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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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5Exim version 4.86
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7JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
8 expanded.
9
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10JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
11
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12JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
13 it.
14
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15JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
16 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostname
17 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
18 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
19
cb1d7830 20JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 21 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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22 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
23
610ff438 24JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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25 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
26 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
27 TLS connections
610ff438 28
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29JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
30 sites use this now.
31
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33Exim version 4.85
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35TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
36 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
37 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
38 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
39 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
40 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
41 the script parsing/test process like normal.
42
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43TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
44 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
45 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
46 function when detected.
47
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48JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
49 cause callback expansion.
50
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51TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
52 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
53 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
54 instead of bool when processing it.
55
0f06b4f2 56JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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57 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
58
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59JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
60
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61JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
62
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63TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
64
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65TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
66 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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68JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
69 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
70 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
71 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
72 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
73 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
74
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75JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
76 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
77 exceeded it.
78
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79JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
80 version 3.3.6 or later.
81
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82JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
83 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
84 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 85 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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86 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
87 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
88 option is defined.
774ef2d7 89
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90TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
91 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
92
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93JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
94 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
95 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
96 matches.
97
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98JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
99 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
100 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
101
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102JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
103 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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104
105JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
106 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
107 syntax errors.
108
3394b36a 109JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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110
111JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
112 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
113
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114TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
115 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
116 tarball.
117
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118JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
119
120JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
121 Bug 1561.
122
123JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
124 output list separator was used.
125
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127Exim version 4.84
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129TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
130 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
131 return.
1f0ebb98 132
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133JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
134 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
135
136JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
137
138TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 139 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 140
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144
145TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
146
147 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
148 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
149 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
150 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
151 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
152 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
153
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154TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
155 utilities have not been installed.
156
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157JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
158 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
159
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160TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
161 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
162
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163TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
164 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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165 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
166 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 167
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168JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
169
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170TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
171 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
172
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173PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
174 not dns_use_dnssec.
175
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176JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
177
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178TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
179 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
180 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
181
8ddef691 182TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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183 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
184 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
185 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
186 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 187 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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189JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
190
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191JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
192 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
193
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194JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
195 failed delivery.
196
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197JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
198
511a6c14 199JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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200
201JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
202 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 203
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204JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
205 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
206
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207TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
208
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209JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
210
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211JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
212 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
213
214 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
215 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
216 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
217
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218TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
219 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
220 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
221 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 222
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223JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
224
8c51eead 225JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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226 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
227 lookup).
8c51eead 228
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229TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
230 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
231 Schlichting.
35aba663 232
fd3b6a4a 233JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 234 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
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236TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
237 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
238
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239JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
240
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241TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
242 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
243 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
244
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245JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
246 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
247
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248JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
249 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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250 hosts_request_ocsp.
251
ed3bba5f 252JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 253 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 254 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 255
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256JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
257
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258TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
259 Christian Aistleitner.
260
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261JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
262
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263TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
264 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
265
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266JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
267 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
268
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269JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
270 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
271
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272TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
273 support and error reporting did not work properly.
274
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275TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
276 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
277
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278TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
279 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
280 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
281
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282JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
283
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284PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
285 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
286 Jasper Wallace.
287
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288JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
289
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290TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
291 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
292 CVE-2014-2972
293
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297
298PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
299
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300PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
301 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
302
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303PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
304 by GnuTLS.
305
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306PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
307 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
308 routines.
309
13363eba 310PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 311
66645890 312PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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313 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
314 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
315 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
316 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 317
a3fb9793 318PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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319 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
320 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
321 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 322 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 323 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 324
d27f98fe 325TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 326
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327TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
328
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329TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
330 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
331
ae0e32ee 332TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 333 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 334 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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336TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 337
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338TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
339
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340TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
341 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
342
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343JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
344
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345JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
346
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347PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
348
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349NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
350 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 351
585121e2 352JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 353
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354PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
355 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
356 function.
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358PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
359 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
360
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361JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
362 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
363 "acl = name arg..."
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365JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
366
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367JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
368
ea722490 369JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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370 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
371
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372JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
373 Bugzilla 884.
374
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375JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
376 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
377
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378JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
379 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
380
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381PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
382 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 383 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 384
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385JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
386 authenticators.
387
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388JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
389 for control.
390
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391PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
392
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393PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
394 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
395 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
396 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
397
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398TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
399
400 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
401 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
402 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
403 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
404 the retry rules.
405
406 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
407 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
408 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
409
410 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
411 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
412 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
413 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
414
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415 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
416 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
417 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
418 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
419 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
420 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
421 delivery, as in LMTP.
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422
423 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
424 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
425
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426TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
427
428 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
429
430 Resent-From: f
431
432 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
433 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
434 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
435 username as equal to the username.
436
437 This change corrects that bug.
438
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439GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
440 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
441 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
442
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443TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
444
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445PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
446 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
447 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
448 NULL dereference and crash.
449
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450JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
451
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452PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
453 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
454 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
455
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456SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
457
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458JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
459 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
460 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
461 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
462 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
463 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
464 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
465 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
466 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
467 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
468 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
469
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470PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
471 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
472
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473PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
474 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
475 Bugzilla 880.
476
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477PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
478 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
479 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
480 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
481 an empty string is now equivalent.
482
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483PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
484 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
485 not performing validation itself.
486
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487PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
488 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
489
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490JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
491 Bugzilla 321, 823.
492
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493TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
494
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495PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
496 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
497 other false fix of the same issue.
498 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
499 Bugzilla 1363.
500
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501PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
502 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
503
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504PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
505 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
506 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
507
f4c1088b
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508PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
509 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
510 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
511
c5c2182f
PP
512TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
513
73431ca9
JH
514JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
515
2d07a215
TL
516TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
517 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
518
a30a8861
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519TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
520 Alexander Miroch.
521
33382dd9
TL
522TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
523 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
524 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
525 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
526 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 527
046172e6
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528TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
529 the src/util/ subdirectory.
530
581d7bee 531TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 532 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
533 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
534
535TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
536 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
537 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
538 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
539
237b2cf2
TL
540TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
541
9fc5a352
TL
542TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
543 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
544 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 545
b10e4ec2
TL
546TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
547
e2cebd74
TL
548TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
549 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
550 interaction.
551
552TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
553 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
554
2519e60d
TL
555TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
556 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
557
e78e6ecf 558
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PP
559Exim version 4.80.1
560-------------------
561
562PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
563 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 564 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 565
ea722490 566
b1770b6e 567Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
568-----------------
569
570PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
571 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
572 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
573
23c7e742
NM
574NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
575
b322aac8
NM
576NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
577 improved.
578
4a891427
NM
579NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
580
c1e794ba 581PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 582
97753960
PP
583PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
584
585PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
586 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
587
df6303fa
PP
588PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
589 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
590
7e6a8985
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591PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
592 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
593
f1e05cc7 594PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
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595 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
596 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 597
4c287009
PP
598PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
599
b98bb9ac
PP
600PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
601 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
602
4a6a987a
PP
603PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
604
c45dd180 605PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 606
7db8d074
PP
607PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
608 non-compliant senders.
609 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
610
eae0036b 611NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
DM
612 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
613 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
614
dec5017e
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615PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
616 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
617 in spool file corruption.
618
c80c5570
PP
619PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
620 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
621 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
622 "Got SSL error 2".
623
076b11e2
PP
624TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
625 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
626 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
627
5407bfff
JH
628JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
629 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
630
9e45c72b
PP
631JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
632
e74376d8
PP
633PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
634 diagnostics.
635 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
636
da3ad30d
PP
637PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
638 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
639 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
640
7be682ca
PP
641PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
642 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
643 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
644 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 645
ef840681
PP
646PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
647 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
648
5bfb4cdf
PP
649PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
650 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
651 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
652 resolver implementation change.
653
c6e95d22
PP
654PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
655 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
656
9cbad13b
PP
657PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
658
9ee44efb
PP
659PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
660
6a6084f8
PP
661PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
662 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
663
12dd53c7
PP
664PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
665 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
666
9e45c72b 667JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
668 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
669
17c76198
PP
670PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
671 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
672 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
673 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 674 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 675
53947857 676PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 677
eae0036b 678PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
679 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
680 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 681
9e45c72b 682JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 683
7390e768
PP
684PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
685 read-only, out of scope).
686 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
687
08488c86
PP
688PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
689 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
690 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
691 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
692
6475bd82
PP
693PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
694
81f91683
PP
695PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
696 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
697 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
698 real issues in debug logging.
699
5779e6aa
PP
700PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
701 assignment on my part. Fixed.
702
3375e053
PP
703PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
704 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
705 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
706
707PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
708 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
709 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
710 problems.
3375e053 711
9d26b8c0
PP
712PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
713 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
714
57eb9e91 715PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
716 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
717 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
718 needs to override this, it can.
719
16880d1a
PP
720PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
721 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
722 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
723
a799883d
PP
724PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
725 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
726 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
727 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
728
3ecab157 729PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 730
0599f9cf 731
867fcbf5
PP
732Exim version 4.77
733-----------------
734
735PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
736 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
737
f1a29782
TF
738TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
739
ab42bd23
TK
740TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
741 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 742
0ca0cf52
TF
743TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
744 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
745
921b12ca
TF
746TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
747 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
748 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
749
750 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
751 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
752 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
753 not safe for signals.
754
755 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
756 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
757 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
758 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
759 exiwhat.
760
c99ce5c9
TF
761TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
762
763 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
764 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
765 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
766 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
767 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
768
769 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
770 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
771 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
772 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
773 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
774 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
775
776 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
777 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
778 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
779 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
780
781 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
782 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
783 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
784 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
785
786 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
787 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
788 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
789 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
790 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
791 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
792 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
793 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
794 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
795
796 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
797 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
798 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
799 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
800
801 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
802 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
803 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
804 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
805 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
806 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
807 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
808 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
809 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
810 details in the main documentation.
811
3634fc25
TF
812TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
813
792e8a19
TF
814TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
815
5901f0ab
TF
816TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
817 repository when doing development or release builds.
818
7f2a2a43
PP
819PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
820 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 821
061b7ebd
PP
822PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
823 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
824 Bugzilla 97.
825
e12f8c32
PP
826PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
827
9e949f00 828PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
829 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
830
831PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
832 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 833
555ae6af 834PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
835 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
836
837PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
838 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 839
6f7fe114
PP
840PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
841 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
842
c566dd90
PP
843PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
844 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
845 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
846 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 847
d6cc7c78 848PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
849 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
850 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
851
0d0e4455
PP
852PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
853
3399bb60 854PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
855
856PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
857 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
858
0ca0cf52 859
10906672
PP
860Exim version 4.76
861-----------------
862
863PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
864
754a0503
PP
865PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
866 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
867
c0c7b2da
PP
868PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
869
e97d1f08
PP
870PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
871
084c1d8c
PP
872PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
873 Bugzilla 1098.
874
4e7ee012
PP
875PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
876 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 877
c8d52a00
PP
878TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
879 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
880
54e7ce4a
PP
881PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
882 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
883
5ee6f336
PP
884PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
885 Bugzilla 1104.
886
c8d52a00 887TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
888 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
889
890TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
891 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
892 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
893 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
894
895PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
896 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 897
10906672 898
aa097c4c
NM
899Exim version 4.75
900-----------------
901
4c9ef03a 902NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
903 Bugzilla 1073
904
7f3d9eff
TF
905TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
906 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
907 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
908
159f52d2
TF
909TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
910 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
911
0cc9542a
PP
912PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
913 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
914 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
915
f7274286
PP
916PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
917 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
918
7b797365
PP
919PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
920 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
921
caacae52
NM
922NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
923 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
924
09dcaba9
NM
925NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
926 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
927
bc19a55b
PP
928PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
929 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 930
bd4c9759
NM
931NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
932 Fixes bug 943.
933
b72aab72
PP
934PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
935 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
936
2fe76745
PP
937PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
938 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
939
76aa570c
PP
940PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
941 SQL string expansion failure details.
942 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
943
f1e5fef5
PP
944PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
945 Patch from Simon Arlott.
946
4d805ee9
PP
947PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
948 extern declarations in function scope.
949 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
950
cd59ab18
PP
951PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
952 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
953 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
954 a kernel bug).
955
332f5cf3
PP
956PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
957 Patch from Mark Zealey.
958
29cfeb94
PP
959PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
960 Patch from Mark Zealey.
961
660242ad
PP
962PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
963 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
964
bc4bc4c5
PP
965PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
966 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
967
2e64baa9
NM
968NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
969 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
970 Dennis Davis.
971
bddd7526
PP
972PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
973
6bac1a9a
PP
974PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
975
552193f0
NM
976NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
977 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 978
1b587e48
TF
979TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
980 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
981
aa097c4c 982
8c07b69f
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983Exim version 4.74
984-----------------
985
986TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
987 consequences so log it to the panic log.
988
c0ea85ab
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989TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
990 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
991
0761d44e
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992TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
993
0a349494
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994DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
995 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
996 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
997
998PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
999 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1000 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1001
fea24b2e
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1002PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1003 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1004 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1005 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1006
6545de78
PP
1007PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1008 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1009 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1010 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1011
1670ef10
PP
1012PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1013 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1014 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1015 arbitrary files.
1016
c0886197
PP
1017PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1018 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1019
b7487bce
PP
1020PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1021 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1022 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1023 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1024 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1025
8c07b69f 1026
97fd1e48 1027Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1028-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1029
1030PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1031 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1032 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1033
6901c596
PP
1034PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1035 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1036
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1037JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1038
77bb000f
PP
1039PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1040
a29e5231
PP
1041PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1042
ec5a0394 1043PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1044
55c75993
PP
1045PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1046
453a6645 1047PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1048 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1049 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1050 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1051
8544e77a
PP
1052PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1053 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1054 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1055 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1056 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1057
83e029d5
PP
1058PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1059
ed7f7860
PP
1060PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1061
7d9f747b
PP
1062PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1063
4b2241d2
PP
1064PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1065
10385c15
PP
1066PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1067
dbc4b90d
PP
1068PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1069
532be449
PP
1070PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1071
6a8de854 1072PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1073 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1074 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1075
5dc43717
JJ
1076JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1077
1078JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1079 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1080
3346ab01
PP
1081PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1082 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1083
491fab4c
PP
1084PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1085 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1086 Notification from John Horne.
1087
13eb9497
PP
1088PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1089 compatible.
1090
1091PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1092 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1093 it normally works.
1094
7f36d675
DW
1095DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1096 access.
1097
c1d94452
DW
1098DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1099 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1100 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1101
e2f5dc15
DW
1102DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1103 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1104 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1105 configuration file.
1106
cd25e41d
DW
1107DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1108 option (effectively making it always true).
1109
261dc43e
DW
1110DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1111 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1112
fa32850b
DW
1113DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1114 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1115
79d4bc3d
PP
1116PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1117 run-time user, instead of root.
1118
43236f35 1119PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1120 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1121
fb08281f
DW
1122DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1123 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1124 arguments.
3346ab01 1125
74935b98
DW
1126DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1127 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1128 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1129
90b6341f
DW
1130DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1131
57730b52
ML
1132NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1133
66581d1e 1134
465e92cf
JJ
1135Exim version 4.72
1136-----------------
1137
453a6645
PP
1138JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1139 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1140 typos
465e92cf 1141
453a6645
PP
1142JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1143 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1144 (Finput)
edae0343 1145
9bd3e22c
NM
1146NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1147 Patch from Alain Williams
1148
bb576ff7
NM
1149NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1150
5a1a5845
NM
1151NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1152 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1153
981a9fad
NM
1154NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1155 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1156
7fc497ee
NM
1157NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1158
1a41defa
JJ
1159JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1160
a466095c 1161NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1162 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1163
94a6bd0b
NM
1164TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1165
1166TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1167
1168MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1169 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1170 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1171
c1b141a8
NM
1172NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1173 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1174
b26eacf1 1175NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1176 Patch by Simon Arlott
1177
179c5980 1178PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1179 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1180
9bd3e22c 1181
7c6d71af
NM
1182Exim version 4.71
1183-----------------
1184
7d9f747b 1185TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1186
f013fb92
NM
1187NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1188
0eb8eedd
NM
1189NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1190
663ee6d9
NM
1191NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1192
177ebd9b
NM
1193NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1194
7c6d71af 1195
210f147e
NM
1196Exim version 4.70
1197-----------------
1198
cdd3bb85 1199TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1200 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1201
1202TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1203 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1204 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1205
1206TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1207 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1208 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1209
1210TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1211 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1212
210f147e
NM
1213NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1214 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1215 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1216 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1217
deafd5b3
NM
1218NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1219 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1220 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1221
089793a4
TF
1222TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1223
5f16ca82
TF
1224TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1225
dae9d94e 1226NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1227 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1228
7d9f747b 1229NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1230
06864c44
TF
1231TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1232 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1233 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1234 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1235
65a7d8c3 1236NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1237 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1238
23510047 1239TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1240
7d9f747b 1241NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1242
7d8eec3a 1243NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1244 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1245
89dec7b6
TF
1246TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1247 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1248
a99de90c
TF
1249TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1250 that they are available at delivery time.
1251
e2803e40
TF
1252TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1253
7199e1ee
TF
1254TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1255 incoming_port log selectors.
1256
e276e04b
TF
1257TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1258 setting expands to an empty string.
1259
ce552449 1260NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1261 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1262
e765a0f1 1263NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1264 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1265
4f054c63 1266NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1267 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1268
7d9f747b
PP
1269NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1270 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1271
7d9f747b
PP
1272NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1273 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1274
b52bc06e 1275NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1276 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1277
447de4b0
NM
1278NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1279
4c69d561 1280NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1281 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1282
d5c39246 1283NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1284 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1285
0b23848a
TK
1286TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1287
8f3414a1 1288NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1289 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1290
fb6f955d
NM
1291NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1292
1293NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1294
7d9f747b
PP
1295NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1296 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1297
7d9f747b
PP
1298NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1299 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1300
7d9f747b
PP
1301NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1302 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1303
7d9f747b
PP
1304NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1305 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1306
7d9f747b
PP
1307NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1308 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1309
7d9f747b
PP
1310NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1311 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1312
7d9f747b
PP
1313NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1314 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1315
7d9f747b 1316NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1317 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1318
7d9f747b 1319NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1320
7d9f747b
PP
1321NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1322 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1323
7d9f747b 1324NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1325
7d9f747b 1326NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1327
7d9f747b 1328NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1329
7d9f747b 1330NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1331
17792b53 1332NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1333 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1334
7d9f747b
PP
1335NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1336 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1337
91576cec 1338NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1339 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1340
7d9f747b
PP
1341NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1342 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1343
7d9f747b 1344NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1345
7d9f747b 1346NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1347
7d9f747b 1348NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1349
7d9f747b 1350NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1351
deafd5b3 1352
47db1125
NM
1353Exim version 4.69
1354-----------------
1355
4b3504d0
TK
1356TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1357 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1358 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1359
1360 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1361 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1362 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1363 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1364 build errors in sieve.c.
1365
81ea09ca
NM
1366NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1367 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1368 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1369
f13cddcb
SC
1370SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1371
7d9f747b 1372NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1373
7d9f747b 1374NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1375
7d9f747b 1376NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1377
1378
eb4c0de6
PH
1379Exim version 4.68
1380-----------------
1381
1382PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1383
6a3bceb1
PH
1384PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1385 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1386 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1387 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1388 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1389 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1390 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1391 for iplsearch lookups.
1392
1393 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1394 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1395 previously such lookups could never work.
1396
1397 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1398 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1399 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1400
2e30fa9d
TK
1401TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1402 version.
1403
0806a9c5
MH
1404MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1405 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1406 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1407 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1408 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1409 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1410
ae276964
TK
1411TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1412 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1413
0f2cbd1b
MH
1414MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1415 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1416 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1417 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1418 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1419 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1420
2b85bce7
PH
1421PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1422 local_scan API.
1423
93655c46
PH
1424PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1425
6c512171
PH
1426PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1427 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1428 encrypted.
1429
1430PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1431 by clients under certain conditions.
1432
aa6dc513
PH
1433PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1434 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1435
a96603a0
PH
1436PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1437
8f240103
PH
1438PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1439 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1440
1441PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1442
d677b2f2
PH
1443PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1444
d52120f2
PH
1445PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1446
64f2600a
PH
1447PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1448 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1449
8669f003
PH
1450PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1451
a4dc33a8
PH
1452PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1453 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1454
d6a60c0f
PH
1455PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1456
8f128379
PH
1457PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1458
8932dffe
PH
1459PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1460 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1461 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1462 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1463
ddea74fa 1464PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1465 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1466 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1467
ddea74fa 1468PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1469 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1470
ddea74fa
PH
1471PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1472
ce9f225c
PH
1473PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1474
19897d52
PH
1475PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1476
bc64a74d
PH
1477PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1478 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1479 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1480
eb4c0de6 1481
b4ed4da0
PH
1482Exim version 4.67
1483-----------------
1484
22ad45c9
MH
1485MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1486 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1487 Jan Srzednicki.
1488
b4ed4da0
PH
1489PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1490 issue a MAIL command.
1491
431b7361
PH
1492PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1493
1494 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1495
1496 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1497 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1498 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1499 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1500 item. This has been fixed.
1501
1502PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1503 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1504
83da1223
PH
1505PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1506 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1507
54fc8428
PH
1508PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1509 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1510 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1511
34c5e8dd
SC
1512SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1513
bbe15da8
PH
1514PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1515 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1516 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1517 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1518 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1519
0e8a9471
MH
1520MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1521 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1522 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1523
f0872424
PH
1524PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1525 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1526 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1527 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1528
b01dd148
PH
1529PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1530
6bf342e1
PH
1531PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1532
273f34d0
PH
1533PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1534 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1535 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1536 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1537 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1538
cf8b11a5
PH
1539PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1540
41c7c167
PH
1541PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1542 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1543 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1544 values).
1545
9c57cbc0
PH
1546PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1547
f3f065bb
PH
1548PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1549
047bdd8c
PH
1550PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1551
0ce9abe6
PH
1552PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1553
0e22dfd1
PH
1554PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1555
4c590bd1
PH
1556PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1557 no_callout_flush is set.
1558
09945f1e
PH
1559PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1560 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1561 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1562 fixed.
1563
c51b8e75
PH
1564PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1565
e28326d8
PH
1566PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1567 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1568 other ACL rejections are.
1569
75b1493f
PH
1570PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1571 with slight modification.
1572
7c5214ec
PH
1573PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1574 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1575
4311097e
PH
1576PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1577 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1578 connection.
1579
29f89cad
PH
1580PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1581 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1582
5e687460
SC
1583SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1584
c3611384
PH
1585PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1586 expansion side effects.
1587
5a11a7b4
PH
1588PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1589 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1590 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1591 be the same.
1592
0e20aff9
MH
1593MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1594 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1595 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1596
ca86f471
PH
1597PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1598 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1599 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1600 were accidentally chopped off.
1601
a14e5636
PH
1602PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1603 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1604 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1605 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1606 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1607 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1608 pipelining has not been advertised.
1609
ec95d1a6
PH
1610PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1611
42855d71
PH
1612PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1613 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1614 This has been fixed.
1615
57c2c631
PH
1616PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1617 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1618 reported on Solaris.
1619
58c01c94
PH
1620PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1621 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1622 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1623 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1624 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1625 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1626 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1627
dee5a20a
PH
1628PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1629 cpus.
1630
d2ee6114
PH
1631PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1632
b2d5182b
PH
1633PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1634
79749a79
PH
1635PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1636 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1637 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1638 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1639 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1640 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1641
c456d9bb
PH
1642PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1643 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1644 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1645 host_all_ignored option.
1646
cd9868ec
PH
1647PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1648 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1649 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1650 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1651 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1652 is what is supposed to happen).
1653
ebeaf996
PH
1654PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1655 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1656 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1657 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1658 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1659 uses the Exim user.
1660
2679d413
PH
1661PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1662 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1663 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1664 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1665 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1666 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1667 users.
1668
84024b72
PH
1669PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1670
8005d38e
SC
1671SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1672 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1673 (Jez Hancock).
1674 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1675 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1676
3298c6c6
SC
1677SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1678
a43a27c5
PH
1679PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1680
58eb016e 1681PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1682 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1683 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1684 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1685 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1686 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1687 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1688 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1689 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1690 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1691 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1692
b43a74ea
PH
1693PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1694 advertised in response to EHLO.
1695
b4ed4da0 1696
5dd1517f
PH
1697Exim version 4.66
1698-----------------
1699
1700PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1701 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1702
1703 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1704 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1705
1706 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1707 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1708 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1709
1710 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1711 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1712 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1713 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1714 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1715
1716
93cfa765
TK
1717Exim version 4.65
1718-----------------
1719
1720TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1721 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1722 versions. (#438)
1723
d6066548
MH
1724MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1725 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1726 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1727
4362ff0d
PH
1728PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1729 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1730 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1731 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1732 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1733 rather than extend the field.
1734
93cfa765 1735
944e9e9c
TF
1736Exim version 4.64
1737-----------------
aa41d2de 1738
21d74bd9
TK
1739TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1740 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1741 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1742 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1743 these files.
1744
1745TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1746 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1747 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1748
1749TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1750 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1751 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1752
1753TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1754 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1755 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1756 in the field name.
1757
2b1c6e3a
PH
1758PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1759 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1760 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1761 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1762 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1763 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1764 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1765 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1766 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1767 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1768 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1769
1f872c80
PH
1770PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1771 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1772
1773PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1774 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1775 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1776 ignores EPIPE as well.
1777
d203e649
PH
1778PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1779 (quoted-printable decoding).
1780
cc2ed8f7 1781PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1782 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1783
ddfcd446
PH
1784PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1785
d45b1de8
PH
1786PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1787
1788PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1789
38a0a95f 1790PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1791 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1792
a2405d83
JJ
1793JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1794 in 4.64-PH/09.
1795
1796JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1797 miscellaneous code fixes
1798
6ea85e9a
PH
1799PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1800 rejections.
1801
26da7e20
PH
1802PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1803 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1804 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1805 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1806 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1807 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1808 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1809 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1810
14aa5a05 1811PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1812 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1813 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1814 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1815 function.
1816 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1817 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1818 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1819 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1820 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1821 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1822 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1823 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1824 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1825
ff75a1f7
PH
1826PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1827 decoding.
1828
e6f6568e
PH
1829PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1830 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1831 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1832 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1833 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1834 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1835 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1836 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1837
d6f6e0dc
PH
1838PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1839 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1840 list.
1841
322050c2
PH
1842PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1843 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1844 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1845 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1846 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1847 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1848 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1849 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1850 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1851 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1852 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1853 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1854 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1855
08955dd3
PH
1856PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1857 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1858 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1859 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1860 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1861 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1862 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1863
1eccaa59
PH
1864PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1865 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1866 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1867 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1868 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1869 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1870 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1871 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1872 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1873 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1874
602e59e5
PH
1875PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1876 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1877 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1878 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1879 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1880
411ef850
PH
1881PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1882 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1883 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1884 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1885 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1886 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1887 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1888
7befa435
PH
1889PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1890 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1891 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1892 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1893 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1894 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1895 been verified.
1896
48da4259 1897PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1898 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1899 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1900 and authorization.)
1901
48da4259
PH
1902PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1903 if any retry times were supplied.
1904
d1d5595c
PH
1905PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1906 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1907 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1908
0ef732d9
PH
1909PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1910
328895cc
PH
1911PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1912
fd700877
PH
1913PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1914 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1915 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1916 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1917 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1918 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1919
8dce1a6f
PH
1920PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1921 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1922
17af4a17
PH
1923PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1924 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1925 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1926
1927PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1928 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1929 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1930 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1931 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1932 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1933 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1934 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1935 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1936
1937 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1938 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1939 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1940 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1941 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1942 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1943 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1944 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1945 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1946
1947 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1948 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1949 hammering the server.
1950
c1114884
PH
1951PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1952 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1953
7a0743eb
PH
1954PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1955
0d85fa3f
PH
1956PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1957 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1958 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1959
1bf43b78
PH
1960PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1961 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1962 one case where this was not true.
1963
520de300
PH
1964PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1965 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1966 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1967 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1968 fails.
1969
48c7f9e2
PH
1970PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1971 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1972 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1973 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1974 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1975 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1976 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1977 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1978 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1979 smtp transport.
1980
99ea1c86
PH
1981PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1982 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1983 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1984 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1985
a2042e78
PH
1986PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1987 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1988
4fbcfc2e
PH
1989PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1990 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1991 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1992
aa41d2de
PH
1993PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1994
af561417
PH
1995PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1996
3cc66b45
PH
1997PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1998
194cc0e4
PH
1999PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2000 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2001 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2002 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2003
a401ddaa
PH
2004PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2005 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2006
4e88a19f
PH
2007PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2008 be meaningful with "accept".
2009
d7d7b289
SC
2010SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2011 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2012
2013SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2014 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2015 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2016
2017SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2018 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2019 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2020 there is data to show.
2021 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2022
2023SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2024 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2025 as well as the number of messages.
2026
2027SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2028 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2029 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2030
2031SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2032 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2033 have a flag are now skipped.
2034
2035SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2036 Added the -emptyok flag.
2037
2038SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2039 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2040
0ea2a468
JJ
2041JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2042 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2043 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2044
2045JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2046 match 4.64-PH/13
2047
2048JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2049 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2050
2051JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2052
2053JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2054 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2055
8a10f5a4
PH
2056PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2057
30e18802
PH
2058PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2059 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2060 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2061 contravention of the specifications.
2062
55728a4f
PH
2063PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2064 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2065 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2066
d7837193
PH
2067PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2068 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2069 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2070
87054a31
PH
2071PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2072
ea2c01d2
MH
2073MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2074 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2075 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2076 some point in the past.
2077
e4fa6968
PH
2078PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2079 transport during callout processing was broken.
2080
56f5d9bd
PH
2081PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2082 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2083
922e1c28
PH
2084PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2085 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2086
21eb6e72
PH
2087PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2088 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2089
a0540757
PH
2090PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2091
944e9e9c 2092
478be7b0
SC
2093Exim version 4.63
2094-----------------
2095
2096SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2097 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2098
2099SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2100 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2101 there is data to show.
2102 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2103
2104SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2105 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2106
2b965a65
TF
2107TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2108 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2109
45b91596
PH
2110TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2111 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2112
c59f5781
TF
2113TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2114 submissions from trusted users.
2115
90fc3069
TF
2116TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2117 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2118
6083aca0
TF
2119TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2120 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2121 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2122 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2123 there is now a framework to start from.
2124
765b530f
PH
2125PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2126 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2127 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2128
4e167a8c
PH
2129PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2130
4608d683
PH
2131PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2132
b8dc3e4a
PH
2133PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2134
5418e93b
PH
2135PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2136 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2137 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2138
b4a9bda2
PH
2139PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2140 libradius.
2141
45b91596
PH
2142PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2143 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2144 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2145
5547e2c5
PH
2146PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2147 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2148 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2149 its arguments.
2150
dbcef0ea
PH
2151PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2152 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2153 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2154 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2155 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2156
25257489
PH
2157PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2158 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2159
c816d124
PH
2160PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2161
a9ccd69a
PH
2162PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2163 operations in malware.c.
2164
75fa1910
PH
2165PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2166 signatures.
2167
a7d7aa58
PH
2168PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2169 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2170 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2171 all.
2172
42119b09
PH
2173PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2174 statements to "add_header".
2175
41609df5
PH
2176PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2177 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2178
a5bd321b
PH
2179PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2180 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2181 latter.
2182
e85a7ad5 2183PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2184 so that it is now:
2185
e85a7ad5
PH
2186 ${if or { \
2187 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2188 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2189 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2190 }{no}{yes}}
2191
e85a7ad5
PH
2192 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2193 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2194
d8fe1c03
PH
2195PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2196 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2197
16282d2b
PH
2198PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2199 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2200 any possible encoding problems.
2201
35d40a98
PH
2202PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2203 but not after initializing Perl.
2204
034d99ab
PH
2205PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2206 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2207 apparently, which is not desirable.
2208
6ec97b1b
PH
2209PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2210 queries.
2211
e22ca4ac
JJ
2212JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2213 --not options
2214
2215JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2216
33d73e3b
PH
2217PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2218 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2219 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2220 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2221
9ecb03f3
PH
2222PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2223 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2224 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2225
084efe8d
PH
2226PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2227 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2228 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2229 0.12.
2230
366fc9f0
PH
2231PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2232 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2233 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2234 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2235 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2236
c59f5781 2237
c887c79e
TF
2238Exim version 4.62
2239-----------------
2240
2241TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2242 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2243
1cce3af8
PH
2244PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2245 patch).
2246
afb3eaaf
PH
2247PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2248 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2249 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2250 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2251 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2252 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2253 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2254 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2255 451 error is used.
2256
e173618b
PH
2257PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2258
dd16e114
PH
2259PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2260 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2261 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2262
f7fd3850
PH
2263PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2264 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2265 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2266 odd errors.
2267
d87df92c
PH
2268PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2269 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2270
7e9f683d
PH
2271PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2272 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2273 option (which defaults to 0600).
2274
bfad5236
PH
2275PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2276
01c490df
PH
2277PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2278 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2279 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2280 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2281 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2282 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2283 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2284
d6629cdc
PH
2285PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2286
1cce3af8 2287
214e2000
PH
2288Exim version 4.61
2289-----------------
2290
2291PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2292 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2293 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2294 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2295 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2296 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2297 addresses as local.
2298
f9daeae0
PH
2299PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2300 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2301
7e66e54d
PH
2302PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2303
c8ea1597
PH
2304PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2305 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2306 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2307 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2308 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2309 grumble.
2310
911f6fde
PH
2311PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2312 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2313
47ca6d6c
PH
2314PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2315 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2316 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2317 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2318 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2319
ed0e9820
PH
2320PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2321 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2322 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2323 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2324
eff37e47
PH
2325PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2326 be the same on different OS.
2327
1921d2ea
PH
2328PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2329 testing.
2330
b3f69ca8
JJ
2331JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2332 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2333
2334JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2335 in 4.61-PH/06
2336
424a1c63
PH
2337PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2338 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2339 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2340 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2341 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2342 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2343 bounce message.
2344
7a100415
PH
2345PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2346 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2347 when Exim was called.
2348
19b9dc85
PH
2349PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2350 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2351
309bd837
PH
2352PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2353 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2354 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2355 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2356
59e82a2a
PH
2357PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2358 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2359 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2360 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2361 changes:
2362
2363 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2364 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2365 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2366
2367 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2368 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2369 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2370
9edc04ce
PH
2371PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2372 feature).
2373
1349e1e5
PH
2374PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2375 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2376 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2377 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2378 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2379 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2380 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2381 values from the SRV records were lost.
2382
ea49d0e1
PH
2383PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2384 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2385 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2386
064a94c9
PH
2387PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2388 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2389 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2390
727071f8
PH
2391PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2392 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2393 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2394 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2395 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2396 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2397 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2398 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2399 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2400 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2401
f78eb7c6
PH
2402PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2403 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2404 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2405
21c28500
PH
2406PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2407 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2408
2409PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2410 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2411 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2412 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2413 is given.
2414
1688f43b
PH
2415PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2416 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2417 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2418
2419PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2420 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2421 PH/23 above applies.
2422
9675b384
PH
2423PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2424 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2425 (for which there is an explicit test).
2426
6a3f1455
PH
2427PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2428
dac79d3e
PH
2429PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2430 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2431 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2432 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2433 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2434
5977a0b3
PH
2435PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2436 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2437 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2438 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2439
c91535f3
PH
2440PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2441 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2442 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2443
0d46a8c8
PH
2444PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2445
278c6e6c
PH
2446PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2447
2cbb4081
PH
2448PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2449 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2450 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2451
3eef829e
PH
2452PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2453 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2454 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2455 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2456 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2457
1ab95fa6
PH
2458PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2459 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2460 the message gets confusing).
2461
230205fc
PH
2462PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2463 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2464 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2465 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2466
75e0e026
PH
2467PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2468 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2469 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2470 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2471 same order.
2472
2473PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2474 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2475 the different processes.
2476
145396a6
PH
2477PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2478
3cd34f13
PH
2479PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2480
11121d3d
JJ
2481JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2482 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2483
2484JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2485 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2486
2487JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2488 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2489 messages matching specified criteria.
2490
8def5aaf
PH
2491PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2492
929ba01c
PH
2493PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2494 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2495
2632889e
PH
2496PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2497 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2498 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2499 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2500 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2501 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2502 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2503 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2504 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2505 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2506
944a9c55
PH
2507PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2508 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2509 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2510
4a23603b
PH
2511PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2512
4730f942
PH
2513PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2514 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2515 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2516 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2517 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2518 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2519 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2520 the variable.
2521
30dba1e6
PH
2522PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2523 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2524
382afc6b
PH
2525PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2526
a86229cf
PH
2527PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2528
50c99ba6
PH
2529PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2530
d35e429d
PH
2531PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2532 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2533 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2534 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2535 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2536 size of the count of files.
2537
f90d018c
PH
2538PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2539
75def545
PH
2540PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2541 used in LMTP mode:
2542
2543 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2544 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2545 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2546 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2547
2548 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2549 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2550 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2551
2552PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2553 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2554 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2555 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2556 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2557
c46782ef
PH
2558PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2559 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2560
71fafd95
PH
2561PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2562 will now be deprecated.
2563
2c5db4fd
PH
2564PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2565
9cf6b11a
JJ
2566JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2567 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2568 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2569
2570JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2571 with very large, slow to parse queues
2572
2573JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2574
2575JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2576
898d150f
PH
2577PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2578 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2579 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2580 SMTP output lines.
2581
46218253
PH
2582PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2583 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2584 Sieve code now uses this.
2585
e97957bc
PH
2586PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2587 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2588
81e509d7
PH
2589PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2590 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2591
3d240ff7
PH
2592PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2593
b37c4101
PH
2594PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2595 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2596 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2597 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2598 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2599
79378e0f
PH
2600PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2601 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2602 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2603 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2604
e49c7bb4
PH
2605PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2606
d114ec46
PH
2607PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2608
f3d7df6c
PH
2609PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2610 is preferred over IPv4.
2611
715ab376
PH
2612PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2613 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2614 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2615 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2616 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2617 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2618 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2619
6b31b150
PH
2620PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2621 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2622 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2623
2624PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2625
d515a917
PH
2626PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2627 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2628 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2629 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2630 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2631 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2632 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2633 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2634 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2635 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2636 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2637
9b8fadde
PH
2638PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2639 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2640 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2641
214e2000 2642
5de37277
PH
2643Exim version 4.60
2644-----------------
2645
cc38ddbf
PH
2646PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2647
2648 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2649 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2650
2651 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2652 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2653 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2654
72fdd6ae
PH
2655PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2656
2657 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2658 not a single digit.
2659
2660 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2661 string.
2662
2663 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2664 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2665 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2666 silly things.
2667
2668 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2669 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2670
2671 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2672 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2673
cb741023
PH
2674PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2675 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2676 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2677
f174f16e
PH
2678PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2679 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2680
c25242d7
PH
2681PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2682 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2683
2684 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2685
2686 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2687 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2688 this:
2689
2690 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2691
82c19f95
PH
2692PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2693 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2694 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2695 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2696 identical. For example:
2697
2698 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2699
2700 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2701 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2702 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2703
d7ffbc12
PH
2704PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2705 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2706 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2707 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2708
9f526266
PH
2709PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2710 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2711 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2712 message.
2713
87fcc8b9
PH
2714PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2715
2716 o fixes some comments
2717 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2718 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2719 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2720 and documents the missing references header update
2721
2722 and most important:
2723
2724 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2725 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2726 result)
2727
456682f5
PH
2728PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2729 Electronic Mail") by including:
2730
2731 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2732
2733 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2734 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2735 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2736 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2737 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2738
2739 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2740
2741 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2742
2743 The auto-replied keyword:
2744
2745 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2746 message by an automatic process,
2747
2748 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2749
2750 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2751 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2752
2753 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2754 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2755 other messages.
2756
3e46c1aa
PH
2757PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2758 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2759
49826d12
PH
2760PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2761
eba0c039
PH
2762PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2763 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2764 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2765
a0d6ba8a
PH
2766PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2767 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2768 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2769
f0917727
PH
2770PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2771 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2772 and treats the condition as false.
2773
096fee00
PH
2774PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2775
024bd3c2
PH
2776PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2777 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2778 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2779 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2780 not changing the active code.
2781
2782 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2783 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2784
2785 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2786 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2787
df199fec
PH
2788PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2789 (Bugzilla #53).
2790
d27f1df3
PH
2791PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2792 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2793 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2794 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2795 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2796 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2797 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2798 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2799 the text comparison.
2800
96776534
PH
2801PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2802 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2803 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2804 The same fix has been applied.
2805
5de37277 2806
9a799bc0
PH
2807Exim version 4.54
2808-----------------
2809
2810PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2811 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2812 It now does.
2813
99a4b039
PH
2814PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2815 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2816
2817PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2818
4b233853
PH
2819PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2820 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2821 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2822 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2823 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2824
8857ccfd
PH
2825TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2826 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2827 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2828 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2829 or /domain=).
2830
433a2980
PH
2831PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2832 testing suite.
2833
3e46c1aa 2834
9a799bc0 2835
e3a311ba
TK
2836Exim version 4.53
2837-----------------
2838
2839TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2840 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2841
13b685f9
PH
2842PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2843
395ff96d
PH
2844PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2845
5b68f6e4
PH
2846PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2847 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2848 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2849
1ab52c69
PH
2850PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2851 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2852 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2853
b07e6aa3
PH
2854PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2855 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2856 operating systems.
2857
254e032f
PH
2858PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2859 ${stat: expansion item.
2860
3af76a81
PH
2861PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2862 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2863
2548ba04
PH
2864PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2865 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2866 file for comments.
2867
b6c6011d
PH
2868PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2869
cf39cf57
PH
2870PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2871 setting.
2872
f1513293
PH
2873PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2874 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2875
727549a4
PH
2876TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2877
af46795e
PH
2878PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2879 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2880 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2881 the end of the subprocess.
2882
d7b47fd0
PH
2883PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2884 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2885 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2886 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2887 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2888
ee744174
JJ
2889JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2890
b582ab87
PH
2891TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2892
41a13e0a
PH
2893PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2894 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2895
f625cc5a
PH
2896PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2897
2898PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2899
21f7af35
PH
2900PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2901 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2902 HP-UX compiler.
2903
31480e42
PH
2904PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2905
2d280592
PH
2906PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2907 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2908 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2909
7cd1141b
PH
2910PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2911 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2912
2913PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2914 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2915
750af86e
PH
2916PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2917 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2918
2919 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2920 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2921
2922 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2923 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2924 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2925 contributed by a Radius user.
2926
2927PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2928 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2929
4304270b
TK
2930TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2931 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2932
750af86e
PH
2933PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2934 available.
2935
64ffc24f
PH
2936PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2937 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2938 received.
2939
5dd9625b
PH
2940PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2941 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2942 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2943 header lines when this was not necessary.
2944
5591031b
PH
2945PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2946
ba18e66a
PH
2947PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2948 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2949 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2950 exists".
2951
9cec981f
PH
2952PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2953 -bV or -d is used.
2954
aa2b5c79
PH
2955PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2956 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2957 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2958 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2959
48a53b7f
PH
2960PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2961
1c59d63b
PH
2962PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2963
671012da
TK
2964TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2965
1509d3a8
PH
2966PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2967
2968PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2969 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2970 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2971 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2972 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2973 settings.
2974
2975PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2976
2fe1a124
PH
2977PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2978 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2979 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2980 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2981 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2982 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2983 which is clearly wrong.
2984
8800895a
PH
2985PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2986
ccfdb010
PH
2987PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2988 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2989 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2990 subsequently added.
2991
1130bfb0
PH
2992PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2993 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2994
ebcb507f
PH
2995PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2996
c35e155c
PH
2997PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2998 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2999
95d1f782
PH
3000PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3001 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3002
fd6de02e
PH
3003PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3004 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3005
58de37c5
PH
3006PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3007 recipients, not senders.
3008
261cf466
TF
3009TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3010 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3011
3ee512ff
PH
3012PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3013
e08c430f
PH
3014PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3015
bef5a11f
PH
3016PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3017 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3018 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3019 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3020
7546de58
TF
3021TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3022
e5d5a95f
TF
3023TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3024 clock is set back in time.
3025
2e88a017
TF
3026TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3027 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3028
a5f65aa4
TF
3029TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3030 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3031
e7726cbf
PH
3032PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3033 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3034 (see PH/47 above).
3035
a7fdad5b
TF
3036TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3037 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3038 header rewrites.
3039
6af56900
PH
3040PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3041 type ("H").
3042
0925ede6
PH
3043PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3044
66afa403
TF
3045TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3046 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3047 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3048
0154e85a
TF
3049TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3050 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3051 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3052 helo verification defer as a failure.
3053
16f12c76
PH
3054PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3055 actual error message.
3056
bbe902f0 3057
e5a9dba6
PH
3058Exim version 4.52
3059-----------------
3060
3061TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3062
22c3b60b
PH
3063PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3064 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3065 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3066 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3067
06a9b4b5
PH
3068TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3069
c1ac6996
PH
3070PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3071 can still be requested.
3072
9c7a242c
PH
3073PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3074 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3075 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3076 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3077
87ba3f5f
PH
3078TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3079 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3080 circumstances, but probably never did.
3081
3082PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3083 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3084 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3085 in the header line.
3086
29aba418
TF
3087TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3088
fe0dab11
TF
3089TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3090 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3091
11d337a4
TK
3092TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3093
3094TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3095
415c8f3b
PH
3096PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3097 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3098 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3099 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3100 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3101 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3102
958541e9
PH
3103PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3104 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3105 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3106 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3107 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3108 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3109
c206415f
TK
3110TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3111 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3112
2a4be8f9
PH
3113PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3114 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3115
1cba11c5
SC
3116SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3117 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3118
3119SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3120
3121SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3122
3123SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3124
3125SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3126
3127SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3128
3129SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3130
1005d00e
TK
3131TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3132
3133TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3134 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3135 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3136
3137TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3138 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3139 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3140 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3141
9b4768fa
PH
3142PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3143 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3144 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3145
3146PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3147 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3148 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3149 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3150
0d7eb84a
PH
3151PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3152 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3153 to be made).
3154
3155PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3156 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3157 should work with maildirs and everything.
3158
40727bee
TK
3159TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3160 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3161
554d2369
TF
3162TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3163 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3164
1f922db1
PH
3165PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3166 function for BDB 4.3.
3167
ef213c3b
PH
3168PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3169
8ac170f3
PH
3170PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3171 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3172 involved.
3173
b1c749bb
PH
3174PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3175 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3176 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3177 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3178 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3179 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3180
4aac9b49
PH
3181PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3182 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3183 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3184 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3185 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3186 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3187 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3188 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3189
294520c8
TK
3190TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3191 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3192 details.
3193
5bd022fe
PH
3194PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3195 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3196
90e9ce59
PH
3197PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3198 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3199 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3200 test. It is now used for both.
3201
5ea81592
PH
3202PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3203 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3204 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3205 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3206 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3207 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3208
c6c2dc1d
PH
3209PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3210 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3211 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3212 string_vformat().
3213
fffffe4c
PH
3214PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3215 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3216 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3217
9a26b6b2
PH
3218PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3219 experimental DomainKeys support:
3220
3221 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3222 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3223 the control was given.
3224
3225 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3226
4aee0225
PH
3227PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3228
32d668a5
PH
3229PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3230
8187c3f3
PH
3231PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3232 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3233 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3234 db.h files).
3235
ff790e47 3236PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3237 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3238 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3239 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3240 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3241 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3242 course.
ff790e47 3243
5417f6d1
PH
3244PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3245 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3246 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3247 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3248 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3249 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3250
59cf8544
PH
3251PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3252 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3253 do -d+all out of habit.
3254
e7ad8a65
PH
3255PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3256 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3257 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3258
ade42478
PH
3259PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3260 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3261 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3262 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3263 record types that Exim uses.
3264
182ad5cf
PH
3265PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3266 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3267 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3268 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3269 non-existent file that was broken.
3270
b0d9fc80
TK
3271TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3272 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3273
3274TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3275 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3276 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3277
3278TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3279
47c7a64a
PH
3280PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3281 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3282 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3283 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3284 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3285 same time.
3286
a388bce4
SC
3287SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3288 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3289 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3290 at a slight CPU cost.
3291
3292SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3293 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3294
3295SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3296 by Marc Sherman.
3297
0793e4ed
SC
3298SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3299
c58b88df
PH
3300PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3301 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3302
e7ad8a65 3303
7982096b
PH
3304Exim version 4.51
3305-----------------
3306
1a46a8c5
PH
3307TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3308 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3309
2f079f46 3310TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3311
3312TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3313
3314PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3315 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3316
3317PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3318 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3319 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3320 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3321 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3322 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3323 file.
3324
3325PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3326 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3327 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3328 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3329 these two options.
3330
3331PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3332 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3333 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3334 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3335 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3336 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3337 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3338 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3339
3340PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3341 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3342
3343PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3344 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3345 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3346 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3347 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3348 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3349
3350PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3351 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3352 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3353 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3354
3355PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3356 Finch).
3357
3358PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3359 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3360
49c2d5ea
PH
3361PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3362 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3363 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3364 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3365 message.
49c2d5ea 3366
bf759a8b
PH
3367PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3368
83364d30
PH
3369PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3370 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3371
7999bbd7
PH
3372PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3373 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3374 to what was transported.)
3375
7dbf77c9
PH
3376TF/01 Added $received_time.
3377
74e0617f
PH
3378PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3379 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3380 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3381 spamd_address settings.
3382
2f079f46
PH
3383PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3384 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3385 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3386 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3387 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3388
8c841523
PH
3389PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3390
7766a4f0
PH
3391PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3392 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3393 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3394 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3395 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3396
8b417f2c
PH
3397PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3398 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3399
901f42cb
PH
3400PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3401 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3402 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3403 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3404 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3405 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3406 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3407 for failure.
3408
f9b9210e
PH
3409PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3410 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3411 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3412 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3413 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3414 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3415 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3416 "input=".
3417
54cdb463
PH
3418PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3419
cf00dad6
PH
3420PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3421 driver and ACL definitions.
3422
acb1b346
PH
3423PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3424 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3425
c5ddb310
PH
3426PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3427 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3428 understands it better than I do:
3429
3430 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3431 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3432
3433 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3434 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3435 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3436 => three warnings about OTP not working
3437 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3438
3439 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3440 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3441 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3442 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3443 for each call.)
3444 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3445 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3446
3447 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3448 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3449 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3450
31619da6
PH
3451PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3452 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3453 specified.
3454
bebaf0fc
PH
3455PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3456 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3457 "Linux".
3458
475fe28a
PH
3459PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3460 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3461 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3462
3463 warn !verify = sender
3464 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3465
3466 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3467 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3468
7e8bec7a
PH
3469PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3470
3471 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3472 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3473
3474 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3475 nomenclature these days.)
3476
e4a89c47
PH
3477PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3478 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3479
5ca2a9a1
PH
3480PH/30 In these circumstances:
3481 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3482 . First host does not offer TLS;
3483 . First host accepts first address;
3484 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3485 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3486 . Second host accepts second address.
3487 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3488 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3489 address.
7e8bec7a 3490
c688b954
PH
3491PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3492 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3493 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3494 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3495 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3496
fed77020
PH
3497PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3498 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3499
7fe1560f
PH
3500PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3501 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3502
ebb6e6d5
PH
3503PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3504 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3505 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3506
9c4e8f60
PH
3507PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3508 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3509 overlooked.
3510
3511PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3512
d7174846
PH
3513PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3514 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3515 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3516 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3517 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3518 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3519 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3520
3521 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3522 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3523 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3524 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3525 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3526
3527 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3528 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3529 routed further.
3530
cfe75fc3
PH
3531PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3532 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3533 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3534 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3535 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3536 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3537
be22d70e
PH
3538PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3539
0612b098
PH
3540PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3541 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3542 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3543 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3544 printable escape sequences.
3545
2e0c1448
PH
3546PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3547 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3548 body only.
3549
447d236c
PH
3550PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3551 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3552 are as follows:
3553
3554 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3555 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3556 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3557 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3558 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3559
3560 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3561 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3562 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3563
d20976dc
PH
3564PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3565
f656d135
PH
3566PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3567 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3568 play with."
3569
2e2a30b4
PH
3570PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3571 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3572 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3573 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3574 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3575 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3576 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3577 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3578 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3579 the log output.
3580
9176e9f0
PH
3581PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3582 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3583 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3584 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3585 "make".
3586
7982096b 3587
bbe902f0
PH
3588A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3589----------------------------------------
3590
3591Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3592changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3593needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3594in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3595that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3596release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3597from 4.43.
3598
3599I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
36004.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3601those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3602historical information.
3603
3604
f7b63901 3605Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3606-----------------
3607
5fe762f6
PH
3608 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3609
139059f6 3610 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3611 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3612
7086e875
PH
3613 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3614 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3615 place.
3616
35af9f61
PH
3617 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3618 filter fails to execute.
3619
b668c215
PH
3620 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3621 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3622 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3623 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3624 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3625
a494b1e1
PH
3626 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3627
3628 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3629 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3630 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3631 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3632
c5fcb476
PH
3633 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3634 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3635 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3636 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3637 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3638
69358f02
PH
3639 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3640
5be20824
PH
364110. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3642
eb2c0248
PH
364311. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3644 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3645 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3646 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3647
2a3eea10
PH
364812. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3649 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3650 sender verification.
3651
365213. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3653 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3654
23c7ff99
PH
365514. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3656
4deaf07d
PH
365715. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3658 connection timeout.
3659
926e1192
PH
366016. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3661 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3662
650edc6f
PH
366317. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3664 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3665
2c7db3f5
PH
366618. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3667 information about exactly what failed.
3668
3d235903
PH
366919. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3670
7c7ad977
PH
367120. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3672 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3673 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3674
981756db
PH
367521. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3676 It is now set to "smtps".
3677
d4eb88df
PH
367822. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3679 ignore_target_hosts.
3680
368123. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3682 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3683 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3684 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3685 "[x.x.x.x]".
3686
7d468ab8
PH
368724. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3688 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3689 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3690
369125. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3692 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3693 wake it up if nothing else does.
3694
62c0818f
PH
369526. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3696 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3697 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3698 end up negative.
3699
26034054
PH
370027. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3701 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3702
af66f652
PH
370328. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3704
90af77f4
PH
370529. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3706 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3707 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3708 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3709 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3710 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3711 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3712 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3713
d8ef3577
PH
371430. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3715 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3716 than one IP address.
3717
5cb8cbc6
PH
371831. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3719 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3720 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3721 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3722
14702f5b
PH
372332. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3724 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3725 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3726 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3727 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3728 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3729
063b1e99
PH
373033. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3731 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3732 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3733 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3734
652e1b65
PH
373534. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3736 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3737 respected.
3738
6f0c9a4f
PH
373935. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3740 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3741 $sender_host_address.
3742
33397d19
PH
374336. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3744 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3745 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3746 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3747 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3748 very small.
3749
7bb56e1f
PH
375037. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3751
3752 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3753 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3754
ea3bc19b
PH
3755 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3756 just the host names, not the priorities.
3757
3758 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3759 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3760 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3761
ea3bc19b 3762 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3763 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3764
0bcb2a0e
PH
376538. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3766 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3767 domain.
3768
2ac0e484
PH
376939. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3770
4e1fde53
PH
377140. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3772 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3773
de365ded
PH
377441. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3775 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3776 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3777
f05da2e8
PH
377842. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3779
d6453af2
PH
378043. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3781
f7b63901
PH
378244. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3783
378445. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3785 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3786 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3787 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3788 because the tests only now provoked it.
3789
a444213a
PH
379046. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3791 (this can affect the format of dates).
3792
0ec020ea
PH
379347. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3794 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3795 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3796 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3797
b1206957
PH
379848. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3799
380049. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3801 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3802 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3803 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3804
26dd5a95
PH
380550. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3806 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3807 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3808
343b2385
PH
380951. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3810 autoreply.
3811
1c5466b9
PH
381252. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3813 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3814 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3815 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3816 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3817 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3818 is going on).
3819
55ee9ee3
PH
382053. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3821 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3822 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3823 the line.
3824
d38f8232
PH
382554. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3826 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3827 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3828
3829 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3830 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3831 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3832 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3833 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3834 so I produce this patch..."
3835
3295e65b
PH
3836 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3837 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3838 is not defined.
3839
7102e136
PH
384055. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3841 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3842 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3843 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3844 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3845
3ca0ba97
PH
384656. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3847
c2bcbe20
PH
384857. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3849 long debug lines gets shown.
3850
18ce445d
PH
385158. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3852 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3853
1f5b4c3d
PH
385459. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3855
3856 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3857 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3858 of $primary_hostname.
3859
b975ba52
PH
386060. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3861 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3862 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3863 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3864 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3865 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3866 by change 4.50/55 above.
3867
3868 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3869 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3870 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3871 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3872 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3873 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3874 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3875
387661. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3877 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3878 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3879 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3880
17ffcae7
PH
388162. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3882 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3883
d95f9fdb
PH
388463. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3885 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3886 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3887 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3888 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3889
86b8287f
PH
389064. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3891 This has been fixed.
3892
60dc5e56
PH
389365. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3894 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3895 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3896 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3897 the caching.)
3898
533244af
PH
389966. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3900
a5a28604
PH
390167. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3902 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3903 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3904 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3905
7e634d24
PH
390668. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3907 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3908
3e11c26b
PH
390969. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3910 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3911 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3912
6729cf78
PH
391370. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3914 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3915 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3916 message there.
3917
00f00ca5
PH
391871. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3919 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3920 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3921
c9bdd01c
PH
392272. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3923 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3924 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3925 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3926
d43194df
PH
392773. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3928 during host lookups.
3929
fe5b5d0b
PH
393074. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3931 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3932
3933 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3934
76a2d7ba
PH
393575. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3936 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3937 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3938 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3939 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3940 background.
3941
394276. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3943 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3944
04f7d5b9
PH
394577. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3946 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3947 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3948
bc60667e
PH
394978. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3950
bb6e88ff
PH
395179. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3952 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3953 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3954 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3955 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3956 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3957 process earlier.
3958
1e70f85b
PH
395980. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3960 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3961 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3962 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3963 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3964
396581. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3966 tables).
3967
4e01f9d6
PH
396882. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3969
1ee1cef2
PH
397083. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3971 "vacation" handling.
3972
6e2b4ccc
PH
397384. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3974 OS variants using glibc.
3975
8e669ac1
PH
397685. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3977
495ae4b0 3978
bbe902f0
PH
3979----------------------------------------------------
3980See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3981----------------------------------------------------
3982
3983
3984Exim version 4.44
3985-----------------
3986
3987 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3988 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3989 transport
3990
3991 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3992 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3993 place.
3994
3995 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3996 filter fails to execute.
3997
3998 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3999 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4000 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4001 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4002 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4003
4004 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4005 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4006 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4007 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4008
4009 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4010 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4011 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4012 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4013 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4014
4015 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4016
4017 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4018 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4019 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4020 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4021
4022 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4023 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4024 sender verification.
4025
402610. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4027 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4028
402911. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4030 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4031
403212. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4033 ignore_target_hosts.
4034
403513. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4036 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4037 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4038 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4039 "[x.x.x.x]".
4040
404114. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4042 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4043 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4044
404515. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4046 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4047 wake it up if nothing else does.
4048
404916. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4050 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4051 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4052 end up negative.
4053
405417. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4055 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4056
ea3a6f44 405718. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4058
405919. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4060 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4061 empty pattern.
4062
406320. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4064 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4065 one IP address.
4066
ea3a6f44
NM
406721. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4068 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4069 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4070 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4071 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4072 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4073
ea3a6f44
NM
407422. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4075 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4076 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4077
407823. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4079 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4080 $sender_host_address.
4081
408224. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4083
ea3a6f44
NM
408425. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4085 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4086 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4087
408826. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4089 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4090
ea3a6f44
NM
409127. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4092 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4093
ea3a6f44
NM
409428. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4095 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4096 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4097 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4098
409929. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4100 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4101 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4102
ea3a6f44
NM
410330. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4104 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4105 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4106 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4107
ea3a6f44
NM
410831. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4109 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4110 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4111
ea3a6f44
NM
411231. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4113 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4114
ea3a6f44
NM
411532. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4116 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4117 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4118 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4119 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4120 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4121 is going on).
bbe902f0 4122
ea3a6f44
NM
412333. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4124 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4125 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4126 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4127 CAN-2005-0021
4128
ea3a6f44
NM
412934. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4130 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4131 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4132 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4133 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4134 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4135 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4136
4137 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4138 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4139 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4140 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4141 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4142 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4143 CAN-2005-0021
4144
ea3a6f44
NM
414535. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4146 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4147 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4148 CAN-2005-0022
4149
ea3a6f44
NM
415036. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4151 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4152 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4153 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4154 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4155
ea3a6f44
NM
415637. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4157 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4158 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4159 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4160 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4161
ea3a6f44
NM
416238. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4163 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4164 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4165 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4166 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4167
4168
495ae4b0
PH
4169Exim version 4.43
4170-----------------
4171
4172 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4173 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4174 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4175 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4176 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4177 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4178 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4179
4180 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4181 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4182 the delivery.
4183
4184 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4185
4186 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4187
4188 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4189 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4190 to local_scan().
4191
4192 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4193 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4194 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4195 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4196 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4197
4198 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4199 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4200
4201 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4202
4203 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4204
420510. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4206 header_sender only.
4207
420811. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4209 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4210
421112. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4212 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4213 affecting debugging statements).
4214
421513. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4216
421714. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4218 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4219 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4220 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4221 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4222 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4223 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4224 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4225 after the received time, and all would be well.
4226
422715. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4228 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4229 condition in an expansion string.
4230
423116. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4232
423317. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4234 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4235 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4236 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4237 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4238 job under whatever limits there are.
4239
424018. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4241
424219. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4243 space).
4244
424520. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4246 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4247 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4248 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4249 return path is set.
4250
425121. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4252 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4253 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4254 binary data in such strings.
4255
425622. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4257
425823. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4259 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4260 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4261 failure, which is pointless.
4262
426324. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4264
426525. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4266
426726. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4268 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4269 Sender: header lines.
4270
427127. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4272 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4273 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4274
427528. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4276 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4277 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4278 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4279 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4280 happens.
4281
428229. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4283 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4284 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4285 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4286 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4287
428830. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4289 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4290 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4291 1024.
4292
429331. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4294 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4295
429632. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4297 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4298
429933. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4300
430132. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4302
430333. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4304
430534. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4306 syntax error.
4307
430835. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4309
431036. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4311
431237. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4313 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4314 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4315 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4316
431738. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4318 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4319
4320
4321Exim version 4.42
4322-----------------
4323
4324 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4325 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4326 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4327 it was not quoted.
4328 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4329 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4330 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4331 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4332 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4333 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4334
4335 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4336 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4337 verification failure".
4338
4339 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4340 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4341 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4342 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4343
4344 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4345 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4346 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4347 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4348 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4349 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4350 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4351 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4352 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4353 treated as a timeout.
4354
4355 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4356 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4357 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4358 not set for Exim filters).
4359
4360 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4361 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4362 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4363
4364 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4365
4366 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4367 try to make them clearer.
4368
4369 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4370 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4371
4372 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4373
4374 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4375
437610. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4377 only the Cygwin environment.
4378
437911. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4380 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4381 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4382 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4383 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4384
438512. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4386 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4387 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4388 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4389 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4390 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4391 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4392
439313. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4394 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4395
439614. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4397
4398 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4399 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4400 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4401
4402 To: susanne@some.where
4403
4404 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4405 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4406 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4407 of addresses in From: header lines).
4408
4409 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4410 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4411 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4412
4413 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4414 treated as non-personal.
4415
4416 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4417 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4418
441915. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4420
442116. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4422
442317. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4424 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4425 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4426
442718. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4428 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4429
443019. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4431 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4432 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4433 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4434 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4435 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4436
443720. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4438 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4439 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4440 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4441 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4442 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4443 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4444 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4445
4446 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4447
444821. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4449 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4450
445122. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4452 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4453 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4454
445523. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4456 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4457
445824. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4459 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4460 rather than long int.
4461
446225. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4463
446426. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4465
4466
4467Exim version 4.41
4468-----------------
4469
4470 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4471 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4472 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4473 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4474 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4475 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4476
4477
4478Exim version 4.40
4479-----------------
4480
4481 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4482 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4483
4484 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4485 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4486 socklen_t is defined.
4487
4488 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4489 always exist.
4490
4491 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4492 configured.
4493
4494 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4495 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4496 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4497 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4498 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4499
4500 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4501 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4502 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4503 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4504
4505 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4506 of flapping under certain conditions.
4507
4508 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4509 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4510 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4511
4512 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4513
451410. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4515
451611. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4517 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4518 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4519 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4520
452112. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4522 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4523 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4524 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4525 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4526 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4527 preserved with the message after it was received.
4528
452913. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4530 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4531 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4532 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4533 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4534 test suite worked just fine.
4535
453614. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4537 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4538 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4539
454015. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4541 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4542 string.
4543
454416. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4545 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4546 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4547 does not fully solve it.
4548
454917. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4550 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4551 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4552 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4553 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4554
455518. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4556 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4557 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4558
455919. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4560 string, for example:
4561
4562 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4563
4564 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4565 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4566 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4567 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4568 the routers could not see them.
4569
457020. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4571 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4572
457321. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4574 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4575 output).
4576
457722. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4578 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4579 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4580 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4581 that needed quoting.
4582
458323. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4584 was not being matched caselessly.
4585
458624. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4587 backslashes.
4588
458925. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4590 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4591 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4592 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4593 when use_sender is false.
4594
459526. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4596
459727. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4598
459928. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4600
460129. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4602 the configuration file.
4603
460430. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4605 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4606
460731. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4608
460932. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4610 bytes in the message body.
4611
461233. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4613 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4614 delivery.
4615
461634. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4617
461835. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4619
462036. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4621 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4622 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4623 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4624 another IP address.
4625
4626
4627Exim version 4.34
4628-----------------
4629
4630 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4631 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4632
4633 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4634 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4635 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4636 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4637 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4638
4639 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4640 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4641
4642 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4643 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4644 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4645
4646 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4647 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4648 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4649
4650 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4651 for routers.
4652
4653 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4654 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4655 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4656 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4657 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4658 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4659 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4660
4661
4662Exim version 4.33
4663-----------------
4664
4665 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4666 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4667 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4668 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4669 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4670 default (and expected) setting.
4671
4672 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4673 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4674 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4675 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4676
4677 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4678 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4679
4680 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4681 in domain lists.
4682
4683 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4684 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4685 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4686 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4687 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4688 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4689
4690 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4691 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4692 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4693
4694 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4695 part (NOT match_host).
4696
4697 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4698
4699 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4700 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4701 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4702 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4703 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4704 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4705 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4706 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4707 the same named file.
4708
470910. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4710 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4711 when Exim is built.
4712
471311. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4714 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4715 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4716 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4717 a host name.
4718
471912. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4720 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4721 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4722
472313. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4724
472514. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4726
472715. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4728
472916. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4730 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4731
473217. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4733 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4734 before starting the TLS session.
4735
473618. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4737
473819. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4739 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4740
474120. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4742 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4743 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4744 colon in the middle).
4745
4746
4747Exim version 4.32
4748-----------------
4749
4750 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4751 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4752 multiple configurations are in use.
4753
4754 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4755 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4756 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4757 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4758 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4759 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4760
4761 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4762 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4763
4764 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4765 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4766 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4767
4768 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4769 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4770 occurs.
4771
4772 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4773 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4774
4775 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4776
4777 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4778 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4779
4780 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4781
4782 -prval:sval
4783
4784 is equivalent to
4785
4786 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4787
4788 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4789 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4790 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4791 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4792 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4793
479410. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4795 Exim's behaviour:
4796
4797 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4798 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4799 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4800 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4801 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4802 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4803
4804 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4805 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4806 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4807 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4808 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4809 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4810 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4811 string.
4812
4813 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4814 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4815 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4816 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4817 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4818
481911. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4820
482112. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4822 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4823 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4824
482513. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4826
482714. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4828 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4829 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4830 information.
4831
483215. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4833 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4834
483516. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4836 Three changes have been made:
4837
4838 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4839 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4840 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4841 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4842 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4843
4844 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4845 been restored.
4846
4847 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4848 the modified behaviour.
4849
4850
4851Exim version 4.31
4852-----------------
4853
4854 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4855 Larry Rosenman.
4856
4857 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4858 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4859
4860 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4861 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4862 try to track down a specific problem.
4863
4864 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4865 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4866 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4867
4868 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4869 warning.
4870
4871 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4872 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4873 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4874 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4875 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4876 some earlier ones do not.
4877
4878 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4879
4880 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4881 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4882 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4883 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4884 address literals are enabled, of course).
4885
4886 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4887
488810. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4889 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4890 by a command such as
4891
4892 exim -f "" ...
4893
4894 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4895
489611. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4897
489812. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4899 remained set. It is now erased.
4900
490113. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4902 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4903
490414. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4905 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4906 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4907 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4908 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4909 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4910 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4911 appropriate error code.
4912
491315. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4914 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4915 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4916 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4917 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4918 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4919
492016. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4921 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4922 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4923
492417. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4925 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4926 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4927 terminate the header.
4928
492918. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4930 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4931 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4932
493319. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4934 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4935 (4.30/29). In particular:
4936
4937 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4938 imposed.
4939
4940 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4941 to write a maildirsize file.
4942
4943 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4944 the transport, the new value overrides.
4945
4946 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4947 count.
4948
494920. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4950 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4951 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4952 space or a tab.
4953
495421. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4955 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4956 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4957 the fallback hosts.
4958
495922. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4960 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4961 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4962
496323. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4964 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4965 using a union.
4966
496724. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4968 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4969 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4970
497125. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4972
497326. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4974
497527. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4976
497728. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4978 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4979 become corrupted.
4980
498129. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4982 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4983 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4984 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4985 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4986 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4987 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4988 too great.
4989
499030. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4991 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4992 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4993 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4994 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4995 incorrectly.
4996
499731. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4998 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4999 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5000 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5001 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5002 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5003 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5004 cached value only when the same options are set.
5005
500632. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5007
500833. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5009 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5010 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5011 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5012 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5013
501434: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5015 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5016 it is clearly obsolete.
5017
501835. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5019 transport.
5020
502136. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5022 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5023 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5024 times.
5025
502637. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5027 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5028 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5029 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5030 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5031
503238. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5033 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5034 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5035 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5036
503739. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5038
5039 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5040
5041 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5042 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5043 2^31.
5044
504540. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5046 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5047 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5048 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5049 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5050 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5051 $localpart_data.
5052
505341. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5054 with the -f command-line option.
5055
505642. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5057 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5058 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5059 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5060 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5061 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5062
506343. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5064 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5065 line.
5066
506744. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5068 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5069 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5070 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5071 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5072 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5073 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5074 buffer is too small.
5075
507645. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5077 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5078
507946. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5080 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5081 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5082 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5083 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5084 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5085 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5086 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5087 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5088
508947. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5090 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5091 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5092
509348. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5094 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5095 ACL").
5096
509749. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5098 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5099 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5100 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5101 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5102
510350. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5104 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5105 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5106 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5107 is set.
5108
510951. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5110
511152. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5112
511353. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5114 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5115
511654. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5117 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5118 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5119
512055. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5121 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5122 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5123 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5124 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5125
512656. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5127 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5128 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5129 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5130 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5131 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5132 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5133
513457. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5135 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5136 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5137 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5138 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5139 the test of how many are available.
5140
514158. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5142 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5143 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5144 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5145 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5146 new message is started.
5147
514859. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5149 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5150
515160. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5152 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5153
515461. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5155 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5156 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5157 is no long logged.
5158
515962. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5160 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5161 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5162 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5163 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5164 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5165 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5166
516763. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5168 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5169 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5170 interpreted as octal.
5171
517264. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5173 setting.
5174
517565. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5176 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5177 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5178 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5179 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5180 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5181
518266. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5183 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5184 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5185 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5186
5187 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5188 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5189 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5190 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5191
5192 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5193 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5194 is a bug fix.
5195
5196 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5197 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5198
519967. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5200
520168. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5202 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5203 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5204 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5205
520669. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5207 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5208 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5209 supplied", which is not helpful.
5210
521170. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5212 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5213 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5214
521571. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5216 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5217 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5218 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5219 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5220 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5221 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5222 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5223
522472. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5225 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5226 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5227 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5228 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5229
523073. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5231 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5232 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5233 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5234 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5235 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5236
523774. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5238 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5239 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5240
524175. Added write_rejectlog option.
5242
524376. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5244 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5245 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5246 variables.
5247
524877. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5249
525078. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5251 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5252 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5253 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5254 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5255 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5256 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5257 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5258
525979. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5260 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5261 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5262 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5263 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5264
526580. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5266 Haardt.
5267
526881. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5269 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5270 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5271 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5272 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5273 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5274 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5275 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5276 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5277
5278
5279Exim version 4.30
5280-----------------
5281
5282 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5283 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5284 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5285
5286 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5287 fixed.
5288
5289 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5290 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5291 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5292
5293 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5294 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5295 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5296 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5297 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5298 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5299
5300 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5301 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5302 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5303 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5304 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5305 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5306 the Exim test suite.
5307
5308 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5309 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5310 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5311 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5312
5313 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5314 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5315 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5316 specify it in this variable.
5317
5318 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5319 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5320 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5321 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5322
5323 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5324 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5325 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5326 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5327
5328 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5329 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5330 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5331 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5332 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5333
5334 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5335
533610. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5337 they are logged.
5338
533911. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5340 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5341 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5342 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5343 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5344
534512. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5346 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5347
534813. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5349 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5350 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5351 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5352 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5353
535414. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5355 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5356
535715. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5358 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5359 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5360
536116. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5362 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5363
536417. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5365 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5366
536718. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5368 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5369 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5370
537119. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5372 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5373
537420. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5375 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5376 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5377 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5378
537921. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5380
538122. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5382 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5383 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5384 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5385
538623. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5387
538824. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5389 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5390
539125. Added .include_if_exists.
5392
539326. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5394 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5395 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5396 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5397 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5398 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5399
540027. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5401
540228. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5403 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5404 this.
5405
540629. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5407
540830. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5409 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5410
5411 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5412 550 Sender verify failed
5413
5414 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5415 the final line of the response.
5416
541731. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5418 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5419 all other user lookups.
5420
542132. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5422 delivery time.
5423
542433. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5425 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5426 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5427 result into an int without checking.
5428
542934. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5430 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5431 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5432
543335. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5434 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5435 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5436 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5437
543836. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5439 correctly.
5440
544137. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5442 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5443
544438. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5445 to the empty sender.
5446
544739. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5448 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5449 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5450 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5451 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5452 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5453 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5454 panic log.
5455
545640. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5457 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5458 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5459 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5460 used.
5461
546241. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5463 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5464
546542. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5466 timestamps.
5467
546843. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5469 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5470
547144. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5472
547345. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5474 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5475 logs.
5476
547746. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5478 as soon as it is encountered.
5479
548047. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5481
548248. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5483 rewritten to "<>".
5484
548549. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5486 recognizes a tab character.
5487
548850. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5489 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5490 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5491 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5492
549351. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5494
549552. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5496 crash.
5497
549853. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5499
550054. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5501
550255. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5503 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5504 2822.
5505
550656. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5507 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5508 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5509 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5510 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5511
551257. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5513 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5514
551558. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5516 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5517 list (.included file names were always shown).
5518
551959. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5520 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5521 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5522 root at that time.
5523
552460. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5525 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5526
552761. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5528
552962. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5530
553163. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5532
553364. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5534 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5535 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5536 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5537 failures to open the logs.
5538
553965. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5540 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5541 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5542 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5543 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5544 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5545 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5546
5547
5548Exim version 4.24
5549-----------------
5550
5551 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5552 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5553 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5554 change 4.23/1.
5555
5556 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5557 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5558 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5559
5560 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5561 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5562 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5563
5564 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5565 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5566 causing some misleading effects.
5567
5568 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5569 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5570 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5571
5572 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5573 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5574 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5575 queue-runner function directly.
5576
5577
5578Exim version 4.23
5579-----------------
5580
5581 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5582 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5583
5584 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5585 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5586 was always written to the default place.
5587
5588 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5589 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5590 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5591
5592 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5593
5594 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5595
5596 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5597 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5598 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5599
5600 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5601 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5602 must start.
5603
5604 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5605 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5606 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5607
5608 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5609 command line option is disabled.
5610
5611 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5612 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5613
5614 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5615
5616 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5617
5618 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5619 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5620
562110. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5622
562311. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5624 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5625 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5626 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5627 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5628 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5629
563012. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5631 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5632 timeout.
5633
563413. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5635 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5636
563714. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5638 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5639
564015. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5641 received was valid base64.
5642
564316. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5644 name of the variable that was being set.
5645
564617. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5647
564818. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5649 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5650 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5651 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5652 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5653 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5654
565519. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5656
565720. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5658 nor realm was specified.
5659
566021. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5661 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5662 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5663 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5664
566522. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5666 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5667 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5668
566923. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5670 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5671 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5672
567324. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5674 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5675 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5676 some systems use these upper case variants.
5677
567825. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5679 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5680 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5681 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5682
568326. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5684
568527. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5686 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5687
568828. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5689 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5690 expansion variable.
5691
569229. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5693
569430. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5695 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5696 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5697 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5698
569931. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5700 using it.
5701
570232. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5703 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5704 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5705
570633. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5707 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5708
570934. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5710 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5711 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5712 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5713
571435. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5715 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5716 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5717
571836. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5719
572037. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5721 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5722 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5723 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5724 aborted.
5725
572638. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5727 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5728 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5729
573039. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5731
573240. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5733 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5734
573541. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5736 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5737
573842. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5739 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5740 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5741 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5742 when emails are that large.
5743
5744
5745
5746Exim version 4.22
5747-----------------
5748
5749 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5750 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5751
5752 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5753 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5754 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5755
5756 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5757 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5758 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5759
5760 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5761 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5762 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5763 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5764 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5765
5766 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5767 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5768 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5769 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5770 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5771 ever.
5772
5773 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5774 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5775 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5776 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5777 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5778 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5779 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5780 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5781 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5782 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5783 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5784 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5785 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5786 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5787
5788 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5789 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5790 parameterised it.
5791
5792 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5793 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5794 error should be diagnosed.
5795
5796 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5797 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5798 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5799 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5800 appeared instead of "NULL".
5801
580210. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5803 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5804 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5805 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5806 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5807 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5808 proceeds).
5809
5810 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5811 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5812 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5813
5814
5815Exim version 4.21
5816-----------------
5817
5818 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5819 or receiver verification errors.
5820
5821 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5822 name.
5823
5824 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5825 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5826 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5827 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5828
5829 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5830 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5831 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5832 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5833 shouldn't happen again.
5834
5835 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5836 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5837 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5838
5839 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5840 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5841
5842 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5843
5844 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5845 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5846
5847 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5848 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5849 RFC.
5850
585110. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5852 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5853 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5854
585511. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5856 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5857 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5858 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5859
586012. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5861 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5862 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5863 to define what should happen).
5864
586513. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5866 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5867 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5868
586914. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5870
587115. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5872
587316. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5874 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5875
587617. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5877 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5878 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5879 structure in all cases.
5880
5881 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5882 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5883 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5884 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5885
588618. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5887 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5888 domain name.
5889
589019. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5891 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5892
589320. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5894 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5895
589621. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5897 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5898 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5899
590022. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5901 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5902 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5903
590423. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5905 the book and for uniformity.
5906
590724. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5908
590925. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5910 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5911 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5912 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5913 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5914 non-existent command as the problem.
5915
591626. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5917 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5918 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5919
592027. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5921
592228. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5923 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5924 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5925
592629. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5927 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5928 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5929 timestamps using strftime().
5930
593130. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5932 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5933
593432. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5935 transport-time rewrites.
5936
593733. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5938 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5939 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5940 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5941
594234. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5943 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5944
594535. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5946 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5947 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5948 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5949 comma and a space.
5950
595136. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5952 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5953 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5954 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5955 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5956 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5957 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5958
595937. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5960 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5961 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5962 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5963 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5964
596538. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5966 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5967 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5968 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5969 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5970 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5971 remaining text gets split now.
5972
597339. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5974 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5975 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5976 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5977
597840. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5979 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5980 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5981 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5982 $return_path.
5983
598441. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5985 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5986 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5987 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5988 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5989 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5990 passed through if needed.
5991
599242. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5993 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5994 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5995 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5996 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5997 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5998
599943. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6000 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6001 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6002 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6003 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6004
600544. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6006 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6007 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6008 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6009 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6010
601145. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6012 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6013 noticed.
6014
601546. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6016 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6017 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6018 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6019 mayhem of various kinds.
6020
602147. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6022 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6023 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6024 the right test for positive values.
6025
602648. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6027 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6028 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6029 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6030 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6031 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6032 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6033 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6034 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6035 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6036 envelope.
6037
603849. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6039 module.
6040
604150. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6042 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6043 forbidding it.
6044
604551. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6046 the existing equality matching.
6047
604852. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6049 dealing with inode numbers.
6050
605153. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6052 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6053 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6054
605554. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6056 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6057 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6058 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6059 local_scan().
6060
606155. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6062 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6063 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6064 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6065 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6066 relay addresses has also been removed.
6067
606856. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6069
607057. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6071 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6072 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6073
607458. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6075 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6076 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6077 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6078 processing applies to CR:
6079
6080 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6081 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6082
6083 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6084 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6085 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6086 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6087
608859. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6089 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6090 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6091
609260. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6093 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6094 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6095 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6096 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6097 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6098 arisen.
6099
610061. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6101 program routers.
6102
610362. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6104 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6105 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6106 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6107 adds:
6108
6109 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6110
6111 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6112
6113 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6114
611563. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6116 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6117 not considered personal.
6118
611964. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6120
612165. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6122
612366. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6124
612567. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6126 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6127 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6128 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6129 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6130 header lines, and spool format errors.
6131
613268. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6133 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6134 for more flexibility.
6135
613669. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6137 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6138 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6139
614070. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6141 Sabourenkov.
6142
614371. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6144 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6145 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6146 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6147 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6148 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6149 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6150 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6151 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6152
615372. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6154 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6155 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6156 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6157 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6158 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6159 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6160
616173. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6162 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6163 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6164
616574. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6166 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6167 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6168 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6169 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6170 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6171 instead of killing the process with assert().
6172
617375. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6174 than Unicode encoding.
6175
617676. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6177 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6178 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6179 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6180
618177. Added process_log_path.
6182
618378. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6184 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6185
618679. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6187 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6188
618980. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6190 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6191 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6192
619381. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6194 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6195 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6196 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6197 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6198 were applied:
6199
6200 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6201 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6202 as invalid.
6203
620482. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6205 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6206 they will be used during message reception.
6207
6208
6209Exim version 4.20
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6211
6212The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
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