describe spool file changes for -tls_peerdn
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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4Exim version 4.78
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6
7PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
8 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
9 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
10
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11NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
12
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13NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
14 improved.
15
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16NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
17
c1e794ba 18PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 19
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20PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
21
22PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
23 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
24
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25PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
26 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
27
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28PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
29 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
30
f1e05cc7 31PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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32 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
33 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 34
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35PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
36
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37PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
38 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
39
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40PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
41
c45dd180 42PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 43
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44PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
45 non-compliant senders.
46 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
47
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48NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage no indicated
49 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
50 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
51
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52PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
53 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
54 in spool file corruption.
55
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57Exim version 4.77
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59
60PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
61 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
62
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63TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
64
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65TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
66 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 67
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68TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
69 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
70
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71TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
72 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
73 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
74
75 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
76 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
77 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
78 not safe for signals.
79
80 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
81 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
82 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
83 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
84 exiwhat.
85
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86TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
87
88 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
89 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
90 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
91 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
92 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
93
94 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
95 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
96 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
97 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
98 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
99 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
100
101 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
102 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
103 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
104 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
105
106 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
107 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
108 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
109 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
110
111 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
112 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
113 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
114 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
115 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
116 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
117 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
118 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
119 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
120
121 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
122 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
123 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
124 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
125
126 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
127 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
128 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
129 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
130 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
131 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
132 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
133 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
134 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
135 details in the main documentation.
136
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137TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
138
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139TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
140
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141TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
142 repository when doing development or release builds.
143
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144PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
145 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 146
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147PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
148 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
149 Bugzilla 97.
150
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151PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
152
9e949f00 153PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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154 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
155
156PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
157 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 158
555ae6af 159PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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160 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
161
162PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
163 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 164
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165PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
166 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
167
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168PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
169 Bugzilla 1156.
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170 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
171 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 172
d6cc7c78 173PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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174 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
175 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
176
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177PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
178
3399bb60 179PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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180
181PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
182 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
183
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185Exim version 4.76
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187
188PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
189
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190PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
191 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
192
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193PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
194
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195PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
196
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197PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
198 Bugzilla 1098.
199
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200PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
201 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 202
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203TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
204 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
205
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206PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
207 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
208
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209PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
210 Bugzilla 1104.
211
c8d52a00 212TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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213 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
214
215TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
216 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
217 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
218 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
219
220PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
221 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 222
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224Exim version 4.75
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226
4c9ef03a 227NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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228 Bugzilla 1073
229
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230TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
231 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
232 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
233
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234TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
235 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
236
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237PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
238 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
239 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
240
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241PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
242 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
243
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244PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
245 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
246
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247NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
248 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
249
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250NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
251 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
252
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253PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
254 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 255
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256NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
257 Fixes bug 943.
258
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259PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
260 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
261
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262PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
263 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
264
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265PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
266 SQL string expansion failure details.
267 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
268
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269PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
270 Patch from Simon Arlott.
271
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272PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
273 extern declarations in function scope.
274 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
275
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276PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
277 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
278 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
279 a kernel bug).
280
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281PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
282 Patch from Mark Zealey.
283
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284PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
285 Patch from Mark Zealey.
286
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287PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
288 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
289
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290PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
291 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
292
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293NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
294 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
295 Dennis Davis.
296
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297PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
298
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299PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
300
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301NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
302 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 303
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304TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
305 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
306
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308Exim version 4.74
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310
311TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
312 consequences so log it to the panic log.
313
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314TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
315 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
316
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317TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
318
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319DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
320 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
321 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
322
323PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
324 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
325 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
326
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327PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
328 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
329 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
330 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
331
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332PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
333 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
334 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
335 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
336
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337PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
338 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
339 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
340 arbitrary files.
341
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342PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
343 (Wolfgang Breyha)
344
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345PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
346 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
347 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
348 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
349 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
350
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354
355PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
356 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
357 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
358
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359PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
360 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
361
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362JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
363
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364PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
365
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366PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
367
ec5a0394 368PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 369
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370PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
371
453a6645 372PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
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373 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
374 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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375 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
376
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377PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
378 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
379 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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380 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
381 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 382
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383PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
384
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385PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
386
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387PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
388
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389PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
390
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391PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
392
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393PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
394
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395PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
396
6a8de854 397PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
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398 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
399 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 400
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401JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
402
403JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
404 "exim" to be used
55c75993 405
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406PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
407 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
408
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409PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
410 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
411 Notification from John Horne.
412
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413PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
414 compatible.
415
416PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
417 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
418 it normally works.
419
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420DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
421 access.
422
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423DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
424 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
425 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
426
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427DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
428 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
429 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
430 configuration file.
431
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432DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
433 option (effectively making it always true).
434
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435DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
436 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
437
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438DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
439 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
440
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441PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
442 run-time user, instead of root.
443
43236f35 444PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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445 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
446
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447DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
448 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
449 arguments.
3346ab01 450
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451DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
452 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
453 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
454
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455DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
456
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457NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
458
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460Exim version 4.72
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462
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463JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
464 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
465 typos
465e92cf 466
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467JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
468 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
469 (Finput)
edae0343 470
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471NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
472 Patch from Alain Williams
473
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474NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
475
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476NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
477 Patch from Andreas Metzler
478
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479NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
480 Patch from Kirill Miazine
481
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482NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
483
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484JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
485
a466095c 486NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 487 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 488
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489TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
490
491TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
492
493MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
494 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
495 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
496
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497NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
498 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 499
b26eacf1 500NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
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501 Patch by Simon Arlott
502
179c5980 503PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 504 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 505
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507Exim version 4.71
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509
7d9f747b 510TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 511
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512NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
513
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514NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
515
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516NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
517
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518NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
519
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521Exim version 4.70
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523
cdd3bb85 524TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 525 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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526
527TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
528 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 529 Hirsch).
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530
531TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
532 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 533 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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534
535TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
536 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
537
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538NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
539 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
540 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
541 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
542
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543NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
544 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 545 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 546
089793a4
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547TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
548
5f16ca82
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549TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
550
dae9d94e 551NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 552 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 553
7d9f747b 554NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 555
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556TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
557 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
558 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
559 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
560
65a7d8c3 561NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 562 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 563
23510047 564TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 565
7d9f747b 566NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 567
7d8eec3a 568NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 569 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 570
89dec7b6
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571TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
572 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 573
a99de90c
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574TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
575 that they are available at delivery time.
576
e2803e40
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577TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
578
7199e1ee
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579TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
580 incoming_port log selectors.
581
e276e04b
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582TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
583 setting expands to an empty string.
584
ce552449 585NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 586 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 587
e765a0f1 588NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 589 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 590
4f054c63 591NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 592 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 593
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594NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
595 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 596
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597NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
598 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 599
b52bc06e 600NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 601 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 602
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603NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
604
4c69d561 605NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 606 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 607
d5c39246 608NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 609 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 610
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611TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
612
8f3414a1 613NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 614 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 615
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616NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
617
618NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 619
7d9f747b
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620NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
621 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 622
7d9f747b
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623NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
624 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 625
7d9f747b
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626NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
627 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 628
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629NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
630 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 631
7d9f747b
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632NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
633 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 634
7d9f747b
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635NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
636 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 637
7d9f747b
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638NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
639 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 640
7d9f747b 641NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 642 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 643
7d9f747b 644NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 645
7d9f747b
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646NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
647 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 648
7d9f747b 649NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 650
7d9f747b 651NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 652
7d9f747b 653NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 654
7d9f747b 655NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 656
17792b53 657NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 658 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 659
7d9f747b
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660NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
661 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 662
7d9f747b
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663NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
664 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 665
7d9f747b
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666NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
667 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 668
7d9f747b 669NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 670
7d9f747b 671NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 672
7d9f747b 673NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 674
7d9f747b 675NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 676
deafd5b3 677
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679-----------------
680
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681TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
682 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
683 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
684
685 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
686 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
687 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
688 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
689 build errors in sieve.c.
690
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691NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
692 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
693 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
694
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695SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
696
7d9f747b 697NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 698
7d9f747b 699NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 700
7d9f747b 701NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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702
703
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704Exim version 4.68
705-----------------
706
707PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
708
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709PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
710 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
711 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
712 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
713 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
714 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
715 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
716 for iplsearch lookups.
717
718 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
719 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
720 previously such lookups could never work.
721
722 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
723 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
724 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
725
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726TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
727 version.
728
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729MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
730 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
731 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
732 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
733 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
734 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
735
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736TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
737 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
738
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739MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
740 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
741 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
742 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
743 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
744 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
745
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746PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
747 local_scan API.
748
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749PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
750
6c512171
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751PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
752 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
753 encrypted.
754
755PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
756 by clients under certain conditions.
757
aa6dc513
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758PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
759 "_responses" off the end of the name.
760
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761PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
762
8f240103
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763PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
764 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
765
766PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
767
d677b2f2
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768PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
769
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770PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
771
64f2600a
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772PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
773 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
774
8669f003
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775PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
776
a4dc33a8
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777PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
778 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
779
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780PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
781
8f128379
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782PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
783
8932dffe
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784PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
785 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
786 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
787 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 788
ddea74fa 789PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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790 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
791 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
792
ddea74fa 793PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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794 and InterBase are left for another time.)
795
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796PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
797
ce9f225c
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798PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
799
19897d52
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800PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
801
bc64a74d
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802PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
803 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
804 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
805
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807Exim version 4.67
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809
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810MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
811 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
812 Jan Srzednicki.
813
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814PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
815 issue a MAIL command.
816
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817PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
818
819 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
820
821 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
822 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
823 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
824 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
825 item. This has been fixed.
826
827PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
828 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
829
83da1223
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830PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
831 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
832
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833PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
834 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
835 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
836
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837SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
838
bbe15da8
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839PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
840 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
841 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
842 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
843 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
844
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845MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
846 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
847 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
848
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849PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
850 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
851 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
852 the server_setid option was incorrect.
853
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854PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
855
6bf342e1
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856PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
857
273f34d0
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858PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
859 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
860 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
861 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
862 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
863
cf8b11a5
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864PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
865
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866PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
867 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
868 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
869 values).
870
9c57cbc0
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871PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
872
f3f065bb
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873PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
874
047bdd8c
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875PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
876
0ce9abe6
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877PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
878
0e22dfd1
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879PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
880
4c590bd1
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881PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
882 no_callout_flush is set.
883
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884PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
885 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
886 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
887 fixed.
888
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889PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
890
e28326d8
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891PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
892 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
893 other ACL rejections are.
894
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895PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
896 with slight modification.
897
7c5214ec
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898PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
899 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
900
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901PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
902 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
903 connection.
904
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905PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
906 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
907
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908SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
909
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910PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
911 expansion side effects.
912
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913PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
914 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
915 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
916 be the same.
917
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918MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
919 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
920 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
921
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922PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
923 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
924 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
925 were accidentally chopped off.
926
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927PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
928 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
929 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
930 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
931 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
932 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
933 pipelining has not been advertised.
934
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935PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
936
42855d71
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937PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
938 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
939 This has been fixed.
940
57c2c631
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941PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
942 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
943 reported on Solaris.
944
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945PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
946 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
947 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
948 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
949 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
950 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
951 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
952
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953PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
954 cpus.
955
d2ee6114
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956PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
957
b2d5182b
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958PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
959
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960PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
961 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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962 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
963 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
964 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
965 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 966
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967PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
968 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
969 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
970 host_all_ignored option.
971
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972PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
973 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
974 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
975 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
976 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
977 is what is supposed to happen).
978
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979PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
980 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
981 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
982 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
983 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
984 uses the Exim user.
985
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986PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
987 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
988 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
989 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
990 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
991 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
992 users.
993
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994PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
995
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996SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
997 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
998 (Jez Hancock).
999 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1000 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1001
3298c6c6
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1002SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1003
a43a27c5
PH
1004PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1005
58eb016e 1006PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1007 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1008 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1009 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1010 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1011 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1012 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1013 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1014 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1015 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1016 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1017
b43a74ea
PH
1018PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1019 advertised in response to EHLO.
1020
b4ed4da0 1021
5dd1517f
PH
1022Exim version 4.66
1023-----------------
1024
1025PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1026 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1027
1028 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1029 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1030
1031 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1032 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1033 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1034
1035 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1036 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1037 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1038 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1039 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1040
1041
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TK
1042Exim version 4.65
1043-----------------
1044
1045TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1046 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1047 versions. (#438)
1048
d6066548
MH
1049MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1050 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1051 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1052
4362ff0d
PH
1053PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1054 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1055 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1056 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1057 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1058 rather than extend the field.
1059
93cfa765 1060
944e9e9c
TF
1061Exim version 4.64
1062-----------------
aa41d2de 1063
21d74bd9
TK
1064TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1065 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1066 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1067 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1068 these files.
1069
1070TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1071 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1072 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1073
1074TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1075 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1076 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1077
1078TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1079 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1080 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1081 in the field name.
1082
2b1c6e3a
PH
1083PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1084 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1085 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1086 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1087 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1088 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1089 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1090 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1091 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1092 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1093 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1094
1f872c80
PH
1095PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1096 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1097
1098PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1099 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1100 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1101 ignores EPIPE as well.
1102
d203e649
PH
1103PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1104 (quoted-printable decoding).
1105
cc2ed8f7 1106PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1107 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1108
ddfcd446
PH
1109PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1110
d45b1de8
PH
1111PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1112
1113PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1114
38a0a95f 1115PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1116 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1117
a2405d83
JJ
1118JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1119 in 4.64-PH/09.
1120
1121JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1122 miscellaneous code fixes
1123
6ea85e9a
PH
1124PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1125 rejections.
1126
26da7e20
PH
1127PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1128 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1129 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1130 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1131 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1132 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1133 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1134 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1135
14aa5a05 1136PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1137 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1138 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1139 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1140 function.
1141 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1142 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1143 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1144 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1145 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1146 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1147 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1148 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1149 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1150
ff75a1f7
PH
1151PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1152 decoding.
1153
e6f6568e
PH
1154PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1155 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1156 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1157 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1158 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1159 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1160 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1161 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1162
d6f6e0dc
PH
1163PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1164 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1165 list.
1166
322050c2
PH
1167PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1168 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1169 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1170 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1171 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1172 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1173 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1174 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1175 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1176 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1177 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1178 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1179 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1180
08955dd3
PH
1181PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1182 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1183 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1184 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1185 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1186 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1187 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1188
1eccaa59
PH
1189PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1190 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1191 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1192 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1193 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1194 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1195 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1196 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1197 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1198 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1199
602e59e5
PH
1200PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1201 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1202 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1203 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1204 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1205
411ef850
PH
1206PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1207 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1208 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1209 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1210 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1211 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1212 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1213
7befa435
PH
1214PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1215 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1216 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1217 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1218 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1219 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1220 been verified.
1221
48da4259 1222PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1223 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1224 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1225 and authorization.)
1226
48da4259
PH
1227PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1228 if any retry times were supplied.
1229
d1d5595c
PH
1230PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1231 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1232 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1233
0ef732d9
PH
1234PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1235
328895cc
PH
1236PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1237
fd700877
PH
1238PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1239 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1240 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1241 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1242 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1243 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1244
8dce1a6f
PH
1245PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1246 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1247
17af4a17
PH
1248PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1249 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1250 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1251
1252PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1253 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1254 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1255 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1256 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1257 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1258 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1259 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1260 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1261
1262 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1263 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1264 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1265 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1266 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1267 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1268 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1269 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1270 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1271
1272 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1273 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1274 hammering the server.
1275
c1114884
PH
1276PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1277 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1278
7a0743eb
PH
1279PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1280
0d85fa3f
PH
1281PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1282 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1283 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1284
1bf43b78
PH
1285PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1286 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1287 one case where this was not true.
1288
520de300
PH
1289PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1290 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1291 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1292 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1293 fails.
1294
48c7f9e2
PH
1295PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1296 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1297 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1298 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1299 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1300 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1301 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1302 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1303 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1304 smtp transport.
1305
99ea1c86
PH
1306PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1307 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1308 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1309 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1310
a2042e78
PH
1311PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1312 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1313
4fbcfc2e
PH
1314PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1315 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1316 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1317
aa41d2de
PH
1318PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1319
af561417
PH
1320PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1321
3cc66b45
PH
1322PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1323
194cc0e4
PH
1324PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1325 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1326 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1327 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1328
a401ddaa
PH
1329PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1330 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1331
4e88a19f
PH
1332PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1333 be meaningful with "accept".
1334
d7d7b289
SC
1335SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1336 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1337
1338SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1339 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1340 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1341
1342SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1343 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1344 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1345 there is data to show.
1346 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1347
1348SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1349 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1350 as well as the number of messages.
1351
1352SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1353 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1354 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1355
1356SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1357 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1358 have a flag are now skipped.
1359
1360SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1361 Added the -emptyok flag.
1362
1363SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1364 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1365
0ea2a468
JJ
1366JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1367 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1368 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1369
1370JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1371 match 4.64-PH/13
1372
1373JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1374 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1375
1376JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1377
1378JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1379 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1380
8a10f5a4
PH
1381PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1382
30e18802
PH
1383PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1384 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1385 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1386 contravention of the specifications.
1387
55728a4f
PH
1388PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1389 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1390 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1391
d7837193
PH
1392PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1393 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1394 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1395
87054a31
PH
1396PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1397
ea2c01d2
MH
1398MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1399 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1400 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1401 some point in the past.
1402
e4fa6968
PH
1403PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1404 transport during callout processing was broken.
1405
56f5d9bd
PH
1406PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1407 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1408
922e1c28
PH
1409PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1410 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1411
21eb6e72
PH
1412PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1413 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1414
a0540757
PH
1415PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1416
944e9e9c 1417
478be7b0
SC
1418Exim version 4.63
1419-----------------
1420
1421SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1422 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1423
1424SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1425 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1426 there is data to show.
1427 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1428
1429SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1430 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1431
2b965a65
TF
1432TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1433 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1434
45b91596
PH
1435TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1436 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1437
c59f5781
TF
1438TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1439 submissions from trusted users.
1440
90fc3069
TF
1441TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1442 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1443
6083aca0
TF
1444TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1445 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1446 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1447 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1448 there is now a framework to start from.
1449
765b530f
PH
1450PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1451 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1452 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1453
4e167a8c
PH
1454PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1455
4608d683
PH
1456PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1457
b8dc3e4a
PH
1458PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1459
5418e93b
PH
1460PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1461 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1462 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1463
b4a9bda2
PH
1464PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1465 libradius.
1466
45b91596
PH
1467PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1468 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1469 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1470
5547e2c5
PH
1471PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1472 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1473 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1474 its arguments.
1475
dbcef0ea
PH
1476PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1477 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1478 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1479 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1480 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1481
25257489
PH
1482PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1483 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1484
c816d124
PH
1485PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1486
a9ccd69a
PH
1487PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1488 operations in malware.c.
1489
75fa1910
PH
1490PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1491 signatures.
1492
a7d7aa58
PH
1493PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1494 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1495 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1496 all.
1497
42119b09
PH
1498PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1499 statements to "add_header".
1500
41609df5
PH
1501PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1502 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1503
a5bd321b
PH
1504PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1505 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1506 latter.
1507
e85a7ad5 1508PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1509 so that it is now:
1510
e85a7ad5
PH
1511 ${if or { \
1512 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1513 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1514 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1515 }{no}{yes}}
1516
e85a7ad5
PH
1517 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1518 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1519
d8fe1c03
PH
1520PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1521 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1522
16282d2b
PH
1523PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1524 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1525 any possible encoding problems.
1526
35d40a98
PH
1527PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1528 but not after initializing Perl.
1529
034d99ab
PH
1530PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1531 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1532 apparently, which is not desirable.
1533
6ec97b1b
PH
1534PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1535 queries.
1536
e22ca4ac
JJ
1537JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1538 --not options
1539
1540JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1541
33d73e3b
PH
1542PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1543 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1544 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1545 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1546
9ecb03f3
PH
1547PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1548 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1549 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1550
084efe8d
PH
1551PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1552 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1553 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1554 0.12.
1555
366fc9f0
PH
1556PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1557 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1558 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1559 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1560 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1561
c59f5781 1562
c887c79e
TF
1563Exim version 4.62
1564-----------------
1565
1566TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1567 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1568
1cce3af8
PH
1569PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1570 patch).
1571
afb3eaaf
PH
1572PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1573 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1574 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1575 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1576 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1577 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1578 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1579 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1580 451 error is used.
1581
e173618b
PH
1582PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1583
dd16e114
PH
1584PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1585 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1586 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1587
f7fd3850
PH
1588PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1589 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1590 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1591 odd errors.
1592
d87df92c
PH
1593PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1594 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1595
7e9f683d
PH
1596PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1597 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1598 option (which defaults to 0600).
1599
bfad5236
PH
1600PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1601
01c490df
PH
1602PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1603 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1604 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1605 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1606 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1607 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1608 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1609
d6629cdc
PH
1610PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1611
1cce3af8 1612
214e2000
PH
1613Exim version 4.61
1614-----------------
1615
1616PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1617 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1618 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1619 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1620 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1621 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1622 addresses as local.
1623
f9daeae0
PH
1624PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1625 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1626
7e66e54d
PH
1627PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1628
c8ea1597
PH
1629PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1630 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1631 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1632 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1633 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1634 grumble.
1635
911f6fde
PH
1636PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1637 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1638
47ca6d6c
PH
1639PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1640 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1641 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1642 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1643 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1644
ed0e9820
PH
1645PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1646 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1647 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1648 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1649
eff37e47
PH
1650PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1651 be the same on different OS.
1652
1921d2ea
PH
1653PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1654 testing.
1655
b3f69ca8
JJ
1656JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1657 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1658
1659JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1660 in 4.61-PH/06
1661
424a1c63
PH
1662PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1663 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1664 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1665 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1666 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1667 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1668 bounce message.
1669
7a100415
PH
1670PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1671 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1672 when Exim was called.
1673
19b9dc85
PH
1674PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1675 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1676
309bd837
PH
1677PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1678 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1679 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1680 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1681
59e82a2a
PH
1682PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1683 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1684 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1685 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1686 changes:
1687
1688 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1689 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1690 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1691
1692 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1693 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1694 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1695
9edc04ce
PH
1696PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1697 feature).
1698
1349e1e5
PH
1699PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1700 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1701 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1702 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1703 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1704 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1705 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1706 values from the SRV records were lost.
1707
ea49d0e1
PH
1708PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1709 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1710 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1711
064a94c9
PH
1712PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1713 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1714 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1715
727071f8
PH
1716PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1717 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1718 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1719 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1720 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1721 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1722 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1723 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1724 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1725 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1726
f78eb7c6
PH
1727PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1728 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1729 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1730
21c28500
PH
1731PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1732 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1733
1734PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1735 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1736 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1737 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1738 is given.
1739
1688f43b
PH
1740PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1741 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1742 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1743
1744PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1745 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1746 PH/23 above applies.
1747
9675b384
PH
1748PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1749 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1750 (for which there is an explicit test).
1751
6a3f1455
PH
1752PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1753
dac79d3e
PH
1754PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1755 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1756 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1757 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1758 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1759
5977a0b3
PH
1760PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1761 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1762 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1763 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1764
c91535f3
PH
1765PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1766 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1767 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1768
0d46a8c8
PH
1769PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1770
278c6e6c
PH
1771PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1772
2cbb4081
PH
1773PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1774 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1775 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1776
3eef829e
PH
1777PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1778 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1779 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1780 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1781 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1782
1ab95fa6
PH
1783PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1784 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1785 the message gets confusing).
1786
230205fc
PH
1787PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1788 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1789 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1790 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1791
75e0e026
PH
1792PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1793 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1794 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1795 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1796 same order.
1797
1798PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1799 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1800 the different processes.
1801
145396a6
PH
1802PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1803
3cd34f13
PH
1804PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1805
11121d3d
JJ
1806JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1807 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1808
1809JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1810 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1811
1812JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1813 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1814 messages matching specified criteria.
1815
8def5aaf
PH
1816PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1817
929ba01c
PH
1818PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1819 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1820
2632889e
PH
1821PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1822 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1823 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1824 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1825 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1826 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1827 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1828 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1829 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1830 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1831
944a9c55
PH
1832PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1833 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1834 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1835
4a23603b
PH
1836PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1837
4730f942
PH
1838PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1839 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1840 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1841 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1842 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1843 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1844 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1845 the variable.
1846
30dba1e6
PH
1847PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1848 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1849
382afc6b
PH
1850PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1851
a86229cf
PH
1852PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1853
50c99ba6
PH
1854PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1855
d35e429d
PH
1856PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1857 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1858 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1859 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1860 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1861 size of the count of files.
1862
f90d018c
PH
1863PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1864
75def545
PH
1865PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1866 used in LMTP mode:
1867
1868 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1869 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1870 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1871 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1872
1873 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1874 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1875 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1876
1877PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1878 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1879 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1880 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1881 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1882
c46782ef
PH
1883PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1884 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1885
71fafd95
PH
1886PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1887 will now be deprecated.
1888
2c5db4fd
PH
1889PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1890
9cf6b11a
JJ
1891JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1892 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1893 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1894
1895JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1896 with very large, slow to parse queues
1897
1898JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1899
1900JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1901
898d150f
PH
1902PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1903 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1904 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1905 SMTP output lines.
1906
46218253
PH
1907PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1908 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1909 Sieve code now uses this.
1910
e97957bc
PH
1911PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1912 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1913
81e509d7
PH
1914PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1915 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1916
3d240ff7
PH
1917PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1918
b37c4101
PH
1919PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1920 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1921 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1922 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1923 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1924
79378e0f
PH
1925PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1926 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1927 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1928 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1929
e49c7bb4
PH
1930PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1931
d114ec46
PH
1932PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1933
f3d7df6c
PH
1934PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1935 is preferred over IPv4.
1936
715ab376
PH
1937PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1938 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1939 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1940 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1941 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1942 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1943 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1944
6b31b150
PH
1945PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1946 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1947 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1948
1949PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1950
d515a917
PH
1951PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1952 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1953 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1954 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1955 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1956 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1957 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1958 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1959 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1960 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1961 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1962
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1963PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1964 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1965 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1966
214e2000 1967
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1968Exim version 4.60
1969-----------------
1970
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PH
1971PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1972
1973 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1974 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1975
1976 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1977 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1978 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 1979
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PH
1980PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1981
1982 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1983 not a single digit.
1984
1985 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1986 string.
1987
1988 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1989 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1990 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1991 silly things.
1992
1993 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1994 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1995
1996 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1997 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 1998
cb741023
PH
1999PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2000 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2001 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2002
f174f16e
PH
2003PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2004 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2005
c25242d7
PH
2006PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2007 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2008
2009 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2010
2011 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2012 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2013 this:
2014
2015 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2016
82c19f95
PH
2017PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2018 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2019 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2020 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2021 identical. For example:
2022
2023 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2024
2025 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2026 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2027 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2028
d7ffbc12
PH
2029PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2030 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2031 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2032 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2033
9f526266
PH
2034PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2035 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2036 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2037 message.
2038
87fcc8b9
PH
2039PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2040
2041 o fixes some comments
2042 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2043 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2044 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2045 and documents the missing references header update
2046
2047 and most important:
2048
2049 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2050 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2051 result)
2052
456682f5
PH
2053PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2054 Electronic Mail") by including:
2055
2056 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2057
2058 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2059 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2060 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2061 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2062 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2063
2064 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2065
2066 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2067
2068 The auto-replied keyword:
2069
2070 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2071 message by an automatic process,
2072
2073 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2074
2075 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2076 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2077
2078 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2079 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2080 other messages.
2081
3e46c1aa
PH
2082PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2083 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2084
49826d12
PH
2085PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2086
eba0c039
PH
2087PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2088 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2089 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2090
a0d6ba8a
PH
2091PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2092 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2093 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2094
f0917727
PH
2095PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2096 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2097 and treats the condition as false.
2098
096fee00
PH
2099PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2100
024bd3c2
PH
2101PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2102 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2103 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2104 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2105 not changing the active code.
2106
2107 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2108 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2109
2110 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2111 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2112
df199fec
PH
2113PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2114 (Bugzilla #53).
2115
d27f1df3
PH
2116PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2117 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2118 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2119 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2120 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2121 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2122 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2123 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2124 the text comparison.
2125
96776534
PH
2126PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2127 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2128 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2129 The same fix has been applied.
2130
5de37277 2131
9a799bc0
PH
2132Exim version 4.54
2133-----------------
2134
2135PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2136 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2137 It now does.
2138
99a4b039
PH
2139PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2140 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2141
2142PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2143
4b233853
PH
2144PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2145 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2146 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2147 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2148 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2149
8857ccfd
PH
2150TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2151 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2152 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2153 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2154 or /domain=).
2155
433a2980
PH
2156PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2157 testing suite.
2158
3e46c1aa 2159
9a799bc0 2160
e3a311ba
TK
2161Exim version 4.53
2162-----------------
2163
2164TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2165 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2166
13b685f9
PH
2167PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2168
395ff96d
PH
2169PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2170
5b68f6e4
PH
2171PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2172 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2173 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2174
1ab52c69
PH
2175PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2176 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2177 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2178
b07e6aa3
PH
2179PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2180 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2181 operating systems.
2182
254e032f
PH
2183PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2184 ${stat: expansion item.
2185
3af76a81
PH
2186PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2187 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2188
2548ba04
PH
2189PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2190 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2191 file for comments.
2192
b6c6011d
PH
2193PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2194
cf39cf57
PH
2195PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2196 setting.
2197
f1513293
PH
2198PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2199 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2200
727549a4
PH
2201TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2202
af46795e
PH
2203PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2204 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2205 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2206 the end of the subprocess.
2207
d7b47fd0
PH
2208PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2209 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2210 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2211 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2212 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2213
ee744174
JJ
2214JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2215
b582ab87
PH
2216TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2217
41a13e0a
PH
2218PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2219 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2220
f625cc5a
PH
2221PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2222
2223PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2224
21f7af35
PH
2225PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2226 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2227 HP-UX compiler.
2228
31480e42
PH
2229PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2230
2d280592
PH
2231PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2232 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2233 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2234
7cd1141b
PH
2235PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2236 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2237
2238PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2239 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2240
750af86e
PH
2241PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2242 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2243
2244 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2245 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2246
2247 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2248 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2249 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2250 contributed by a Radius user.
2251
2252PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2253 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2254
4304270b
TK
2255TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2256 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2257
750af86e
PH
2258PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2259 available.
2260
64ffc24f
PH
2261PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2262 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2263 received.
2264
5dd9625b
PH
2265PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2266 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2267 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2268 header lines when this was not necessary.
2269
5591031b
PH
2270PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2271
ba18e66a
PH
2272PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2273 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2274 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2275 exists".
2276
9cec981f
PH
2277PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2278 -bV or -d is used.
2279
aa2b5c79
PH
2280PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2281 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2282 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2283 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2284
48a53b7f
PH
2285PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2286
1c59d63b
PH
2287PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2288
671012da
TK
2289TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2290
1509d3a8
PH
2291PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2292
2293PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2294 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2295 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2296 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2297 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2298 settings.
2299
2300PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2301
2fe1a124
PH
2302PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2303 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2304 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2305 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2306 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2307 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2308 which is clearly wrong.
2309
8800895a
PH
2310PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2311
ccfdb010
PH
2312PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2313 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2314 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2315 subsequently added.
2316
1130bfb0
PH
2317PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2318 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2319
ebcb507f
PH
2320PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2321
c35e155c
PH
2322PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2323 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2324
95d1f782
PH
2325PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2326 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2327
fd6de02e
PH
2328PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2329 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2330
58de37c5
PH
2331PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2332 recipients, not senders.
2333
261cf466
TF
2334TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2335 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2336
3ee512ff
PH
2337PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2338
e08c430f
PH
2339PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2340
bef5a11f
PH
2341PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2342 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2343 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2344 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2345
7546de58
TF
2346TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2347
e5d5a95f
TF
2348TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2349 clock is set back in time.
2350
2e88a017
TF
2351TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2352 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2353
a5f65aa4
TF
2354TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2355 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2356
e7726cbf
PH
2357PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2358 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2359 (see PH/47 above).
2360
a7fdad5b
TF
2361TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2362 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2363 header rewrites.
2364
6af56900
PH
2365PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2366 type ("H").
2367
0925ede6
PH
2368PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2369
66afa403
TF
2370TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2371 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2372 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2373
0154e85a
TF
2374TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2375 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2376 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2377 helo verification defer as a failure.
2378
16f12c76
PH
2379PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2380 actual error message.
2381
bbe902f0 2382
e5a9dba6
PH
2383Exim version 4.52
2384-----------------
2385
2386TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2387
22c3b60b
PH
2388PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2389 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2390 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2391 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2392
06a9b4b5
PH
2393TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2394
c1ac6996
PH
2395PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2396 can still be requested.
2397
9c7a242c
PH
2398PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2399 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2400 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2401 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2402
87ba3f5f
PH
2403TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2404 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2405 circumstances, but probably never did.
2406
2407PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2408 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2409 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2410 in the header line.
2411
29aba418
TF
2412TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2413
fe0dab11
TF
2414TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2415 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2416
11d337a4
TK
2417TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2418
2419TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2420
415c8f3b
PH
2421PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2422 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2423 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2424 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2425 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2426 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2427
958541e9
PH
2428PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2429 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2430 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2431 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2432 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2433 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2434
c206415f
TK
2435TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2436 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2437
2a4be8f9
PH
2438PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2439 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2440
1cba11c5
SC
2441SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2442 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2443
2444SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2445
2446SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2447
2448SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2449
2450SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2451
2452SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2453
2454SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2455
1005d00e
TK
2456TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2457
2458TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2459 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2460 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2461
2462TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2463 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2464 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2465 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2466
9b4768fa
PH
2467PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2468 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2469 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2470
2471PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2472 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2473 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2474 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2475
0d7eb84a
PH
2476PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2477 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2478 to be made).
2479
2480PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2481 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2482 should work with maildirs and everything.
2483
40727bee
TK
2484TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2485 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2486
554d2369
TF
2487TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2488 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2489
1f922db1
PH
2490PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2491 function for BDB 4.3.
2492
ef213c3b
PH
2493PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2494
8ac170f3
PH
2495PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2496 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2497 involved.
2498
b1c749bb
PH
2499PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2500 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2501 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2502 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2503 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2504 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2505
4aac9b49
PH
2506PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2507 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2508 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2509 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2510 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2511 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2512 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2513 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2514
294520c8
TK
2515TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2516 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2517 details.
2518
5bd022fe
PH
2519PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2520 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2521
90e9ce59
PH
2522PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2523 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2524 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2525 test. It is now used for both.
2526
5ea81592
PH
2527PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2528 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2529 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2530 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2531 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2532 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2533
c6c2dc1d
PH
2534PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2535 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2536 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2537 string_vformat().
2538
fffffe4c
PH
2539PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2540 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2541 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2542
9a26b6b2
PH
2543PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2544 experimental DomainKeys support:
2545
2546 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2547 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2548 the control was given.
2549
2550 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2551
4aee0225
PH
2552PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2553
32d668a5
PH
2554PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2555
8187c3f3
PH
2556PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2557 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2558 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2559 db.h files).
2560
ff790e47 2561PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2562 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2563 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2564 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2565 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2566 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2567 course.
ff790e47 2568
5417f6d1
PH
2569PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2570 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2571 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2572 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2573 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2574 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2575
59cf8544
PH
2576PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2577 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2578 do -d+all out of habit.
2579
e7ad8a65
PH
2580PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2581 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2582 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2583
ade42478
PH
2584PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2585 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2586 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2587 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2588 record types that Exim uses.
2589
182ad5cf
PH
2590PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2591 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2592 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2593 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2594 non-existent file that was broken.
2595
b0d9fc80
TK
2596TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2597 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2598
2599TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2600 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2601 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2602
2603TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2604
47c7a64a
PH
2605PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2606 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2607 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2608 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2609 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2610 same time.
2611
a388bce4
SC
2612SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2613 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2614 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2615 at a slight CPU cost.
2616
2617SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2618 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2619
2620SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2621 by Marc Sherman.
2622
0793e4ed
SC
2623SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2624
c58b88df
PH
2625PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2626 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2627
e7ad8a65 2628
7982096b
PH
2629Exim version 4.51
2630-----------------
2631
1a46a8c5
PH
2632TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2633 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2634
2f079f46 2635TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2636
2637TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2638
2639PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2640 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2641
2642PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2643 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2644 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2645 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2646 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2647 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2648 file.
2649
2650PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2651 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2652 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2653 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2654 these two options.
2655
2656PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2657 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2658 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2659 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2660 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2661 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2662 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2663 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2664
2665PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2666 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2667
2668PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2669 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2670 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2671 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2672 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2673 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2674
2675PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2676 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2677 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2678 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2679
2680PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2681 Finch).
2682
2683PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2684 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2685
49c2d5ea
PH
2686PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2687 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2688 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2689 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2690 message.
49c2d5ea 2691
bf759a8b
PH
2692PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2693
83364d30
PH
2694PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2695 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2696
7999bbd7
PH
2697PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2698 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2699 to what was transported.)
2700
7dbf77c9
PH
2701TF/01 Added $received_time.
2702
74e0617f
PH
2703PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2704 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2705 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2706 spamd_address settings.
2707
2f079f46
PH
2708PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2709 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2710 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2711 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2712 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2713
8c841523
PH
2714PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2715
7766a4f0
PH
2716PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2717 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2718 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2719 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2720 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2721
8b417f2c
PH
2722PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2723 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2724
901f42cb
PH
2725PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2726 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2727 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2728 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2729 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2730 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2731 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2732 for failure.
2733
f9b9210e
PH
2734PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2735 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2736 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2737 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2738 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2739 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2740 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2741 "input=".
2742
54cdb463
PH
2743PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2744
cf00dad6
PH
2745PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2746 driver and ACL definitions.
2747
acb1b346
PH
2748PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2749 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2750
c5ddb310
PH
2751PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2752 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2753 understands it better than I do:
2754
2755 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2756 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2757
2758 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2759 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2760 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2761 => three warnings about OTP not working
2762 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2763
2764 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2765 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2766 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2767 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2768 for each call.)
2769 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2770 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2771
2772 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2773 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2774 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2775
31619da6
PH
2776PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2777 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2778 specified.
2779
bebaf0fc
PH
2780PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2781 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2782 "Linux".
2783
475fe28a
PH
2784PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2785 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2786 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2787
2788 warn !verify = sender
2789 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2790
2791 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2792 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2793
7e8bec7a
PH
2794PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2795
2796 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2797 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2798
2799 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2800 nomenclature these days.)
2801
e4a89c47
PH
2802PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2803 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2804
5ca2a9a1
PH
2805PH/30 In these circumstances:
2806 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2807 . First host does not offer TLS;
2808 . First host accepts first address;
2809 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2810 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2811 . Second host accepts second address.
2812 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2813 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2814 address.
7e8bec7a 2815
c688b954
PH
2816PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2817 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2818 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2819 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2820 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2821
fed77020
PH
2822PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2823 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2824
7fe1560f
PH
2825PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2826 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2827
ebb6e6d5
PH
2828PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2829 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2830 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2831
9c4e8f60
PH
2832PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2833 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2834 overlooked.
2835
2836PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2837
d7174846
PH
2838PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2839 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2840 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2841 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2842 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2843 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2844 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2845
2846 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2847 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2848 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2849 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2850 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2851
2852 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2853 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2854 routed further.
2855
cfe75fc3
PH
2856PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2857 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2858 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2859 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2860 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2861 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2862
be22d70e
PH
2863PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2864
0612b098
PH
2865PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2866 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2867 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2868 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2869 printable escape sequences.
2870
2e0c1448
PH
2871PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2872 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2873 body only.
2874
447d236c
PH
2875PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2876 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2877 are as follows:
2878
2879 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2880 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2881 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2882 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2883 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2884
2885 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2886 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2887 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2888
d20976dc
PH
2889PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2890
f656d135
PH
2891PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2892 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2893 play with."
2894
2e2a30b4
PH
2895PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2896 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2897 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2898 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2899 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2900 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2901 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2902 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2903 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2904 the log output.
2905
9176e9f0
PH
2906PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2907 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2908 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2909 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2910 "make".
2911
7982096b 2912
bbe902f0
PH
2913A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2914----------------------------------------
2915
2916Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2917changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2918needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2919in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2920that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2921release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2922from 4.43.
2923
2924I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
29254.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2926those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2927historical information.
2928
2929
f7b63901 2930Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
2931-----------------
2932
5fe762f6
PH
2933 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2934
139059f6 2935 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 2936 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 2937
7086e875
PH
2938 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2939 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2940 place.
2941
35af9f61
PH
2942 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2943 filter fails to execute.
2944
b668c215
PH
2945 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2946 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2947 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2948 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2949 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2950
a494b1e1
PH
2951 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2952
2953 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2954 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2955 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2956 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 2957
c5fcb476
PH
2958 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2959 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2960 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2961 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2962 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2963
69358f02
PH
2964 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2965
5be20824
PH
296610. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2967
eb2c0248
PH
296811. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2969 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2970 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2971 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2972
2a3eea10
PH
297312. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2974 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2975 sender verification.
2976
297713. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2978 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2979
23c7ff99
PH
298014. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2981
4deaf07d
PH
298215. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2983 connection timeout.
2984
926e1192
PH
298516. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2986 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2987
650edc6f
PH
298817. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2989 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2990
2c7db3f5
PH
299118. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2992 information about exactly what failed.
2993
3d235903
PH
299419. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2995
7c7ad977
PH
299620. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2997 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2998 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2999
981756db
PH
300021. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3001 It is now set to "smtps".
3002
d4eb88df
PH
300322. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3004 ignore_target_hosts.
3005
300623. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3007 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3008 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3009 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3010 "[x.x.x.x]".
3011
7d468ab8
PH
301224. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3013 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3014 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3015
301625. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3017 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3018 wake it up if nothing else does.
3019
62c0818f
PH
302026. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3021 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3022 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3023 end up negative.
3024
26034054
PH
302527. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3026 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3027
af66f652
PH
302828. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3029
90af77f4
PH
303029. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3031 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3032 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3033 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3034 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3035 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3036 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3037 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3038
d8ef3577
PH
303930. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3040 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3041 than one IP address.
3042
5cb8cbc6
PH
304331. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3044 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3045 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3046 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3047
14702f5b
PH
304832. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3049 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3050 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3051 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3052 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3053 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3054
063b1e99
PH
305533. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3056 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3057 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3058 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3059
652e1b65
PH
306034. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3061 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3062 respected.
3063
6f0c9a4f
PH
306435. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3065 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3066 $sender_host_address.
3067
33397d19
PH
306836. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3069 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3070 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3071 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3072 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3073 very small.
3074
7bb56e1f
PH
307537. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3076
3077 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3078 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3079
ea3bc19b
PH
3080 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3081 just the host names, not the priorities.
3082
3083 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3084 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3085 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3086
ea3bc19b 3087 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3088 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3089
0bcb2a0e
PH
309038. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3091 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3092 domain.
3093
2ac0e484
PH
309439. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3095
4e1fde53
PH
309640. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3097 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3098
de365ded
PH
309941. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3100 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3101 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3102
f05da2e8
PH
310342. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3104
d6453af2
PH
310543. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3106
f7b63901
PH
310744. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3108
310945. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3110 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3111 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3112 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3113 because the tests only now provoked it.
3114
a444213a
PH
311546. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3116 (this can affect the format of dates).
3117
0ec020ea
PH
311847. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3119 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3120 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3121 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3122
b1206957
PH
312348. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3124
312549. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3126 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3127 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3128 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3129
26dd5a95
PH
313050. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3131 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3132 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3133
343b2385
PH
313451. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3135 autoreply.
3136
1c5466b9
PH
313752. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3138 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3139 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3140 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3141 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3142 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3143 is going on).
3144
55ee9ee3
PH
314553. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3146 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3147 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3148 the line.
3149
d38f8232
PH
315054. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3151 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3152 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3153
3154 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3155 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3156 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3157 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3158 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3159 so I produce this patch..."
3160
3295e65b
PH
3161 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3162 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3163 is not defined.
3164
7102e136
PH
316555. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3166 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3167 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3168 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3169 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3170
3ca0ba97
PH
317156. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3172
c2bcbe20
PH
317357. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3174 long debug lines gets shown.
3175
18ce445d
PH
317658. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3177 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3178
1f5b4c3d
PH
317959. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3180
3181 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3182 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3183 of $primary_hostname.
3184
b975ba52
PH
318560. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3186 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3187 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3188 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3189 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3190 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3191 by change 4.50/55 above.
3192
3193 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3194 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3195 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3196 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3197 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3198 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3199 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3200
320161. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3202 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3203 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3204 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3205
17ffcae7
PH
320662. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3207 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3208
d95f9fdb
PH
320963. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3210 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3211 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3212 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3213 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3214
86b8287f
PH
321564. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3216 This has been fixed.
3217
60dc5e56
PH
321865. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3219 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3220 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3221 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3222 the caching.)
3223
533244af
PH
322466. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3225
a5a28604
PH
322667. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3227 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3228 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3229 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3230
7e634d24
PH
323168. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3232 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3233
3e11c26b
PH
323469. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3235 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3236 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3237
6729cf78
PH
323870. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3239 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3240 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3241 message there.
3242
00f00ca5
PH
324371. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3244 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3245 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3246
c9bdd01c
PH
324772. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3248 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3249 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3250 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3251
d43194df
PH
325273. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3253 during host lookups.
3254
fe5b5d0b
PH
325574. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3256 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3257
3258 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3259
76a2d7ba
PH
326075. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3261 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3262 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3263 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3264 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3265 background.
3266
326776. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3268 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3269
04f7d5b9
PH
327077. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3271 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3272 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3273
bc60667e
PH
327478. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3275
bb6e88ff
PH
327679. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3277 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3278 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3279 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3280 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3281 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3282 process earlier.
3283
1e70f85b
PH
328480. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3285 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3286 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3287 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3288 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3289
329081. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3291 tables).
3292
4e01f9d6
PH
329382. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3294
1ee1cef2
PH
329583. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3296 "vacation" handling.
3297
6e2b4ccc
PH
329884. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3299 OS variants using glibc.
3300
8e669ac1
PH
330185. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3302
495ae4b0 3303
bbe902f0
PH
3304----------------------------------------------------
3305See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3306----------------------------------------------------
3307
3308
3309Exim version 4.44
3310-----------------
3311
3312 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3313 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3314 transport
3315
3316 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3317 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3318 place.
3319
3320 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3321 filter fails to execute.
3322
3323 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3324 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3325 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3326 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3327 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3328
3329 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3330 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3331 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3332 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3333
3334 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3335 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3336 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3337 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3338 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3339
3340 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3341
3342 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3343 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3344 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3345 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3346
3347 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3348 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3349 sender verification.
3350
335110. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3352 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3353
335411. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3355 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3356
335712. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3358 ignore_target_hosts.
3359
336013. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3361 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3362 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3363 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3364 "[x.x.x.x]".
3365
336614. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3367 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3368 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3369
337015. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3371 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3372 wake it up if nothing else does.
3373
337416. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3375 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3376 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3377 end up negative.
3378
337917. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3380 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3381
ea3a6f44 338218. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3383
338419. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3385 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3386 empty pattern.
3387
338820. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3389 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3390 one IP address.
3391
ea3a6f44
NM
339221. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3393 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3394 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3395 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3396 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3397 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3398
ea3a6f44
NM
339922. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3400 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3401 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3402
340323. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3404 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3405 $sender_host_address.
3406
340724. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3408
ea3a6f44
NM
340925. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3410 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3411 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.