SOCKS: Add log_selector support.
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
8 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
9 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
10 client dropping the TLS connection.
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12TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
13 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
14
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15TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
16 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
17 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
18 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
19 outgoing I= field.
20
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21JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
22 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
23 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
24 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
25 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
26 check on the next write.
27
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28HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
29 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
30 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
31 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
32 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
33
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34JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
35 mime_regex ACL conditions.
36
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37JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
38 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
39 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
40
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41JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
42 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
43 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
44 an authenticate fail is not an error.
45
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46HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
47 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
48
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49JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
50 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
51
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52JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
53 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
54 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
55 distinct.
56
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57JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
58
59JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
60
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61JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
62
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63JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
64 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
65
98b98887 66JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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67 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
68
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69JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
70
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71JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
72 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
73
74JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
75
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76JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
77 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
78
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79JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
80
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81JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
82 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
83 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
84 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
85 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
86 they will retry in-clear.
87 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
88 at installation time.
89
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90HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
91 with the $config_file variable.
92
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93JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
94 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
95 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
96 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
97 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx reponse.
98
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99GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
100 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
101 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
102 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
103 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
104
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105JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
106
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107JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
108 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
109 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
110 list order is no longer honoured.
111
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112JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalisation
113 for DKIM processing.
114
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115JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
116 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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118JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
119 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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120 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
121 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
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126JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
127 expanded.
128
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129JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
130
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131JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
132 it.
133
01a4a5c5 134JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 135 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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136 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
137 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
138
cb1d7830 139JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 140 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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141 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
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610ff438 143JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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144 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
145 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
146 TLS connections
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148JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
149 sites use this now.
150
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151JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
152 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
153 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
154 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
155 have a dsn_lasthop option.
156
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157JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
158 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 159 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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161JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
162
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163JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
164 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
165
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166JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
167 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
168
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169JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
170 /defer_ok option.
171
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172JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
173 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
174
fd4d8871 175JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 176 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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177 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
178
179JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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180 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
181 specify a port-range.
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183JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
184 timeout value per server.
185
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186JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
187 now have the list separator specified.
188
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189JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
190 option values.
191
82c0c8ea 192JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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193 under OpenSSL.
194
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195JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
196
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197JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
198 rather than the verbs used.
199
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200JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
201 from 255 to 1024 chars.
202
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203JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
204
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205HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
206 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
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208JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
209 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
210
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211HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
212 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
213
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214JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
215
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216JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
217
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218JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
219 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
220 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
221 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
222
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223JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
224
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225JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
226 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
227
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228JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
229 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
230
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231JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
232
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233JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
234
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235JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
236
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237JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
238 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
239
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240JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
241 added for tls authenticator.
242
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244Exim version 4.85
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246TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
247 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
248 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
249 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
250 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
251 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
252 the script parsing/test process like normal.
253
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254TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
255 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
256 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
257 function when detected.
258
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259JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
260 cause callback expansion.
261
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262TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
263 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
264 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
265 instead of bool when processing it.
266
0f06b4f2 267JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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268 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
269
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270JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
271
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272JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
273
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274TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
275
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276TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
277 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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279JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
280 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
281 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
282 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
283 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
284 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
285
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286JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
287 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
288 exceeded it.
289
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290JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
291 version 3.3.6 or later.
292
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293JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
294 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
295 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 296 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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297 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
298 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
299 option is defined.
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301TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
302 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
303
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304JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
305 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
306 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
307 matches.
308
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309JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
310 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
311 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
312
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313JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
314 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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316JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
317 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
318 syntax errors.
319
3394b36a 320JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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322JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
323 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
324
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325TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
326 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
327 tarball.
328
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329JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
330
331JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
332 Bug 1561.
333
334JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
335 output list separator was used.
336
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338Exim version 4.84
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340TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
341 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
342 return.
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344JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
345 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
346
347JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
348
349TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 350 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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356TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
357
358 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
359 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
360 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
361 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
362 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
363 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
364
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365TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
366 utilities have not been installed.
367
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368JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
369 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
370
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371TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
372 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
373
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374TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
375 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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376 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
377 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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379JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
380
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381TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
382 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
383
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384PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
385 not dns_use_dnssec.
386
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387JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
388
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389TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
390 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
391 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
392
8ddef691 393TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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394 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
395 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
396 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
397 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 398 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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400JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
401
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402JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
403 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
404
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405JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
406 failed delivery.
407
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408JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
409
511a6c14 410JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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412JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
413 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 414
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415JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
416 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
417
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418TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
419
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420JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
421
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422JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
423 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
424
425 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
426 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
427 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
428
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429TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
430 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
431 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
432 analysis.
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434JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
435
8c51eead 436JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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437 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
438 lookup).
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440TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
441 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
442 Schlichting.
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fd3b6a4a 444JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 445 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
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447TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
448 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
449
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450JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
451
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452TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
453 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
454 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
455
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456JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
457 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
458
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459JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
460 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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461 hosts_request_ocsp.
462
ed3bba5f 463JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 464 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 465 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
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467JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
468
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469TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
470 Christian Aistleitner.
471
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472JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
473
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474TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
475 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
476
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477JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
478 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
479
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480JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
481 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
482
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483TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
484 support and error reporting did not work properly.
485
3ae173e7
ACK
486TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
487 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
488
c13d09b8
TL
489TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
490 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
491 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
492
0df4ab80
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493JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
494
66be95e0
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495PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
496 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
497 Jasper Wallace.
498
1bd0d12b
JH
499JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
500
0de7239e
TL
501TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
502 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
503 CVE-2014-2972
504
fd3b6a4a 505
2c422e6f 506Exim version 4.82
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507-----------------
508
509PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
510
12f69989
PP
511PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
512 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
513
54c90be1
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514PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
515 by GnuTLS.
516
1f4a55da
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517PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
518 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
519 routines.
520
13363eba 521PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 522
66645890 523PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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524 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
525 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
526 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
527 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 528
a3fb9793 529PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
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530 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
531 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
532 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 533 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 534 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 535
d27f98fe 536TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 537
6822b909
TL
538TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
539
e7568d51
TL
540TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
541 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
542
ae0e32ee 543TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 544 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 545 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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546
547TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 548
e2658fff
TL
549TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
550
83712b39
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551TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
552 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
553
976b7e9f
JH
554JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
555
be4a1376
JH
556JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
557
ec4b68e5
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558PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
559
d7148a07
NM
560NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
561 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 562
585121e2 563JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 564
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565PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
566 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
567 function.
a5f239e4 568
13d08c90
PP
569PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
570 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
571
bef3ea7f
JH
572JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
573 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
574 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 575
846726c5
JH
576JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
577
3a796370
JH
578JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
579
ea722490 580JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
581 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
582
b1b05573
JH
583JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
584 Bugzilla 884.
585
362145b5
JH
586JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
587 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
588
3c0a92dc
JH
589JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
590 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
591
6d7c6175
PP
592PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
593 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 594 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 595
6f123593
JH
596JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
597 authenticators.
598
c8e2fc1e
JH
599JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
600 for control.
601
005ac57f
PP
602PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
603
3f1df0e3
PP
604PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
605 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
606 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
607 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
608
67bd1ab3
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609TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
610
611 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
612 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
613 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
614 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
615 the retry rules.
616
617 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
618 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
619 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
620
621 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
622 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
623 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
624 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
625
1ddeb334
TF
626 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
627 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
628 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
629 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
630 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
631 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
632 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
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633
634 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
635 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
636
326cdc37
TF
637TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
638
639 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
640
641 Resent-From: f
642
643 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
644 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
645 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
646 username as equal to the username.
647
648 This change corrects that bug.
649
f62514b3
GF
650GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
651 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
652 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
653
eb505532
TF
654TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
655
14c7b357
PP
656PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
657 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
658 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
659 NULL dereference and crash.
660
94eaf700
PP
661JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
662
6f5a440a
PP
663PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
664 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
665 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
666
514ee161
SC
667SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
668
fd98a5c6
JH
669JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
670 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
671 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
672 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
673 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
674 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
675 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
676 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
677 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
678 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
679 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
680
035c7f1e
PP
681PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
682 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
683
ff284120
PP
684PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
685 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
686 Bugzilla 880.
687
26e72755
PP
688PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
689 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
690 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
691 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
692 an empty string is now equivalent.
693
0fbd9bff
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694PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
695 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
696 not performing validation itself.
697
700d22f3
PP
698PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
699 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
700
fcc8e047
JH
701JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
702 Bugzilla 321, 823.
703
7142daca
PP
704TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
705
8c020188
PP
706PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
707 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
708 other false fix of the same issue.
709 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
710 Bugzilla 1363.
711
d13cdd30
PP
712PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
713 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
714
e2fbf4a2
PP
715PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
716 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
717 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
718
f4c1088b
PP
719PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
720 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
721 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
722
c5c2182f
PP
723TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
724
73431ca9
JH
725JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
726
2d07a215
TL
727TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
728 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
729
a30a8861
TL
730TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
731 Alexander Miroch.
732
33382dd9
TL
733TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
734 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
735 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
736 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
737 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 738
046172e6
TL
739TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
740 the src/util/ subdirectory.
741
581d7bee 742TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 743 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
744 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
745
746TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
747 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
748 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
749 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
750
237b2cf2
TL
751TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
752
9fc5a352
TL
753TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
754 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
755 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 756
b10e4ec2
TL
757TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
758
e2cebd74
TL
759TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
760 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
761 interaction.
762
763TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
764 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
765
2519e60d
TL
766TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
767 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
768
e78e6ecf 769
4263f395
PP
770Exim version 4.80.1
771-------------------
772
773PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
774 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 775 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 776
ea722490 777
b1770b6e 778Exim version 4.80
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779-----------------
780
781PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
782 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
783 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
784
23c7e742
NM
785NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
786
b322aac8
NM
787NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
788 improved.
789
4a891427
NM
790NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
791
c1e794ba 792PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 793
97753960
PP
794PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
795
796PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
797 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
798
df6303fa
PP
799PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
800 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
801
7e6a8985
PP
802PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
803 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
804
f1e05cc7 805PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
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806 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
807 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 808
4c287009
PP
809PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
810
b98bb9ac
PP
811PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
812 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
813
4a6a987a
PP
814PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
815
c45dd180 816PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 817
7db8d074
PP
818PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
819 non-compliant senders.
820 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
821
eae0036b 822NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
DM
823 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
824 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
825
dec5017e
PP
826PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
827 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
828 in spool file corruption.
829
c80c5570
PP
830PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
831 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
832 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
833 "Got SSL error 2".
834
076b11e2
PP
835TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
836 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
837 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
838
5407bfff
JH
839JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
840 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
841
9e45c72b
PP
842JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
843
e74376d8
PP
844PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
845 diagnostics.
846 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
847
da3ad30d
PP
848PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
849 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
850 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
851
7be682ca
PP
852PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
853 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
854 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
855 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 856
ef840681
PP
857PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
858 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
859
5bfb4cdf
PP
860PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
861 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
862 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
863 resolver implementation change.
864
c6e95d22
PP
865PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
866 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
867
9cbad13b
PP
868PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
869
9ee44efb
PP
870PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
871
6a6084f8
PP
872PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
873 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
874
12dd53c7
PP
875PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
876 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
877
9e45c72b 878JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
879 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
880
17c76198
PP
881PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
882 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
883 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
884 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 885 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 886
53947857 887PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 888
eae0036b 889PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
890 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
891 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 892
9e45c72b 893JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 894
7390e768
PP
895PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
896 read-only, out of scope).
897 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
898
08488c86
PP
899PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
900 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
901 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
902 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
903
6475bd82
PP
904PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
905
81f91683
PP
906PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
907 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
908 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
909 real issues in debug logging.
910
5779e6aa
PP
911PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
912 assignment on my part. Fixed.
913
3375e053
PP
914PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
915 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
916 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
917
918PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
919 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
920 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
921 problems.
3375e053 922
9d26b8c0
PP
923PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
924 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
925
57eb9e91 926PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
927 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
928 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
929 needs to override this, it can.
930
16880d1a
PP
931PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
932 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
933 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
934
a799883d
PP
935PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
936 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
937 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
938 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
939
3ecab157 940PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 941
0599f9cf 942
867fcbf5
PP
943Exim version 4.77
944-----------------
945
946PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
947 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
948
f1a29782
TF
949TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
950
ab42bd23
TK
951TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
952 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 953
0ca0cf52
TF
954TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
955 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
956
921b12ca
TF
957TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
958 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
959 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
960
961 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
962 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
963 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
964 not safe for signals.
965
966 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
967 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
968 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
969 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
970 exiwhat.
971
c99ce5c9
TF
972TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
973
974 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
975 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
976 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
977 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
978 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
979
980 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
981 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
982 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
983 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
984 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
985 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
986
987 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
988 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
989 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
990 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
991
992 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
993 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
994 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
995 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
996
997 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
998 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
999 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1000 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1001 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1002 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1003 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1004 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1005 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1006
1007 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1008 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1009 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1010 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1011
1012 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1013 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1014 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1015 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1016 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1017 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1018 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1019 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1020 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1021 details in the main documentation.
1022
3634fc25
TF
1023TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1024
792e8a19
TF
1025TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1026
5901f0ab
TF
1027TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1028 repository when doing development or release builds.
1029
7f2a2a43
PP
1030PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1031 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1032
061b7ebd
PP
1033PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1034 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1035 Bugzilla 97.
1036
e12f8c32
PP
1037PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1038
9e949f00 1039PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1040 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1041
1042PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1043 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1044
555ae6af 1045PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1046 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1047
1048PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1049 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1050
6f7fe114
PP
1051PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1052 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1053
c566dd90
PP
1054PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1055 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1056 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1057 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1058
d6cc7c78 1059PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1060 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1061 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1062
0d0e4455
PP
1063PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1064
3399bb60 1065PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1066
1067PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1068 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1069
0ca0cf52 1070
10906672
PP
1071Exim version 4.76
1072-----------------
1073
1074PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1075
754a0503
PP
1076PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1077 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1078
c0c7b2da
PP
1079PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1080
e97d1f08
PP
1081PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1082
084c1d8c
PP
1083PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1084 Bugzilla 1098.
1085
4e7ee012
PP
1086PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1087 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1088
c8d52a00
PP
1089TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1090 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1091
54e7ce4a
PP
1092PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1093 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1094
5ee6f336
PP
1095PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1096 Bugzilla 1104.
1097
c8d52a00 1098TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1099 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1100
1101TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1102 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1103 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1104 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1105
1106PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1107 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1108
10906672 1109
aa097c4c
NM
1110Exim version 4.75
1111-----------------
1112
4c9ef03a 1113NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1114 Bugzilla 1073
1115
7f3d9eff
TF
1116TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1117 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1118 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1119
159f52d2
TF
1120TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1121 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1122
0cc9542a
PP
1123PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1124 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1125 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1126
f7274286
PP
1127PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1128 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1129
7b797365
PP
1130PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1131 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1132
caacae52
NM
1133NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1134 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1135
09dcaba9
NM
1136NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1137 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1138
bc19a55b
PP
1139PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1140 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1141
bd4c9759
NM
1142NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1143 Fixes bug 943.
1144
b72aab72
PP
1145PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1146 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1147
2fe76745
PP
1148PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1149 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1150
76aa570c
PP
1151PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1152 SQL string expansion failure details.
1153 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1154
f1e5fef5
PP
1155PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1156 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1157
4d805ee9
PP
1158PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1159 extern declarations in function scope.
1160 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1161
cd59ab18
PP
1162PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1163 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1164 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1165 a kernel bug).
1166
332f5cf3
PP
1167PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1168 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1169
29cfeb94
PP
1170PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1171 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1172
660242ad
PP
1173PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1174 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1175
bc4bc4c5
PP
1176PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1177 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1178
2e64baa9
NM
1179NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1180 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1181 Dennis Davis.
1182
bddd7526
PP
1183PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1184
6bac1a9a
PP
1185PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1186
552193f0
NM
1187NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1188 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1189
1b587e48
TF
1190TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1191 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1192
aa097c4c 1193
8c07b69f
TF
1194Exim version 4.74
1195-----------------
1196
1197TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1198 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1199
c0ea85ab
TF
1200TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1201 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1202
0761d44e
TF
1203TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1204
0a349494
PP
1205DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1206 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1207 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1208
1209PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1210 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1211 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1212
fea24b2e
PP
1213PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1214 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1215 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1216 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1217
6545de78
PP
1218PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1219 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1220 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1221 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1222
1670ef10
PP
1223PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1224 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1225 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1226 arbitrary files.
1227
c0886197
PP
1228PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1229 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1230
b7487bce
PP
1231PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1232 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1233 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1234 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1235 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1236
8c07b69f 1237
97fd1e48 1238Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1239-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1240
1241PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1242 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1243 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1244
6901c596
PP
1245PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1246 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1247
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1248JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1249
77bb000f
PP
1250PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1251
a29e5231
PP
1252PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1253
ec5a0394 1254PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1255
55c75993
PP
1256PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1257
453a6645 1258PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1259 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1260 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1261 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1262
8544e77a
PP
1263PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1264 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1265 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1266 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1267 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1268
83e029d5
PP
1269PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1270
ed7f7860
PP
1271PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1272
7d9f747b
PP
1273PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1274
4b2241d2
PP
1275PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1276
10385c15
PP
1277PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1278
dbc4b90d
PP
1279PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1280
532be449
PP
1281PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1282
6a8de854 1283PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1284 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1285 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1286
5dc43717
JJ
1287JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1288
1289JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1290 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1291
3346ab01
PP
1292PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1293 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1294
491fab4c
PP
1295PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1296 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1297 Notification from John Horne.
1298
13eb9497
PP
1299PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1300 compatible.
1301
1302PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1303 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1304 it normally works.
1305
7f36d675
DW
1306DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1307 access.
1308
c1d94452
DW
1309DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1310 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1311 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1312
e2f5dc15
DW
1313DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1314 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1315 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1316 configuration file.
1317
cd25e41d
DW
1318DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1319 option (effectively making it always true).
1320
261dc43e
DW
1321DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1322 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1323
fa32850b
DW
1324DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1325 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1326
79d4bc3d
PP
1327PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1328 run-time user, instead of root.
1329
43236f35 1330PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1331 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1332
fb08281f
DW
1333DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1334 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1335 arguments.
3346ab01 1336
74935b98
DW
1337DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1338 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1339 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1340
90b6341f
DW
1341DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1342
57730b52
ML
1343NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1344
66581d1e 1345
465e92cf
JJ
1346Exim version 4.72
1347-----------------
1348
453a6645
PP
1349JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1350 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1351 typos
465e92cf 1352
453a6645
PP
1353JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1354 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1355 (Finput)
edae0343 1356
9bd3e22c
NM
1357NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1358 Patch from Alain Williams
1359
bb576ff7
NM
1360NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1361
5a1a5845
NM
1362NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1363 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1364
981a9fad
NM
1365NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1366 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1367
7fc497ee
NM
1368NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1369
1a41defa
JJ
1370JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1371
a466095c 1372NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1373 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1374
94a6bd0b
NM
1375TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1376
1377TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1378
1379MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1380 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1381 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1382
c1b141a8
NM
1383NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1384 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1385
b26eacf1 1386NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1387 Patch by Simon Arlott
1388
179c5980 1389PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1390 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1391
9bd3e22c 1392
7c6d71af
NM
1393Exim version 4.71
1394-----------------
1395
7d9f747b 1396TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1397
f013fb92
NM
1398NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1399
0eb8eedd
NM
1400NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1401
663ee6d9
NM
1402NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1403
177ebd9b
NM
1404NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1405
7c6d71af 1406
210f147e
NM
1407Exim version 4.70
1408-----------------
1409
cdd3bb85 1410TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1411 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1412
1413TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1414 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1415 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1416
1417TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1418 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1419 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1420
1421TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1422 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1423
210f147e
NM
1424NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1425 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1426 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1427 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1428
deafd5b3
NM
1429NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1430 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1431 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1432
089793a4
TF
1433TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1434
5f16ca82
TF
1435TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1436
dae9d94e 1437NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1438 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1439
7d9f747b 1440NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1441
06864c44
TF
1442TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1443 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1444 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1445 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1446
65a7d8c3 1447NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1448 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1449
23510047 1450TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1451
7d9f747b 1452NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1453
7d8eec3a 1454NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1455 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1456
89dec7b6
TF
1457TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1458 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1459
a99de90c
TF
1460TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1461 that they are available at delivery time.
1462
e2803e40
TF
1463TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1464
7199e1ee
TF
1465TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1466 incoming_port log selectors.
1467
e276e04b
TF
1468TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1469 setting expands to an empty string.
1470
ce552449 1471NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1472 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1473
e765a0f1 1474NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1475 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1476
4f054c63 1477NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1478 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1479
7d9f747b
PP
1480NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1481 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1482
7d9f747b
PP
1483NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1484 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1485
b52bc06e 1486NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1487 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1488
447de4b0
NM
1489NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1490
4c69d561 1491NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1492 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1493
d5c39246 1494NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1495 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1496
0b23848a
TK
1497TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1498
8f3414a1 1499NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1500 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1501
fb6f955d
NM
1502NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1503
1504NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1505
7d9f747b
PP
1506NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1507 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1508
7d9f747b
PP
1509NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1510 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1511
7d9f747b
PP
1512NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1513 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1514
7d9f747b
PP
1515NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1516 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1517
7d9f747b
PP
1518NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1519 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1520
7d9f747b
PP
1521NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1522 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1523
7d9f747b
PP
1524NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1525 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1526
7d9f747b 1527NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1528 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1529
7d9f747b 1530NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1531
7d9f747b
PP
1532NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1533 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1534
7d9f747b 1535NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1536
7d9f747b 1537NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1538
7d9f747b 1539NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1540
7d9f747b 1541NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1542
17792b53 1543NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1544 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1545
7d9f747b
PP
1546NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1547 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1548
91576cec 1549NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1550 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1551
7d9f747b
PP
1552NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1553 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1554
7d9f747b 1555NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1556
7d9f747b 1557NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1558
7d9f747b 1559NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1560
7d9f747b 1561NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1562
deafd5b3 1563
47db1125
NM
1564Exim version 4.69
1565-----------------
1566
4b3504d0
TK
1567TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1568 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1569 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1570
1571 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1572 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1573 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1574 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1575 build errors in sieve.c.
1576
81ea09ca
NM
1577NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1578 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1579 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1580
f13cddcb
SC
1581SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1582
7d9f747b 1583NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1584
7d9f747b 1585NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1586
7d9f747b 1587NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1588
1589
eb4c0de6
PH
1590Exim version 4.68
1591-----------------
1592
1593PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1594
6a3bceb1
PH
1595PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1596 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1597 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1598 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1599 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1600 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1601 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1602 for iplsearch lookups.
1603
1604 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1605 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1606 previously such lookups could never work.
1607
1608 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1609 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1610 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1611
2e30fa9d
TK
1612TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1613 version.
1614
0806a9c5
MH
1615MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1616 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1617 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1618 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1619 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1620 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1621
ae276964
TK
1622TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1623 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1624
0f2cbd1b
MH
1625MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1626 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1627 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1628 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1629 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1630 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1631
2b85bce7
PH
1632PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1633 local_scan API.
1634
93655c46
PH
1635PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1636
6c512171
PH
1637PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1638 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1639 encrypted.
1640
1641PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1642 by clients under certain conditions.
1643
aa6dc513
PH
1644PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1645 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1646
a96603a0
PH
1647PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1648
8f240103
PH
1649PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1650 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1651
1652PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1653
d677b2f2
PH
1654PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1655
d52120f2
PH
1656PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1657
64f2600a
PH
1658PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1659 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1660
8669f003
PH
1661PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1662
a4dc33a8
PH
1663PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1664 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1665
d6a60c0f
PH
1666PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1667
8f128379
PH
1668PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1669
8932dffe
PH
1670PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1671 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1672 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1673 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1674
ddea74fa 1675PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1676 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1677 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1678
ddea74fa 1679PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1680 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1681
ddea74fa
PH
1682PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1683
ce9f225c
PH
1684PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1685
19897d52
PH
1686PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1687
bc64a74d
PH
1688PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1689 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1690 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1691
eb4c0de6 1692
b4ed4da0
PH
1693Exim version 4.67
1694-----------------
1695
22ad45c9
MH
1696MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1697 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1698 Jan Srzednicki.
1699
b4ed4da0
PH
1700PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1701 issue a MAIL command.
1702
431b7361
PH
1703PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1704
1705 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1706
1707 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1708 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1709 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1710 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1711 item. This has been fixed.
1712
1713PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1714 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1715
83da1223
PH
1716PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1717 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1718
54fc8428
PH
1719PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1720 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1721 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1722
34c5e8dd
SC
1723SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1724
bbe15da8
PH
1725PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1726 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1727 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1728 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1729 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1730
0e8a9471
MH
1731MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1732 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1733 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1734
f0872424
PH
1735PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1736 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1737 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1738 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1739
b01dd148
PH
1740PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1741
6bf342e1
PH
1742PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1743
273f34d0
PH
1744PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1745 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1746 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1747 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1748 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1749
cf8b11a5
PH
1750PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1751
41c7c167
PH
1752PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1753 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1754 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1755 values).
1756
9c57cbc0
PH
1757PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1758
f3f065bb
PH
1759PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1760
047bdd8c
PH
1761PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1762
0ce9abe6
PH
1763PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1764
0e22dfd1
PH
1765PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1766
4c590bd1
PH
1767PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1768 no_callout_flush is set.
1769
09945f1e
PH
1770PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1771 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1772 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1773 fixed.
1774
c51b8e75
PH
1775PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1776
e28326d8
PH
1777PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1778 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1779 other ACL rejections are.
1780
75b1493f
PH
1781PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1782 with slight modification.
1783
7c5214ec
PH
1784PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1785 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1786
4311097e
PH
1787PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1788 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1789 connection.
1790
29f89cad
PH
1791PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1792 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1793
5e687460
SC
1794SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1795
c3611384
PH
1796PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1797 expansion side effects.
1798
5a11a7b4
PH
1799PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1800 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1801 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1802 be the same.
1803
0e20aff9
MH
1804MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1805 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1806 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1807
ca86f471
PH
1808PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1809 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1810 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1811 were accidentally chopped off.
1812
a14e5636
PH
1813PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1814 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1815 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1816 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1817 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1818 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1819 pipelining has not been advertised.
1820
ec95d1a6
PH
1821PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1822
42855d71
PH
1823PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1824 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1825 This has been fixed.
1826
57c2c631
PH
1827PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1828 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1829 reported on Solaris.
1830
58c01c94
PH
1831PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1832 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1833 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1834 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1835 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1836 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1837 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1838
dee5a20a
PH
1839PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1840 cpus.
1841
d2ee6114
PH
1842PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1843
b2d5182b
PH
1844PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1845
79749a79
PH
1846PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1847 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1848 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1849 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1850 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1851 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1852
c456d9bb
PH
1853PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1854 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1855 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1856 host_all_ignored option.
1857
cd9868ec
PH
1858PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1859 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1860 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1861 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1862 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1863 is what is supposed to happen).
1864
ebeaf996
PH
1865PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1866 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1867 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1868 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1869 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1870 uses the Exim user.
1871
2679d413
PH
1872PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1873 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1874 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1875 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1876 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1877 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1878 users.
1879
84024b72
PH
1880PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1881
8005d38e
SC
1882SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1883 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1884 (Jez Hancock).
1885 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1886 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1887
3298c6c6
SC
1888SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1889
a43a27c5
PH
1890PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1891
58eb016e 1892PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1893 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1894 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1895 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1896 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1897 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1898 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1899 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1900 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1901 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1902 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1903
b43a74ea
PH
1904PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1905 advertised in response to EHLO.
1906
b4ed4da0 1907
5dd1517f
PH
1908Exim version 4.66
1909-----------------
1910
1911PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1912 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1913
1914 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1915 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1916
1917 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1918 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1919 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1920
1921 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1922 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1923 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1924 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1925 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1926
1927
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1928Exim version 4.65
1929-----------------
1930
1931TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1932 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1933 versions. (#438)
1934
d6066548
MH
1935MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1936 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1937 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1938
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PH
1939PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1940 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1941 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1942 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1943 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1944 rather than extend the field.
1945
93cfa765 1946
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1947Exim version 4.64
1948-----------------
aa41d2de 1949
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TK
1950TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1951 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1952 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1953 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1954 these files.
1955
1956TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1957 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1958 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1959
1960TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1961 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1962 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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1963
1964TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1965 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1966 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1967 in the field name.
1968
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PH
1969PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1970 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1971 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1972 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1973 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1974 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1975 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1976 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1977 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1978 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1979 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1980
1f872c80
PH
1981PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1982 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1983
1984PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1985 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1986 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1987 ignores EPIPE as well.
1988
d203e649
PH
1989PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1990 (quoted-printable decoding).
1991
cc2ed8f7 1992PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1993 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1994
ddfcd446
PH
1995PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1996
d45b1de8
PH
1997PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1998
1999PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2000
38a0a95f 2001PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2002 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2003
a2405d83
JJ
2004JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2005 in 4.64-PH/09.
2006
2007JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2008 miscellaneous code fixes
2009
6ea85e9a
PH
2010PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2011 rejections.
2012
26da7e20
PH
2013PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2014 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2015 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2016 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2017 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2018 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2019 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2020 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2021
14aa5a05 2022PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2023 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2024 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2025 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2026 function.
2027 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2028 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2029 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2030 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2031 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2032 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2033 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2034 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2035 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2036
ff75a1f7
PH
2037PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2038 decoding.
2039
e6f6568e
PH
2040PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2041 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2042 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2043 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2044 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2045 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2046 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2047 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2048
d6f6e0dc
PH
2049PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2050 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2051 list.
2052
322050c2
PH
2053PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2054 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2055 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2056 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2057 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2058 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2059 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2060 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2061 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2062 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2063 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2064 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2065 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2066
08955dd3
PH
2067PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2068 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2069 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2070 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2071 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2072 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2073 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2074
1eccaa59
PH
2075PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2076 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2077 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2078 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2079 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2080 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2081 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2082 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2083 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2084 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2085
602e59e5
PH
2086PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2087 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2088 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2089 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2090 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2091
411ef850
PH
2092PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2093 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2094 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2095 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2096 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2097 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2098 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2099
7befa435
PH
2100PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2101 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2102 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2103 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2104 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2105 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2106 been verified.
2107
48da4259 2108PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2109 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2110 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2111 and authorization.)
2112
48da4259
PH
2113PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2114 if any retry times were supplied.
2115
d1d5595c
PH
2116PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2117 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2118 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2119
0ef732d9
PH
2120PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2121
328895cc
PH
2122PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2123
fd700877
PH
2124PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2125 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2126 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2127 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2128 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2129 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2130
8dce1a6f
PH
2131PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2132 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2133
17af4a17
PH
2134PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2135 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2136 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2137
2138PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2139 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2140 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2141 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2142 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2143 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2144 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2145 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2146 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2147
2148 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2149 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2150 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2151 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2152 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2153 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2154 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2155 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2156 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2157
2158 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2159 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2160 hammering the server.
2161
c1114884
PH
2162PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2163 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2164
7a0743eb
PH
2165PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2166
0d85fa3f
PH
2167PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2168 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2169 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2170
1bf43b78
PH
2171PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2172 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2173 one case where this was not true.
2174
520de300
PH
2175PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2176 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2177 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2178 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2179 fails.
2180
48c7f9e2
PH
2181PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2182 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2183 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2184 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2185 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2186 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2187 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2188 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2189 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2190 smtp transport.
2191
99ea1c86
PH
2192PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2193 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2194 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2195 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2196
a2042e78
PH
2197PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2198 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2199
4fbcfc2e
PH
2200PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2201 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2202 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2203
aa41d2de
PH
2204PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2205
af561417
PH
2206PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2207
3cc66b45
PH
2208PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2209
194cc0e4
PH
2210PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2211 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2212 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2213 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2214
a401ddaa
PH
2215PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2216 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2217
4e88a19f
PH
2218PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2219 be meaningful with "accept".
2220
d7d7b289
SC
2221SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2222 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2223
2224SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2225 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2226 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2227
2228SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2229 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2230 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2231 there is data to show.
2232 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2233
2234SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2235 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2236 as well as the number of messages.
2237
2238SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2239 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2240 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2241
2242SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2243 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2244 have a flag are now skipped.
2245
2246SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2247 Added the -emptyok flag.
2248
2249SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2250 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2251
0ea2a468
JJ
2252JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2253 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2254 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2255
2256JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2257 match 4.64-PH/13
2258
2259JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2260 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2261
2262JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2263
2264JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2265 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2266
8a10f5a4
PH
2267PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2268
30e18802
PH
2269PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2270 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2271 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2272 contravention of the specifications.
2273
55728a4f
PH
2274PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2275 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2276 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2277
d7837193
PH
2278PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2279 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2280 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2281
87054a31
PH
2282PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2283
ea2c01d2
MH
2284MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2285 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2286 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2287 some point in the past.
2288
e4fa6968
PH
2289PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2290 transport during callout processing was broken.
2291
56f5d9bd
PH
2292PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2293 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2294
922e1c28
PH
2295PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2296 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2297
21eb6e72
PH
2298PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2299 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2300
a0540757
PH
2301PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2302
944e9e9c 2303
478be7b0
SC
2304Exim version 4.63
2305-----------------
2306
2307SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2308 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2309
2310SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2311 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2312 there is data to show.
2313 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2314
2315SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2316 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2317
2b965a65
TF
2318TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2319 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2320
45b91596
PH
2321TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2322 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2323
c59f5781
TF
2324TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2325 submissions from trusted users.
2326
90fc3069
TF
2327TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2328 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2329
6083aca0
TF
2330TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2331 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2332 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2333 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2334 there is now a framework to start from.
2335
765b530f
PH
2336PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2337 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2338 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2339
4e167a8c
PH
2340PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2341
4608d683
PH
2342PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2343
b8dc3e4a
PH
2344PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2345
5418e93b
PH
2346PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2347 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2348 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2349
b4a9bda2
PH
2350PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2351 libradius.
2352
45b91596
PH
2353PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2354 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2355 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2356
5547e2c5
PH
2357PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2358 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2359 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2360 its arguments.
2361
dbcef0ea
PH
2362PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2363 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2364 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2365 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2366 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2367
25257489
PH
2368PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2369 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2370
c816d124
PH
2371PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2372
a9ccd69a
PH
2373PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2374 operations in malware.c.
2375
75fa1910
PH
2376PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2377 signatures.
2378
a7d7aa58
PH
2379PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2380 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2381 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2382 all.
2383
42119b09
PH
2384PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2385 statements to "add_header".
2386
41609df5
PH
2387PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2388 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2389
a5bd321b
PH
2390PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2391 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2392 latter.
2393
e85a7ad5 2394PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2395 so that it is now:
2396
e85a7ad5
PH
2397 ${if or { \
2398 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2399 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2400 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2401 }{no}{yes}}
2402
e85a7ad5
PH
2403 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2404 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2405
d8fe1c03
PH
2406PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2407 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2408
16282d2b
PH
2409PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2410 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2411 any possible encoding problems.
2412
35d40a98
PH
2413PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2414 but not after initializing Perl.
2415
034d99ab
PH
2416PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2417 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2418 apparently, which is not desirable.
2419
6ec97b1b
PH
2420PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2421 queries.
2422
e22ca4ac
JJ
2423JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2424 --not options
2425
2426JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2427
33d73e3b
PH
2428PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2429 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2430 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2431 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2432
9ecb03f3
PH
2433PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2434 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2435 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2436
084efe8d
PH
2437PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2438 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2439 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2440 0.12.
2441
366fc9f0
PH
2442PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2443 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2444 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2445 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2446 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2447
c59f5781 2448
c887c79e
TF
2449Exim version 4.62
2450-----------------
2451
2452TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2453 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2454
1cce3af8
PH
2455PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2456 patch).
2457
afb3eaaf
PH
2458PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2459 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2460 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2461 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2462 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2463 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2464 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2465 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2466 451 error is used.
2467
e173618b
PH
2468PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2469
dd16e114
PH
2470PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2471 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2472 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2473
f7fd3850
PH
2474PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2475 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2476 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2477 odd errors.
2478
d87df92c
PH
2479PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2480 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2481
7e9f683d
PH
2482PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2483 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2484 option (which defaults to 0600).
2485
bfad5236
PH
2486PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2487
01c490df
PH
2488PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2489 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2490 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2491 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2492 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2493 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2494 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2495
d6629cdc
PH
2496PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2497
1cce3af8 2498
214e2000
PH
2499Exim version 4.61
2500-----------------
2501
2502PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2503 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2504 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2505 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2506 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2507 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2508 addresses as local.
2509
f9daeae0
PH
2510PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2511 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2512
7e66e54d
PH
2513PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2514
c8ea1597
PH
2515PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2516 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2517 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2518 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2519 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2520 grumble.
2521
911f6fde
PH
2522PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2523 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2524
47ca6d6c
PH
2525PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2526 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2527 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2528 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2529 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2530
ed0e9820
PH
2531PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2532 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2533 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2534 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2535
eff37e47
PH
2536PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2537 be the same on different OS.
2538
1921d2ea
PH
2539PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2540 testing.
2541
b3f69ca8
JJ
2542JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2543 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2544
2545JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2546 in 4.61-PH/06
2547
424a1c63
PH
2548PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2549 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2550 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2551 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2552 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2553 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2554 bounce message.
2555
7a100415
PH
2556PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2557 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2558 when Exim was called.
2559
19b9dc85
PH
2560PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2561 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2562
309bd837
PH
2563PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2564 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2565 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2566 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2567
59e82a2a
PH
2568PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2569 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2570 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2571 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2572 changes:
2573
2574 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2575 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2576 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2577
2578 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2579 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2580 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2581
9edc04ce
PH
2582PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2583 feature).
2584
1349e1e5
PH
2585PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2586 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2587 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2588 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2589 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2590 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2591 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2592 values from the SRV records were lost.
2593
ea49d0e1
PH
2594PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2595 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2596 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2597
064a94c9
PH
2598PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2599 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2600 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2601
727071f8
PH
2602PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2603 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2604 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2605 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2606 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2607 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2608 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2609 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2610 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2611 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2612
f78eb7c6
PH
2613PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2614 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2615 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2616
21c28500
PH
2617PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2618 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2619
2620PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2621 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2622 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2623 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2624 is given.
2625
1688f43b
PH
2626PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2627 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2628 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2629
2630PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2631 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2632 PH/23 above applies.
2633
9675b384
PH
2634PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2635 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2636 (for which there is an explicit test).
2637
6a3f1455
PH
2638PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2639
dac79d3e
PH
2640PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2641 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2642 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2643 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2644 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2645
5977a0b3
PH
2646PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2647 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2648 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2649 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2650
c91535f3
PH
2651PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2652 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2653 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2654
0d46a8c8
PH
2655PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2656
278c6e6c
PH
2657PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2658
2cbb4081
PH
2659PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2660 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2661 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2662
3eef829e
PH
2663PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2664 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2665 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2666 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2667 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2668
1ab95fa6
PH
2669PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2670 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2671 the message gets confusing).
2672
230205fc
PH
2673PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2674 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2675 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2676 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2677
75e0e026
PH
2678PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2679 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2680 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2681 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2682 same order.
2683
2684PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2685 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2686 the different processes.
2687
145396a6
PH
2688PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2689
3cd34f13
PH
2690PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2691
11121d3d
JJ
2692JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2693 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2694
2695JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2696 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2697
2698JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2699 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2700 messages matching specified criteria.
2701
8def5aaf
PH
2702PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2703
929ba01c
PH
2704PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2705 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2706
2632889e
PH
2707PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2708 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2709 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2710 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2711 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2712 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2713 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2714 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2715 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2716 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2717
944a9c55
PH
2718PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2719 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2720 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2721
4a23603b
PH
2722PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2723
4730f942
PH
2724PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2725 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2726 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2727 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2728 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2729 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2730 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2731 the variable.
2732
30dba1e6
PH
2733PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2734 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2735
382afc6b
PH
2736PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2737
a86229cf
PH
2738PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2739
50c99ba6
PH
2740PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2741
d35e429d
PH
2742PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2743 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2744 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2745 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2746 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2747 size of the count of files.
2748
f90d018c
PH
2749PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2750
75def545
PH
2751PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2752 used in LMTP mode:
2753
2754 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2755 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2756 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2757 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2758
2759 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2760 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2761 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2762
2763PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2764 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2765 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2766 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2767 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2768
c46782ef
PH
2769PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2770 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2771
71fafd95
PH
2772PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2773 will now be deprecated.
2774
2c5db4fd
PH
2775PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2776
9cf6b11a
JJ
2777JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2778 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2779 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2780
2781JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2782 with very large, slow to parse queues
2783
2784JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2785
2786JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2787
898d150f
PH
2788PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2789 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2790 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2791 SMTP output lines.
2792
46218253
PH
2793PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2794 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2795 Sieve code now uses this.
2796
e97957bc
PH
2797PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2798 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2799
81e509d7
PH
2800PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2801 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2802
3d240ff7
PH
2803PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2804
b37c4101
PH
2805PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2806 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2807 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2808 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2809 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2810
79378e0f
PH
2811PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2812 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2813 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2814 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2815
e49c7bb4
PH
2816PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2817
d114ec46
PH
2818PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2819
f3d7df6c
PH
2820PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2821 is preferred over IPv4.
2822
715ab376
PH
2823PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2824 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2825 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2826 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2827 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2828 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2829 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2830
6b31b150
PH
2831PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2832 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2833 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2834
2835PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2836
d515a917
PH
2837PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2838 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2839 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2840 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2841 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2842 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2843 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2844 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2845 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2846 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2847 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2848
9b8fadde
PH
2849PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2850 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2851 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2852
214e2000 2853
5de37277
PH
2854Exim version 4.60
2855-----------------
2856
cc38ddbf
PH
2857PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2858
2859 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2860 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2861
2862 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2863 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2864 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2865
72fdd6ae
PH
2866PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2867
2868 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2869 not a single digit.
2870
2871 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2872 string.
2873
2874 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2875 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2876 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2877 silly things.
2878
2879 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2880 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2881
2882 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2883 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2884
cb741023
PH
2885PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2886 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2887 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2888
f174f16e
PH
2889PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2890 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2891
c25242d7
PH
2892PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2893 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2894
2895 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2896
2897 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2898 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2899 this:
2900
2901 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2902
82c19f95
PH
2903PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2904 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2905 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2906 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2907 identical. For example:
2908
2909 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2910
2911 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2912 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2913 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2914
d7ffbc12
PH
2915PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2916 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2917 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2918 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2919
9f526266
PH
2920PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2921 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2922 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2923 message.
2924
87fcc8b9
PH
2925PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2926
2927 o fixes some comments
2928 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2929 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2930 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2931 and documents the missing references header update
2932
2933 and most important:
2934
2935 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2936 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2937 result)
2938
456682f5
PH
2939PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2940 Electronic Mail") by including:
2941
2942 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2943
2944 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2945 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2946 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2947 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2948 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2949
2950 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2951
2952 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2953
2954 The auto-replied keyword:
2955
2956 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2957 message by an automatic process,
2958
2959 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2960
2961 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2962 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2963
2964 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2965 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2966 other messages.
2967
3e46c1aa
PH
2968PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2969 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2970
49826d12
PH
2971PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2972
eba0c039
PH
2973PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2974 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2975 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2976
a0d6ba8a
PH
2977PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2978 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2979 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2980
f0917727
PH
2981PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2982 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2983 and treats the condition as false.
2984
096fee00
PH
2985PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2986
024bd3c2
PH
2987PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2988 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2989 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2990 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2991 not changing the active code.
2992
2993 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2994 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2995
2996 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2997 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2998
df199fec
PH
2999PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3000 (Bugzilla #53).
3001
d27f1df3
PH
3002PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3003 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3004 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3005 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3006 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3007 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3008 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3009 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3010 the text comparison.
3011
96776534
PH
3012PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3013 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3014 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3015 The same fix has been applied.
3016
5de37277 3017
9a799bc0
PH
3018Exim version 4.54
3019-----------------
3020
3021PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3022 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3023 It now does.
3024
99a4b039
PH
3025PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3026 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3027
3028PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3029
4b233853
PH
3030PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3031 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3032 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3033 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3034 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3035
8857ccfd
PH
3036TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3037 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3038 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3039 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3040 or /domain=).
3041
433a2980
PH
3042PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3043 testing suite.
3044
3e46c1aa 3045
9a799bc0 3046
e3a311ba
TK
3047Exim version 4.53
3048-----------------
3049
3050TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3051 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3052
13b685f9
PH
3053PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3054
395ff96d
PH
3055PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3056
5b68f6e4
PH
3057PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3058 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3059 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3060
1ab52c69
PH
3061PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3062 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3063 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3064
b07e6aa3
PH
3065PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3066 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3067 operating systems.
3068
254e032f
PH
3069PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3070 ${stat: expansion item.
3071
3af76a81
PH
3072PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3073 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3074
2548ba04
PH
3075PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3076 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3077 file for comments.
3078
b6c6011d
PH
3079PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3080
cf39cf57
PH
3081PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3082 setting.
3083
f1513293
PH
3084PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3085 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3086
727549a4
PH
3087TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3088
af46795e
PH
3089PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3090 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3091 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3092 the end of the subprocess.
3093
d7b47fd0
PH
3094PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3095 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3096 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3097 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3098 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3099
ee744174
JJ
3100JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3101
b582ab87
PH
3102TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3103
41a13e0a
PH
3104PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3105 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3106
f625cc5a
PH
3107PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3108
3109PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3110
21f7af35
PH
3111PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3112 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3113 HP-UX compiler.
3114
31480e42
PH
3115PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3116
2d280592
PH
3117PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3118 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3119 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3120
7cd1141b
PH
3121PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3122 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3123
3124PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3125 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3126
750af86e
PH
3127PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3128 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3129
3130 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3131 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3132
3133 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3134 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3135 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3136 contributed by a Radius user.
3137
3138PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3139 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3140
4304270b
TK
3141TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3142 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3143
750af86e
PH
3144PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3145 available.
3146
64ffc24f
PH
3147PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3148 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3149 received.
3150
5dd9625b
PH
3151PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3152 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3153 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3154 header lines when this was not necessary.
3155
5591031b
PH
3156PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3157
ba18e66a
PH
3158PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3159 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3160 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3161 exists".
3162
9cec981f
PH
3163PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3164 -bV or -d is used.
3165
aa2b5c79
PH
3166PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3167 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3168 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3169 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3170
48a53b7f
PH
3171PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3172
1c59d63b
PH
3173PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3174
671012da
TK
3175TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3176
1509d3a8
PH
3177PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3178
3179PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3180 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3181 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3182 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3183 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3184 settings.
3185
3186PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3187
2fe1a124
PH
3188PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3189 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3190 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3191 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3192 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3193 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3194 which is clearly wrong.
3195
8800895a
PH
3196PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3197
ccfdb010
PH
3198PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3199 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3200 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3201 subsequently added.
3202
1130bfb0
PH
3203PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3204 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3205
ebcb507f
PH
3206PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3207
c35e155c
PH
3208PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3209 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3210
95d1f782
PH
3211PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3212 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3213
fd6de02e
PH
3214PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3215 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3216
58de37c5
PH
3217PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3218 recipients, not senders.
3219
261cf466
TF
3220TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3221 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3222
3ee512ff
PH
3223PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3224
e08c430f
PH
3225PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3226
bef5a11f
PH
3227PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3228 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3229 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3230 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3231
7546de58
TF
3232TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3233
e5d5a95f
TF
3234TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3235 clock is set back in time.
3236
2e88a017
TF
3237TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3238 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3239
a5f65aa4
TF
3240TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3241 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3242
e7726cbf
PH
3243PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3244 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3245 (see PH/47 above).
3246
a7fdad5b
TF
3247TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3248 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3249 header rewrites.
3250
6af56900
PH
3251PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3252 type ("H").
3253
0925ede6
PH
3254PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3255
66afa403
TF
3256TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3257 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3258 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3259
0154e85a
TF
3260TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3261 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3262 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3263 helo verification defer as a failure.
3264
16f12c76
PH
3265PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3266 actual error message.
3267
bbe902f0 3268
e5a9dba6
PH
3269Exim version 4.52
3270-----------------
3271
3272TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3273
22c3b60b
PH
3274PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3275 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3276 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3277 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3278
06a9b4b5
PH
3279TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3280
c1ac6996
PH
3281PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3282 can still be requested.
3283
9c7a242c
PH
3284PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3285 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3286 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3287 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3288
87ba3f5f
PH
3289TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3290 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3291 circumstances, but probably never did.
3292
3293PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3294 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3295 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3296 in the header line.
3297
29aba418
TF
3298TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3299
fe0dab11
TF
3300TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3301 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3302
11d337a4
TK
3303TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3304
3305TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3306
415c8f3b
PH
3307PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3308 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3309 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3310 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3311 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3312 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3313
958541e9
PH
3314PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3315 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3316 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3317 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3318 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3319 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3320
c206415f
TK
3321TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3322 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3323
2a4be8f9
PH
3324PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3325 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3326
1cba11c5
SC
3327SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3328 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3329
3330SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3331
3332SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3333
3334SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3335
3336SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3337
3338SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3339
3340SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3341
1005d00e
TK
3342TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3343
3344TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3345 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3346 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3347
3348TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3349 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3350 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3351 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3352
9b4768fa
PH
3353PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3354 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3355 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3356
3357PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3358 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3359 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3360 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3361
0d7eb84a
PH
3362PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3363 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3364 to be made).
3365
3366PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3367 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3368 should work with maildirs and everything.
3369
40727bee
TK
3370TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3371 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3372
554d2369
TF
3373TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3374 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3375
1f922db1
PH
3376PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3377 function for BDB 4.3.
3378
ef213c3b
PH
3379PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3380
8ac170f3
PH
3381PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3382 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3383 involved.
3384
b1c749bb
PH
3385PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3386 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3387 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3388 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3389 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3390 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3391
4aac9b49
PH
3392PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3393 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3394 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3395 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3396 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3397 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3398 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3399 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3400
294520c8
TK
3401TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3402 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3403 details.
3404
5bd022fe
PH
3405PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3406 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3407
90e9ce59
PH
3408PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3409 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3410 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3411 test. It is now used for both.
3412
5ea81592
PH
3413PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3414 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3415 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3416 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3417 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3418 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3419
c6c2dc1d
PH
3420PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3421 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3422 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3423 string_vformat().
3424
fffffe4c
PH
3425PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3426 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3427 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3428
9a26b6b2
PH
3429PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3430 experimental DomainKeys support:
3431
3432 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3433 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3434 the control was given.
3435
3436 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3437
4aee0225
PH
3438PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3439
32d668a5
PH
3440PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3441
8187c3f3
PH
3442PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3443 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3444 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3445 db.h files).
3446
ff790e47 3447PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3448 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3449 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3450 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3451 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3452 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3453 course.
ff790e47 3454
5417f6d1
PH
3455PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3456 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3457 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3458 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3459 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3460 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3461
59cf8544
PH
3462PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3463 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3464 do -d+all out of habit.
3465
e7ad8a65
PH
3466PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3467 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3468 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3469
ade42478
PH
3470PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3471 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3472 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3473 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3474 record types that Exim uses.
3475
182ad5cf
PH
3476PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3477 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3478 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3479 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3480 non-existent file that was broken.
3481
b0d9fc80
TK
3482TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3483 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3484
3485TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3486 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3487 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3488
3489TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3490
47c7a64a
PH
3491PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3492 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3493 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3494 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3495 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3496 same time.
3497
a388bce4
SC
3498SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3499 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3500 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3501 at a slight CPU cost.
3502
3503SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3504 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3505
3506SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3507 by Marc Sherman.
3508
0793e4ed
SC
3509SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3510
c58b88df
PH
3511PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3512 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3513
e7ad8a65 3514
7982096b
PH
3515Exim version 4.51
3516-----------------
3517
1a46a8c5
PH
3518TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3519 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3520
2f079f46 3521TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3522
3523TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3524
3525PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3526 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3527
3528PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3529 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3530 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3531 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3532 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3533 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3534 file.
3535
3536PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3537 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3538 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3539 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3540 these two options.
3541
3542PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3543 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3544 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3545 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3546 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3547 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3548 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3549 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3550
3551PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3552 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3553
3554PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3555 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3556 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3557 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3558 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3559 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3560
3561PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3562 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3563 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3564 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3565
3566PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3567 Finch).
3568
3569PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3570 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3571
49c2d5ea
PH
3572PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3573 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3574 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3575 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3576 message.
49c2d5ea 3577
bf759a8b
PH
3578PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3579
83364d30
PH
3580PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3581 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3582
7999bbd7
PH
3583PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3584 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3585 to what was transported.)
3586
7dbf77c9
PH
3587TF/01 Added $received_time.
3588
74e0617f
PH
3589PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3590 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3591 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3592 spamd_address settings.
3593
2f079f46
PH
3594PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3595 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3596 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3597 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3598 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3599
8c841523
PH
3600PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3601
7766a4f0
PH
3602PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3603 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3604 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3605 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3606 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3607
8b417f2c
PH
3608PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3609 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3610
901f42cb
PH
3611PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3612 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3613 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3614 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3615 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3616 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3617 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3618 for failure.
3619
f9b9210e
PH
3620PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3621 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3622 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3623 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3624 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3625 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3626 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3627 "input=".
3628
54cdb463
PH
3629PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3630
cf00dad6
PH
3631PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3632 driver and ACL definitions.
3633
acb1b346
PH
3634PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3635 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3636
c5ddb310
PH
3637PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3638 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3639 understands it better than I do:
3640
3641 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3642 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3643
3644 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3645 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3646 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3647 => three warnings about OTP not working
3648 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3649
3650 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3651 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3652 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3653 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3654 for each call.)
3655 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3656 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3657
3658 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3659 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3660 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3661
31619da6
PH
3662PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3663 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3664 specified.
3665
bebaf0fc
PH
3666PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3667 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3668 "Linux".
3669
475fe28a
PH
3670PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3671 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3672 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3673
3674 warn !verify = sender
3675 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3676
3677 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3678 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3679
7e8bec7a
PH
3680PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3681
3682 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3683 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3684
3685 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3686 nomenclature these days.)
3687
e4a89c47
PH
3688PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3689 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3690
5ca2a9a1
PH
3691PH/30 In these circumstances:
3692 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3693 . First host does not offer TLS;
3694 . First host accepts first address;
3695 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3696 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3697 . Second host accepts second address.
3698 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3699 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3700 address.
7e8bec7a 3701
c688b954
PH
3702PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3703 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3704 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3705 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3706 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3707
fed77020
PH
3708PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3709 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3710
7fe1560f
PH
3711PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3712 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3713
ebb6e6d5
PH
3714PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3715 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3716 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3717
9c4e8f60
PH
3718PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3719 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3720 overlooked.
3721
3722PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3723
d7174846
PH
3724PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3725 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3726 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3727 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3728 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3729 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3730 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3731
3732 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3733 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3734 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3735 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3736 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3737
3738 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3739 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3740 routed further.
3741
cfe75fc3
PH
3742PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3743 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3744 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3745 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3746 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3747 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3748
be22d70e
PH
3749PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3750
0612b098
PH
3751PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3752 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3753 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3754 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3755 printable escape sequences.
3756
2e0c1448
PH
3757PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3758 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3759 body only.
3760
447d236c
PH
3761PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3762 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3763 are as follows:
3764
3765 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3766 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3767 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3768 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3769 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3770
3771 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3772 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3773 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3774
d20976dc
PH
3775PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3776
f656d135
PH
3777PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3778 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3779 play with."
3780
2e2a30b4
PH
3781PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3782 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3783 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3784 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3785 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3786 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3787 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3788 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3789 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3790 the log output.
3791
9176e9f0
PH
3792PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3793 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3794 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3795 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3796 "make".
3797
7982096b 3798
bbe902f0
PH
3799A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3800----------------------------------------
3801
3802Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3803changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3804needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3805in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3806that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3807release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3808from 4.43.
3809
3810I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
38114.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3812those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3813historical information.
3814
3815
f7b63901 3816Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3817-----------------
3818
5fe762f6
PH
3819 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3820
139059f6 3821 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3822 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3823
7086e875
PH
3824 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3825 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3826 place.
3827
35af9f61
PH
3828 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3829 filter fails to execute.
3830
b668c215
PH
3831 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3832 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3833 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3834 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3835 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3836
a494b1e1
PH
3837 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3838
3839 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3840 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3841 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3842 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3843
c5fcb476
PH
3844 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3845 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3846 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3847 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3848 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3849
69358f02
PH
3850 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3851
5be20824
PH
385210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3853
eb2c0248
PH
385411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3855 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3856 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3857 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3858
2a3eea10
PH
385912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3860 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3861 sender verification.
3862
386313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3864 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3865
23c7ff99
PH
386614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3867
4deaf07d
PH
386815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3869 connection timeout.
3870
926e1192
PH
387116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3872 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3873
650edc6f
PH
387417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3875 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3876
2c7db3f5
PH
387718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3878 information about exactly what failed.
3879
3d235903
PH
388019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3881
7c7ad977
PH
388220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3883 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3884 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3885
981756db
PH
388621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3887 It is now set to "smtps".
3888
d4eb88df
PH
388922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3890 ignore_target_hosts.
3891
389223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3893 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3894 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3895 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3896 "[x.x.x.x]".
3897
7d468ab8
PH
389824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3899 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3900 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3901
390225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3903 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3904 wake it up if nothing else does.
3905
62c0818f
PH
390626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3907 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3908 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3909 end up negative.
3910
26034054
PH
391127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3912 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3913
af66f652
PH
391428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3915
90af77f4
PH
391629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3917 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3918 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3919 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3920 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3921 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3922 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3923 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3924
d8ef3577
PH
392530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3926 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3927 than one IP address.
3928
5cb8cbc6
PH
392931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3930 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3931 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3932 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3933
14702f5b
PH
393432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3935 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3936 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3937 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3938 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3939 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3940
063b1e99
PH
394133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3942 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3943 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3944 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3945
652e1b65
PH
394634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3947 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3948 respected.
3949
6f0c9a4f
PH
395035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3951 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3952 $sender_host_address.
3953
33397d19
PH
395436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3955 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3956 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3957 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3958 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3959 very small.
3960
7bb56e1f
PH
396137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3962
3963 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3964 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3965
ea3bc19b
PH
3966 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3967 just the host names, not the priorities.
3968
3969 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3970 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3971 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3972
ea3bc19b 3973 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3974 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3975
0bcb2a0e
PH
397638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3977 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3978 domain.
3979
2ac0e484
PH
398039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3981
4e1fde53
PH
398240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3983 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3984
de365ded
PH
398541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3986 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3987 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3988
f05da2e8
PH
398942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3990
d6453af2
PH
399143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3992
f7b63901
PH
399344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3994
399545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3996 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3997 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3998 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3999 because the tests only now provoked it.
4000
a444213a
PH
400146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4002 (this can affect the format of dates).
4003
0ec020ea
PH
400447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4005 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4006 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4007 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4008
b1206957
PH
400948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4010
401149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4012 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4013 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4014 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4015
26dd5a95
PH
401650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4017 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4018 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4019
343b2385
PH
402051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4021 autoreply.
4022
1c5466b9
PH
402352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4024 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4025 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4026 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4027 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4028 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4029 is going on).
4030
55ee9ee3
PH
403153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4032 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4033 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4034 the line.
4035
d38f8232
PH
403654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4037 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4038 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4039
4040 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4041 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4042 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4043 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4044 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4045 so I produce this patch..."
4046
3295e65b
PH
4047 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4048 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4049 is not defined.
4050
7102e136
PH
405155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4052 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4053 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4054 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4055 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4056
3ca0ba97
PH
405756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4058
c2bcbe20
PH
405957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4060 long debug lines gets shown.
4061
18ce445d
PH
406258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4063 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4064
1f5b4c3d
PH
406559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4066
4067 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4068 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4069 of $primary_hostname.
4070
b975ba52
PH
407160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4072 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4073 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4074 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4075 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4076 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4077 by change 4.50/55 above.
4078
4079 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4080 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4081 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4082 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4083 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4084 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4085 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4086
408761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4088 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4089 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4090 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4091
17ffcae7
PH
409262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4093 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4094
d95f9fdb
PH
409563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4096 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4097 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4098 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4099 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4100
86b8287f
PH
410164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4102 This has been fixed.
4103
60dc5e56
PH
410465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4105 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4106 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4107 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4108 the caching.)
4109
533244af
PH
411066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4111
a5a28604
PH
411267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4113 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4114 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4115 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4116
7e634d24
PH
411768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4118 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4119
3e11c26b
PH
412069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4121 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4122 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4123
6729cf78
PH
412470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4125 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4126 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4127 message there.
4128
00f00ca5
PH
412971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4130 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4131 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4132
c9bdd01c
PH
413372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4134 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4135 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4136 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4137
d43194df
PH
413873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4139 during host lookups.
4140
fe5b5d0b
PH
414174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4142 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4143
4144 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4145
76a2d7ba
PH
414675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4147 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4148 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4149 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4150 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4151 background.
4152
415376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4154 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4155
04f7d5b9
PH
415677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4157 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4158 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4159
bc60667e
PH
416078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4161
bb6e88ff
PH
416279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4163 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4164 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4165 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4166 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4167 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4168 process earlier.
4169
1e70f85b
PH
417080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4171 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4172 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4173 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4174 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4175
417681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4177 tables).
4178
4e01f9d6
PH
417982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4180
1ee1cef2
PH
418183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4182 "vacation" handling.
4183
6e2b4ccc
PH
418484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4185 OS variants using glibc.
4186
8e669ac1
PH
418785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4188
495ae4b0 4189
bbe902f0
PH
4190----------------------------------------------------
4191See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4192----------------------------------------------------
4193
4194
4195Exim version 4.44
4196-----------------
4197
4198 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4199 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4200 transport
4201
4202 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4203 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4204 place.
4205
4206 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4207 filter fails to execute.
4208
4209 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4210 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4211 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4212 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4213 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4214
4215 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4216 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4217 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4218 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4219
4220 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4221 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4222 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4223 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4224 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4225
4226 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4227
4228 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4229 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4230 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4231 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4232
4233 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4234 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4235 sender verification.
4236
423710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4238 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4239
424011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4241 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4242
424312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4244 ignore_target_hosts.
4245
424613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4247 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4248 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4249 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4250 "[x.x.x.x]".
4251
425214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4253 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4254 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4255
425615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4257 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4258 wake it up if nothing else does.
4259
426016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4261 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4262 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4263 end up negative.
4264
426517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4266 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4267
ea3a6f44 426818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4269
427019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4271 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4272 empty pattern.
4273
427420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4275 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4276 one IP address.
4277
ea3a6f44
NM
427821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4279 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4280 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4281 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4282 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4283 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4284
ea3a6f44
NM
428522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4286 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4287 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4288
428923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4290 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4291 $sender_host_address.
4292
429324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4294
ea3a6f44
NM
429525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4296 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4297 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4298
429926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4300 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4301
ea3a6f44
NM
430227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4303 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4304
ea3a6f44
NM
430528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4306 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4307 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4308 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4309
431029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4311 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4312 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4313
ea3a6f44
NM
431430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4315 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4316 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4317 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4318
ea3a6f44
NM
431931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4320 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4321 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4322
ea3a6f44
NM
432331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4324 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4325
ea3a6f44
NM
432632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4327 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4328 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4329 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4330 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4331 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4332 is going on).
bbe902f0 4333
ea3a6f44
NM
433433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4335 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4336 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4337 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4338 CAN-2005-0021
4339
ea3a6f44
NM
434034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4341 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4342 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4343 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4344 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4345 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4346 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4347
4348 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4349 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4350 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4351 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4352 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4353 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4354 CAN-2005-0021
4355
ea3a6f44
NM
435635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4357 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4358 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4359 CAN-2005-0022
4360
ea3a6f44
NM
436136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4362 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4363 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4364 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4365 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4366
ea3a6f44
NM
436737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4368 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4369 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4370 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4371 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4372
ea3a6f44
NM
437338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4374 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4375 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4376 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4377 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4378
4379
495ae4b0
PH
4380Exim version 4.43
4381-----------------
4382
4383 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4384 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4385 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4386 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4387 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4388 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4389 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4390
4391 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4392 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4393 the delivery.
4394
4395 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4396
4397 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4398
4399 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4400 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4401 to local_scan().
4402
4403 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4404 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4405 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4406 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4407 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4408
4409 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4410 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4411
4412 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4413
4414 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4415
441610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4417 header_sender only.
4418
441911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4420 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4421
442212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4423 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4424 affecting debugging statements).
4425
442613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4427
442814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4429 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4430 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4431 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4432 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4433 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4434 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4435 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4436 after the received time, and all would be well.
4437
443815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4439 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4440 condition in an expansion string.
4441
444216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4443
444417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4445 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4446 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4447 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4448 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4449 job under whatever limits there are.
4450
445118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4452
445319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4454 space).
4455
445620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4457 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4458 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4459 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4460 return path is set.
4461
446221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4463 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4464 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4465 binary data in such strings.
4466
446722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4468
446923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4470 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4471 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4472 failure, which is pointless.
4473
447424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4475
447625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4477
447826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4479 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4480 Sender: header lines.
4481
448227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4483 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4484 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4485
448628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4487 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4488 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4489 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4490 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4491 happens.
4492
449329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4494 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4495 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4496 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4497 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4498
449930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4500 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4501 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4502 1024.
4503
450431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4505 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4506
450732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4508 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4509
451033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4511
451232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4513
451433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4515
451634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4517 syntax error.
4518
451935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4520
452136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4522
452337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4524 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4525 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4526 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4527
452838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4529 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4530
4531
4532Exim version 4.42
4533-----------------
4534
4535 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4536 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4537 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4538 it was not quoted.
4539 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4540 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4541 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4542 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4543 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4544 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4545
4546 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4547 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4548 verification failure".
4549
4550 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4551 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4552 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4553 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4554
4555 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4556 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4557 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4558 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4559 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4560 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4561 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4562 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4563 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4564 treated as a timeout.
4565
4566 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4567 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4568 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4569 not set for Exim filters).
4570
4571 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4572 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4573 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4574
4575 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4576
4577 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4578 try to make them clearer.
4579
4580 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4581 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4582
4583 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4584
4585 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4586
458710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4588 only the Cygwin environment.
4589
459011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4591 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4592 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4593 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4594 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4595
459612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4597 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4598 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4599 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4600 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4601 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4602 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4603
460413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4605 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4606
460714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4608
4609 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4610 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4611 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4612
4613 To: susanne@some.where
4614
4615 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4616 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4617 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4618 of addresses in From: header lines).
4619
4620 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4621 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4622 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4623
4624 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4625 treated as non-personal.
4626
4627 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4628 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4629
463015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4631
463216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4633
463417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4635 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4636 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4637
463818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4639 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4640
464119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4642 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4643 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4644 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4645 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4646 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4647
464820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4649 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4650 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4651 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4652 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4653 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4654 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4655 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4656
4657 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4658
465921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4660 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4661
466222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4663 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4664 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4665
466623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4667 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4668
466924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4670 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4671 rather than long int.
4672
467325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4674
467526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4676
4677
4678Exim version 4.41
4679-----------------
4680
4681 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4682 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4683 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4684 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4685 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4686 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4687
4688
4689Exim version 4.40
4690-----------------
4691
4692 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4693 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4694
4695 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4696 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4697 socklen_t is defined.
4698
4699 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4700 always exist.
4701
4702 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4703 configured.
4704
4705 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4706 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4707 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4708 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4709 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4710
4711 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4712 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4713 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4714 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4715
4716 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4717 of flapping under certain conditions.
4718
4719 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4720 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4721 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4722
4723 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4724
472510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4726
472711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4728 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4729 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4730 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4731
473212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4733 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4734 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4735 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4736 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4737 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4738 preserved with the message after it was received.
4739
474013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4741 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4742 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4743 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4744 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4745 test suite worked just fine.
4746
474714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4748 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4749 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4750
475115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4752 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4753 string.
4754
475516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4756 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4757 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4758 does not fully solve it.
4759
476017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4761 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4762 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4763 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4764 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4765
476618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4767 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4768 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4769
477019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4771 string, for example:
4772
4773 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4774
4775 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4776 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4777 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4778 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4779 the routers could not see them.
4780
478120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4782 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4783
478421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4785 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4786 output).
4787
478822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4789 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4790 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4791 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4792 that needed quoting.
4793
479423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4795 was not being matched caselessly.
4796
479724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4798 backslashes.
4799
480025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4801 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4802 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4803 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4804 when use_sender is false.
4805
480626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4807
480827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4809
481028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4811
481229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4813 the configuration file.
4814
481530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4816 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4817
481831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4819
482032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4821 bytes in the message body.
4822
482333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4824 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4825 delivery.
4826
482734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4828
482935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4830
483136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4832 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4833 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4834 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4835 another IP address.
4836
4837
4838Exim version 4.34
4839-----------------
4840
4841 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4842 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4843
4844 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4845 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4846 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4847 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4848 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4849
4850 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4851 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4852
4853 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4854 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4855 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4856
4857 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4858 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4859 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4860
4861 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4862 for routers.
4863
4864 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4865 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4866 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4867 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4868 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4869 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4870 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4871
4872
4873Exim version 4.33
4874-----------------
4875
4876 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4877 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4878 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4879 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4880 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4881 default (and expected) setting.
4882
4883 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4884 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4885 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4886 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4887
4888 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4889 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4890
4891 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4892 in domain lists.
4893
4894 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4895 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4896 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4897 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4898 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4899 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4900
4901 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4902 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4903 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4904
4905 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4906 part (NOT match_host).
4907
4908 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4909
4910 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4911 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4912 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4913 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4914 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4915 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4916 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4917 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4918 the same named file.
4919
492010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4921 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4922 when Exim is built.
4923
492411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4925 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4926 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4927 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4928 a host name.
4929
493012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4931 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4932 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4933
493413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4935
493614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4937
493815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4939
494016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4941 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4942
494317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4944 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4945 before starting the TLS session.
4946
494718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4948
494919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4950 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4951
495220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4953 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4954 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4955 colon in the middle).
4956
4957
4958Exim version 4.32
4959-----------------
4960
4961 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4962 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4963 multiple configurations are in use.
4964
4965 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4966 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4967 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4968 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4969 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4970 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4971
4972 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4973 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4974
4975 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4976 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4977 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4978
4979 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4980 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4981 occurs.
4982
4983 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4984 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4985
4986 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4987
4988 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4989 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4990
4991 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4992
4993 -prval:sval
4994
4995 is equivalent to
4996
4997 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4998
4999 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5000 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5001 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5002 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5003 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5004
500510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5006 Exim's behaviour:
5007
5008 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5009 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5010 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5011 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5012 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5013 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5014
5015 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5016 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5017 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5018 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5019 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5020 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5021 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5022 string.
5023
5024 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5025 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5026 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5027 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5028 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5029
503011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5031
503212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5033 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5034 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5035
503613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5037
503814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5039 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5040 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5041 information.
5042
504315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5044 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5045
504616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5047 Three changes have been made:
5048
5049 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5050 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5051 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5052 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5053 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5054
5055 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5056 been restored.
5057
5058 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5059 the modified behaviour.
5060
5061
5062Exim version 4.31
5063-----------------
5064
5065 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5066 Larry Rosenman.
5067
5068 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5069 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5070
5071 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5072 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5073 try to track down a specific problem.
5074
5075 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5076 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5077 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5078
5079 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5080 warning.
5081
5082 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5083 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5084 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5085 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5086 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5087 some earlier ones do not.
5088
5089 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5090
5091 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5092 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5093 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5094 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5095 address literals are enabled, of course).
5096
5097 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5098
509910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5100 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5101 by a command such as
5102
5103 exim -f "" ...
5104
5105 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5106
510711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5108
510912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5110 remained set. It is now erased.
5111
511213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5113 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5114
511514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5116 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5117 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5118 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5119 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5120 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5121 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5122 appropriate error code.
5123
512415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5125 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5126 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5127 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5128 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5129 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5130
513116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5132 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5133 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5134
513517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5136 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5137 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5138 terminate the header.
5139
514018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5141 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5142 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5143
514419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5145 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5146 (4.30/29). In particular:
5147
5148 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5149 imposed.
5150
5151 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5152 to write a maildirsize file.
5153
5154 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5155 the transport, the new value overrides.
5156
5157 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5158 count.
5159
516020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5161 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5162 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5163 space or a tab.
5164
516521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5166 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5167 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5168 the fallback hosts.
5169
517022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5171 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5172 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5173
517423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5175 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5176 using a union.
5177
517824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5179 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5180 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5181
518225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5183
518426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5185
518627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5187
518828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5189 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5190 become corrupted.
5191
519229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5193 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5194 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5195 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5196 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5197 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5198 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5199 too great.
5200
520130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5202 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5203 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5204 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5205 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5206 incorrectly.
5207
520831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5209 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5210 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5211 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5212 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5213 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5214 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5215 cached value only when the same options are set.
5216
521732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5218
521933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5220 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5221 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5222 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5223 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5224
522534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5226 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5227 it is clearly obsolete.
5228
522935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5230 transport.
5231
523236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5233 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5234 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5235 times.
5236
523737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5238 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5239 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5240 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5241 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5242
524338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5244 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5245 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5246 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5247
524839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5249
5250 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5251
5252 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5253 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5254 2^31.
5255
525640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5257 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5258 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5259 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5260 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5261 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5262 $localpart_data.
5263
526441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5265 with the -f command-line option.
5266
526742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5268 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5269 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5270 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5271 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5272 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5273
527443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5275 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5276 line.
5277
527844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5279 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5280 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5281 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5282 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5283 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5284 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5285 buffer is too small.
5286
528745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5288 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5289
529046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5291 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5292 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5293 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5294 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5295 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5296 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5297 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5298 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5299
530047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5301 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5302 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5303
530448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5305 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5306 ACL").
5307
530849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5309 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5310 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5311 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5312 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5313
531450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5315 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5316 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5317 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5318 is set.
5319
532051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5321
532252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5323
532453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5325 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5326
532754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5328 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5329 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5330
533155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5332 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5333 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5334 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5335 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5336
533756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5338 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5339 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5340 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5341 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5342 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5343 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5344
534557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5346 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5347 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5348 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5349 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5350 the test of how many are available.
5351
535258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5353 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5354 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5355 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5356 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5357 new message is started.
5358
535959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5360 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5361
536260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5363 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5364
536561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5366 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5367 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5368 is no long logged.
5369
537062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5371 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5372 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5373 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5374 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5375 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5376 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5377
537863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5379 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5380 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5381 interpreted as octal.
5382
538364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5384 setting.
5385
538665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5387 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5388 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5389 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5390 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5391 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5392
539366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5394 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5395 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5396 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5397
5398 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5399 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5400 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5401 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5402
5403 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5404 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5405 is a bug fix.
5406
5407 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5408 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5409
541067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5411
541268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5413 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5414 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5415 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5416
541769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5418 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5419 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5420 supplied", which is not helpful.
5421
542270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5423 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5424 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5425
542671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5427 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5428 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5429 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5430 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5431 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5432 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5433 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5434
543572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5436 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5437 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5438 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5439 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5440
544173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5442 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5443 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5444 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5445 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5446 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5447
544874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5449 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5450 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5451
545275. Added write_rejectlog option.
5453
545476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5455 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5456 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5457 variables.
5458
545977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5460
546178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5462 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5463 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5464 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5465 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5466 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5467 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5468 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5469
547079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5471 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5472 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5473 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5474 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5475
547680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5477 Haardt.
5478
547981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5480 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5481 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5482 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5483 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5484 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5485 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5486 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5487 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5488
5489
5490Exim version 4.30
5491-----------------
5492
5493 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5494 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5495 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5496
5497 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5498 fixed.
5499
5500 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5501 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5502 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5503
5504 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5505 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5506 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5507 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5508 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5509 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5510
5511 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5512 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5513 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5514 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5515 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5516 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5517 the Exim test suite.
5518
5519 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5520 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5521 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5522 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5523
5524 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5525 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5526 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5527 specify it in this variable.
5528
5529 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5530 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5531 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5532 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5533
5534 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5535 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5536 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5537 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5538
5539 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5540 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5541 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5542 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5543 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5544
5545 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5546
554710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5548 they are logged.
5549
555011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5551 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5552 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5553 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5554 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5555
555612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5557 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5558
555913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5560 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5561 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5562 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5563 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5564
556514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5566 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5567
556815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5569 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5570 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5571
557216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5573 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5574
557517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5576 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5577
557818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5579 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5580 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5581
558219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5583 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5584
558520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5586 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5587 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5588 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5589
559021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5591
559222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5593 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5594 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5595 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5596
559723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5598
559924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5600 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5601
560225. Added .include_if_exists.
5603
560426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5605 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5606 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5607 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5608 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5609 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5610
561127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5612
561328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5614 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5615 this.
5616
561729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5618
561930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5620 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5621
5622 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5623 550 Sender verify failed
5624
5625 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5626 the final line of the response.
5627
562831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5629 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5630 all other user lookups.
5631
563232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5633 delivery time.
5634
563533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5636 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5637 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5638 result into an int without checking.
5639
564034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5641 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5642 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5643
564435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5645 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5646 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5647 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5648
564936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5650 correctly.
5651
565237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5653 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5654
565538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5656 to the empty sender.
5657
565839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5659 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5660 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5661 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5662 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5663 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5664 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5665 panic log.
5666
566740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5668 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5669 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5670 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5671 used.
5672
567341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5674 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5675
567642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5677 timestamps.
5678
567943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5680 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5681
568244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5683
568445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5685 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5686 logs.
5687
568846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5689 as soon as it is encountered.
5690
569147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5692
569348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5694 rewritten to "<>".
5695
569649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5697 recognizes a tab character.
5698
569950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5700 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5701 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5702 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5703
570451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5705
570652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5707 crash.
5708
570953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5710
571154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5712
571355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5714 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5715 2822.
5716
571756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5718 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5719 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5720 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5721 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5722
572357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5724 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5725
572658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5727 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5728 list (.included file names were always shown).
5729
573059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5731 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5732 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5733 root at that time.
5734
573560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5736 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5737
573861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5739
574062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5741
574263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5743
574464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5745 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5746 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5747 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5748 failures to open the logs.
5749
575065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5751 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5752 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5753 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5754 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5755 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5756 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5757
5758
5759Exim version 4.24
5760-----------------
5761
5762 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5763 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5764 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5765 change 4.23/1.
5766
5767 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5768 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5769 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5770
5771 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5772 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5773 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5774
5775 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5776 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5777 causing some misleading effects.
5778
5779 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5780 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5781 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5782
5783 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5784 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5785 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5786 queue-runner function directly.
5787
5788
5789Exim version 4.23
5790-----------------
5791
5792 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5793 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5794
5795 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5796 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5797 was always written to the default place.
5798
5799 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5800 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5801 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5802
5803 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5804
5805 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5806
5807 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5808 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5809 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5810
5811 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5812 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5813 must start.
5814
5815 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5816 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5817 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5818
5819 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5820 command line option is disabled.
5821
5822 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5823 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5824
5825 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5826
5827 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5828
5829 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5830 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5831
583210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5833
583411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5835 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5836 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5837 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5838 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5839 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5840
584112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5842 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5843 timeout.
5844
584513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5846 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5847
584814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5849 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5850
585115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5852 received was valid base64.
5853
585416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5855 name of the variable that was being set.
5856
585717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5858
585918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5860 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5861 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5862 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5863 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5864 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5865
586619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5867
586820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5869 nor realm was specified.
5870
587121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5872 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5873 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5874 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5875
587622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5877 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5878 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5879
588023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5881 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5882 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5883
588424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5885 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5886 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5887 some systems use these upper case variants.
5888
588925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5890 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5891 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5892 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5893
589426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5895
589627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5897 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5898
589928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5900 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5901 expansion variable.
5902
590329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5904
590530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5906 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5907 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5908 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5909
591031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5911 using it.
5912
591332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5914 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5915 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5916
591733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5918 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5919
592034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5921 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5922 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5923 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5924
592535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5926 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5927 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5928
592936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5930
593137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5932 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5933 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5934 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5935 aborted.
5936
593738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5938 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5939 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5940
594139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5942
594340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5944 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5945
594641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5947 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5948
594942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5950 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5951 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5952 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5953 when emails are that large.
5954
5955
5956
5957Exim version 4.22
5958-----------------
5959
5960 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5961 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5962
5963 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5964 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5965 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5966
5967 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5968 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5969 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5970
5971 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5972 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5973 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5974 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5975 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5976
5977 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5978 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5979 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5980 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5981 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5982 ever.
5983
5984 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5985 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5986 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5987 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5988 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5989 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5990 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5991 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5992 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5993 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5994 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5995 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5996 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5997 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5998
5999 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6000 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6001 parameterised it.
6002
6003 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6004 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6005 error should be diagnosed.
6006
6007 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6008 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6009 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6010 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6011 appeared instead of "NULL".
6012
601310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6014 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6015 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6016 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6017 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6018 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6019 proceeds).
6020
6021 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6022 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6023 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6024
6025
6026Exim version 4.21
6027-----------------
6028
6029 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6030 or receiver verification errors.
6031
6032 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6033 name.
6034
6035 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6036 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6037 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6038 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6039
6040 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6041 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6042 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6043 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6044 shouldn't happen again.
6045
6046 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6047 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6048 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6049
6050 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6051 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6052
6053 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6054
6055 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6056 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6057
6058 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6059 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6060 RFC.
6061
606210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6063 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6064 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6065
606611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6067 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6068 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6069 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6070
607112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6072 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6073 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6074 to define what should happen).
6075
607613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6077 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6078 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6079
608014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6081
608215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6083
608416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6085 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6086
608717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6088 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6089 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6090 structure in all cases.
6091
6092 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6093 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6094 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6095 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6096
609718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6098 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6099 domain name.
6100
610119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6102 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6103
610420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6105 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6106
610721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6108 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6109 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6110
611122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6112 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6113 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6114
611523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6116 the book and for uniformity.
6117
611824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6119
612025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6121 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6122 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6123 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6124 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6125 non-existent command as the problem.
6126
612726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6128 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6129 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6130
613127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6132
613328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6134 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6135 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6136
613729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6138 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6139 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6140 timestamps using strftime().
6141
614230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6143 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6144
614532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6146 transport-time rewrites.
6147
614833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6149 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6150 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6151 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6152
615334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6154 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6155
615635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6157 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6158 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6159 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6160 comma and a space.
6161
616236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6163 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6164 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6165 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6166 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6167 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6168 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6169
617037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6171 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6172 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6173 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6174 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6175
617638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6177 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6178 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6179 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6180 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6181 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6182 remaining text gets split now.
6183
618439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6185 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6186 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6187 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6188
618940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6190 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6191 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6192 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6193 $return_path.
6194
619541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6196 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6197 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6198 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6199 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6200 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6201 passed through if needed.
6202
620342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6204 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6205 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6206 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6207 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6208 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6209
621043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6211 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6212 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6213 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6214 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6215
621644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6217 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6218 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6219 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6220 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6221
622245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6223 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6224 noticed.
6225
622646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6227 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6228 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6229 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6230 mayhem of various kinds.
6231
623247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6233 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6234 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6235 the right test for positive values.
6236
623748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6238 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6239 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6240 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6241 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6242 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6243 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6244 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6245 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6246 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6247 envelope.
6248
624949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6250 module.
6251
625250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6253 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6254 forbidding it.
6255
625651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6257 the existing equality matching.
6258
625952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6260 dealing with inode numbers.
6261
626253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6263 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6264 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6265
626654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6267 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6268 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6269 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6270 local_scan().
6271
627255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6273 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6274 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6275 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6276 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6277 relay addresses has also been removed.
6278
627956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6280
628157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6282 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6283 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6284
628558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6286 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6287 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6288 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6289 processing applies to CR:
6290
6291 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6292 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6293
6294 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6295 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6296 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6297 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6298
629959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6300 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6301 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6302
630360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6304 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6305 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6306 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6307 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6308 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6309 arisen.
6310
631161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6312 program routers.
6313
631462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6315 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6316 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6317 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6318 adds:
6319
6320 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6321
6322 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6323
6324 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6325
632663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6327 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6328 not considered personal.
6329
633064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6331
633265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6333
633466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6335
633667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6337 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6338 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6339 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6340 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6341 header lines, and spool format errors.
6342
634368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6344 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6345 for more flexibility.
6346
634769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6348 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6349 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6350
635170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6352 Sabourenkov.
6353
635471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6355 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6356 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6357 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6358 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6359 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6360 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6361 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6362 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6363
636472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6365 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6366 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6367 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6368 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6369 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6370 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6371
637273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6373 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6374 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6375
637674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6377 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6378 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6379 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6380 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6381 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6382 instead of killing the process with assert().
6383
638475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6385 than Unicode encoding.
6386
638776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6388 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6389 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6390 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6391
639277. Added process_log_path.
6393
639478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6395 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6396
639779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6398 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6399
640080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6401 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6402 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6403
640481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6405 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6406 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6407 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6408 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6409 were applied:
6410
6411 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6412 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6413 as invalid.
6414
641582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6416 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6417 they will be used during message reception.
6418
6419
6420Exim version 4.20
6421-----------------
6422
6423The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6424
6425****