3130PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3131 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3132 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3133 message.
3134
87fcc8b9
PH
3135PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3136
3137 o fixes some comments
3138 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3139 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3140 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3141 and documents the missing references header update
3142
3143 and most important:
3144
3145 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3146 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
3147 result)
3148
456682f5
PH
3149PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3150 Electronic Mail") by including:
3151
3152 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3153
3154 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3155 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
3156 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3157 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3158 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3159
3160 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3161
3162 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3163
3164 The auto-replied keyword:
3165
3166 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3167 message by an automatic process,
3168
3169 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3170
3171 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3172 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3173
3174 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3175 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3176 other messages.
3177
3e46c1aa
PH
3178PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3179 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3180
49826d12
PH
3181PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3182
eba0c039
PH
3183PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3184 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3185 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3186
a0d6ba8a
PH
3187PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3188 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3189 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3190
f0917727
PH
3191PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3192 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3193 and treats the condition as false.
3194
096fee00
PH
3195PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3196
024bd3c2
PH
3197PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3198 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3199 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3200 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3201 not changing the active code.
3202
3203 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3204 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3205
3206 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3207 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3208
df199fec
PH
3209PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3210 (Bugzilla #53).
3211
d27f1df3
PH
3212PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3213 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3214 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3215 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3216 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3217 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3218 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3219 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3220 the text comparison.
3221
96776534
PH
3222PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3223 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3224 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3225 The same fix has been applied.
3226
5de37277 3227
9a799bc0
PH
3228Exim version 4.54
3229-----------------
3230
3231PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3232 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3233 It now does.
3234
99a4b039
PH
3235PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3236 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3237
3238PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3239
4b233853
PH
3240PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3241 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3242 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3243 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3244 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3245
8857ccfd
PH
3246TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3247 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3248 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3249 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3250 or /domain=).
3251
433a2980
PH
3252PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3253 testing suite.
3254
3e46c1aa 3255
9a799bc0 3256
e3a311ba
TK
3257Exim version 4.53
3258-----------------
3259
3260TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3261 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3262
13b685f9
PH
3263PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3264
395ff96d
PH
3265PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3266
5b68f6e4
PH
3267PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3268 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3269 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3270
1ab52c69
PH
3271PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3272 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3273 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3274
b07e6aa3
PH
3275PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3276 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3277 operating systems.
3278
254e032f
PH
3279PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3280 ${stat: expansion item.
3281
3af76a81
PH
3282PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3283 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3284
2548ba04
PH
3285PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3286 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3287 file for comments.
3288
b6c6011d
PH
3289PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3290
cf39cf57
PH
3291PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3292 setting.
3293
f1513293
PH
3294PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3295 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3296
727549a4
PH
3297TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3298
af46795e
PH
3299PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3300 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3301 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3302 the end of the subprocess.
3303
d7b47fd0
PH
3304PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3305 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3306 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3307 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3308 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3309
ee744174
JJ
3310JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3311
b582ab87
PH
3312TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3313
41a13e0a
PH
3314PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3315 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3316
f625cc5a
PH
3317PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3318
3319PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3320
21f7af35
PH
3321PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3322 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3323 HP-UX compiler.
3324
31480e42
PH
3325PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3326
2d280592
PH
3327PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3328 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3329 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3330
7cd1141b
PH
3331PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3332 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3333
3334PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3335 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3336
750af86e
PH
3337PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3338 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3339
3340 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3341 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3342
3343 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3344 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3345 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3346 contributed by a Radius user.
3347
3348PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3349 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3350
4304270b
TK
3351TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3352 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3353
750af86e
PH
3354PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3355 available.
3356
64ffc24f
PH
3357PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3358 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3359 received.
3360
5dd9625b
PH
3361PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3362 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3363 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3364 header lines when this was not necessary.
3365
5591031b
PH
3366PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3367
ba18e66a
PH
3368PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3369 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3370 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3371 exists".
3372
9cec981f
PH
3373PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3374 -bV or -d is used.
3375
aa2b5c79
PH
3376PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3377 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3378 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3379 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3380
48a53b7f
PH
3381PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3382
1c59d63b
PH
3383PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3384
671012da
TK
3385TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3386
1509d3a8
PH
3387PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3388
3389PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3390 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3391 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3392 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3393 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3394 settings.
3395
3396PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3397
2fe1a124
PH
3398PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3399 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3400 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3401 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3402 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3403 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3404 which is clearly wrong.
3405
8800895a
PH
3406PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3407
ccfdb010
PH
3408PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3409 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3410 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3411 subsequently added.
3412
1130bfb0
PH
3413PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3414 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3415
ebcb507f
PH
3416PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3417
c35e155c
PH
3418PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3419 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3420
95d1f782
PH
3421PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3422 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3423
fd6de02e
PH
3424PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3425 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3426
58de37c5
PH
3427PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3428 recipients, not senders.
3429
261cf466
TF
3430TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3431 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3432
3ee512ff
PH
3433PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3434
e08c430f
PH
3435PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3436
bef5a11f
PH
3437PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3438 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3439 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3440 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3441
7546de58
TF
3442TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3443
e5d5a95f
TF
3444TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3445 clock is set back in time.
3446
2e88a017
TF
3447TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3448 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3449
a5f65aa4
TF
3450TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3451 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3452
e7726cbf
PH
3453PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3454 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3455 (see PH/47 above).
3456
a7fdad5b
TF
3457TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3458 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3459 header rewrites.
3460
6af56900
PH
3461PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3462 type ("H").
3463
0925ede6
PH
3464PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3465
66afa403
TF
3466TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3467 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3468 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3469
0154e85a
TF
3470TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3471 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3472 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3473 helo verification defer as a failure.
3474
16f12c76
PH
3475PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3476 actual error message.
3477
bbe902f0 3478
e5a9dba6
PH
3479Exim version 4.52
3480-----------------
3481
3482TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3483
22c3b60b
PH
3484PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3485 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3486 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3487 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3488
06a9b4b5
PH
3489TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3490
c1ac6996
PH
3491PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3492 can still be requested.
3493
9c7a242c
PH
3494PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3495 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3496 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3497 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3498
87ba3f5f
PH
3499TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3500 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3501 circumstances, but probably never did.
3502
3503PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3504 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3505 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3506 in the header line.
3507
29aba418
TF
3508TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3509
fe0dab11
TF
3510TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3511 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3512
11d337a4
TK
3513TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3514
3515TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3516
415c8f3b
PH
3517PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3518 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3519 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3520 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3521 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3522 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3523
958541e9
PH
3524PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3525 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3526 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3527 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3528 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3529 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3530
c206415f
TK
3531TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3532 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3533
2a4be8f9
PH
3534PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3535 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3536
1cba11c5
SC
3537SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3538 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3539
3540SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3541
3542SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3543
3544SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3545
3546SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3547
3548SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3549
3550SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3551
1005d00e
TK
3552TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3553
3554TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3555 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3556 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3557
3558TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3559 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3560 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3561 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3562
9b4768fa
PH
3563PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3564 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3565 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3566
3567PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3568 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3569 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3570 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3571
0d7eb84a
PH
3572PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3573 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3574 to be made).
3575
3576PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3577 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3578 should work with maildirs and everything.
3579
40727bee
TK
3580TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3581 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3582
554d2369
TF
3583TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3584 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3585
1f922db1
PH
3586PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3587 function for BDB 4.3.
3588
ef213c3b
PH
3589PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3590
8ac170f3
PH
3591PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3592 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3593 involved.
3594
b1c749bb
PH
3595PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3596 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3597 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3598 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3599 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3600 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3601
4aac9b49
PH
3602PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3603 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3604 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3605 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3606 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3607 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3608 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3609 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3610
294520c8
TK
3611TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3612 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3613 details.
3614
5bd022fe
PH
3615PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3616 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3617
90e9ce59
PH
3618PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3619 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3620 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3621 test. It is now used for both.
3622
5ea81592
PH
3623PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3624 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3625 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3626 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3627 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3628 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3629
c6c2dc1d
PH
3630PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3631 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3632 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3633 string_vformat().
3634
fffffe4c
PH
3635PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3636 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3637 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3638
9a26b6b2
PH
3639PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3640 experimental DomainKeys support:
3641
3642 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3643 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3644 the control was given.
3645
3646 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3647
4aee0225
PH
3648PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3649
32d668a5
PH
3650PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3651
8187c3f3
PH
3652PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3653 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3654 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3655 db.h files).
3656
ff790e47 3657PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3658 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3659 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3660 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3661 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3662 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3663 course.
ff790e47 3664
5417f6d1
PH
3665PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3666 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3667 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3668 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3669 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3670 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3671
59cf8544
PH
3672PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3673 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3674 do -d+all out of habit.
3675
e7ad8a65
PH
3676PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3677 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3678 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3679
ade42478
PH
3680PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3681 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3682 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3683 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3684 record types that Exim uses.
3685
182ad5cf
PH
3686PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3687 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3688 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3689 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3690 non-existent file that was broken.
3691
b0d9fc80
TK
3692TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3693 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3694
3695TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3696 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3697 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3698
3699TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3700
47c7a64a
PH
3701PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3702 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3703 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3704 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3705 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3706 same time.
3707
a388bce4
SC
3708SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3709 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3710 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3711 at a slight CPU cost.
3712
3713SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3714 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3715
3716SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3717 by Marc Sherman.
3718
0793e4ed
SC
3719SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3720
c58b88df
PH
3721PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3722 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3723
e7ad8a65 3724
7982096b
PH
3725Exim version 4.51
3726-----------------
3727
1a46a8c5
PH
3728TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3729 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3730
2f079f46 3731TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3732
3733TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3734
3735PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3736 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3737
3738PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3739 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3740 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3741 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3742 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3743 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3744 file.
3745
3746PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3747 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3748 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3749 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3750 these two options.
3751
3752PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3753 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3754 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3755 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3756 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3757 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3758 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3759 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3760
3761PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3762 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3763
3764PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3765 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3766 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3767 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3768 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3769 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3770
3771PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3772 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3773 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3774 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3775
3776PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3777 Finch).
3778
3779PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3780 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3781
49c2d5ea
PH
3782PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3783 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3784 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3785 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3786 message.
49c2d5ea 3787
bf759a8b
PH
3788PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3789
83364d30
PH
3790PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3791 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3792
7999bbd7
PH
3793PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3794 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3795 to what was transported.)
3796
7dbf77c9
PH
3797TF/01 Added $received_time.
3798
74e0617f
PH
3799PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3800 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3801 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3802 spamd_address settings.
3803
2f079f46
PH
3804PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3805 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3806 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3807 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3808 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3809
8c841523
PH
3810PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3811
7766a4f0
PH
3812PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3813 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3814 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3815 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3816 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3817
8b417f2c
PH
3818PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3819 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3820
901f42cb
PH
3821PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3822 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3823 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3824 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3825 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3826 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3827 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3828 for failure.
3829
f9b9210e
PH
3830PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3831 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3832 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3833 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3834 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3835 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3836 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3837 "input=".
3838
54cdb463
PH
3839PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3840
cf00dad6
PH
3841PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3842 driver and ACL definitions.
3843
acb1b346
PH
3844PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3845 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3846
c5ddb310
PH
3847PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3848 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3849 understands it better than I do:
3850
3851 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3852 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3853
3854 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3855 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3856 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3857 => three warnings about OTP not working
3858 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3859
3860 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3861 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3862 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3863 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3864 for each call.)
3865 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3866 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3867
3868 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3869 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3870 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3871
31619da6
PH
3872PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3873 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3874 specified.
3875
bebaf0fc
PH
3876PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3877 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3878 "Linux".
3879
475fe28a
PH
3880PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3881 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3882 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3883
3884 warn !verify = sender
3885 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3886
3887 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3888 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3889
7e8bec7a
PH
3890PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3891
3892 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3893 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3894
3895 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3896 nomenclature these days.)
3897
e4a89c47
PH
3898PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3899 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3900
5ca2a9a1
PH
3901PH/30 In these circumstances:
3902 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3903 . First host does not offer TLS;
3904 . First host accepts first address;
3905 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3906 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3907 . Second host accepts second address.
3908 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3909 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3910 address.
7e8bec7a 3911
c688b954
PH
3912PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3913 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3914 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3915 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3916 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3917
fed77020
PH
3918PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3919 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3920
7fe1560f
PH
3921PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3922 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3923
ebb6e6d5
PH
3924PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3925 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3926 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3927
9c4e8f60
PH
3928PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3929 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3930 overlooked.
3931
3932PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3933
d7174846
PH
3934PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3935 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3936 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3937 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3938 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3939 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3940 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3941
3942 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3943 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3944 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3945 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3946 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3947
3948 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3949 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3950 routed further.
3951
cfe75fc3
PH
3952PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3953 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3954 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3955 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3956 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3957 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3958
be22d70e
PH
3959PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3960
0612b098
PH
3961PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3962 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3963 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3964 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3965 printable escape sequences.
3966
2e0c1448
PH
3967PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3968 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3969 body only.
3970
447d236c
PH
3971PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3972 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3973 are as follows:
3974
3975 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3976 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3977 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3978 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3979 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3980
3981 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3982 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3983 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3984
d20976dc
PH
3985PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3986
f656d135
PH
3987PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3988 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3989 play with."
3990
2e2a30b4
PH
3991PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3992 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3993 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3994 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3995 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3996 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3997 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3998 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3999 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4000 the log output.
4001
9176e9f0
PH
4002PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4003 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4004 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4005 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4006 "make".
4007
7982096b 4008
bbe902f0
PH
4009A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4010----------------------------------------
4011
4012Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4013changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4014needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4015in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4016that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4017release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4018from 4.43.
4019
4020I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
40214.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4022those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4023historical information.
4024
4025
f7b63901 4026Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4027-----------------
4028
5fe762f6
PH
4029 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4030
139059f6 4031 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4032 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4033
7086e875
PH
4034 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4035 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4036 place.
4037
35af9f61
PH
4038 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4039 filter fails to execute.
4040
b668c215
PH
4041 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4042 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4043 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4044 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4045 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4046
a494b1e1
PH
4047 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4048
4049 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4050 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4051 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4052 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4053
c5fcb476
PH
4054 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4055 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4056 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4057 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4058 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4059
69358f02
PH
4060 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4061
5be20824
PH
406210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4063
eb2c0248
PH
406411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4065 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4066 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4067 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4068
2a3eea10
PH
406912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4070 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4071 sender verification.
4072
407313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4074 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4075
23c7ff99
PH
407614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4077
4deaf07d
PH
407815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4079 connection timeout.
4080
926e1192
PH
408116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4082 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4083
650edc6f
PH
408417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4085 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4086
2c7db3f5
PH
408718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4088 information about exactly what failed.
4089
3d235903
PH
409019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4091
7c7ad977
PH
409220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4093 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4094 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4095
981756db
PH
409621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4097 It is now set to "smtps".
4098
d4eb88df
PH
409922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4100 ignore_target_hosts.
4101
410223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4103 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4104 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4105 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4106 "[x.x.x.x]".
4107
7d468ab8
PH
410824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4109 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4110 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4111
411225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4113 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4114 wake it up if nothing else does.
4115
62c0818f
PH
411626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4117 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4118 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4119 end up negative.
4120
26034054
PH
412127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4122 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4123
af66f652
PH
412428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4125
90af77f4
PH
412629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4127 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4128 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4129 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4130 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4131 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4132 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4133 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4134
d8ef3577
PH
413530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4136 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4137 than one IP address.
4138
5cb8cbc6
PH
413931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4140 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4141 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4142 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4143
14702f5b
PH
414432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4145 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4146 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4147 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4148 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4149 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4150
063b1e99
PH
415133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4152 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4153 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4154 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4155
652e1b65
PH
415634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4157 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4158 respected.
4159
6f0c9a4f
PH
416035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4161 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4162 $sender_host_address.
4163
33397d19
PH
416436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4165 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4166 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4167 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4168 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4169 very small.
4170
7bb56e1f
PH
417137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4172
4173 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4174 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4175
ea3bc19b
PH
4176 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4177 just the host names, not the priorities.
4178
4179 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4180 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4181 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4182
ea3bc19b 4183 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4184 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4185
0bcb2a0e
PH
418638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4187 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4188 domain.
4189
2ac0e484
PH
419039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4191
4e1fde53
PH
419240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4193 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4194
de365ded
PH
419541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4196 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4197 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4198
f05da2e8
PH
419942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4200
d6453af2
PH
420143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4202
f7b63901
PH
420344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4204
420545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4206 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4207 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4208 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4209 because the tests only now provoked it.
4210
a444213a
PH
421146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4212 (this can affect the format of dates).
4213
0ec020ea
PH
421447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4215 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4216 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4217 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4218
b1206957
PH
421948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4220
422149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4222 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4223 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4224 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4225
26dd5a95
PH
422650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4227 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4228 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4229
343b2385
PH
423051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4231 autoreply.
4232
1c5466b9
PH
423352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4234 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4235 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4236 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4237 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4238 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4239 is going on).
4240
55ee9ee3
PH
424153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4242 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4243 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4244 the line.
4245
d38f8232
PH
424654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4247 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4248 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4249
4250 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4251 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4252 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4253 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4254 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4255 so I produce this patch..."
4256
3295e65b
PH
4257 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4258 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4259 is not defined.
4260
7102e136
PH
426155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4262 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4263 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4264 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4265 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4266
3ca0ba97
PH
426756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4268
c2bcbe20
PH
426957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4270 long debug lines gets shown.
4271
18ce445d
PH
427258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4273 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4274
1f5b4c3d
PH
427559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4276
4277 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4278 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4279 of $primary_hostname.
4280
b975ba52
PH
428160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4282 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4283 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4284 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4285 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4286 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4287 by change 4.50/55 above.
4288
4289 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4290 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4291 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4292 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4293 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4294 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4295 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4296
429761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4298 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4299 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4300 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4301
17ffcae7
PH
430262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4303 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4304
d95f9fdb
PH
430563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4306 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4307 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4308 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4309 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4310
86b8287f
PH
431164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4312 This has been fixed.
4313
60dc5e56
PH
431465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4315 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4316 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4317 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4318 the caching.)
4319
533244af
PH
432066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4321
a5a28604
PH
432267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4323 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4324 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4325 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4326
7e634d24
PH
432768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4328 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4329
3e11c26b
PH
433069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4331 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4332 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4333
6729cf78
PH
433470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4335 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4336 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4337 message there.
4338
00f00ca5
PH
433971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4340 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4341 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4342
c9bdd01c
PH
434372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4344 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4345 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4346 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4347
d43194df
PH
434873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4349 during host lookups.
4350
fe5b5d0b
PH
435174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4352 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4353
4354 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4355
76a2d7ba
PH
435675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4357 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4358 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4359 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4360 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4361 background.
4362
436376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4364 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4365
04f7d5b9
PH
436677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4367 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4368 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4369
bc60667e
PH
437078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4371
bb6e88ff
PH
437279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4373 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4374 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4375 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4376 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4377 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4378 process earlier.
4379
1e70f85b
PH
438080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4381 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4382 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4383 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4384 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4385
438681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4387 tables).
4388
4e01f9d6
PH
438982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4390
1ee1cef2
PH
439183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4392 "vacation" handling.
4393
6e2b4ccc
PH
439484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4395 OS variants using glibc.
4396
8e669ac1
PH
439785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4398
495ae4b0 4399
bbe902f0
PH
4400----------------------------------------------------
4401See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4402----------------------------------------------------
4403
4404
4405Exim version 4.44
4406-----------------
4407
4408 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4409 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4410 transport
4411
4412 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4413 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4414 place.
4415
4416 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4417 filter fails to execute.
4418
4419 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4420 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4421 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4422 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4423 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4424
4425 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4426 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4427 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4428 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4429
4430 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4431 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4432 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4433 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4434 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4435
4436 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4437
4438 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4439 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4440 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4441 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4442
4443 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4444 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4445 sender verification.
4446
444710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4448 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4449
445011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4451 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4452
445312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4454 ignore_target_hosts.
4455
445613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4457 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4458 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4459 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4460 "[x.x.x.x]".
4461
446214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4463 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4464 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4465
446615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4467 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4468 wake it up if nothing else does.
4469
447016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4471 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4472 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4473 end up negative.
4474
447517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4476 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4477
ea3a6f44 447818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4479
448019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4481 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4482 empty pattern.
4483
448420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4485 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4486 one IP address.
4487
ea3a6f44
NM
448821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4489 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4490 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4491 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4492 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4493 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4494
ea3a6f44
NM
449522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4496 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4497 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4498
449923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4500 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4501 $sender_host_address.
4502
450324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4504
ea3a6f44
NM
450525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4506 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4507 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4508
450926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4510 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4511
ea3a6f44
NM
451227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4513 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4514
ea3a6f44
NM
451528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4516 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4517 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4518 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4519
452029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4521 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4522 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4523
ea3a6f44
NM
452430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4525 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4526 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4527 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4528
ea3a6f44
NM
452931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4530 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4531 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4532
ea3a6f44
NM
453331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4534 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4535
ea3a6f44
NM
453632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4537 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4538 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4539 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4540 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4541 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4542 is going on).
bbe902f0 4543
ea3a6f44
NM
454433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4545 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4546 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4547 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4548 CAN-2005-0021
4549
ea3a6f44
NM
455034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4551 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4552 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4553 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4554 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4555 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4556 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4557
4558 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4559 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4560 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4561 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4562 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4563 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4564 CAN-2005-0021
4565
ea3a6f44
NM
456635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4567 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4568 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4569 CAN-2005-0022
4570
ea3a6f44
NM
457136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4572 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4573 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4574 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4575 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4576
ea3a6f44
NM
457737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4578 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4579 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4580 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4581 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4582
ea3a6f44
NM
458338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4584 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4585 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4586 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4587 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4588
4589
495ae4b0
PH
4590Exim version 4.43
4591-----------------
4592
4593 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4594 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4595 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4596 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4597 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4598 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4599 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4600
4601 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4602 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4603 the delivery.
4604
4605 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4606
4607 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4608
4609 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4610 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4611 to local_scan().
4612
4613 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4614 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4615 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4616 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4617 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4618
4619 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4620 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4621
4622 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4623
4624 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4625
462610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4627 header_sender only.
4628
462911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4630 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4631
463212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4633 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4634 affecting debugging statements).
4635
463613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4637
463814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4639 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4640 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4641 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4642 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4643 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4644 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4645 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4646 after the received time, and all would be well.
4647
464815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4649 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4650 condition in an expansion string.
4651
465216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4653
465417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4655 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4656 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4657 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4658 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4659 job under whatever limits there are.
4660
466118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4662
466319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4664 space).
4665
466620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4667 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4668 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4669 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4670 return path is set.
4671
467221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4673 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4674 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4675 binary data in such strings.
4676
467722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4678
467923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4680 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4681 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4682 failure, which is pointless.
4683
468424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4685
468625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4687
468826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4689 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4690 Sender: header lines.
4691
469227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4693 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4694 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4695
469628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4697 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4698 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4699 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4700 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4701 happens.
4702
470329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4704 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4705 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4706 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4707 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4708
470930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4710 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4711 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4712 1024.
4713
471431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4715 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4716
471732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4718 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4719
472033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4721
472232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4723
472433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4725
472634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4727 syntax error.
4728
472935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4730
473136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4732
473337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4734 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4735 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4736 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4737
473838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4739 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4740
4741
4742Exim version 4.42
4743-----------------
4744
4745 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4746 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4747 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4748 it was not quoted.
4749 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4750 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4751 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4752 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4753 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4754 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4755
4756 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4757 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4758 verification failure".
4759
4760 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4761 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4762 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4763 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4764
4765 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4766 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4767 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4768 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4769 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4770 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4771 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4772 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4773 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4774 treated as a timeout.
4775
4776 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4777 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4778 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4779 not set for Exim filters).
4780
4781 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4782 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4783 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4784
4785 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4786
4787 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4788 try to make them clearer.
4789
4790 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4791 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4792
4793 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4794
4795 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4796
479710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4798 only the Cygwin environment.
4799
480011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4801 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4802 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4803 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4804 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4805
480612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4807 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4808 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4809 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4810 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4811 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4812 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4813
481413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4815 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4816
481714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4818
4819 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4820 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4821 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4822
4823 To: susanne@some.where
4824
4825 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4826 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4827 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4828 of addresses in From: header lines).
4829
4830 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4831 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4832 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4833
4834 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4835 treated as non-personal.
4836
4837 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4838 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4839
484015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4841
484216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4843
484417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4845 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4846 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4847
484818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4849 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4850
485119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4852 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4853 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4854 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4855 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4856 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4857
485820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4859 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4860 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4861 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4862 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4863 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4864 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4865 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4866
4867 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4868
486921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4870 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4871
487222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4873 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4874 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4875
487623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4877 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4878
487924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4880 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4881 rather than long int.
4882
488325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4884
488526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4886
4887
4888Exim version 4.41
4889-----------------
4890
4891 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4892 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4893 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4894 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4895 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4896 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4897
4898
4899Exim version 4.40
4900-----------------
4901
4902 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4903 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4904
4905 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4906 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4907 socklen_t is defined.
4908
4909 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4910 always exist.
4911
4912 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4913 configured.
4914
4915 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4916 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4917 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4918 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4919 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4920
4921 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4922 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4923 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4924 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4925
4926 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4927 of flapping under certain conditions.
4928
4929 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4930 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4931 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4932
4933 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4934
493510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4936
493711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4938 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4939 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4940 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4941
494212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4943 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4944 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4945 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4946 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4947 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4948 preserved with the message after it was received.
4949
495013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4951 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4952 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4953 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4954 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4955 test suite worked just fine.
4956
495714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4958 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4959 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4960
496115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4962 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4963 string.
4964
496516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4966 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4967 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4968 does not fully solve it.
4969
497017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4971 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4972 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4973 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4974 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4975
497618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4977 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4978 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4979
498019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4981 string, for example:
4982
4983 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4984
4985 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4986 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4987 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4988 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4989 the routers could not see them.
4990
499120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4992 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4993
499421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4995 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4996 output).
4997
499822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4999 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5000 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5001 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5002 that needed quoting.
5003
500423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5005 was not being matched caselessly.
5006
500724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5008 backslashes.
5009
501025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5011 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5012 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5013 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5014 when use_sender is false.
5015
501626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5017
501827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5019
502028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5021
502229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5023 the configuration file.
5024
502530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5026 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5027
502831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5029
503032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5031 bytes in the message body.
5032
503333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5034 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5035 delivery.
5036
503734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5038
503935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5040
504136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5042 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5043 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5044 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5045 another IP address.
5046
5047
5048Exim version 4.34
5049-----------------
5050
5051 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5052 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5053
5054 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5055 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5056 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5057 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5058 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5059
5060 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5061 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5062
5063 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5064 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5065 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5066
5067 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5068 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5069 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5070
5071 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5072 for routers.
5073
5074 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5075 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5076 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5077 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5078 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5079 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5080 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5081
5082
5083Exim version 4.33
5084-----------------
5085
5086 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5087 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5088 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5089 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5090 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5091 default (and expected) setting.
5092
5093 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5094 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5095 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5096 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5097
5098 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5099 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5100
5101 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5102 in domain lists.
5103
5104 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5105 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5106 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5107 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5108 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5109 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5110
5111 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5112 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5113 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5114
5115 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5116 part (NOT match_host).
5117
5118 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5119
5120 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5121 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5122 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5123 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5124 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5125 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5126 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5127 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5128 the same named file.
5129
513010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5131 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5132 when Exim is built.
5133
513411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5135 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5136 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5137 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5138 a host name.
5139
514012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5141 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5142 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5143
514413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5145
514614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5147
514815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5149
515016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5151 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5152
515317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5154 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5155 before starting the TLS session.
5156
515718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5158
515919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5160 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5161
516220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5163 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5164 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5165 colon in the middle).
5166
5167
5168Exim version 4.32
5169-----------------
5170
5171 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5172 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5173 multiple configurations are in use.
5174
5175 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5176 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5177 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5178 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5179 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5180 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5181
5182 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5183 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5184
5185 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5186 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5187 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5188
5189 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5190 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5191 occurs.
5192
5193 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5194 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5195
5196 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5197
5198 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5199 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5200
5201 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5202
5203 -prval:sval
5204
5205 is equivalent to
5206
5207 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5208
5209 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5210 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5211 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5212 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5213 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5214
521510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5216 Exim's behaviour:
5217
5218 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5219 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5220 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5221 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5222 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5223 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5224
5225 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5226 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5227 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5228 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5229 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5230 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5231 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5232 string.
5233
5234 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5235 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5236 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5237 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5238 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5239
524011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5241
524212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5243 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5244 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5245
524613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5247
524814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5249 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5250 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5251 information.
5252
525315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5254 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5255
525616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5257 Three changes have been made:
5258
5259 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5260 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5261 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5262 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5263 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5264
5265 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5266 been restored.
5267
5268 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5269 the modified behaviour.
5270
5271
5272Exim version 4.31
5273-----------------
5274
5275 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5276 Larry Rosenman.
5277
5278 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5279 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5280
5281 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5282 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5283 try to track down a specific problem.
5284
5285 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5286 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5287 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5288
5289 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5290 warning.
5291
5292 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5293 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5294 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5295 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5296 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5297 some earlier ones do not.
5298
5299 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5300
5301 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5302 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5303 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5304 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5305 address literals are enabled, of course).
5306
5307 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5308
530910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5310 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5311 by a command such as
5312
5313 exim -f "" ...
5314
5315 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5316
531711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5318
531912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5320 remained set. It is now erased.
5321
532213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5323 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5324
532514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5326 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5327 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5328 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5329 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5330 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5331 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5332 appropriate error code.
5333
533415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5335 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5336 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5337 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5338 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5339 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5340
534116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5342 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5343 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5344
534517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5346 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5347 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5348 terminate the header.
5349
535018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5351 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5352 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5353
535419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5355 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5356 (4.30/29). In particular:
5357
5358 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5359 imposed.
5360
5361 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5362 to write a maildirsize file.
5363
5364 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5365 the transport, the new value overrides.
5366
5367 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5368 count.
5369
537020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5371 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5372 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5373 space or a tab.
5374
537521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5376 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5377 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5378 the fallback hosts.
5379
538022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5381 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5382 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5383
538423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5385 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5386 using a union.
5387
538824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5389 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5390 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5391
539225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5393
539426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5395
539627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5397
539828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5399 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5400 become corrupted.
5401
540229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5403 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5404 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5405 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5406 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5407 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5408 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5409 too great.
5410
541130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5412 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5413 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5414 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5415 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5416 incorrectly.
5417
541831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5419 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5420 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5421 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5422 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5423 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5424 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5425 cached value only when the same options are set.
5426
542732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5428
542933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5430 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5431 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5432 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5433 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5434
543534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5436 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5437 it is clearly obsolete.
5438
543935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5440 transport.
5441
544236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5443 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5444 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5445 times.
5446
544737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5448 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5449 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5450 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5451 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5452
545338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5454 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5455 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5456 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5457
545839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5459
5460 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5461
5462 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5463 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5464 2^31.
5465
546640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5467 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5468 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5469 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5470 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5471 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5472 $localpart_data.
5473
547441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5475 with the -f command-line option.
5476
547742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5478 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5479 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5480 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5481 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5482 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5483
548443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5485 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5486 line.
5487
548844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5489 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5490 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5491 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5492 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5493 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5494 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5495 buffer is too small.
5496
549745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5498 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5499
550046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5501 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5502 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5503 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5504 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5505 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5506 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5507 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5508 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5509
551047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5511 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5512 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5513
551448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5515 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5516 ACL").
5517
551849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5519 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5520 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5521 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5522 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5523
552450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5525 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5526 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5527 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5528 is set.
5529
553051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5531
553252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5533
553453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5535 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5536
553754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5538 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5539 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5540
554155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5542 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5543 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5544 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5545 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5546
554756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5548 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5549 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5550 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5551 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5552 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5553 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5554
555557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5556 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5557 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5558 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5559 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5560 the test of how many are available.
5561
556258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5563 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5564 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5565 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5566 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5567 new message is started.
5568
556959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5570 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5571
557260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5573 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5574
557561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5576 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5577 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5578 is no long logged.
5579
558062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5581 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5582 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5583 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5584 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5585 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5586 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5587
558863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5589 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5590 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5591 interpreted as octal.
5592
559364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5594 setting.
5595
559665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5597 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5598 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5599 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5600 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5601 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5602
560366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5604 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5605 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5606 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5607
5608 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5609 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5610 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5611 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5612
5613 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5614 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5615 is a bug fix.
5616
5617 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5618 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5619
562067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5621
562268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5623 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5624 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5625 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5626
562769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5628 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5629 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5630 supplied", which is not helpful.
5631
563270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5633 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5634 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5635
563671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5637 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5638 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5639 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5640 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5641 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5642 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5643 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5644
564572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5646 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5647 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5648 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5649 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5650
565173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5652 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5653 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5654 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5655 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5656 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5657
565874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5659 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5660 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5661
566275. Added write_rejectlog option.
5663
566476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5665 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5666 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5667 variables.
5668
566977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5670
567178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5672 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5673 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5674 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5675 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5676 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5677 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5678 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5679
568079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5681 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5682 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5683 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5684 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5685
568680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5687 Haardt.
5688
568981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5690 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5691 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5692 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5693 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5694 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5695 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5696 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5697 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5698
5699
5700Exim version 4.30
5701-----------------
5702
5703 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5704 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5705 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5706
5707 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5708 fixed.
5709
5710 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5711 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5712 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5713
5714 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5715 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5716 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5717 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5718 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5719 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5720
5721 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5722 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5723 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5724 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5725 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5726 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5727 the Exim test suite.
5728
5729 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5730 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5731 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5732 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5733
5734 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5735 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5736 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5737 specify it in this variable.
5738
5739 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5740 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5741 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5742 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5743
5744 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5745 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5746 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5747 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5748
5749 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5750 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5751 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5752 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5753 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5754
5755 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5756
575710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5758 they are logged.
5759
576011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5761 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5762 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5763 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5764 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5765
576612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5767 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5768
576913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5770 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5771 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5772 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5773 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5774
577514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5776 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5777
577815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5779 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5780 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5781
578216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5783 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5784
578517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5786 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5787
578818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5789 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5790 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5791
579219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5793 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5794
579520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5796 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5797 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5798 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5799
580021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5801
580222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5803 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5804 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5805 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5806
580723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5808
580924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5810 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5811
581225. Added .include_if_exists.
5813
581426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5815 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5816 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5817 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5818 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5819 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5820
582127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5822
582328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5824 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5825 this.
5826
582729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5828
582930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5830 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5831
5832 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5833 550 Sender verify failed
5834
5835 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5836 the final line of the response.
5837
583831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5839 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5840 all other user lookups.
5841
584232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5843 delivery time.
5844
584533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5846 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5847 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5848 result into an int without checking.
5849
585034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5851 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5852 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5853
585435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5855 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5856 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5857 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5858
585936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5860 correctly.
5861
586237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5863 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5864
586538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5866 to the empty sender.
5867
586839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5869 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5870 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5871 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5872 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5873 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5874 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5875 panic log.
5876
587740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5878 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5879 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5880 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5881 used.
5882
588341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5884 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5885
588642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5887 timestamps.
5888
588943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5890 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5891
589244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5893
589445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5895 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5896 logs.
5897
589846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5899 as soon as it is encountered.
5900
590147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5902
590348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5904 rewritten to "<>".
5905
590649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5907 recognizes a tab character.
5908
590950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5910 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5911 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5912 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5913
591451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5915
591652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5917 crash.
5918
591953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5920
592154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5922
592355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5924 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5925 2822.
5926
592756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5928 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5929 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5930 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5931 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5932
593357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5934 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5935
593658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5937 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5938 list (.included file names were always shown).
5939
594059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5941 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5942 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5943 root at that time.
5944
594560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5946 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5947
594861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5949
595062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5951
595263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5953
595464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5955 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5956 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5957 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5958 failures to open the logs.
5959
596065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5961 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5962 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5963 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5964 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5965 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5966 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5967
5968
5969Exim version 4.24
5970-----------------
5971
5972 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5973 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5974 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5975 change 4.23/1.
5976
5977 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5978 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5979 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5980
5981 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5982 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5983 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5984
5985 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5986 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5987 causing some misleading effects.
5988
5989 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5990 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5991 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5992
5993 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5994 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5995 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5996 queue-runner function directly.
5997
5998
5999Exim version 4.23
6000-----------------
6001
6002 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6003 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6004
6005 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6006 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6007 was always written to the default place.
6008
6009 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6010 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6011 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6012
6013 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6014
6015 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6016
6017 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6018 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6019 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6020
6021 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6022 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6023 must start.
6024
6025 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6026 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6027 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6028
6029 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6030 command line option is disabled.
6031
6032 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6033 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6034
6035 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6036
6037 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6038
6039 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6040 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6041
604210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6043
604411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6045 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6046 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6047 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6048 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6049 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6050
605112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6052 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6053 timeout.
6054
605513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6056 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6057
605814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6059 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6060
606115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6062 received was valid base64.
6063
606416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6065 name of the variable that was being set.
6066
606717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6068
606918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6070 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6071 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6072 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6073 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6074 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6075
607619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6077
607820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6079 nor realm was specified.
6080
608121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6082 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6083 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6084 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6085
608622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6087 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6088 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6089
609023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6091 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6092 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6093
609424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6095 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6096 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6097 some systems use these upper case variants.
6098
609925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6100 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6101 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6102 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6103
610426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6105
610627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6107 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6108
610928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6110 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6111 expansion variable.
6112
611329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6114
611530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6116 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6117 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6118 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6119
612031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6121 using it.
6122
612332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6124 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6125 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6126
612733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6128 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6129
613034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6131 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6132 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6133 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6134
613535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6136 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6137 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6138
613936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6140
614137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6142 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6143 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6144 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6145 aborted.
6146
614738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6148 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6149 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6150
615139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6152
615340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6154 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6155
615641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6157 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6158
615942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6160 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6161 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6162 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6163 when emails are that large.
6164
6165
6166
6167Exim version 4.22
6168-----------------
6169
6170 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6171 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6172
6173 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6174 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6175 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6176
6177 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6178 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6179 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6180
6181 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6182 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6183 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6184 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6185 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6186
6187 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6188 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6189 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6190 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6191 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6192 ever.
6193
6194 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6195 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6196 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6197 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6198 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6199 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6200 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6201 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6202 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6203 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6204 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6205 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6206 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6207 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6208
6209 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6210 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6211 parameterised it.
6212
6213 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6214 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6215 error should be diagnosed.
6216
6217 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6218 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6219 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6220 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6221 appeared instead of "NULL".
6222
622310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6224 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6225 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6226 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6227 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6228 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6229 proceeds).
6230
6231 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6232 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6233 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6234
6235
6236Exim version 4.21
6237-----------------
6238
6239 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6240 or receiver verification errors.
6241
6242 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6243 name.
6244
6245 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6246 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6247 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6248 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6249
6250 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6251 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6252 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6253 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6254 shouldn't happen again.
6255
6256 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6257 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6258 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6259
6260 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6261 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6262
6263 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6264
6265 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6266 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6267
6268 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6269 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6270 RFC.
6271
627210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6273 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6274 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6275
627611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6277 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6278 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6279 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6280
628112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6282 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6283 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6284 to define what should happen).
6285
628613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6287 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6288 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6289
629014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6291
629215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6293
629416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6295 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6296
629717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6298 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6299 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6300 structure in all cases.
6301
6302 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6303 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6304 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6305 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6306
630718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6308 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6309 domain name.
6310
631119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6312 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6313
631420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6315 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6316
631721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6318 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6319 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6320
632122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6322 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6323 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6324
632523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6326 the book and for uniformity.
6327
632824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6329
633025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6331 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6332 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6333 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6334 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6335 non-existent command as the problem.
6336
633726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6338 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6339 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6340
634127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6342
634328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6344 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6345 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6346
634729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6348 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6349 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6350 timestamps using strftime().
6351
635230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6353 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6354
635532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6356 transport-time rewrites.
6357
635833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6359 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6360 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6361 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6362
636334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6364 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6365
636635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6367 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6368 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6369 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6370 comma and a space.
6371
637236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6373 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6374 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6375 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6376 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6377 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6378 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6379
638037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6381 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6382 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6383 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6384 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6385
638638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6387 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6388 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6389 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6390 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6391 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6392 remaining text gets split now.
6393
639439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6395 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6396 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6397 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6398
639940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6400 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6401 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6402 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6403 $return_path.
6404
640541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6406 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6407 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6408 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6409 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6410 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6411 passed through if needed.
6412
641342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6414 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6415 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6416 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6417 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6418 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6419
642043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6421 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6422 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6423 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6424 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6425
642644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6427 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6428 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6429 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6430 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6431
643245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6433 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6434 noticed.
6435
643646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6437 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6438 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6439 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6440 mayhem of various kinds.
6441
644247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6443 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6444 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6445 the right test for positive values.
6446
644748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6448 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6449 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6450 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6451 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6452 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6453 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6454 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6455 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6456 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6457 envelope.
6458
645949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6460 module.
6461
646250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6463 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6464 forbidding it.
6465
646651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6467 the existing equality matching.
6468
646952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6470 dealing with inode numbers.
6471
647253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6473 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6474 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6475
647654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6477 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6478 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6479 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6480 local_scan().
6481
648255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6483 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6484 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6485 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6486 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6487 relay addresses has also been removed.
6488
648956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6490
649157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6492 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6493 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6494
649558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6496 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6497 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6498 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6499 processing applies to CR:
6500
6501 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6502 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6503
6504 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6505 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6506 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6507 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6508
650959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6510 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6511 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6512
651360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6514 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6515 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6516 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6517 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6518 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6519 arisen.
6520
652161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6522 program routers.
6523
652462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6525 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6526 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6527 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6528 adds:
6529
6530 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6531
6532 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6533
6534 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6535
653663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6537 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6538 not considered personal.
6539
654064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6541
654265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6543
654466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6545
654667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6547 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6548 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6549 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6550 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6551 header lines, and spool format errors.
6552
655368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6554 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6555 for more flexibility.
6556
655769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6558 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6559 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6560
656170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6562 Sabourenkov.
6563
656471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6565 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6566 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6567 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6568 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6569 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6570 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6571 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6572 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6573
657472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6575 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6576 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6577 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6578 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6579 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6580 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6581
658273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6583 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6584 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6585
658674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6587 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6588 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6589 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6590 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6591 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6592 instead of killing the process with assert().
6593
659475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6595 than Unicode encoding.
6596
659776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6598 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6599 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6600 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6601
660277. Added process_log_path.
6603
660478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6605 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6606
660779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6608 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6609
661080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6611 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6612 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6613
661481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6615 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6616 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6617 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6618 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6619 were applied:
6620
6621 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6622 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6623 as invalid.
6624
662582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6626 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6627 they will be used during message reception.
6628
6629
6630Exim version 4.20
6631-----------------
6632
6633The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6634
6635****