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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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8Exim version 4.92
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10
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11JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
12 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
13
14JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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15 non-signal-safe functions being used.
16
17JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
18 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
19 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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21JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
22 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
23 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
24
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25JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
26 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
27 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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28 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
29 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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30 messed with.
31
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32PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
33 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
34
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35JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
36 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
37 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
38 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
39 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
40 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
41 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
42
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43JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
44 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
45
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46JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
47 legitimate.
48
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49JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
50 Previously this would segfault.
51
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52JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
53 segfault.
54
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55JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
56 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
57 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
58 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
59 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
60 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
61
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62JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
63
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64JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
65 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
66 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
67 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
68
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69JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
70
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71JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
72 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
73 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
74 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
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75JH/15 Support for Rspamd, as a variant of the "spam" ACL condition used for
76 connecting to a SpamAssassain "spamd" daemon for content scanning, is
77 removed. Following changes to the protocol used for communication with
78 Rspamd it was apparently inoperable.
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5054c4fd 80JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
afdb5e9c 81JH/16 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
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c39c8870 87GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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88 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
89 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
90 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
91 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
92 be defined in redis_servers.
c39c8870 93
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94GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
95 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
96
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97JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
98 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
99 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
100 extant use locations.
101
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102JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
103 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
104
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105JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
106 Previously only the last row was returned.
107
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108JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
109 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
110 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
111 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
112 input.
113
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114JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
115 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
116 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
117 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
118 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
119 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
120 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
121 Main pool for expansions.
122 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
123 active in the testsuite.
124 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
125
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126JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
127 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
128 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
129 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
130 round-robin DNS.
131
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132JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
133 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
134 failure response.
135
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136JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
137 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
138 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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139
140JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
141 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
142 ClamAV interface method is removed.
c11d665d 143
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144JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
145 rows affected is given instead).
146
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147JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
148 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
149
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150JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
151 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
152 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
153 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
154 for all multi-message initiating connections.
155
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156JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
157 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
158 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
159
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160JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
161 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
162 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
163 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
164 separate.
165
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166JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
167 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
168 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
169 fake-reject.
170
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171HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
172
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173JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
174 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
175
aab9a843 176PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 177 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 178 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 179
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180JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
181 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
182 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
183 and send a quit.
184
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185JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
186 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
187
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188JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
189 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
190 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
191
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192JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
193 for the build is renamed.
194
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195JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
196 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
197 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
198
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199JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
200 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
201 result replacing the original.
202
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203JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
204 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
205 and the resources needed to be freed.
206
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207JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
208
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209JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
210 was not propagated.
211
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212JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
213 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
214 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
215 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
216
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217JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
218 length value. Previously this would segfault.
219
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220HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
221 newer versions of the scanner.
222
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223JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
224 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
225 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
226 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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227 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
228 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
229 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
e04bfa34 230
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231JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
232 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
233 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
234 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
235 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
236 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
237 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
238 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
239 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
240 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
241
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242JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
243 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
244
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245JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
246
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247HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
248 allows proper process termination in container environments.
249
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250JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
251 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
252
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253JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
254 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
255 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
256
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257JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
258 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
259 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 260 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 261
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262JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
263 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
264 would be spooled.
265
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266PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
267 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
268
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269HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
270 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
271 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
272 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
273 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
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275JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
276 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
277 lines.
278
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279JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
280 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
281
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282PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
283 suffix list.
284
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285JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
286 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
287 "bare" representation.
288
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289JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
290 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
291 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
292 corrupted the output.
293
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298JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
299 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
300 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
301 pairs of long lines into single ones.
302
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303PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
304 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
305
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306JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
307 This permits better logging.
308
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309JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
310 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
311 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
312 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
313 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 314 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 315
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316JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
317 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
318 "exiwhat" output.
319
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320PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
321 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
322 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
323
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324JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
325 than 255 are no longer allowed.
326
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327JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
328 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
329 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
330 client, there is no benefit for these.
331 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
332 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
333 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
334 is used (3.2.4 +).
335
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336PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
337 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
338
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339JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
340 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
341 erroneously found still-pending ones.
342
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343JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
344 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
345
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346JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
347 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
348 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
349 signature and again for transmission.
350
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351JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
352 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 353 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 354
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355JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
356 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
357 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
358 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
359 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
360 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
361 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
362
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363JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
364 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
365 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 366 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 367
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368PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
369 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
370 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
371 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
372 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
373 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
374 processing options.
375
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376JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
377 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
378 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
379 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
380 connections.
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382PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
383 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
384 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
385 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
386 versions.
387
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388JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
389 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
390 inaccessible.
391
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392JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
393 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
394 banner-time rejection.
395
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396JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
397 callout/hold.
398
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399PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
400 is the name of a transport.
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401 Fixes bug 2140.
402
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403HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
404
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405JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
406 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
407
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408JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
409 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
410 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
411 during compilation.
412
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413JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
414 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
415 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 416 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 417
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418JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
419 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
420 initial verify call returned a defer.
421
ad1a76fe 422JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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423 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
424
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425JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
426 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
427
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428JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
429 if present. Previously it was ignored.
430
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431JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
432 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
433
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434JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
435 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
436 extensible.
437
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438PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
439 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
440
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441PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
442 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
443 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
444
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445JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
446 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
447 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
448 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
449
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450HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
451 and confused the parent.
452
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453JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
454 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
455
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456JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
457 for log purposes.
458
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459JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
460 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
461 out-of-order delivery.
462
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463JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
464 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
465 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
466 error for the HELO.
467
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468JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
469 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
470 desynchronisation.
471
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472JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
473 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
474 one run was done. Bug 2189.
475
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476JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
477 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
478 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
479 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
480 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
481 message is still "Temporary local problem".
482
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483JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
484 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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485 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
486
487HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
488 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
489 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 490
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491JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
492 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
493 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
494 though a different problem.
495
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9427e879 500JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 501 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 502
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503JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
504
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505PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
506 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
507
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508JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
509 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
510
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511JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
512 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
513 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
514 before acknowledging the chunk.
515
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516PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
517 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
518 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
519
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520JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
521 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
522 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
523 should.
524
525JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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526 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
527 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 528
bd8fbe36 529JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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530 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
531
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532JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
533 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
534 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
535 body hash calculated value.
536
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537JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
538 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
539 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
540
44e6651b
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541JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
542
543JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
544 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
545
546JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
547 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
548 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
549
550JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
551 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
552 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
553 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
554 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
555 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
556
557JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
558 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
559 past that check, despite the cost.
560
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561JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
562 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
563 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
564
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565PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
566 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
567 TLS library to consume.
568
da88acae
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569PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
570
f6ef9370
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571PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
572
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573JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
574 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
575 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
576 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
577 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
578 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
579 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
580
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581PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
582
583PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
584
585PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
586 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
587 should be warning-free.
588
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589JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
590
591HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
592 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
593
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594HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
595 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
596 general solution here.
597
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598PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
599 already-broken messages in the queue.
600
4bb432cb
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601JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
602
3b1a84c8
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603JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
604
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609JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
610 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 611
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612JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
613 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
614 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
615
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616JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
617 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
618 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
619 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
620 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
621 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
622 if one fails this test.
623 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
624 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
625
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626JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
627 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
628
23bb6982 629JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 630 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 631
0bd1b1ed 632JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 633 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 634
20b9a2dc
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635JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
636 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
637
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638JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
639 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
640
1a6230a3
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641JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
642
cfab9d68
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643JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
644 certificate).
645
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646JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
647 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
648 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
649 connection after a verify cache hit.
650 Do not update it with the verify result either.
651
652JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
653 when routing results in more than one destination address.
654
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655JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
656 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
657 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
658 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
659 when the cutthrough connection is made).
660
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661JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
662 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
663
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664JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
665 Previously they were not counted.
666
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667JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
668 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
669 that needed the lookup.
670
4c04137d 671JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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672 distinguished as "(=".
673
1435d4b2
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674JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
675 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
676
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677JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
678
679JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
680 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 681
4c04137d 682JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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683 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
684
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685JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
686 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
687 compatible.
688
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689JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
690 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
691 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
692 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
693
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694JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
695
f59aaaaa 696JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2d009132
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697 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
698 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 699
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700JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
701 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
702 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
703 be lost.
704
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705JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
706 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
707 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
708 itself :(
709
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710JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
711 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
712 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
713
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714JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
715 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
716 options.
717
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718JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
719
317e40ac
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720PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
721 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
722
8b0fb68e
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723PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
724 are not in the system include path.
725
ad7fc6eb 726JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 727 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
ad7fc6eb
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728 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
729 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
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731JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
732 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
733 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
734
5ddc9771
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735JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
736
8d73599f
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737HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
738 an incoming connection.
739
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740HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
741 to rspamd.
742
8e53a4fc
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743HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
744 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 745
87cb4a16 746JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 747 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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748
749
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753JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
754 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
755 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
756 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 757
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758TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
759 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
760
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761TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
762 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
763 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
764 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
765 outgoing I= field.
766
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767JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
768 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
769 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
770 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
771 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
772 check on the next write.
773
f1b81d81
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774HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
775 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
776 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
777 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
778 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
779
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780JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
781 mime_regex ACL conditions.
782
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783JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
784 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
785 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
786
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787JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
788 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
789 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
790 an authenticate fail is not an error.
791
56c2a7be
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792HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
793 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
794
4c04137d 795JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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796 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
797
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798JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
799 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
800 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
801 distinct.
802
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803JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
804
805JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
806
ec0eb1a3
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807JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
808
41e93589
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809JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
810 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
811
98b98887 812JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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813 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
814
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815JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
816
858e91c2
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817JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
818 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
819
820JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
821
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822JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
823 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
824
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825JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
826
23f3dc67
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827JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
828 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 829 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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830 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
831 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
832 they will retry in-clear.
833 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
834 at installation time.
835
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836HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
837 with the $config_file variable.
838
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839JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
840 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
841 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
842 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 843 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 844
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845GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
846 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
847 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
848 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
849 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
850
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851JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
852
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853JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
854 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
855 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
856 list order is no longer honoured.
857
4c04137d 858JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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859 for DKIM processing.
860
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861JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
862 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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864JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
865 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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866 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
867 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 868
8c5d388a
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869JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
870 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
871
2d8d625b
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872JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
873 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
874
0cbf2b82
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875JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
876 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
877
f2f2c91b
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878JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
879
ce325893
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880JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
881 cached by the daemon.
882
de78e2d5
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883JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
884 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
885
379ba7d0
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886JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
887 keys are given for lookup.
888
f444c2c7
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889JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
890 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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891 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
892 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 893
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894JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
895 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
896 server-side so match that on older versions.
897
07c73177 898JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 899 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 900 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 901
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902JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
903 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
904
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905JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
906 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
907 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 908 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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909 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
910 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
911 initial truncated version.
912
ab9152ff 913JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 914
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915JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
916
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917JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
918 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
919
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920JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
921
bc3c7bb7 922HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 923
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924JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
925 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
926 induced overflows.
927
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928JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
929 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
930 stage.
931
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932JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
933 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
934
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935JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
936 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
937 former class.
938
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939JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
940 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
941 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
942
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943JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
944 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
945 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
946 extraction. Accept either.
947
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949Exim version 4.86
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4c57a40e 951
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952JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
953 expanded.
954
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955JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
956
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957JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
958 it.
959
01a4a5c5 960JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 961 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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962 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
963 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
964
cb1d7830 965JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 966 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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967 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
968
610ff438 969JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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970 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
971 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
972 TLS connections
610ff438 973
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974JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
975 sites use this now.
976
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977JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
978 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
979 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
980 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
981 have a dsn_lasthop option.
982
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983JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
984 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 985 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 986
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987JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
988
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989JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
990 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
991
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992JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
993 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
994
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995JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
996 /defer_ok option.
997
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998JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
999 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1000
fd4d8871 1001JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1002 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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1003 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1004
1005JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2aad5761
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1006 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1007 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1008
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1009JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1010 timeout value per server.
1011
2ad78978
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1012JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1013 now have the list separator specified.
1014
8a512ed5 1015JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1016 option values.
8a512ed5 1017
82c0c8ea 1018JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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1019 under OpenSSL.
1020
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1021JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1022
82c0c8ea
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1023JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1024 rather than the verbs used.
1025
b980ed83
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1026JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1027 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1028
6c9ed72e
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1029JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1030
cfab9d68 1031HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1032 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1033
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1034JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1035 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1036
fd4c285c
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1037HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1038 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1039
4c04137d 1040JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1041
d2a2c69b
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1042JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1043
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1044JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1045 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1046 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1047 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1048
1f12df4d
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1049JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1050
1f155f8e
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1051JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1052 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1053
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1054JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1055 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1056
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1057JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1058
474f71bf
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1059JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1060
7137ca4b
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1061JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1062
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1063JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1064 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1065
2f460950
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1066JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1067 added for tls authenticator.
1068
2f680c0c
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1069HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1070
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1075TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1076 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1077 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1078 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1079 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1080 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1081 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1082
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1083TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1084 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1085 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1086 function when detected.
1087
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1088JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1089 cause callback expansion.
1090
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1091TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1092 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1093 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1094 instead of bool when processing it.
1095
0f06b4f2 1096JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1097 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1098
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1099JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1100
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1101JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1102
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1103TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1104
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1105TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1106 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1107
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1108JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1109 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1110 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1111 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1112 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1113 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1114
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1115JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1116 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1117 exceeded it.
1118
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1119JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1120 version 3.3.6 or later.
1121
4c04137d 1122JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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1123 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1124 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1125 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1126 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1127 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1128 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1129
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1130TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1131 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1132
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1133JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1134 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1135 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1136 matches.
1137
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1138JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1139 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1140 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1141
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1142JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1143 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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1144
1145JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1146 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1147 syntax errors.
1148
3394b36a 1149JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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1150
1151JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1152 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1153
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1154TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1155 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1156 tarball.
1157
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1158JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1159
4c04137d 1160JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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1161 Bug 1561.
1162
1163JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1164 output list separator was used.
1165
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1169TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1170 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1171 return.
1f0ebb98 1172
a612424f 1173JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1174 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1175
1176JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1177
1178TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1179 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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1184
1185TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1186
1187 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1188 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1189 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1190 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1191 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1192 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1193
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1194TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1195 utilities have not been installed.
1196
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1197JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1198 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1199
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1200TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1201 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1202
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1203TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1204 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1205 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1206 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1207
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1208JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1209
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1210TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1211 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1212
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1213PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1214 not dns_use_dnssec.
1215
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1216JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1217
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1218TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1219 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1220 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1221
8ddef691 1222TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1223 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1224 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1225 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1226 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1227 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1228
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1229JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1230
e45a1c37
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1231JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1232 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1233
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1234JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1235 failed delivery.
1236
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1237JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1238
511a6c14 1239JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
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1240
1241JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1242 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1243
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1244JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1245 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1246
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1247TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1248
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1249JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1250
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1251JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1252 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1253
1254 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1255 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1256 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1257
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1258TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1259 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1260 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1261 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1262
35aba663
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1263JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1264
8c51eead 1265JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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1266 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1267 lookup).
8c51eead 1268
deae092e
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1269TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1270 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1271 Schlichting.
35aba663 1272
fd3b6a4a 1273JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1274 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1275
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1276TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1277 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1278
2b4a568d
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1279JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1280
d2af03f4
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1281TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1282 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1283 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1284
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1285JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1286 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1287
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1288JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1289 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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1290 hosts_request_ocsp.
1291
ed3bba5f 1292JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1293 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1294 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1295
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1296JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1297
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1298TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1299 Christian Aistleitner.
1300
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1301JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1302
6eb02f88
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1303TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1304 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1305
00bff6f6
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1306JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1307 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1308
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1309JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1310 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1311
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1312TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1313 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1314
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1315TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1316 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1317
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1318TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1319 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1320 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1321
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1322JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1323
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1324PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1325 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1326 Jasper Wallace.
1327
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1328JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1329
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1330TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1331 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1332 CVE-2014-2972
1333
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1338PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1339
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1340PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1341 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1342
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1343PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1344 by GnuTLS.
1345
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1346PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1347 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1348 routines.
1349
13363eba 1350PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1351
66645890 1352PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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1353 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1354 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1355 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1356 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1357
a3fb9793 1358PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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1359 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1360 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1361 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1362 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1363 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1364
d27f98fe 1365TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1366
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1367TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1368
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1369TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1370 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1371
ae0e32ee 1372TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1373 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1374 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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1375
1376TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1377
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1378TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1379
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1380TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1381 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1382
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1383JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1384
be4a1376
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1385JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1386
ec4b68e5
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1387PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1388
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1389NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1390 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1391
585121e2 1392JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1393
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1394PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1395 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1396 function.
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1398PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1399 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1400
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1401JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1402 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1403 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1404
846726c5
JH
1405JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1406
3a796370
JH
1407JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1408
ea722490 1409JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1410 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1411
b1b05573
JH
1412JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1413 Bugzilla 884.
1414
362145b5
JH
1415JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1416 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1417
3c0a92dc
JH
1418JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1419 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1420
6d7c6175
PP
1421PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1422 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1423 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1424
6f123593
JH
1425JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1426 authenticators.
1427
c8e2fc1e
JH
1428JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1429 for control.
1430
005ac57f
PP
1431PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1432
3f1df0e3
PP
1433PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1434 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1435 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1436 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1437
67bd1ab3
TF
1438TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1439
1440 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1441 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1442 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1443 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1444 the retry rules.
1445
1446 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1447 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1448 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1449
1450 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1451 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1452 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1453 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1454
1ddeb334
TF
1455 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1456 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1457 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1458 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1459 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1460 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1461 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1462
1463 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1464 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1465
326cdc37
TF
1466TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1467
1468 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1469
1470 Resent-From: f
1471
1472 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1473 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1474 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1475 username as equal to the username.
1476
1477 This change corrects that bug.
1478
f62514b3
GF
1479GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1480 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1481 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1482
eb505532
TF
1483TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1484
14c7b357
PP
1485PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1486 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1487 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1488 NULL dereference and crash.
1489
94eaf700
PP
1490JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1491
6f5a440a
PP
1492PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1493 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1494 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1495
514ee161
SC
1496SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1497
fd98a5c6
JH
1498JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1499 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1500 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1501 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1502 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1503 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1504 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1505 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1506 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1507 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1508 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1509
035c7f1e
PP
1510PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1511 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1512
ff284120
PP
1513PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1514 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1515 Bugzilla 880.
1516
26e72755
PP
1517PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1518 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1519 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1520 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1521 an empty string is now equivalent.
1522
0fbd9bff
PP
1523PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1524 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1525 not performing validation itself.
1526
700d22f3
PP
1527PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1528 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1529
fcc8e047
JH
1530JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1531 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1532
4c04137d 1533TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1534
8c020188
PP
1535PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1536 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1537 other false fix of the same issue.
1538 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1539 Bugzilla 1363.
1540
d13cdd30
PP
1541PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1542 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1543
e2fbf4a2
PP
1544PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1545 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1546 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1547
f4c1088b
PP
1548PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1549 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1550 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1551
c5c2182f
PP
1552TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1553
73431ca9
JH
1554JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1555
2d07a215
TL
1556TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1557 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1558
a30a8861
TL
1559TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1560 Alexander Miroch.
1561
33382dd9
TL
1562TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1563 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1564 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1565 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1566 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1567
046172e6
TL
1568TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1569 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1570
581d7bee 1571TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1572 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1573 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1574
1575TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1576 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1577 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1578 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1579
237b2cf2
TL
1580TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1581
9fc5a352
TL
1582TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1583 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1584 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1585
b10e4ec2
TL
1586TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1587
e2cebd74
TL
1588TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1589 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1590 interaction.
1591
1592TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1593 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1594
2519e60d
TL
1595TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1596 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1597
e78e6ecf 1598
4263f395
PP
1599Exim version 4.80.1
1600-------------------
1601
1602PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1603 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1604 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1605
ea722490 1606
b1770b6e 1607Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1608-----------------
1609
1610PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1611 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1612 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1613
23c7e742
NM
1614NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1615
b322aac8
NM
1616NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1617 improved.
1618
4a891427
NM
1619NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1620
c1e794ba 1621PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1622
97753960
PP
1623PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1624
1625PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1626 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1627
df6303fa
PP
1628PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1629 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1630
7e6a8985
PP
1631PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1632 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1633
f1e05cc7 1634PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1635 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1636 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1637
4c287009
PP
1638PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1639
b98bb9ac
PP
1640PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1641 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1642
4a6a987a
PP
1643PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1644
c45dd180 1645PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1646
7db8d074
PP
1647PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1648 non-compliant senders.
1649 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1650
eae0036b 1651NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1652 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1653 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1654
dec5017e
PP
1655PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1656 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1657 in spool file corruption.
1658
c80c5570
PP
1659PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1660 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1661 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1662 "Got SSL error 2".
1663
076b11e2
PP
1664TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1665 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1666 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1667
5407bfff
JH
1668JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1669 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1670
9e45c72b
PP
1671JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1672
e74376d8
PP
1673PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1674 diagnostics.
1675 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1676
4c04137d 1677PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1678 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1679 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1680
7be682ca
PP
1681PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1682 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1683 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1684 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1685
ef840681
PP
1686PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1687 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1688
5bfb4cdf
PP
1689PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1690 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1691 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1692 resolver implementation change.
1693
c6e95d22
PP
1694PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1695 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1696
9cbad13b
PP
1697PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1698
9ee44efb
PP
1699PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1700
6a6084f8
PP
1701PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1702 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1703
12dd53c7
PP
1704PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1705 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1706
9e45c72b 1707JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1708 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1709
17c76198
PP
1710PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1711 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1712 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1713 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1714 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1715
53947857 1716PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1717
eae0036b 1718PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1719 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1720 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1721
9e45c72b 1722JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1723
7390e768
PP
1724PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1725 read-only, out of scope).
1726 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1727
08488c86
PP
1728PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1729 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1730 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1731 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1732
6475bd82
PP
1733PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1734
81f91683
PP
1735PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1736 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1737 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1738 real issues in debug logging.
1739
5779e6aa
PP
1740PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1741 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1742
3375e053
PP
1743PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1744 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1745 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1746
1747PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1748 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1749 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1750 problems.
3375e053 1751
9d26b8c0
PP
1752PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1753 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1754
57eb9e91 1755PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1756 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1757 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1758 needs to override this, it can.
1759
16880d1a
PP
1760PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1761 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1762 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1763
a799883d
PP
1764PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1765 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1766 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1767 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1768
3ecab157 1769PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1770
0599f9cf 1771
867fcbf5
PP
1772Exim version 4.77
1773-----------------
1774
1775PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1776 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1777
f1a29782
TF
1778TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1779
ab42bd23
TK
1780TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1781 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1782
0ca0cf52
TF
1783TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1784 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1785
921b12ca
TF
1786TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1787 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1788 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1789
1790 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1791 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1792 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1793 not safe for signals.
1794
1795 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1796 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1797 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1798 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1799 exiwhat.
1800
c99ce5c9
TF
1801TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1802
1803 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1804 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1805 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1806 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1807 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1808
1809 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1810 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1811 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1812 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1813 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1814 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1815
1816 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1817 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1818 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1819 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1820
1821 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1822 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1823 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1824 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1825
1826 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1827 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1828 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1829 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1830 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1831 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1832 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1833 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1834 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1835
1836 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1837 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1838 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1839 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1840
1841 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1842 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1843 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1844 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1845 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1846 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1847 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1848 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1849 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1850 details in the main documentation.
1851
3634fc25
TF
1852TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1853
792e8a19
TF
1854TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1855
5901f0ab
TF
1856TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1857 repository when doing development or release builds.
1858
7f2a2a43
PP
1859PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1860 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1861
061b7ebd
PP
1862PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1863 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1864 Bugzilla 97.
1865
e12f8c32
PP
1866PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1867
9e949f00 1868PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1869 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1870
1871PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1872 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1873
555ae6af 1874PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1875 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1876
1877PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1878 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1879
6f7fe114
PP
1880PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1881 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1882
c566dd90
PP
1883PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1884 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1885 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1886 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1887
d6cc7c78 1888PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1889 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1890 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1891
0d0e4455
PP
1892PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1893
3399bb60 1894PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1895
1896PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1897 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1898
0ca0cf52 1899
10906672
PP
1900Exim version 4.76
1901-----------------
1902
1903PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1904
754a0503
PP
1905PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1906 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1907
c0c7b2da
PP
1908PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1909
e97d1f08
PP
1910PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1911
084c1d8c
PP
1912PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1913 Bugzilla 1098.
1914
4e7ee012
PP
1915PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1916 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1917
c8d52a00
PP
1918TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1919 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1920
54e7ce4a
PP
1921PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1922 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1923
5ee6f336
PP
1924PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1925 Bugzilla 1104.
1926
c8d52a00 1927TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1928 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1929
1930TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1931 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1932 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1933 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1934
1935PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1936 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1937
10906672 1938
aa097c4c
NM
1939Exim version 4.75
1940-----------------
1941
4c04137d 1942NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1943 Bugzilla 1073
1944
7f3d9eff
TF
1945TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1946 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1947 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1948
159f52d2
TF
1949TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1950 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1951
0cc9542a
PP
1952PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1953 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1954 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1955
f7274286
PP
1956PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1957 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1958
7b797365
PP
1959PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1960 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1961
caacae52
NM
1962NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1963 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1964
09dcaba9
NM
1965NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1966 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1967
bc19a55b
PP
1968PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1969 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1970
bd4c9759
NM
1971NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1972 Fixes bug 943.
1973
b72aab72
PP
1974PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1975 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1976
2fe76745
PP
1977PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1978 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1979
76aa570c
PP
1980PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1981 SQL string expansion failure details.
1982 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1983
f1e5fef5
PP
1984PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1985 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1986
4d805ee9
PP
1987PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1988 extern declarations in function scope.
1989 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1990
cd59ab18
PP
1991PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1992 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1993 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1994 a kernel bug).
1995
332f5cf3
PP
1996PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1997 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1998
29cfeb94
PP
1999PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2000 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2001
660242ad
PP
2002PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2003 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2004
bc4bc4c5
PP
2005PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2006 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2007
2e64baa9
NM
2008NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2009 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2010 Dennis Davis.
2011
4c04137d 2012PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2013
6bac1a9a
PP
2014PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2015
552193f0
NM
2016NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2017 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2018
1b587e48
TF
2019TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2020 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2021
aa097c4c 2022
8c07b69f
TF
2023Exim version 4.74
2024-----------------
2025
2026TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2027 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2028
c0ea85ab
TF
2029TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2030 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2031
0761d44e
TF
2032TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2033
0a349494
PP
2034DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2035 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2036 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2037
2038PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2039 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2040 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2041
fea24b2e
PP
2042PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2043 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2044 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2045 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2046
6545de78
PP
2047PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2048 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2049 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2050 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2051
1670ef10
PP
2052PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2053 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2054 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2055 arbitrary files.
2056
c0886197
PP
2057PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2058 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2059
b7487bce
PP
2060PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2061 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2062 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2063 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2064 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2065
8c07b69f 2066
97fd1e48 2067Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2068-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2069
2070PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2071 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2072 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2073
6901c596
PP
2074PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2075 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2076
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2077JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2078
77bb000f
PP
2079PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2080
a29e5231
PP
2081PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2082
ec5a0394 2083PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2084
55c75993
PP
2085PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2086
453a6645 2087PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2088 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2089 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2090 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2091
8544e77a
PP
2092PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2093 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2094 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2095 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2096 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2097
83e029d5
PP
2098PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2099
ed7f7860
PP
2100PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2101
7d9f747b
PP
2102PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2103
4b2241d2
PP
2104PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2105
10385c15
PP
2106PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2107
dbc4b90d
PP
2108PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2109
532be449
PP
2110PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2111
6a8de854 2112PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2113 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2114 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2115
5dc43717
JJ
2116JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2117
2118JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2119 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2120
3346ab01
PP
2121PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2122 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2123
491fab4c
PP
2124PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2125 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2126 Notification from John Horne.
2127
13eb9497
PP
2128PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2129 compatible.
2130
2131PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2132 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2133 it normally works.
2134
7f36d675
DW
2135DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2136 access.
2137
c1d94452
DW
2138DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2139 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2140 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2141
e2f5dc15
DW
2142DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2143 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2144 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2145 configuration file.
2146
cd25e41d
DW
2147DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2148 option (effectively making it always true).
2149
261dc43e
DW
2150DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2151 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2152
fa32850b
DW
2153DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2154 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2155
79d4bc3d
PP
2156PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2157 run-time user, instead of root.
2158
43236f35 2159PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2160 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2161
fb08281f
DW
2162DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2163 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2164 arguments.
3346ab01 2165
74935b98
DW
2166DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2167 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2168 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2169
90b6341f
DW
2170DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2171
57730b52
ML
2172NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2173
66581d1e 2174
465e92cf
JJ
2175Exim version 4.72
2176-----------------
2177
453a6645
PP
2178JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2179 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2180 typos
465e92cf 2181
453a6645
PP
2182JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2183 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2184 (Finput)
edae0343 2185
9bd3e22c
NM
2186NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2187 Patch from Alain Williams
2188
bb576ff7
NM
2189NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2190
5a1a5845
NM
2191NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2192 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2193
981a9fad
NM
2194NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2195 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2196
7fc497ee
NM
2197NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2198
1a41defa
JJ
2199JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2200
a466095c 2201NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2202 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2203
94a6bd0b
NM
2204TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2205
2206TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2207
2208MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2209 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2210 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2211
c1b141a8
NM
2212NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2213 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2214
b26eacf1 2215NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2216 Patch by Simon Arlott
2217
179c5980 2218PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2219 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2220
9bd3e22c 2221
7c6d71af
NM
2222Exim version 4.71
2223-----------------
2224
7d9f747b 2225TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2226
f013fb92
NM
2227NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2228
0eb8eedd
NM
2229NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2230
663ee6d9
NM
2231NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2232
177ebd9b
NM
2233NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2234
7c6d71af 2235
210f147e
NM
2236Exim version 4.70
2237-----------------
2238
cdd3bb85 2239TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2240 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2241
2242TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2243 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2244 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2245
2246TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2247 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2248 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2249
2250TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2251 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2252
210f147e
NM
2253NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2254 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2255 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2256 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2257
deafd5b3
NM
2258NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2259 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2260 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2261
089793a4
TF
2262TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2263
5f16ca82
TF
2264TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2265
dae9d94e 2266NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2267 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2268
7d9f747b 2269NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2270
06864c44
TF
2271TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2272 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2273 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2274 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2275
65a7d8c3 2276NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2277 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2278
23510047 2279TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2280
7d9f747b 2281NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2282
7d8eec3a 2283NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2284 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2285
89dec7b6
TF
2286TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2287 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2288
a99de90c
TF
2289TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2290 that they are available at delivery time.
2291
e2803e40
TF
2292TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2293
7199e1ee
TF
2294TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2295 incoming_port log selectors.
2296
e276e04b
TF
2297TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2298 setting expands to an empty string.
2299
ce552449 2300NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2301 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2302
e765a0f1 2303NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2304 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2305
4f054c63 2306NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2307 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2308
7d9f747b
PP
2309NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2310 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2311
7d9f747b
PP
2312NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2313 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2314
b52bc06e 2315NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2316 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2317
447de4b0
NM
2318NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2319
4c69d561 2320NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2321 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2322
d5c39246 2323NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2324 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2325
0b23848a
TK
2326TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2327
8f3414a1 2328NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2329 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2330
fb6f955d
NM
2331NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2332
2333NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2334
7d9f747b
PP
2335NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2336 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2337
7d9f747b
PP
2338NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2339 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2340
7d9f747b
PP
2341NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2342 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2343
7d9f747b
PP
2344NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2345 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2346
7d9f747b
PP
2347NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2348 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2349
7d9f747b
PP
2350NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2351 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2352
7d9f747b
PP
2353NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2354 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2355
7d9f747b 2356NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2357 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2358
7d9f747b 2359NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2360
7d9f747b
PP
2361NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2362 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2363
7d9f747b 2364NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2365
7d9f747b 2366NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2367
7d9f747b 2368NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2369
7d9f747b 2370NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2371
17792b53 2372NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2373 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2374
7d9f747b
PP
2375NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2376 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2377
91576cec 2378NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2379 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2380
7d9f747b
PP
2381NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2382 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2383
7d9f747b 2384NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2385
7d9f747b 2386NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2387
7d9f747b 2388NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2389
7d9f747b 2390NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2391
deafd5b3 2392
47db1125
NM
2393Exim version 4.69
2394-----------------
2395
4b3504d0
TK
2396TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2397 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2398 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2399
2400 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2401 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2402 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2403 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2404 build errors in sieve.c.
2405
81ea09ca
NM
2406NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2407 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2408 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2409
f13cddcb
SC
2410SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2411
7d9f747b 2412NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2413
7d9f747b 2414NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2415
7d9f747b 2416NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2417
2418
eb4c0de6
PH
2419Exim version 4.68
2420-----------------
2421
2422PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2423
6a3bceb1
PH
2424PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2425 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2426 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2427 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2428 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2429 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2430 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2431 for iplsearch lookups.
2432
2433 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2434 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2435 previously such lookups could never work.
2436
4c04137d 2437 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2438 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2439 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2440
2e30fa9d
TK
2441TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2442 version.
2443
0806a9c5
MH
2444MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2445 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2446 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2447 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2448 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2449 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2450
ae276964
TK
2451TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2452 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2453
0f2cbd1b
MH
2454MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2455 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2456 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2457 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2458 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2459 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2460
2b85bce7
PH
2461PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2462 local_scan API.
2463
93655c46
PH
2464PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2465
6c512171
PH
2466PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2467 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2468 encrypted.
2469
2470PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2471 by clients under certain conditions.
2472
aa6dc513
PH
2473PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2474 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2475
a96603a0
PH
2476PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2477
8f240103
PH
2478PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2479 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2480
2481PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2482
d677b2f2
PH
2483PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2484
d52120f2
PH
2485PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2486
64f2600a
PH
2487PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2488 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2489
8669f003
PH
2490PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2491
a4dc33a8
PH
2492PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2493 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2494
d6a60c0f
PH
2495PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2496
8f128379
PH
2497PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2498
8932dffe
PH
2499PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2500 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2501 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2502 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2503
ddea74fa 2504PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2505 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2506 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2507
ddea74fa 2508PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2509 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2510
ddea74fa
PH
2511PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2512
ce9f225c
PH
2513PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2514
19897d52
PH
2515PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2516
bc64a74d
PH
2517PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2518 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2519 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2520
eb4c0de6 2521
b4ed4da0
PH
2522Exim version 4.67
2523-----------------
2524
22ad45c9
MH
2525MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2526 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2527 Jan Srzednicki.
2528
b4ed4da0
PH
2529PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2530 issue a MAIL command.
2531
431b7361
PH
2532PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2533
2534 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2535
2536 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2537 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2538 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2539 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2540 item. This has been fixed.
2541
2542PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2543 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2544
83da1223
PH
2545PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2546 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2547
54fc8428
PH
2548PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2549 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2550 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2551
34c5e8dd
SC
2552SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2553
bbe15da8
PH
2554PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2555 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2556 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2557 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2558 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2559
0e8a9471
MH
2560MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2561 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2562 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2563
f0872424
PH
2564PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2565 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2566 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2567 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2568
b01dd148
PH
2569PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2570
6bf342e1
PH
2571PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2572
273f34d0
PH
2573PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2574 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2575 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2576 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2577 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2578
cf8b11a5
PH
2579PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2580
41c7c167
PH
2581PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2582 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2583 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2584 values).
2585
9c57cbc0
PH
2586PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2587
f3f065bb
PH
2588PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2589
047bdd8c
PH
2590PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2591
0ce9abe6
PH
2592PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2593
0e22dfd1
PH
2594PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2595
4c590bd1
PH
2596PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2597 no_callout_flush is set.
2598
09945f1e
PH
2599PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2600 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2601 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2602 fixed.
2603
c51b8e75
PH
2604PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2605
e28326d8 2606PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2607 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2608 other ACL rejections are.
2609
75b1493f
PH
2610PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2611 with slight modification.
2612
7c5214ec
PH
2613PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2614 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2615
4311097e
PH
2616PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2617 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2618 connection.
2619
29f89cad
PH
2620PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2621 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2622
5e687460
SC
2623SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2624
c3611384
PH
2625PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2626 expansion side effects.
2627
5a11a7b4
PH
2628PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2629 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2630 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2631 be the same.
2632
0e20aff9
MH
2633MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2634 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2635 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2636
ca86f471
PH
2637PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2638 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2639 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2640 were accidentally chopped off.
2641
a14e5636
PH
2642PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2643 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2644 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2645 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2646 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2647 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2648 pipelining has not been advertised.
2649
ec95d1a6
PH
2650PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2651
42855d71
PH
2652PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2653 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2654 This has been fixed.
2655
57c2c631
PH
2656PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2657 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2658 reported on Solaris.
2659
58c01c94
PH
2660PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2661 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2662 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2663 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2664 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2665 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2666 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2667
dee5a20a
PH
2668PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2669 cpus.
2670
d2ee6114
PH
2671PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2672
b2d5182b
PH
2673PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2674
79749a79
PH
2675PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2676 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2677 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2678 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2679 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2680 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2681
c456d9bb
PH
2682PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2683 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2684 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2685 host_all_ignored option.
2686
cd9868ec
PH
2687PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2688 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2689 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2690 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2691 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2692 is what is supposed to happen).
2693
ebeaf996
PH
2694PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2695 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2696 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2697 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2698 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2699 uses the Exim user.
2700
2679d413
PH
2701PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2702 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2703 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2704 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2705 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2706 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2707 users.
2708
84024b72
PH
2709PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2710
8005d38e
SC
2711SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2712 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2713 (Jez Hancock).
2714 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2715 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2716
3298c6c6
SC
2717SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2718
a43a27c5
PH
2719PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2720
58eb016e 2721PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2722 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2723 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2724 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2725 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2726 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2727 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2728 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2729 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2730 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2731 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2732
b43a74ea
PH
2733PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2734 advertised in response to EHLO.
2735
b4ed4da0 2736
5dd1517f
PH
2737Exim version 4.66
2738-----------------
2739
2740PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2741 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2742
2743 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2744 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2745
2746 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2747 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2748 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2749
2750 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2751 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2752 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2753 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2754 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2755
2756
93cfa765
TK
2757Exim version 4.65
2758-----------------
2759
2760TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2761 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2762 versions. (#438)
2763
d6066548
MH
2764MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2765 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2766 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2767
4362ff0d
PH
2768PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2769 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2770 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2771 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2772 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2773 rather than extend the field.
2774
93cfa765 2775
944e9e9c
TF
2776Exim version 4.64
2777-----------------
aa41d2de 2778
21d74bd9
TK
2779TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2780 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2781 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2782 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2783 these files.
2784
2785TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2786 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2787 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2788
2789TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2790 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2791 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2792
2793TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2794 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2795 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2796 in the field name.
2797
2b1c6e3a
PH
2798PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2799 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2800 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2801 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2802 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2803 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2804 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2805 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2806 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2807 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2808 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2809
1f872c80
PH
2810PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2811 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2812
2813PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2814 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2815 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2816 ignores EPIPE as well.
2817
d203e649
PH
2818PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2819 (quoted-printable decoding).
2820
cc2ed8f7 2821PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2822 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2823
ddfcd446
PH
2824PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2825
d45b1de8
PH
2826PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2827
2828PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2829
38a0a95f 2830PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2831 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2832
a2405d83
JJ
2833JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2834 in 4.64-PH/09.
2835
2836JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2837 miscellaneous code fixes
2838
6ea85e9a
PH
2839PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2840 rejections.
2841
26da7e20
PH
2842PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2843 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2844 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2845 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2846 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2847 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2848 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2849 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2850
14aa5a05 2851PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2852 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2853 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2854 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2855 function.
2856 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2857 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2858 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2859 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2860 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2861 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2862 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2863 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2864 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2865
ff75a1f7
PH
2866PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2867 decoding.
2868
e6f6568e
PH
2869PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2870 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2871 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2872 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2873 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2874 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2875 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2876 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2877
d6f6e0dc
PH
2878PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2879 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2880 list.
2881
322050c2
PH
2882PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2883 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2884 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2885 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2886 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2887 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2888 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2889 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2890 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2891 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2892 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2893 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2894 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2895
08955dd3
PH
2896PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2897 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2898 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2899 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2900 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2901 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2902 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2903
1eccaa59
PH
2904PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2905 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2906 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2907 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2908 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2909 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2910 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2911 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2912 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2913 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2914
602e59e5
PH
2915PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2916 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2917 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2918 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2919 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2920
411ef850
PH
2921PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2922 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2923 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2924 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2925 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2926 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2927 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2928
7befa435
PH
2929PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2930 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2931 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2932 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2933 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2934 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2935 been verified.
2936
48da4259 2937PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2938 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2939 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2940 and authorization.)
2941
48da4259
PH
2942PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2943 if any retry times were supplied.
2944
d1d5595c
PH
2945PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2946 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2947 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2948
0ef732d9
PH
2949PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2950
328895cc
PH
2951PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2952
fd700877
PH
2953PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2954 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2955 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2956 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2957 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2958 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2959
8dce1a6f
PH
2960PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2961 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2962
17af4a17
PH
2963PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2964 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2965 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2966
2967PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2968 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2969 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2970 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2971 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2972 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2973 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2974 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2975 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2976
2977 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2978 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2979 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2980 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2981 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2982 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2983 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2984 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2985 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2986
2987 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2988 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2989 hammering the server.
2990
c1114884
PH
2991PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2992 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2993
7a0743eb
PH
2994PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2995
0d85fa3f
PH
2996PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2997 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2998 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2999
1bf43b78
PH
3000PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3001 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3002 one case where this was not true.
3003
520de300
PH
3004PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3005 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3006 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3007 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3008 fails.
3009
48c7f9e2
PH
3010PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3011 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3012 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3013 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3014 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3015 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3016 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3017 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3018 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3019 smtp transport.
3020
99ea1c86
PH
3021PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3022 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3023 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3024 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3025
a2042e78
PH
3026PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3027 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3028
4fbcfc2e
PH
3029PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3030 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3031 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3032
aa41d2de
PH
3033PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3034
af561417
PH
3035PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3036
3cc66b45
PH
3037PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3038
194cc0e4
PH
3039PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3040 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3041 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3042 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3043
a401ddaa
PH
3044PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3045 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3046
4e88a19f
PH
3047PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3048 be meaningful with "accept".
3049
d7d7b289
SC
3050SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3051 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3052
3053SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3054 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3055 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3056
3057SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3058 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3059 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3060 there is data to show.
3061 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3062
3063SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3064 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3065 as well as the number of messages.
3066
3067SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3068 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3069 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3070
3071SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3072 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3073 have a flag are now skipped.
3074
3075SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3076 Added the -emptyok flag.
3077
3078SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3079 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3080
0ea2a468
JJ
3081JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3082 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3083 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3084
3085JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3086 match 4.64-PH/13
3087
3088JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3089 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3090
3091JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3092
3093JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3094 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3095
8a10f5a4
PH
3096PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3097
30e18802
PH
3098PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3099 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3100 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3101 contravention of the specifications.
3102
55728a4f
PH
3103PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3104 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3105 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3106
d7837193
PH
3107PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3108 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3109 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3110
87054a31
PH
3111PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3112
ea2c01d2
MH
3113MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3114 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3115 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3116 some point in the past.
3117
e4fa6968
PH
3118PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3119 transport during callout processing was broken.
3120
56f5d9bd
PH
3121PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3122 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3123
922e1c28
PH
3124PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3125 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3126
21eb6e72
PH
3127PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3128 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3129
a0540757
PH
3130PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3131
944e9e9c 3132
478be7b0
SC
3133Exim version 4.63
3134-----------------
3135
3136SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3137 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3138
3139SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3140 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3141 there is data to show.
3142 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3143
3144SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3145 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3146
2b965a65
TF
3147TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3148 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3149
45b91596
PH
3150TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3151 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3152
c59f5781
TF
3153TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3154 submissions from trusted users.
3155
90fc3069
TF
3156TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3157 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3158
6083aca0
TF
3159TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3160 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3161 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3162 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3163 there is now a framework to start from.
3164
765b530f
PH
3165PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3166 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3167 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3168
4e167a8c
PH
3169PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3170
4608d683
PH
3171PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3172
b8dc3e4a
PH
3173PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3174
5418e93b
PH
3175PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3176 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3177 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3178
b4a9bda2
PH
3179PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3180 libradius.
3181
45b91596
PH
3182PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3183 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3184 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3185
5547e2c5
PH
3186PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3187 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3188 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3189 its arguments.
3190
dbcef0ea
PH
3191PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3192 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3193 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3194 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3195 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3196
25257489
PH
3197PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3198 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3199
c816d124
PH
3200PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3201
a9ccd69a
PH
3202PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3203 operations in malware.c.
3204
75fa1910
PH
3205PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3206 signatures.
3207
a7d7aa58
PH
3208PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3209 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3210 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3211 all.
3212
42119b09
PH
3213PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3214 statements to "add_header".
3215
41609df5
PH
3216PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3217 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3218
a5bd321b
PH
3219PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3220 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3221 latter.
3222
e85a7ad5 3223PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3224 so that it is now:
3225
e85a7ad5
PH
3226 ${if or { \
3227 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3228 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3229 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3230 }{no}{yes}}
3231
e85a7ad5
PH
3232 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3233 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3234
d8fe1c03
PH
3235PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3236 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3237
16282d2b
PH
3238PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3239 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3240 any possible encoding problems.
3241
35d40a98
PH
3242PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3243 but not after initializing Perl.
3244
034d99ab
PH
3245PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3246 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3247 apparently, which is not desirable.
3248
6ec97b1b
PH
3249PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3250 queries.
3251
e22ca4ac
JJ
3252JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3253 --not options
3254
3255JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3256
33d73e3b
PH
3257PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3258 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3259 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3260 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3261
9ecb03f3
PH
3262PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3263 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3264 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3265
084efe8d
PH
3266PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3267 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3268 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3269 0.12.
3270
366fc9f0
PH
3271PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3272 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3273 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3274 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3275 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3276
c59f5781 3277
c887c79e
TF
3278Exim version 4.62
3279-----------------
3280
3281TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3282 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3283
1cce3af8
PH
3284PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3285 patch).
3286
afb3eaaf
PH
3287PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3288 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3289 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3290 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3291 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3292 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3293 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3294 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3295 451 error is used.
3296
e173618b
PH
3297PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3298
dd16e114
PH
3299PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3300 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3301 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3302
f7fd3850
PH
3303PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3304 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3305 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3306 odd errors.
3307
d87df92c
PH
3308PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3309 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3310
7e9f683d
PH
3311PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3312 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3313 option (which defaults to 0600).
3314
bfad5236
PH
3315PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3316
01c490df
PH
3317PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3318 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3319 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3320 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3321 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3322 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3323 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3324
d6629cdc
PH
3325PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3326
1cce3af8 3327
214e2000
PH
3328Exim version 4.61
3329-----------------
3330
3331PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3332 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3333 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3334 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3335 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3336 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3337 addresses as local.
3338
f9daeae0
PH
3339PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3340 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3341
7e66e54d
PH
3342PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3343
c8ea1597
PH
3344PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3345 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3346 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3347 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3348 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3349 grumble.
3350
911f6fde
PH
3351PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3352 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3353
47ca6d6c
PH
3354PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3355 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3356 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3357 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3358 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3359
ed0e9820
PH
3360PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3361 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3362 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3363 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3364
eff37e47
PH
3365PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3366 be the same on different OS.
3367
1921d2ea
PH
3368PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3369 testing.
3370
b3f69ca8
JJ
3371JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3372 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3373
3374JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3375 in 4.61-PH/06
3376
424a1c63
PH
3377PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3378 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3379 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3380 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3381 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3382 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3383 bounce message.
3384
7a100415
PH
3385PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3386 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3387 when Exim was called.
3388
19b9dc85
PH
3389PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3390 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3391
309bd837
PH
3392PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3393 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3394 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3395 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3396
59e82a2a
PH
3397PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3398 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3399 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3400 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3401 changes:
3402
3403 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3404 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3405 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3406
3407 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3408 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3409 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3410
9edc04ce
PH
3411PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3412 feature).
3413
1349e1e5
PH
3414PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3415 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3416 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3417 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3418 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3419 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3420 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3421 values from the SRV records were lost.
3422
ea49d0e1
PH
3423PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3424 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3425 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3426
064a94c9
PH
3427PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3428 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3429 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3430
727071f8
PH
3431PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3432 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3433 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3434 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3435 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3436 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3437 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3438 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3439 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3440 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3441
f78eb7c6
PH
3442PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3443 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3444 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3445
21c28500
PH
3446PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3447 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3448
3449PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3450 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3451 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3452 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3453 is given.
3454
1688f43b
PH
3455PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3456 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3457 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3458
3459PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3460 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3461 PH/23 above applies.
3462
9675b384
PH
3463PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3464 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3465 (for which there is an explicit test).
3466
6a3f1455
PH
3467PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3468
dac79d3e
PH
3469PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3470 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3471 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3472 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3473 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3474
5977a0b3
PH
3475PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3476 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3477 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3478 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3479
c91535f3
PH
3480PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3481 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3482 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3483
0d46a8c8
PH
3484PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3485
278c6e6c
PH
3486PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3487
2cbb4081
PH
3488PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3489 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3490 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3491
3eef829e
PH
3492PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3493 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3494 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3495 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3496 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3497
1ab95fa6
PH
3498PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3499 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3500 the message gets confusing).
3501
230205fc
PH
3502PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3503 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3504 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3505 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3506
75e0e026
PH
3507PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3508 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3509 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3510 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3511 same order.
3512
3513PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3514 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3515 the different processes.
3516
145396a6
PH
3517PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3518
3cd34f13
PH
3519PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3520
11121d3d
JJ
3521JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3522 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3523
3524JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3525 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3526
3527JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3528 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3529 messages matching specified criteria.
3530
8def5aaf
PH
3531PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3532
929ba01c
PH
3533PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3534 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3535
2632889e
PH
3536PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3537 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3538 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3539 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3540 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3541 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3542 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3543 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3544 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3545 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3546
944a9c55
PH
3547PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3548 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3549 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3550
4a23603b
PH
3551PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3552
4730f942
PH
3553PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3554 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3555 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3556 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3557 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3558 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3559 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3560 the variable.
3561
30dba1e6
PH
3562PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3563 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3564
382afc6b
PH
3565PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3566
a86229cf
PH
3567PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3568
50c99ba6
PH
3569PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3570
d35e429d
PH
3571PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3572 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3573 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3574 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3575 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3576 size of the count of files.
3577
f90d018c
PH
3578PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3579
75def545
PH
3580PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3581 used in LMTP mode:
3582
3583 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3584 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3585 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3586 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3587
3588 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3589 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3590 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3591
3592PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3593 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3594 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3595 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3596 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3597
c46782ef
PH
3598PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3599 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3600
71fafd95
PH
3601PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3602 will now be deprecated.
3603
2c5db4fd
PH
3604PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3605
9cf6b11a
JJ
3606JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3607 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3608 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3609
3610JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3611 with very large, slow to parse queues
3612
3613JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3614
3615JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3616
898d150f
PH
3617PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3618 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3619 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3620 SMTP output lines.
3621
46218253
PH
3622PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3623 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3624 Sieve code now uses this.
3625
e97957bc
PH
3626PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3627 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3628
81e509d7
PH
3629PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3630 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3631
3d240ff7
PH
3632PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3633
b37c4101
PH
3634PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3635 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3636 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3637 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3638 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3639
79378e0f
PH
3640PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3641 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3642 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3643 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3644
e49c7bb4
PH
3645PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3646
d114ec46
PH
3647PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3648
f3d7df6c
PH
3649PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3650 is preferred over IPv4.
3651
715ab376
PH
3652PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3653 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3654 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3655 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3656 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3657 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3658 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3659
6b31b150
PH
3660PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3661 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3662 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3663
3664PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3665
d515a917
PH
3666PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3667 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3668 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3669 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3670 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3671 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3672 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3673 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3674 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3675 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3676 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3677
9b8fadde
PH
3678PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3679 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3680 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3681
214e2000 3682
5de37277
PH
3683Exim version 4.60
3684-----------------
3685
cc38ddbf
PH
3686PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3687
3688 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3689 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3690
3691 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3692 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3693 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3694
72fdd6ae
PH
3695PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3696
3697 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3698 not a single digit.
3699
3700 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3701 string.
3702
3703 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3704 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3705 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3706 silly things.
3707
3708 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3709 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3710
3711 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3712 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3713
cb741023
PH
3714PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3715 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3716 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3717
f174f16e
PH
3718PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3719 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3720
c25242d7
PH
3721PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3722 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3723
3724 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3725
3726 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3727 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3728 this:
3729
3730 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3731
82c19f95
PH
3732PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3733 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3734 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3735 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3736 identical. For example:
3737
3738 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3739
3740 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3741 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3742 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3743
d7ffbc12
PH
3744PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3745 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3746 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3747 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3748
9f526266
PH
3749PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3750 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3751 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3752 message.
3753
87fcc8b9
PH
3754PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3755
3756 o fixes some comments
3757 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3758 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3759 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3760 and documents the missing references header update
3761
3762 and most important:
3763
3764 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3765 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3766 result)
3767
456682f5
PH
3768PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3769 Electronic Mail") by including:
3770
3771 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3772
3773 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3774 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3775 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3776 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3777 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3778
3779 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3780
3781 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3782
3783 The auto-replied keyword:
3784
3785 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3786 message by an automatic process,
3787
3788 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3789
3790 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3791 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3792
3793 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3794 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3795 other messages.
3796
3e46c1aa
PH
3797PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3798 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3799
49826d12
PH
3800PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3801
eba0c039
PH
3802PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3803 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3804 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3805
a0d6ba8a
PH
3806PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3807 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3808 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3809
f0917727
PH
3810PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3811 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3812 and treats the condition as false.
3813
096fee00
PH
3814PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3815
024bd3c2
PH
3816PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3817 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3818 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3819 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3820 not changing the active code.
3821
3822 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3823 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3824
3825 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3826 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3827
df199fec
PH
3828PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3829 (Bugzilla #53).
3830
d27f1df3
PH
3831PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3832 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3833 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3834 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3835 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3836 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3837 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3838 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3839 the text comparison.
3840
96776534
PH
3841PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3842 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3843 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3844 The same fix has been applied.
3845
5de37277 3846
9a799bc0
PH
3847Exim version 4.54
3848-----------------
3849
3850PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3851 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3852 It now does.
3853
99a4b039
PH
3854PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3855 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3856
3857PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3858
4b233853
PH
3859PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3860 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3861 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3862 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3863 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3864
8857ccfd
PH
3865TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3866 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3867 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3868 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3869 or /domain=).
3870
433a2980
PH
3871PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3872 testing suite.
3873
3e46c1aa 3874
9a799bc0 3875
e3a311ba
TK
3876Exim version 4.53
3877-----------------
3878
3879TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3880 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3881
13b685f9
PH
3882PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3883
395ff96d
PH
3884PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3885
5b68f6e4
PH
3886PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3887 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3888 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3889
1ab52c69
PH
3890PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3891 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3892 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3893
b07e6aa3
PH
3894PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3895 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3896 operating systems.
3897
254e032f
PH
3898PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3899 ${stat: expansion item.
3900
3af76a81
PH
3901PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3902 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3903
2548ba04
PH
3904PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3905 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3906 file for comments.
3907
b6c6011d
PH
3908PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3909
cf39cf57
PH
3910PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3911 setting.
3912
f1513293
PH
3913PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3914 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3915
727549a4
PH
3916TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3917
af46795e
PH
3918PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3919 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3920 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3921 the end of the subprocess.
3922
d7b47fd0
PH
3923PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3924 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3925 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3926 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3927 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3928
ee744174
JJ
3929JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3930
b582ab87
PH
3931TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3932
41a13e0a
PH
3933PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3934 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3935
f625cc5a
PH
3936PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3937
3938PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3939
21f7af35
PH
3940PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3941 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3942 HP-UX compiler.
3943
31480e42
PH
3944PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3945
2d280592
PH
3946PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3947 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3948 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3949
7cd1141b
PH
3950PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3951 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3952
3953PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3954 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3955
750af86e
PH
3956PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3957 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3958
3959 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3960 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3961
3962 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3963 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3964 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3965 contributed by a Radius user.
3966
3967PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3968 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3969
4304270b
TK
3970TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3971 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3972
750af86e
PH
3973PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3974 available.
3975
64ffc24f
PH
3976PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3977 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3978 received.
3979
5dd9625b
PH
3980PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3981 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3982 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3983 header lines when this was not necessary.
3984
5591031b
PH
3985PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3986
ba18e66a
PH
3987PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3988 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3989 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3990 exists".
3991
9cec981f
PH
3992PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3993 -bV or -d is used.
3994
aa2b5c79
PH
3995PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3996 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3997 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3998 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3999
48a53b7f
PH
4000PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4001
1c59d63b
PH
4002PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4003
671012da
TK
4004TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4005
1509d3a8
PH
4006PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4007
4008PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4009 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4010 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4011 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4012 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4013 settings.
4014
4015PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4016
2fe1a124
PH
4017PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4018 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4019 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4020 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4021 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4022 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4023 which is clearly wrong.
4024
8800895a
PH
4025PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4026
ccfdb010
PH
4027PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4028 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4029 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4030 subsequently added.
4031
1130bfb0
PH
4032PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4033 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4034
ebcb507f
PH
4035PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4036
c35e155c
PH
4037PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4038 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4039
95d1f782
PH
4040PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4041 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4042
fd6de02e
PH
4043PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4044 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4045
58de37c5
PH
4046PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4047 recipients, not senders.
4048
261cf466
TF
4049TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4050 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4051
3ee512ff
PH
4052PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4053
e08c430f
PH
4054PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4055
bef5a11f
PH
4056PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4057 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4058 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4059 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4060
7546de58
TF
4061TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4062
e5d5a95f
TF
4063TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4064 clock is set back in time.
4065
2e88a017
TF
4066TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4067 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4068
a5f65aa4
TF
4069TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4070 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4071
e7726cbf
PH
4072PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4073 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4074 (see PH/47 above).
4075
a7fdad5b
TF
4076TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4077 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4078 header rewrites.
4079
6af56900
PH
4080PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4081 type ("H").
4082
0925ede6
PH
4083PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4084
66afa403
TF
4085TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4086 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4087 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4088
0154e85a
TF
4089TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4090 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4091 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4092 helo verification defer as a failure.
4093
16f12c76
PH
4094PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4095 actual error message.
4096
bbe902f0 4097
e5a9dba6
PH
4098Exim version 4.52
4099-----------------
4100
4101TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4102
22c3b60b
PH
4103PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4104 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4105 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4106 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4107
06a9b4b5
PH
4108TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4109
c1ac6996
PH
4110PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4111 can still be requested.
4112
9c7a242c
PH
4113PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4114 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4115 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4116 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4117
87ba3f5f
PH
4118TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4119 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4120 circumstances, but probably never did.
4121
4122PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4123 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4124 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4125 in the header line.
4126
29aba418
TF
4127TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4128
fe0dab11
TF
4129TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4130 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4131
11d337a4
TK
4132TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4133
4134TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4135
415c8f3b
PH
4136PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4137 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4138 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4139 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4140 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4141 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4142
958541e9
PH
4143PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4144 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4145 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4146 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4147 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4148 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4149
c206415f
TK
4150TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4151 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4152
2a4be8f9
PH
4153PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4154 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4155
1cba11c5
SC
4156SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4157 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4158
4c04137d 4159SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4160
4161SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4162
4163SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4164
4165SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4166
4167SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4168
4169SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4170
1005d00e
TK
4171TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4172
4173TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4174 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4175 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4176
4177TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4178 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4179 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4180 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4181
9b4768fa
PH
4182PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4183 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4184 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4185
4186PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4187 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4188 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4189 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4190
0d7eb84a
PH
4191PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4192 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4193 to be made).
4194
4195PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4196 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4197 should work with maildirs and everything.
4198
40727bee
TK
4199TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4200 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4201
554d2369
TF
4202TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4203 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4204
1f922db1
PH
4205PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4206 function for BDB 4.3.
4207
ef213c3b
PH
4208PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4209
8ac170f3
PH
4210PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4211 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4212 involved.
4213
b1c749bb
PH
4214PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4215 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4216 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4217 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4218 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4219 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4220
4aac9b49
PH
4221PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4222 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4223 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4224 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4225 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4226 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4227 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4228 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4229
294520c8
TK
4230TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4231 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4232 details.
4233
5bd022fe
PH
4234PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4235 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4236
90e9ce59
PH
4237PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4238 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4239 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4240 test. It is now used for both.
4241
5ea81592
PH
4242PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4243 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4244 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4245 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4246 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4247 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4248
c6c2dc1d
PH
4249PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4250 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4251 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4252 string_vformat().
4253
fffffe4c
PH
4254PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4255 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4256 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4257
9a26b6b2
PH
4258PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4259 experimental DomainKeys support:
4260
4261 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4262 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4263 the control was given.
4264
4265 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4266
4aee0225
PH
4267PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4268
32d668a5
PH
4269PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4270
8187c3f3
PH
4271PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4272 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4273 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4274 db.h files).
4275
ff790e47 4276PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4277 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4278 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4279 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4280 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4281 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4282 course.
ff790e47 4283
5417f6d1
PH
4284PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4285 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4286 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4287 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4288 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4289 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4290
59cf8544
PH
4291PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4292 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4293 do -d+all out of habit.
4294
e7ad8a65
PH
4295PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4296 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4297 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4298
ade42478
PH
4299PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4300 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4301 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4302 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4303 record types that Exim uses.
4304
182ad5cf
PH
4305PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4306 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4307 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4308 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4309 non-existent file that was broken.
4310
b0d9fc80
TK
4311TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4312 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4313
4314TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4315 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4316 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4317
4318TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4319
47c7a64a
PH
4320PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4321 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4322 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4323 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4324 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4325 same time.
4326
a388bce4
SC
4327SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4328 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4329 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4330 at a slight CPU cost.
4331
4332SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4333 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4334
4335SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4336 by Marc Sherman.
4337
0793e4ed
SC
4338SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4339
c58b88df
PH
4340PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4341 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4342
e7ad8a65 4343
7982096b
PH
4344Exim version 4.51
4345-----------------
4346
1a46a8c5
PH
4347TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4348 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4349
2f079f46 4350TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4351
4352TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4353
4354PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4355 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4356
4357PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4358 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4359 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4360 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4361 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4362 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4363 file.
4364
4365PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4366 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4367 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4368 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4369 these two options.
4370
4371PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4372 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4373 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4374 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4375 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4376 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4377 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4378 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4379
4380PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4381 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4382
4383PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4384 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4385 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4386 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4387 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4388 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4389
4390PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4391 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4392 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4393 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4394
4395PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4396 Finch).
4397
4398PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4399 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4400
49c2d5ea
PH
4401PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4402 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4403 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4404 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4405 message.
49c2d5ea 4406
bf759a8b
PH
4407PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4408
83364d30
PH
4409PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4410 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4411
7999bbd7
PH
4412PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4413 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4414 to what was transported.)
4415
7dbf77c9
PH
4416TF/01 Added $received_time.
4417
74e0617f
PH
4418PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4419 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4420 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4421 spamd_address settings.
4422
2f079f46
PH
4423PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4424 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4425 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4426 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4427 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4428
8c841523
PH
4429PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4430
7766a4f0
PH
4431PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4432 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4433 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4434 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4435 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4436
8b417f2c
PH
4437PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4438 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4439
901f42cb
PH
4440PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4441 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4442 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4443 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4444 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4445 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4446 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4447 for failure.
4448
f9b9210e
PH
4449PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4450 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4451 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4452 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4453 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4454 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4455 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4456 "input=".
4457
54cdb463
PH
4458PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4459
cf00dad6
PH
4460PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4461 driver and ACL definitions.
4462
acb1b346
PH
4463PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4464 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4465
c5ddb310
PH
4466PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4467 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4468 understands it better than I do:
4469
4470 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4471 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4472
4473 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4474 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4475 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4476 => three warnings about OTP not working
4477 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4478
4479 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4480 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4481 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4482 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4483 for each call.)
4484 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4485 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4486
4487 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4488 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4489 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4490
31619da6
PH
4491PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4492 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4493 specified.
4494
bebaf0fc
PH
4495PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4496 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4497 "Linux".
4498
475fe28a
PH
4499PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4500 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4501 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4502
4503 warn !verify = sender
4504 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4505
4506 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4507 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4508
7e8bec7a
PH
4509PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4510
4511 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4512 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4513
4514 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4515 nomenclature these days.)
4516
e4a89c47
PH
4517PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4518 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4519
5ca2a9a1
PH
4520PH/30 In these circumstances:
4521 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4522 . First host does not offer TLS;
4523 . First host accepts first address;
4524 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4525 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4526 . Second host accepts second address.
4527 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4528 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4529 address.
7e8bec7a 4530
c688b954
PH
4531PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4532 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4533 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4534 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4535 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4536
fed77020
PH
4537PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4538 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4539
7fe1560f
PH
4540PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4541 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4542
ebb6e6d5
PH
4543PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4544 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4545 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4546
9c4e8f60
PH
4547PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4548 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4549 overlooked.
4550
4551PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4552
d7174846
PH
4553PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4554 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4555 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4556 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4557 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4558 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4559 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4560
4561 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4562 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4563 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4564 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4565 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4566
4567 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4568 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4569 routed further.
4570
cfe75fc3
PH
4571PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4572 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4573 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4574 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4575 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4576 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4577
be22d70e
PH
4578PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4579
0612b098
PH
4580PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4581 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4582 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4583 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4584 printable escape sequences.
4585
2e0c1448
PH
4586PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4587 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4588 body only.
4589
447d236c
PH
4590PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4591 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4592 are as follows:
4593
4594 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4595 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4596 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4597 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4598 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4599
4600 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4601 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4602 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4603
d20976dc
PH
4604PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4605
f656d135
PH
4606PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4607 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4608 play with."
4609
2e2a30b4
PH
4610PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4611 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4612 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4613 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4614 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4615 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4616 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4617 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4618 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4619 the log output.
4620
9176e9f0
PH
4621PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4622 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4623 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4624 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4625 "make".
4626
7982096b 4627
bbe902f0
PH
4628A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4629----------------------------------------
4630
4631Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4632changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4633needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4634in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4635that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4636release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4637from 4.43.
4638
4639I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
46404.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4641those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4642historical information.
4643
4644
f7b63901 4645Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4646-----------------
4647
5fe762f6
PH
4648 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4649
139059f6 4650 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4651 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4652
7086e875
PH
4653 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4654 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4655 place.
4656
35af9f61
PH
4657 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4658 filter fails to execute.
4659
b668c215
PH
4660 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4661 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4662 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4663 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4664 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4665
a494b1e1
PH
4666 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4667
4668 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4669 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4670 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4671 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4672
c5fcb476
PH
4673 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4674 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4675 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4676 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4677 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4678
69358f02
PH
4679 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4680
5be20824
PH
468110. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4682
eb2c0248
PH
468311. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4684 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4685 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4686 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4687
2a3eea10
PH
468812. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4689 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4690 sender verification.
4691
469213. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4693 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4694
23c7ff99
PH
469514. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4696
4deaf07d
PH
469715. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4698 connection timeout.
4699
926e1192
PH
470016. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4701 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4702
650edc6f
PH
470317. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4704 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4705
2c7db3f5
PH
470618. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4707 information about exactly what failed.
4708
3d235903
PH
470919. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4710
7c7ad977
PH
471120. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4712 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4713 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4714
981756db
PH
471521. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4716 It is now set to "smtps".
4717
d4eb88df
PH
471822. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4719 ignore_target_hosts.
4720
472123. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4722 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4723 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4724 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4725 "[x.x.x.x]".
4726
7d468ab8
PH
472724. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4728 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4729 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4730
473125. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4732 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4733 wake it up if nothing else does.
4734
62c0818f
PH
473526. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4736 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4737 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4738 end up negative.
4739
26034054
PH
474027. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4741 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4742
af66f652
PH
474328. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4744
90af77f4
PH
474529. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4746 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4747 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4748 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4749 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4750 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4751 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4752 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4753
d8ef3577
PH
475430. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4755 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4756 than one IP address.
4757
5cb8cbc6
PH
475831. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4759 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4760 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4761 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4762
14702f5b
PH
476332. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4764 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4765 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4766 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4767 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4768 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4769
063b1e99
PH
477033. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4771 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4772 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4773 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4774
652e1b65
PH
477534. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4776 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4777 respected.
4778
6f0c9a4f
PH
477935. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4780 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4781 $sender_host_address.
4782
33397d19
PH
478336. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4784 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4785 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4786 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4787 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4788 very small.
4789
7bb56e1f
PH
479037. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4791
4792 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4793 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4794
ea3bc19b
PH
4795 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4796 just the host names, not the priorities.
4797
4798 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4799 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4800 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4801
ea3bc19b 4802 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4803 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4804
0bcb2a0e
PH
480538. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4806 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4807 domain.
4808
2ac0e484
PH
480939. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4810
4e1fde53
PH
481140. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4812 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4813
de365ded
PH
481441. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4815 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4816 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4817
f05da2e8
PH
481842. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4819
d6453af2
PH
482043. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4821
f7b63901
PH
482244. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4823
482445. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4825 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4826 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4827 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4828 because the tests only now provoked it.
4829
a444213a
PH
483046. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4831 (this can affect the format of dates).
4832
0ec020ea
PH
483347. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4834 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4835 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4836 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4837
b1206957
PH
483848. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4839
484049. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4841 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4842 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4843 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4844
26dd5a95
PH
484550. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4846 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4847 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4848
343b2385
PH
484951. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4850 autoreply.
4851
1c5466b9
PH
485252. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4853 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4854 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4855 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4856 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4857 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4858 is going on).
4859
55ee9ee3
PH
486053. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4861 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4862 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4863 the line.
4864
d38f8232
PH
486554. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4866 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4867 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4868
4869 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4870 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4871 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4872 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4873 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4874 so I produce this patch..."
4875
3295e65b
PH
4876 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4877 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4878 is not defined.
4879
7102e136
PH
488055. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4881 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4882 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4883 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4884 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4885
3ca0ba97
PH
488656. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4887
c2bcbe20
PH
488857. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4889 long debug lines gets shown.
4890
18ce445d
PH
489158. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4892 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4893
1f5b4c3d
PH
489459. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4895
4896 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4897 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4898 of $primary_hostname.
4899
b975ba52
PH
490060. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4901 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4902 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4903 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4904 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4905 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4906 by change 4.50/55 above.
4907
4908 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4909 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4910 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4911 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4912 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4913 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4914 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4915
491661. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4917 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4918 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4919 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4920
17ffcae7
PH
492162. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4922 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4923
d95f9fdb
PH
492463. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4925 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4926 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4927 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4928 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4929
86b8287f
PH
493064. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4931 This has been fixed.
4932
60dc5e56
PH
493365. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4934 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4935 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4936 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4937 the caching.)
4938
533244af
PH
493966. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4940
a5a28604
PH
494167. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4942 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4943 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4944 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4945
7e634d24
PH
494668. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4947 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4948
3e11c26b
PH
494969. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4950 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4951 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4952
6729cf78
PH
495370. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4954 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4955 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4956 message there.
4957
00f00ca5
PH
495871. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4959 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4960 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4961
c9bdd01c
PH
496272. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4963 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4964 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4965 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4966
d43194df
PH
496773. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4968 during host lookups.
4969
fe5b5d0b
PH
497074. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4971 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4972
4973 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4974
76a2d7ba
PH
497575. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4976 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4977 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4978 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4979 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4980 background.
4981
498276. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4983 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4984
04f7d5b9
PH
498577. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4986 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4987 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4988
bc60667e
PH
498978. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4990
bb6e88ff
PH
499179. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4992 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4993 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4994 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4995 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4996 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4997 process earlier.
4998
1e70f85b
PH
499980. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5000 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5001 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5002 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5003 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5004
500581. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5006 tables).
5007
4e01f9d6
PH
500882. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5009
1ee1cef2
PH
501083. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5011 "vacation" handling.
5012
6e2b4ccc
PH
501384. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5014 OS variants using glibc.
5015
8e669ac1
PH
501685. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5017
495ae4b0 5018
bbe902f0
PH
5019----------------------------------------------------
5020See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5021----------------------------------------------------
5022
5023
5024Exim version 4.44
5025-----------------
5026
5027 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5028 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5029 transport
5030
5031 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5032 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5033 place.
5034
5035 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5036 filter fails to execute.
5037
5038 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5039 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5040 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5041 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5042 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5043
5044 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5045 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5046 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5047 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5048
5049 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5050 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5051 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5052 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5053 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5054
5055 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5056
5057 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5058 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5059 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5060 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5061
5062 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5063 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5064 sender verification.
5065
506610. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5067 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5068
506911. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5070 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5071
507212. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5073 ignore_target_hosts.
5074
507513. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5076 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5077 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5078 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5079 "[x.x.x.x]".
5080
508114. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5082 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5083 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5084
508515. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5086 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5087 wake it up if nothing else does.
5088
508916. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5090 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5091 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5092 end up negative.
5093
509417. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5095 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5096
ea3a6f44 509718. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5098
509919. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5100 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5101 empty pattern.
5102
510320. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5104 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5105 one IP address.
5106
ea3a6f44
NM
510721. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5108 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5109 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5110 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5111 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5112 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5113
ea3a6f44
NM
511422. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5115 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5116 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5117
511823. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5119 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5120 $sender_host_address.
5121
512224. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5123
ea3a6f44
NM
512425. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5125 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5126 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5127
512826. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5129 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5130
ea3a6f44
NM
513127. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5132 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5133
ea3a6f44
NM
513428. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5135 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5136 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5137 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5138
513929. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5140 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5141 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5142
ea3a6f44
NM
514330. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5144 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5145 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5146 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5147
ea3a6f44
NM
514831. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5149 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5150 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5151
ea3a6f44
NM
515231. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5153 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5154
ea3a6f44
NM
515532. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5156 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5157 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5158 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5159 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5160 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5161 is going on).
bbe902f0 5162
ea3a6f44
NM
516333. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5164 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5165 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5166 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5167 CAN-2005-0021
5168
ea3a6f44
NM
516934. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5170 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5171 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5172 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5173 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5174 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5175 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5176
5177 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5178 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5179 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5180 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5181 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5182 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5183 CAN-2005-0021
5184
ea3a6f44
NM
518535. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5186 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5187 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5188 CAN-2005-0022
5189
ea3a6f44
NM
519036. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5191 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5192 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5193 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5194 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5195
ea3a6f44
NM
519637. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5197 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5198 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5199 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5200 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5201
ea3a6f44
NM
520238. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5203 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5204 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5205 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5206 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5207
5208
495ae4b0
PH
5209Exim version 4.43
5210-----------------
5211
5212 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5213 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5214 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5215 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5216 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5217 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5218 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5219
5220 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5221 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5222 the delivery.
5223
5224 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5225
5226 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5227
5228 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5229 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5230 to local_scan().
5231
5232 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5233 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5234 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5235 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5236 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5237
5238 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5239 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5240
5241 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5242
5243 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5244
524510. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5246 header_sender only.
5247
524811. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5249 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5250
525112. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5252 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5253 affecting debugging statements).
5254
525513. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5256
525714. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5258 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5259 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5260 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5261 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5262 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5263 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5264 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5265 after the received time, and all would be well.
5266
526715. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5268 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5269 condition in an expansion string.
5270
527116. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5272
527317. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5274 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5275 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5276 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5277 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5278 job under whatever limits there are.
5279
528018. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5281
528219. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5283 space).
5284
528520. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5286 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5287 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5288 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5289 return path is set.
5290
529121. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5292 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5293 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5294 binary data in such strings.
5295
529622. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5297
529823. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5299 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5300 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5301 failure, which is pointless.
5302
530324. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5304
530525. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5306
530726. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5308 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5309 Sender: header lines.
5310
531127. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5312 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5313 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5314
531528. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5316 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5317 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5318 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5319 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5320 happens.
5321
532229. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5323 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5324 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5325 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5326 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5327
532830. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5329 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5330 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5331 1024.
5332
533331. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5334 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5335
533632. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5337 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5338
533933. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5340
534132. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5342
534333. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5344
534534. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5346 syntax error.
5347
534835. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5349
535036. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5351
535237. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5353 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5354 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5355 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5356
535738. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5358 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5359
5360
5361Exim version 4.42
5362-----------------
5363
5364 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5365 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5366 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5367 it was not quoted.
5368 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5369 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5370 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5371 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5372 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5373 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5374
5375 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5376 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5377 verification failure".
5378
5379 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5380 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5381 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5382 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5383
5384 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5385 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5386 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5387 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5388 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5389 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5390 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5391 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5392 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5393 treated as a timeout.
5394
5395 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5396 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5397 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5398 not set for Exim filters).
5399
5400 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5401 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5402 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5403
5404 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5405
5406 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5407 try to make them clearer.
5408
5409 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5410 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5411
5412 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5413
5414 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5415
541610. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5417 only the Cygwin environment.
5418
541911. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5420 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5421 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5422 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5423 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5424
542512. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5426 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5427 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5428 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5429 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5430 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5431 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5432
543313. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5434 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5435
543614. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5437
5438 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5439 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5440 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5441
5442 To: susanne@some.where
5443
5444 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5445 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5446 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5447 of addresses in From: header lines).
5448
5449 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5450 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5451 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5452
5453 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5454 treated as non-personal.
5455
5456 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5457 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5458
545915. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5460
546116. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5462
546317. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5464 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5465 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5466
546718. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5468 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5469
547019. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5471 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5472 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5473 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5474 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5475 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5476
547720. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5478 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5479 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5480 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5481 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5482 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5483 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5484 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5485
5486 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5487
548821. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5489 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5490
549122. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5492 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5493 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5494
549523. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5496 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5497
549824. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5499 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5500 rather than long int.
5501
550225. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5503
550426. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5505
5506
5507Exim version 4.41
5508-----------------
5509
5510 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5511 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5512 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5513 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5514 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5515 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5516
5517
5518Exim version 4.40
5519-----------------
5520
5521 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5522 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5523
5524 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5525 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5526 socklen_t is defined.
5527
5528 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5529 always exist.
5530
5531 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5532 configured.
5533
5534 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5535 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5536 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5537 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5538 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5539
5540 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5541 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5542 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5543 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5544
5545 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5546 of flapping under certain conditions.
5547
5548 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5549 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5550 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5551
5552 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5553
555410. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5555
555611. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5557 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5558 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5559 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5560
556112. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5562 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5563 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5564 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5565 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5566 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5567 preserved with the message after it was received.
5568
556913. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5570 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5571 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5572 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5573 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5574 test suite worked just fine.
5575
557614. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5577 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5578 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5579
558015. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5581 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5582 string.
5583
558416. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5585 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5586 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5587 does not fully solve it.
5588
558917. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5590 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5591 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5592 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5593 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5594
559518. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5596 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5597 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5598
559919. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5600 string, for example:
5601
5602 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5603
5604 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5605 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5606 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5607 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5608 the routers could not see them.
5609
561020. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5611 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5612
561321. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5614 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5615 output).
5616
561722. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5618 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5619 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5620 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5621 that needed quoting.
5622
562323. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5624 was not being matched caselessly.
5625
562624. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5627 backslashes.
5628
562925. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5630 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5631 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5632 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5633 when use_sender is false.
5634
563526. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5636
563727. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5638
563928. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5640
564129. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5642 the configuration file.
5643
564430. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5645 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5646
564731. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5648
564932. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5650 bytes in the message body.
5651
565233. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5653 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5654 delivery.
5655
565634. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5657
565835. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5659
566036. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5661 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5662 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5663 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5664 another IP address.
5665
5666
5667Exim version 4.34
5668-----------------
5669
5670 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5671 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5672
5673 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5674 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5675 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5676 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5677 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5678
5679 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5680 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5681
5682 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5683 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5684 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5685
5686 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5687 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5688 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5689
5690 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5691 for routers.
5692
5693 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5694 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5695 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5696 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5697 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5698 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5699 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5700
5701
5702Exim version 4.33
5703-----------------
5704
5705 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5706 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5707 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5708 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5709 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5710 default (and expected) setting.
5711
5712 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5713 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5714 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5715 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5716
5717 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5718 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5719
5720 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5721 in domain lists.
5722
5723 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5724 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5725 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5726 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5727 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5728 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5729
5730 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5731 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5732 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5733
5734 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5735 part (NOT match_host).
5736
5737 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5738
5739 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5740 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5741 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5742 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5743 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5744 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5745 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5746 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5747 the same named file.
5748
574910. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5750 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5751 when Exim is built.
5752
575311. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5754 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5755 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5756 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5757 a host name.
5758
575912. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5760 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5761 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5762
576313. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5764
576514. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5766
576715. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5768
576916. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5770 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5771
577217. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5773 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5774 before starting the TLS session.
5775
577618. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5777
577819. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5779 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5780
578120. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5782 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5783 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5784 colon in the middle).
5785
5786
5787Exim version 4.32
5788-----------------
5789
5790 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5791 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5792 multiple configurations are in use.
5793
5794 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5795 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5796 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5797 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5798 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5799 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5800
5801 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5802 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5803
5804 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5805 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5806 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5807
5808 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5809 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5810 occurs.
5811
5812 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5813 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5814
5815 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5816
5817 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5818 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5819
5820 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5821
5822 -prval:sval
5823
5824 is equivalent to
5825
5826 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5827
5828 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5829 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5830 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5831 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5832 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5833
583410. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5835 Exim's behaviour:
5836
5837 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5838 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5839 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5840 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5841 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5842 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5843
5844 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5845 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5846 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5847 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5848 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5849 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5850 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5851 string.
5852
5853 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5854 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5855 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5856 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5857 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5858
585911. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5860
586112. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5862 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5863 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5864
586513. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5866
586714. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5868 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5869 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5870 information.
5871
587215. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5873 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5874
587516. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5876 Three changes have been made:
5877
5878 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5879 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5880 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5881 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5882 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5883
5884 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5885 been restored.
5886
5887 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5888 the modified behaviour.
5889
5890
5891Exim version 4.31
5892-----------------
5893
5894 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5895 Larry Rosenman.
5896
5897 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5898 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5899
5900 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5901 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5902 try to track down a specific problem.
5903
5904 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5905 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5906 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5907
5908 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5909 warning.
5910
5911 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5912 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5913 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5914 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5915 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5916 some earlier ones do not.
5917
5918 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5919
5920 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5921 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5922 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5923 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5924 address literals are enabled, of course).
5925
5926 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5927
592810. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5929 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5930 by a command such as
5931
5932 exim -f "" ...
5933
5934 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5935
593611. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5937
593812. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5939 remained set. It is now erased.
5940
594113. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5942 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5943
594414. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5945 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5946 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5947 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5948 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5949 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5950 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5951 appropriate error code.
5952
595315. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5954 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5955 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5956 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5957 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5958 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5959
596016. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5961 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5962 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5963
596417. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5965 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5966 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5967 terminate the header.
5968
596918. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5970 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5971 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5972
597319. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5974 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5975 (4.30/29). In particular:
5976
5977 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5978 imposed.
5979
5980 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5981 to write a maildirsize file.
5982
5983 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5984 the transport, the new value overrides.
5985
5986 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5987 count.
5988
598920. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5990 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5991 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5992 space or a tab.
5993
599421. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5995 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5996 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5997 the fallback hosts.
5998
599922. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6000 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6001 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6002
600323. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6004 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6005 using a union.
6006
600724. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6008 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6009 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6010
601125. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6012
601326. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6014
601527. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6016
601728. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6018 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6019 become corrupted.
6020
602129. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6022 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6023 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6024 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6025 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6026 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6027 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6028 too great.
6029
603030. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6031 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6032 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6033 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6034 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6035 incorrectly.
6036
603731. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6038 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6039 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6040 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6041 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6042 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6043 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6044 cached value only when the same options are set.
6045
604632. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6047
604833. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6049 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6050 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6051 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6052 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6053
605434: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6055 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6056 it is clearly obsolete.
6057
605835. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6059 transport.
6060
606136. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6062 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6063 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6064 times.
6065
606637. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6067 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6068 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6069 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6070 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6071
607238. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6073 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6074 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6075 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6076
607739. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6078
6079 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6080
6081 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6082 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6083 2^31.
6084
608540. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6086 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6087 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6088 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6089 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6090 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6091 $localpart_data.
6092
609341. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6094 with the -f command-line option.
6095
609642. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6097 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6098 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6099 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6100 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6101 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6102
610343. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6104 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6105 line.
6106
610744. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6108 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6109 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6110 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6111 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6112 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6113 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6114 buffer is too small.
6115
611645. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6117 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6118
611946. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6120 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6121 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6122 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6123 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6124 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6125 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6126 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6127 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6128
612947. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6130 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6131 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6132
613348. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6134 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6135 ACL").
6136
613749. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6138 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6139 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6140 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6141 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6142
614350. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6144 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6145 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6146 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6147 is set.
6148
614951. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6150
615152. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6152
615353. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6154 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6155
615654. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6157 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6158 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6159
616055. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6161 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6162 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6163 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6164 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6165
616656. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6167 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6168 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6169 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6170 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6171 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6172 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6173
617457. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6175 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6176 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6177 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6178 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6179 the test of how many are available.
6180
618158. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6182 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6183 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6184 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6185 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6186 new message is started.
6187
618859. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6189 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6190
619160. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6192 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6193
619461. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6195 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6196 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6197 is no long logged.
6198
619962. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6200 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6201 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6202 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6203 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6204 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6205 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6206
620763. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6208 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6209 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6210 interpreted as octal.
6211
621264. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6213 setting.
6214
621565. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6216 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6217 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6218 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6219 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6220 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6221
622266. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6223 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6224 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6225 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6226
6227 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6228 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6229 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6230 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6231
6232 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6233 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6234 is a bug fix.
6235
6236 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6237 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6238
623967. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6240
624168. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6242 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6243 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6244 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6245
624669. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6247 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6248 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6249 supplied", which is not helpful.
6250
625170. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6252 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6253 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6254
625571. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6256 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6257 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6258 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6259 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6260 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6261 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6262 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6263
626472. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6265 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6266 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6267 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6268 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6269
627073. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6271 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6272 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6273 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6274 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6275 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6276
627774. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6278 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6279 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6280
628175. Added write_rejectlog option.
6282
628376. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6284 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6285 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6286 variables.
6287
628877. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6289
629078. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6291 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6292 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6293 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6294 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6295 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6296 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6297 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6298
629979. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6300 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6301 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6302 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6303 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6304
630580. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6306 Haardt.
6307
630881. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6309 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6310 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6311 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6312 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6313 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6314 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6315 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6316 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6317
6318
6319Exim version 4.30
6320-----------------
6321
6322 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6323 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6324 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6325
6326 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6327 fixed.
6328
6329 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6330 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6331 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6332
6333 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6334 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6335 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6336 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6337 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6338 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6339
6340 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6341 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6342 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6343 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6344 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6345 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6346 the Exim test suite.
6347
6348 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6349 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6350 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6351 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6352
6353 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6354 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6355 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6356 specify it in this variable.
6357
6358 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6359 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6360 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6361 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6362
6363 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6364 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6365 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6366 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6367
6368 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6369 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6370 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6371 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6372 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6373
6374 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6375
637610. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6377 they are logged.
6378
637911. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6380 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6381 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6382 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6383 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6384
638512. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6386 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6387
638813. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6389 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6390 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6391 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6392 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6393
639414. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6395 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6396
639715. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6398 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6399 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6400
640116. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6402 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6403
640417. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6405 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6406
640718. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6408 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6409 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6410
641119. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6412 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6413
641420. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6415 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6416 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6417 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6418
641921. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6420
642122. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6422 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6423 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6424 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6425
642623. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6427
642824. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6429 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6430
643125. Added .include_if_exists.
6432
643326. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6434 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6435 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6436 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6437 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6438 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6439
644027. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6441
644228. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6443 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6444 this.
6445
644629. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6447
644830. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6449 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6450
6451 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6452 550 Sender verify failed
6453
6454 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6455 the final line of the response.
6456
645731. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6458 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6459 all other user lookups.
6460
646132. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6462 delivery time.
6463
646433. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6465 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6466 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6467 result into an int without checking.
6468
646934. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6470 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6471 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6472
647335. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6474 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6475 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6476 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6477
647836. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6479 correctly.
6480
648137. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6482 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6483
648438. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6485 to the empty sender.
6486
648739. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6488 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6489 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6490 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6491 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6492 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6493 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6494 panic log.
6495
649640. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6497 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6498 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6499 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6500 used.
6501
650241. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6503 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6504
650542. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6506 timestamps.
6507
650843. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6509 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6510
651144. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6512
651345. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6514 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6515 logs.
6516
651746. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6518 as soon as it is encountered.
6519
652047. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6521
652248. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6523 rewritten to "<>".
6524
652549. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6526 recognizes a tab character.
6527
652850. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6529 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6530 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6531 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6532
653351. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6534
653552. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6536 crash.
6537
653853. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6539
654054. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6541
654255. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6543 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6544 2822.
6545
654656. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6547 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6548 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6549 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6550 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6551
655257. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6553 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6554
655558. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6556 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6557 list (.included file names were always shown).
6558
655959. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6560 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6561 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6562 root at that time.
6563
656460. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6565 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6566
656761. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6568
656962. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6570
657163. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6572
657364. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6574 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6575 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6576 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6577 failures to open the logs.
6578
657965. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6580 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6581 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6582 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6583 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6584 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6585 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6586
6587
6588Exim version 4.24
6589-----------------
6590
6591 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6592 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6593 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6594 change 4.23/1.
6595
6596 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6597 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6598 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6599
6600 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6601 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6602 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6603
6604 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6605 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6606 causing some misleading effects.
6607
6608 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6609 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6610 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6611
6612 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6613 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6614 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6615 queue-runner function directly.
6616
6617
6618Exim version 4.23
6619-----------------
6620
6621 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6622 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6623
6624 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6625 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6626 was always written to the default place.
6627
6628 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6629 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6630 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6631
6632 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6633
6634 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6635
6636 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6637 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6638 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6639
6640 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6641 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6642 must start.
6643
6644 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6645 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6646 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6647
6648 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6649 command line option is disabled.
6650
6651 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6652 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6653
6654 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6655
6656 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6657
6658 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6659 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6660
666110. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6662
666311. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6664 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6665 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6666 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6667 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6668 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6669
667012. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6671 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6672 timeout.
6673
667413. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6675 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6676
667714. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6678 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6679
668015. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6681 received was valid base64.
6682
668316. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6684 name of the variable that was being set.
6685
668617. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6687
668818. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6689 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6690 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6691 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6692 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6693 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6694
669519. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6696
669720. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6698 nor realm was specified.
6699
670021. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6701 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6702 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6703 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6704
670522. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6706 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6707 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6708
670923. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6710 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6711 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6712
671324. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6714 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6715 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6716 some systems use these upper case variants.
6717
671825. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6719 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6720 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6721 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6722
672326. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6724
672527. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6726 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6727
672828. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6729 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6730 expansion variable.
6731
673229. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6733
673430. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6735 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6736 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6737 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6738
673931. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6740 using it.
6741
674232. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6743 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6744 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6745
674633. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6747 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6748
674934. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6750 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6751 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6752 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6753
675435. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6755 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6756 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6757
675836. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6759
676037. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6761 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6762 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6763 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6764 aborted.
6765
676638. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6767 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6768 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6769
677039. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6771
677240. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6773 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6774
677541. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6776 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6777
677842. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6779 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6780 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6781 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6782 when emails are that large.
6783
6784
6785
6786Exim version 4.22
6787-----------------
6788
6789 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6790 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6791
6792 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6793 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6794 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6795
6796 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6797 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6798 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6799
6800 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6801 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6802 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6803 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6804 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6805
6806 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6807 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6808 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6809 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6810 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6811 ever.
6812
6813 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6814 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6815 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6816 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6817 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6818 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6819 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6820 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6821 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6822 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6823 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6824 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6825 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6826 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6827
6828 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6829 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6830 parameterised it.
6831
6832 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6833 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6834 error should be diagnosed.
6835
6836 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6837 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6838 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6839 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6840 appeared instead of "NULL".
6841
684210. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6843 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6844 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6845 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6846 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6847 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6848 proceeds).
6849
6850 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6851 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6852 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6853
6854
6855Exim version 4.21
6856-----------------
6857
6858 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6859 or receiver verification errors.
6860
6861 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6862 name.
6863
6864 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6865 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6866 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6867 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6868
6869 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6870 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6871 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6872 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6873 shouldn't happen again.
6874
6875 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6876 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6877 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6878
6879 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6880 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6881
6882 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6883
6884 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6885 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6886
6887 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6888 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6889 RFC.
6890
689110. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6892 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6893 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6894
689511. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6896 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6897 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6898 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6899
690012. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6901 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6902 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6903 to define what should happen).
6904
690513. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6906 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6907 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6908
690914. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6910
691115. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6912
691316. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6914 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6915
4c04137d 691617. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6917 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6918 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6919 structure in all cases.
6920
6921 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6922 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6923 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6924 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6925
692618. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6927 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6928 domain name.
6929
693019. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6931 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6932
693320. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6934 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6935
693621. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6937 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6938 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6939
694022. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6941 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6942 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6943
694423. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6945 the book and for uniformity.
6946
694724. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6948
694925. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6950 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6951 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6952 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6953 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6954 non-existent command as the problem.
6955
695626. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6957 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6958 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6959
696027. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6961
696228. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6963 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6964 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6965
696629. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6967 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6968 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6969 timestamps using strftime().
6970
697130. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6972 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6973
697432. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6975 transport-time rewrites.
6976
697733. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6978 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6979 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6980 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6981
698234. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6983 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6984
698535. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6986 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6987 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6988 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6989 comma and a space.
6990
699136. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6992 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6993 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6994 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6995 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6996 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6997 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6998
699937. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7000 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7001 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7002 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7003 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7004
700538. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7006 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7007 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7008 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7009 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7010 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7011 remaining text gets split now.
7012
701339. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7014 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7015 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7016 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7017
701840. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7019 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7020 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7021 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7022 $return_path.
7023
702441. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7025 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7026 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7027 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7028 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7029 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7030 passed through if needed.
7031
703242. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7033 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7034 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7035 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7036 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7037 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7038
703943. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7040 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7041 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7042 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7043 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7044
704544. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7046 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7047 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7048 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7049 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7050
705145. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7052 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7053 noticed.
7054
705546. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7056 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7057 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7058 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7059 mayhem of various kinds.
7060
706147. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7062 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7063 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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7064 the right test for positive values.
7065
706648. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7067 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7068 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7069 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7070 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7071 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7072 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7073 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7074 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7075 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7076 envelope.
7077
707849. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7079 module.
7080
708150. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7082 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7083 forbidding it.
7084
708551. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7086 the existing equality matching.
7087
708852. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7089 dealing with inode numbers.
7090
709153. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7092 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7093 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7094
709554. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7096 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7097 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7098 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7099 local_scan().
7100
710155. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7102 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7103 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7104 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7105 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7106 relay addresses has also been removed.
7107
710856. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7109
711057. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7111 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7112 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7113
711458. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7115 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7116 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7117 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7118 processing applies to CR:
7119
7120 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7121 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7122
7123 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7124 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7125 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7126 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7127
712859. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7129 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7130 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7131
713260. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7133 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7134 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7135 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7136 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7137 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7138 arisen.
7139
714061. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7141 program routers.
7142
714362. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7144 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7145 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7146 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7147 adds:
7148
7149 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7150
7151 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7152
7153 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7154
715563. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7156 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7157 not considered personal.
7158
715964. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7160
716165. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7162
716366. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7164
716567. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7166 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7167 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7168 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7169 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7170 header lines, and spool format errors.
7171
717268. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7173 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7174 for more flexibility.
7175
717669. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7177 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7178 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7179
718070. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7181 Sabourenkov.
7182
718371. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7184 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7185 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7186 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7187 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7188 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7189 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7190 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7191 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7192
719372. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7194 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7195 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7196 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7197 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7198 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7199 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7200
720173. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7202 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7203 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7204
720574. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7206 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7207 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7208 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7209 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7210 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7211 instead of killing the process with assert().
7212
721375. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7214 than Unicode encoding.
7215
721676. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7217 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7218 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7219 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7220
722177. Added process_log_path.
7222
722378. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7224 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7225
722679. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7227 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7228
722980. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7230 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7231 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7232
723381. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7234 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7235 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7236 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7237 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7238 were applied:
7239
7240 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7241 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7242 as invalid.
7243
724482. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7245 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7246 they will be used during message reception.
7247
7248
7249Exim version 4.20
7250-----------------
7251
7252The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7253
7254****