ARC: fix crash induced by misordered headers. Bug 2493
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1This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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9JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
10 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
11 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
12
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13JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
14
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15JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
16 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
17 option.
18
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19JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
20 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
21 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
22
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23JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
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25JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
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27JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
28 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
29 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
30
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31JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
32 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
33 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
34
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35JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
36 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
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42JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
43 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
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46 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
47 its own TCP segment.
48
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49JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
50 each verb.
51
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52JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
53
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54JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
55
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56JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
57 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
58
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59JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
60 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
61 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
62 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
63 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
64 suitably configured).
65
c05bdbd6 66JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
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67 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
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69JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
70 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
71 crash could result.
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73JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
74 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
75
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76JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
77 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
78 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
79 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
80 to this system.
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82JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
83 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
84 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
85
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86JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
87 output.
88
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89JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
90 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
91
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00c0dd4e 93 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
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94 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
95 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
96 input).
97
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98HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
99 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
100 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
101 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
102 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
103
7d8d08c4 104HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
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105 shared (NFS) environment.
106
7d8d08c4 107HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
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108 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
109 affected.
110
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111JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
112 on some platforms for bit 31.
113
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114JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
115 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
116 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
117 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
118 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
119 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
120 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
121 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
122
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123JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
124
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125JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
126 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
127
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128JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
129 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
130 facility.
131
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132JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
133 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
134 documentation.
135
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136JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
137 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
138 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
139 not do so.
140
59c0959a 141JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
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142 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
143 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
144
145JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
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146 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
147 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
148 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
149 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
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151JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
152 reject under TFO.
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efad2f41 154JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
4e48d56c 155 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
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156 be requested on all coneections.
157
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158JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
159 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
160
6ee11061 161PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
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163JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
164 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
165 one for these; the option was ignored.
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167JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
168 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
169 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
170 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
171
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172JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
173 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
174 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
175 standards.
176
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177JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
178 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
179 error ignored was made.
180
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181JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
182
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183JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
184 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
185 values, to catch one form of exploit.
186
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187JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
188 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
189 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
190
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191JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
192 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
193 causing a segfault.
194
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195JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
196 them in our smtp response.
197
9c6881f8 198JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
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199 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
200 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
201 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
202 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
203
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204JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
205 link count into consideration.
206
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207HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
208 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
209
210JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
211 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
212 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
213 surprise.
214
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216
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217JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
218
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219JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
220
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221JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
222 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
223 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
224 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
225
ab0e957b 226HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
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228JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
229 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
230 active.
231
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232JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
233 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
234 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
235
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236JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
237 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
238 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
239
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240JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
241 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
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242 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
243 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
244 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
245 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
246 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
247 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
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249JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
250 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
251 resulted in an indefinite loop.
252
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253JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
254 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
255 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
256
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261JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
262 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
263
264JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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265 non-signal-safe functions being used.
266
267JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
268 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
269 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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271JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
272 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
273 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
274
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275JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
276 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
277 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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278 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
279 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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280 messed with.
281
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282PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
283 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
284
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285JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
286 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
287 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
288 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
289 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
290 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
291 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
292
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293JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
294 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
295
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296JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
297 legitimate.
298
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299JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
300 Previously this would segfault.
301
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302JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
303 segfault.
304
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305JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
306 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
307 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
308 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
309 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
310 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
311
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312JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
313
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314JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
315 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
316 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
317 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
318
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319JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
320
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321JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
322 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
323 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
324 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
325
5054c4fd 326JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
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328JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
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330JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
331 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
332 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
333
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334JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
335 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
336 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
337
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338PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
339
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340JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
341 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
342 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
343 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
344
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345PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
346 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
347 promised '?' replacement.
348
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349PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
350
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351JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
352 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
353 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
354 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
355 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
356
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357JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
358 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
359 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
360
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361JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
362 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
363 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
364
7ea1237c 365JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 366 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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367 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
368
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369JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
370 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
371 hope that is portable enough.
372
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373JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
374 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
375 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
376 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
377
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378JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
379 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
380 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
381
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382JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
383 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
384 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
385 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
386
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387JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
388 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
389
75c121f0 390JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 391 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
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392 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
393 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
394
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395JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
396 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
397 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
398
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399JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
400 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
401 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
402 the previous G, M, k.
403
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404JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
405 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
406 it was unset.
407
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408JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
409 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
410 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
411 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
412
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413JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
414 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
415
de6f74f2 416JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
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417 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
418 off past the nul-terimation.
419
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420JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
421 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
422 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
423 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
424 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
425
aa6e77af 426JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
aaf3e414 427
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428JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
429 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
430 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
431 actually does fail.
432
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433AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
434 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
435
436JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
437 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
438 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
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440JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
441 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
442 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
443
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444JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
445 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
446
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c39c8870 451GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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452 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
453 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
454 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
455 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
456 be defined in redis_servers.
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458GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
459 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
460
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461JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
462 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
463 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
464 extant use locations.
465
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466JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
467 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
468
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469JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
470 Previously only the last row was returned.
471
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472JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
473 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
474 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
475 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
476 input.
477
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478JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
479 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
480 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
481 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
482 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
483 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
484 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
485 Main pool for expansions.
486 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
487 active in the testsuite.
488 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
489
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490JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
491 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
492 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
493 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
494 round-robin DNS.
495
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496JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
497 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
498 failure response.
499
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500JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
501 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
502 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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503
504JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
505 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
506 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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508JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
509 rows affected is given instead).
510
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511JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
512 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
513
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514JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
515 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
516 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
517 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
518 for all multi-message initiating connections.
519
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520JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
521 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
522 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
523
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524JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
525 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
526 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
527 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
528 separate.
529
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530JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
531 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
532 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
533 fake-reject.
534
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535HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
536
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537JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
538 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
539
aab9a843 540PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 541 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 542 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 543
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544JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
545 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
546 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
547 and send a quit.
548
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549JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
550 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
551
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552JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
553 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
554 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
555
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556JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
557 for the build is renamed.
558
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559JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
560 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
561 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
562
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563JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
564 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
565 result replacing the original.
566
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567JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
568 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
569 and the resources needed to be freed.
570
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571JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
572
e6532c4a
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573JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
574 was not propagated.
575
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576JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
577 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
578 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
579 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
580
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581JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
582 length value. Previously this would segfault.
583
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584HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
585 newer versions of the scanner.
586
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587JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
588 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
589 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
590 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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591 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
592 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
593 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
e04bfa34 594
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595JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
596 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
597 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
598 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
599 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
600 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
601 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
602 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
603 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
604 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
605
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606JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
607 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
608
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609JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
610
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611HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
612 allows proper process termination in container environments.
613
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614JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
615 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
616
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617JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
618 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
619 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
620
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621JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
622 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
623 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 624 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 625
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626JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
627 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
628 would be spooled.
629
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630PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
631 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
632
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633HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
634 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
635 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
636 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
637 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
ad93c40f 638
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639JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
640 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
641 lines.
642
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643JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
644 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
645
ddd16464
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646PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
647 suffix list.
648
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649JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
650 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
651 "bare" representation.
652
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653JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
654 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
655 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
656 corrupted the output.
657
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661
662JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
663 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
664 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
665 pairs of long lines into single ones.
666
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667PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
668 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
669
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670JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
671 This permits better logging.
672
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673JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
674 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
675 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
676 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
677 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 678 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
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680JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
681 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
682 "exiwhat" output.
683
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684PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
685 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
686 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
687
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688JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
689 than 255 are no longer allowed.
690
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691JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
692 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
693 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
694 client, there is no benefit for these.
695 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
696 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
697 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
698 is used (3.2.4 +).
699
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700PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
701 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
702
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703JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
704 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
705 erroneously found still-pending ones.
706
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707JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
708 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
709
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710JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
711 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
712 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
713 signature and again for transmission.
714
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715JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
716 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 717 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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719JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
720 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
721 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
722 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
723 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
724 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
725 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
726
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727JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
728 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
729 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 730 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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732PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
733 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
734 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
735 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
736 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
737 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
738 processing options.
739
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740JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
741 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
742 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
743 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
744 connections.
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746PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
747 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
748 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
749 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
750 versions.
751
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752JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
753 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
754 inaccessible.
755
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756JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
757 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
758 banner-time rejection.
759
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760JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
761 callout/hold.
762
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763PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
764 is the name of a transport.
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765 Fixes bug 2140.
766
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767HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
768
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769JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
770 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
771
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772JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
773 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
774 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
775 during compilation.
776
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777JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
778 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
779 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 780 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 781
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782JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
783 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
784 initial verify call returned a defer.
785
ad1a76fe 786JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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787 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
788
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789JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
790 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
791
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792JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
793 if present. Previously it was ignored.
794
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795JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
796 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
797
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798JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
799 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
800 extensible.
801
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802PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
803 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
804
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805PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
806 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
807 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
808
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809JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
810 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
811 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
812 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
813
0768462d 814HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
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815 and confused the parent.
816
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817JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
818 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
819
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820JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
821 for log purposes.
822
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823JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
824 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
825 out-of-order delivery.
826
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827JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
828 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
829 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
830 error for the HELO.
831
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832JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
833 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
834 desynchronisation.
835
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836JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
837 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
838 one run was done. Bug 2189.
839
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840JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
841 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
842 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
843 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
844 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
845 message is still "Temporary local problem".
846
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847JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
848 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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849 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
850
851HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
852 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
853 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
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855JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
856 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
857 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
858 though a different problem.
859
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9427e879 864JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 865 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 866
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867JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
868
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869PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
870 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
871
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872JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
873 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
874
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875JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
876 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
877 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
878 before acknowledging the chunk.
879
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880PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
881 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
882 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
883
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884JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
885 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
886 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
887 should.
888
889JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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890 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
891 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 892
bd8fbe36 893JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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894 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
895
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896JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
897 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
898 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
899 body hash calculated value.
900
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901JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
902 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
903 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
904
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905JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
906
907JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
908 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
909
910JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
911 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
912 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
913
914JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
915 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
916 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
917 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
918 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
919 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
920
921JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
922 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
923 past that check, despite the cost.
924
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925JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
926 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
927 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
928
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929PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
930 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
931 TLS library to consume.
932
da88acae
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933PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
934
f6ef9370
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935PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
936
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937JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
938 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
939 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
940 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
941 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
942 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
943 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
944
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945PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
946
947PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
948
949PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
950 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
951 should be warning-free.
952
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953JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
954
955HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
956 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
957
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958HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
959 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
960 general solution here.
961
7dc5f827
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962PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
963 already-broken messages in the queue.
964
4bb432cb
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965JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
966
3b1a84c8
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967JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
968
902fbd69 969
8d042305
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970Exim version 4.88
971-----------------
4c57a40e 972
9094b84b
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973JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
974 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 975
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976JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
977 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
978 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
979
4b0fe319
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980JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
981 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
982 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
983 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
984 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
985 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
986 if one fails this test.
987 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
988 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
989
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990JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
991 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
992
23bb6982 993JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 994 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 995
0bd1b1ed 996JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 997 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 998
20b9a2dc
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999JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1000 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1001
05392bbc
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1002JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1003 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1004
1a6230a3
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1005JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1006
cfab9d68
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1007JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1008 certificate).
1009
98c82a3d
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1010JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1011 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1012 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1013 connection after a verify cache hit.
1014 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1015
1016JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1017 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1018
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1019JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1020 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1021 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1022 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1023 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1024
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1025JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1026 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1027
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1028JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1029 Previously they were not counted.
1030
ef3a1a30
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1031JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1032 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1033 that needed the lookup.
1034
4c04137d 1035JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
27b9e5f4
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1036 distinguished as "(=".
1037
1435d4b2
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1038JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1039 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1040
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1041JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1042
1043JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1044 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 1045
4c04137d 1046JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
72a201e2
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1047 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1048
1c788856
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1049JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1050 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1051 compatible.
1052
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1053JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1054 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1055 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1056 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1057
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1058JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1059
f59aaaaa 1060JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2d009132
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1061 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1062 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 1063
d1f9fb42
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1064JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1065 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1066 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1067 be lost.
1068
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1069JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1070 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1071 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1072 itself :(
1073
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1074JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1075 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1076 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1077
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1078JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1079 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1080 options.
1081
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1082JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1083
317e40ac
PP
1084PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1085 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1086
8b0fb68e
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1087PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1088 are not in the system include path.
1089
ad7fc6eb 1090JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 1091 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
ad7fc6eb
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1092 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1093 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 1094
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1095JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1096 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1097 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1098
5ddc9771
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1099JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1100
8d73599f
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1101HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1102 an incoming connection.
1103
446415f5
HSHR
1104HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1105 to rspamd.
1106
8e53a4fc
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1107HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1108 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 1109
87cb4a16 1110JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 1111 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
87cb4a16
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1112
1113
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1114Exim version 4.87
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4c57a40e 1116
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1117JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1118 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1119 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1120 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 1121
6c6d6e48
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1122TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1123 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1124
ac881e27
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1125TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1126 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1127 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1128 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1129 outgoing I= field.
1130
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1131JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1132 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1133 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1134 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1135 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1136 check on the next write.
1137
f1b81d81
HSHR
1138HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1139 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1140 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1141 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1142 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1143
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1144JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1145 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1146
895fbaf2
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1147JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1148 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1149 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1150
805bb5c3
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1151JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1152 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1153 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1154 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1155
56c2a7be
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1156HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1157 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1158
4c04137d 1159JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
14b3c5bc
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1160 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1161
6f6dedcc
JH
1162JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1163 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1164 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1165 distinct.
1166
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1167JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1168
1169JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1170
ec0eb1a3
JH
1171JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1172
41e93589
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1173JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1174 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1175
98b98887 1176JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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1177 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1178
98b98887
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1179JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1180
858e91c2
JH
1181JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1182 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1183
1184JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1185
6ff55e50
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1186JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1187 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1188
3b957582
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1189JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1190
23f3dc67
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1191JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1192 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 1193 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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1194 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1195 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1196 they will retry in-clear.
1197 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1198 at installation time.
1199
240c288f
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1200HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1201 with the $config_file variable.
1202
5ef5dd52
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1203JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1204 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1205 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1206 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 1207 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 1208
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1209GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1210 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1211 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1212 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1213 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1214
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1215JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1216
7f06582c
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1217JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1218 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1219 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1220 list order is no longer honoured.
1221
4c04137d 1222JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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1223 for DKIM processing.
1224
f0989ec0
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1225JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1226 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 1227
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1228JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1229 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
e6d2a989
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1230 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1231 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 1232
8c5d388a
JH
1233JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1234 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1235
2d8d625b
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1236JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1237 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1238
0cbf2b82
JH
1239JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1240 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1241
f2f2c91b
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1242JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1243
ce325893
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1244JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1245 cached by the daemon.
1246
de78e2d5
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1247JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1248 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1249
379ba7d0
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1250JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1251 keys are given for lookup.
1252
f444c2c7
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1253JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1254 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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1255 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1256 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 1257
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1258JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1259 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1260 server-side so match that on older versions.
1261
07c73177 1262JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 1263 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 1264 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 1265
4f6ae5c3
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1266JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1267 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1268
1bc460a6
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1269JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1270 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1271 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 1272 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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1273 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1274 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1275 initial truncated version.
1276
ab9152ff 1277JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 1278
67e87fcf
JH
1279JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1280
ab9152ff
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1281JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1282 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1283
af483912
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1284JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1285
bc3c7bb7 1286HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 1287
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1288JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1289 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1290 induced overflows.
1291
59eaad2b
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1292JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1293 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1294 stage.
1295
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1296JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1297 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1298
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1299JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1300 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1301 former class.
1302
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1303JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1304 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1305 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1306
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1307JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1308 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1309 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1310 extraction. Accept either.
1311
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1316JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1317 expanded.
1318
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1319JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1320
ad07e9ad
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1321JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1322 it.
1323
01a4a5c5 1324JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1325 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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1326 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1327 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1328
cb1d7830 1329JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1330 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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1331 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1332
610ff438 1333JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1334 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1335 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1336 TLS connections
610ff438 1337
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1338JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1339 sites use this now.
1340
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1341JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1342 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1343 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1344 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1345 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1346
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1347JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1348 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1349 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1350
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1351JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1352
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1353JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1354 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1355
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1356JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1357 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1358
7e8360e6
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1359JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1360 /defer_ok option.
1361
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1362JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1363 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1364
fd4d8871 1365JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1366 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
fd4d8871
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1367 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1368
1369JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2aad5761
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1370 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1371 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1372
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1373JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1374 timeout value per server.
1375
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1376JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1377 now have the list separator specified.
1378
8a512ed5 1379JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1380 option values.
8a512ed5 1381
82c0c8ea 1382JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
f69979cf
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1383 under OpenSSL.
1384
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1385JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1386
82c0c8ea
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1387JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1388 rather than the verbs used.
1389
b980ed83
JH
1390JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1391 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1392
6c9ed72e
JH
1393JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1394
cfab9d68 1395HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1396 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1397
f846c8f5
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1398JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1399 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1400
fd4c285c
HSHR
1401HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1402 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1403
4c04137d 1404JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1405
d2a2c69b
JH
1406JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1407
8241d8dd
JH
1408JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1409 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1410 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
8241d8dd
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1411 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1412
1f12df4d
JH
1413JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1414
1f155f8e
JH
1415JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1416 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1417
1705dd20
JH
1418JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1419 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1420
038597d2
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1421JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1422
474f71bf
JH
1423JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1424
7137ca4b
JH
1425JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1426
dcb1095c
JH
1427JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1428 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1429
2f460950
JH
1430JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1431 added for tls authenticator.
1432
2f680c0c
HSHR
1433HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1434
9c695f6d 1435
e449c3b0
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1436Exim version 4.85
1437-----------------
4c57a40e 1438
e449c3b0
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1439TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1440 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1441 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1442 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1443 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1444 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1445 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1446
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1447TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1448 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1449 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1450 function when detected.
1451
a9b8ec8b
JH
1452JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1453 cause callback expansion.
1454
6286d7c4
TL
1455TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1456 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1457 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1458 instead of bool when processing it.
1459
0f06b4f2 1460JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
d567a64d
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1461 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1462
be36e572
JH
1463JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1464
ac4ef9bd
JH
1465JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1466
0eb51736
TL
1467TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1468
c713ca4b
TL
1469TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1470 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1471
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1472JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1473 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1474 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1475 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1476 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
bd21a787
WB
1477 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1478
8bc732e8
JH
1479JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1480 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1481 exceeded it.
1482
a7fec7a7
JH
1483JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1484 version 3.3.6 or later.
1485
4c04137d 1486JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
774ef2d7
JH
1487 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1488 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1489 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
723fe533
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1490 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1491 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1492 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1493
eca4debb
TL
1494TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1495 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1496
8d692470
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1497JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1498 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1499 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1500 matches.
1501
e9477a08
JH
1502JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1503 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1504 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1505
ad4c5ff9
JH
1506JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1507 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
JH
1508
1509JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1510 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1511 syntax errors.
1512
3394b36a 1513JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
JH
1514
1515JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1516 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1517
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TL
1518TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1519 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1520 tarball.
1521
ad4c5ff9
JH
1522JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1523
4c04137d 1524JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
JH
1525 Bug 1561.
1526
1527JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1528 output list separator was used.
1529
8bc732e8 1530
1f0ebb98
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1531Exim version 4.84
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1533TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1534 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1535 return.
1f0ebb98 1536
a612424f 1537JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1538 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
JH
1539
1540JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1541
1542TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1543 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1544
1f0ebb98 1545
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1546Exim version 4.83
1547-----------------
1548
1549TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1550
1551 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1552 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1553 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1554 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1555 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1556 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1557
7245734e
TF
1558TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1559 utilities have not been installed.
1560
fd5dad68
JH
1561JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1562 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1563
5428a946
TL
1564TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1565 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1566
a3c86431
TL
1567TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1568 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
8ded8589
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1569 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1570 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1571
aa26e137
JH
1572JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1573
5a1b8443
WB
1574TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1575 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1576
72c9e342
PP
1577PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1578 not dns_use_dnssec.
1579
76f44207
WB
1580JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1581
770747fd
MFM
1582TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1583 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1584 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1585
8ddef691 1586TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
982650ec
TL
1587 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1588 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1589 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1590 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1591 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1592
b9c2e32f
AR
1593JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1594
e45a1c37
JH
1595JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1596 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1597
67d81c10
JH
1598JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1599 failed delivery.
1600
b1f8e4f8
JH
1601JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1602
511a6c14 1603JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1604
1605JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1606 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1607
51c7471d
JH
1608JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1609 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1610
3695be34
TL
1611TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1612
1e06383a
TL
1613JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1614
76146973
JH
1615JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1616 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1617
1618 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1619 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1620 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1621
8c8b8274
TL
1622TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1623 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1624 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1625 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1626
35aba663
JH
1627JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1628
8c51eead 1629JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1630 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1631 lookup).
8c51eead 1632
deae092e
HS
1633TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1634 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1635 Schlichting.
35aba663 1636
fd3b6a4a 1637JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1638 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1639
8d91c6dc
LT
1640TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1641 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1642
2b4a568d
JH
1643JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1644
d2af03f4
HS
1645TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1646 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1647 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1648
9d1c15ef
JH
1649JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1650 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1651
44662487
JH
1652JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1653 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
1654 hosts_request_ocsp.
1655
ed3bba5f 1656JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1657 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1658 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1659
8ccd00b1
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1660JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1661
8ded8589
TL
1662TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1663 Christian Aistleitner.
1664
f2de3a33
JH
1665JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1666
6eb02f88
TL
1667TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1668 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1669
00bff6f6
JH
1670JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1671 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1672
071c51f7
JH
1673JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1674 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1675
a6d4c44e
TF
1676TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1677 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1678
3ae173e7
ACK
1679TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1680 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1681
c13d09b8
TL
1682TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1683 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1684 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1685
0df4ab80
JH
1686JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1687
66be95e0
PP
1688PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1689 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1690 Jasper Wallace.
1691
1bd0d12b
JH
1692JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1693
0de7239e
TL
1694TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1695 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1696 CVE-2014-2972
1697
fd3b6a4a 1698
2c422e6f 1699Exim version 4.82
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1701
1702PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1703
12f69989
PP
1704PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1705 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1706
54c90be1
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1707PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1708 by GnuTLS.
1709
1f4a55da
PP
1710PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1711 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1712 routines.
1713
13363eba 1714PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1715
66645890 1716PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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1717 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1718 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1719 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1720 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1721
a3fb9793 1722PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1723 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1724 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1725 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1726 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1727 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1728
d27f98fe 1729TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1730
6822b909
TL
1731TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1732
e7568d51
TL
1733TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1734 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1735
ae0e32ee 1736TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1737 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1738 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
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1739
1740TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1741
e2658fff
TL
1742TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1743
83712b39
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1744TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1745 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1746
976b7e9f
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1747JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1748
be4a1376
JH
1749JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1750
ec4b68e5
PP
1751PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1752
d7148a07
NM
1753NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1754 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1755
585121e2 1756JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1757
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1758PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1759 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1760 function.
a5f239e4 1761
13d08c90
PP
1762PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1763 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1764
bef3ea7f
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1765JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1766 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1767 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1768
846726c5
JH
1769JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1770
3a796370
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1771JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1772
ea722490 1773JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1774 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1775
b1b05573
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1776JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1777 Bugzilla 884.
1778
362145b5
JH
1779JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1780 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1781
3c0a92dc
JH
1782JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1783 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1784
6d7c6175
PP
1785PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1786 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1787 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1788
6f123593
JH
1789JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1790 authenticators.
1791
c8e2fc1e
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1792JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1793 for control.
1794
005ac57f
PP
1795PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1796
3f1df0e3
PP
1797PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1798 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1799 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1800 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1801
67bd1ab3
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1802TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1803
1804 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1805 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1806 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1807 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1808 the retry rules.
1809
1810 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1811 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1812 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1813
1814 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1815 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1816 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1817 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1818
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1819 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1820 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1821 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1822 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1823 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1824 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1825 delivery, as in LMTP.
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1826
1827 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1828 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1829
326cdc37
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1830TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1831
1832 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1833
1834 Resent-From: f
1835
1836 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1837 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1838 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1839 username as equal to the username.
1840
1841 This change corrects that bug.
1842
f62514b3
GF
1843GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1844 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1845 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1846
eb505532
TF
1847TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1848
14c7b357
PP
1849PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1850 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1851 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1852 NULL dereference and crash.
1853
94eaf700
PP
1854JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1855
6f5a440a
PP
1856PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1857 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1858 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1859
514ee161
SC
1860SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1861
fd98a5c6
JH
1862JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1863 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1864 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1865 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1866 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1867 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1868 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1869 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1870 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1871 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1872 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1873
035c7f1e
PP
1874PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1875 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1876
ff284120
PP
1877PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1878 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1879 Bugzilla 880.
1880
26e72755
PP
1881PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1882 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1883 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1884 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1885 an empty string is now equivalent.
1886
0fbd9bff
PP
1887PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1888 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1889 not performing validation itself.
1890
700d22f3
PP
1891PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1892 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1893
fcc8e047
JH
1894JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1895 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1896
4c04137d 1897TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1898
8c020188
PP
1899PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1900 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1901 other false fix of the same issue.
1902 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1903 Bugzilla 1363.
1904
d13cdd30
PP
1905PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1906 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1907
e2fbf4a2
PP
1908PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1909 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1910 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1911
f4c1088b
PP
1912PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1913 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1914 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1915
c5c2182f
PP
1916TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1917
73431ca9
JH
1918JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1919
2d07a215
TL
1920TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1921 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1922
a30a8861
TL
1923TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1924 Alexander Miroch.
1925
33382dd9
TL
1926TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1927 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1928 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1929 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1930 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1931
046172e6
TL
1932TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1933 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1934
581d7bee 1935TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1936 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1937 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1938
1939TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1940 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1941 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1942 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1943
237b2cf2
TL
1944TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1945
9fc5a352
TL
1946TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1947 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1948 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1949
b10e4ec2
TL
1950TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1951
e2cebd74
TL
1952TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1953 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1954 interaction.
1955
1956TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1957 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1958
2519e60d
TL
1959TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1960 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1961
e78e6ecf 1962
4263f395
PP
1963Exim version 4.80.1
1964-------------------
1965
1966PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1967 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1968 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1969
ea722490 1970
b1770b6e 1971Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1972-----------------
1973
1974PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1975 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1976 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1977
23c7e742
NM
1978NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1979
b322aac8
NM
1980NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1981 improved.
1982
4a891427
NM
1983NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1984
c1e794ba 1985PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1986
97753960
PP
1987PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1988
1989PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1990 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1991
df6303fa
PP
1992PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1993 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1994
7e6a8985
PP
1995PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1996 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1997
f1e05cc7 1998PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1999 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2000 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 2001
4c287009
PP
2002PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2003
b98bb9ac
PP
2004PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2005 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2006
4a6a987a
PP
2007PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2008
c45dd180 2009PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 2010
7db8d074
PP
2011PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2012 non-compliant senders.
2013 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2014
eae0036b 2015NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 2016 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
2017 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2018
dec5017e
PP
2019PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2020 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2021 in spool file corruption.
2022
c80c5570
PP
2023PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2024 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2025 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2026 "Got SSL error 2".
2027
076b11e2
PP
2028TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2029 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2030 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2031
5407bfff
JH
2032JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2033 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2034
9e45c72b
PP
2035JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2036
e74376d8
PP
2037PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2038 diagnostics.
2039 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2040
4c04137d 2041PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
2042 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2043 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2044
7be682ca
PP
2045PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2046 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
2047 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2048 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 2049
ef840681
PP
2050PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2051 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2052
5bfb4cdf
PP
2053PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2054 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2055 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2056 resolver implementation change.
2057
c6e95d22
PP
2058PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2059 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2060
9cbad13b
PP
2061PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2062
9ee44efb
PP
2063PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2064
6a6084f8
PP
2065PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2066 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2067
12dd53c7
PP
2068PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2069 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2070
9e45c72b 2071JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
2072 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2073
17c76198
PP
2074PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2075 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2076 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2077 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 2078 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 2079
53947857 2080PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 2081
eae0036b 2082PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
2083 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2084 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 2085
9e45c72b 2086JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 2087
7390e768
PP
2088PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2089 read-only, out of scope).
2090 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2091
08488c86
PP
2092PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2093 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2094 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2095 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2096
6475bd82
PP
2097PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2098
81f91683
PP
2099PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2100 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2101 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2102 real issues in debug logging.
2103
5779e6aa
PP
2104PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2105 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2106
3375e053
PP
2107PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2108 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2109 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2110
2111PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2112 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
2113 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2114 problems.
3375e053 2115
9d26b8c0
PP
2116PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2117 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2118
57eb9e91 2119PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
2120 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2121 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2122 needs to override this, it can.
2123
16880d1a
PP
2124PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2125 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2126 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2127
a799883d
PP
2128PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2129 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2130 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2131 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2132
3ecab157 2133PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 2134
0599f9cf 2135
867fcbf5
PP
2136Exim version 4.77
2137-----------------
2138
2139PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2140 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2141
f1a29782
TF
2142TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2143
ab42bd23
TK
2144TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2145 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 2146
0ca0cf52
TF
2147TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2148 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2149
921b12ca
TF
2150TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2151 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2152 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2153
2154 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2155 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2156 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2157 not safe for signals.
2158
2159 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2160 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2161 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2162 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2163 exiwhat.
2164
c99ce5c9
TF
2165TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2166
2167 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2168 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2169 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2170 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 2171 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
2172
2173 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2174 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2175 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2176 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2177 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2178 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2179
2180 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2181 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2182 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2183 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2184
2185 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2186 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2187 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2188 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2189
2190 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2191 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2192 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2193 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2194 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2195 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2196 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2197 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2198 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2199
2200 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2201 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2202 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2203 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2204
2205 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2206 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2207 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2208 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2209 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2210 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2211 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2212 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2213 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2214 details in the main documentation.
2215
3634fc25
TF
2216TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2217
792e8a19
TF
2218TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2219
5901f0ab
TF
2220TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2221 repository when doing development or release builds.
2222
7f2a2a43
PP
2223PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2224 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 2225
061b7ebd
PP
2226PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2227 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2228 Bugzilla 97.
2229
e12f8c32
PP
2230PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2231
9e949f00 2232PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
2233 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2234
2235PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2236 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 2237
555ae6af 2238PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
2239 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2240
2241PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2242 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 2243
6f7fe114
PP
2244PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2245 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2246
c566dd90
PP
2247PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2248 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
2249 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2250 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 2251
d6cc7c78 2252PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
2253 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2254 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2255
0d0e4455
PP
2256PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2257
3399bb60 2258PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
2259
2260PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2261 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2262
0ca0cf52 2263
10906672
PP
2264Exim version 4.76
2265-----------------
2266
2267PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2268
754a0503
PP
2269PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2270 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2271
c0c7b2da
PP
2272PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2273
e97d1f08
PP
2274PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2275
084c1d8c
PP
2276PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2277 Bugzilla 1098.
2278
4e7ee012
PP
2279PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2280 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 2281
c8d52a00
PP
2282TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2283 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2284
54e7ce4a
PP
2285PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2286 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2287
5ee6f336
PP
2288PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2289 Bugzilla 1104.
2290
c8d52a00 2291TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
2292 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2293
2294TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2295 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2296 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2297 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2298
2299PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2300 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2301
10906672 2302
aa097c4c
NM
2303Exim version 4.75
2304-----------------
2305
4c04137d 2306NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2307 Bugzilla 1073
2308
7f3d9eff
TF
2309TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2310 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2311 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2312
159f52d2
TF
2313TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2314 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2315
0cc9542a
PP
2316PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2317 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2318 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2319
f7274286
PP
2320PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2321 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2322
7b797365
PP
2323PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2324 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2325
caacae52
NM
2326NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2327 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2328
09dcaba9
NM
2329NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2330 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2331
bc19a55b
PP
2332PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2333 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2334
bd4c9759
NM
2335NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2336 Fixes bug 943.
2337
b72aab72
PP
2338PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2339 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2340
2fe76745
PP
2341PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2342 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2343
76aa570c
PP
2344PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2345 SQL string expansion failure details.
2346 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2347
f1e5fef5
PP
2348PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2349 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2350
4d805ee9
PP
2351PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2352 extern declarations in function scope.
2353 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2354
cd59ab18
PP
2355PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2356 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2357 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2358 a kernel bug).
2359
332f5cf3
PP
2360PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2361 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2362
29cfeb94
PP
2363PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2364 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2365
660242ad
PP
2366PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2367 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2368
bc4bc4c5
PP
2369PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2370 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2371
2e64baa9
NM
2372NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2373 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2374 Dennis Davis.
2375
4c04137d 2376PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2377
6bac1a9a
PP
2378PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2379
552193f0
NM
2380NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2381 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2382
1b587e48
TF
2383TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2384 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2385
aa097c4c 2386
8c07b69f
TF
2387Exim version 4.74
2388-----------------
2389
2390TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2391 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2392
c0ea85ab
TF
2393TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2394 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2395
0761d44e
TF
2396TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2397
0a349494
PP
2398DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2399 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2400 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2401
2402PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2403 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2404 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2405
fea24b2e
PP
2406PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2407 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2408 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2409 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2410
6545de78
PP
2411PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2412 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2413 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2414 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2415
1670ef10
PP
2416PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2417 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2418 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2419 arbitrary files.
2420
c0886197
PP
2421PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2422 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2423
b7487bce
PP
2424PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2425 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2426 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2427 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2428 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2429
8c07b69f 2430
97fd1e48 2431Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2432-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2433
2434PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2435 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2436 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2437
6901c596
PP
2438PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2439 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2440
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2441JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2442
77bb000f
PP
2443PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2444
a29e5231
PP
2445PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2446
ec5a0394 2447PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2448
55c75993
PP
2449PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2450
453a6645 2451PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2452 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2453 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2454 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2455
8544e77a
PP
2456PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2457 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2458 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2459 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2460 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2461
83e029d5
PP
2462PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2463
ed7f7860
PP
2464PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2465
7d9f747b
PP
2466PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2467
4b2241d2
PP
2468PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2469
10385c15
PP
2470PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2471
dbc4b90d
PP
2472PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2473
532be449
PP
2474PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2475
6a8de854 2476PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2477 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2478 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2479
5dc43717
JJ
2480JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2481
2482JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2483 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2484
3346ab01
PP
2485PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2486 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2487
491fab4c
PP
2488PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2489 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2490 Notification from John Horne.
2491
13eb9497
PP
2492PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2493 compatible.
2494
2495PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2496 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2497 it normally works.
2498
7f36d675
DW
2499DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2500 access.
2501
c1d94452
DW
2502DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2503 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2504 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2505
e2f5dc15
DW
2506DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2507 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2508 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2509 configuration file.
2510
cd25e41d
DW
2511DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2512 option (effectively making it always true).
2513
261dc43e
DW
2514DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2515 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2516
fa32850b
DW
2517DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2518 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2519
79d4bc3d
PP
2520PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2521 run-time user, instead of root.
2522
43236f35 2523PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2524 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2525
fb08281f
DW
2526DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2527 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2528 arguments.
3346ab01 2529
74935b98
DW
2530DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2531 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2532 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2533
90b6341f
DW
2534DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2535
57730b52
ML
2536NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2537
66581d1e 2538
465e92cf
JJ
2539Exim version 4.72
2540-----------------
2541
453a6645
PP
2542JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2543 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2544 typos
465e92cf 2545
453a6645
PP
2546JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2547 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2548 (Finput)
edae0343 2549
9bd3e22c
NM
2550NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2551 Patch from Alain Williams
2552
bb576ff7
NM
2553NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2554
5a1a5845
NM
2555NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2556 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2557
981a9fad
NM
2558NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2559 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2560
7fc497ee
NM
2561NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2562
1a41defa
JJ
2563JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2564
a466095c 2565NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2566 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2567
94a6bd0b
NM
2568TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2569
2570TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2571
2572MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2573 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2574 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2575
c1b141a8
NM
2576NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2577 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2578
b26eacf1 2579NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2580 Patch by Simon Arlott
2581
179c5980 2582PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2583 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2584
9bd3e22c 2585
7c6d71af
NM
2586Exim version 4.71
2587-----------------
2588
7d9f747b 2589TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2590
f013fb92
NM
2591NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2592
0eb8eedd
NM
2593NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2594
663ee6d9
NM
2595NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2596
177ebd9b
NM
2597NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2598
7c6d71af 2599
210f147e
NM
2600Exim version 4.70
2601-----------------
2602
cdd3bb85 2603TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2604 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2605
2606TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2607 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2608 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2609
2610TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2611 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2612 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2613
2614TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2615 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2616
210f147e
NM
2617NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2618 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2619 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2620 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2621
deafd5b3
NM
2622NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2623 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2624 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2625
089793a4
TF
2626TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2627
5f16ca82
TF
2628TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2629
dae9d94e 2630NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2631 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2632
7d9f747b 2633NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2634
06864c44
TF
2635TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2636 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2637 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2638 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2639
65a7d8c3 2640NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2641 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2642
23510047 2643TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2644
7d9f747b 2645NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2646
7d8eec3a 2647NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2648 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2649
89dec7b6
TF
2650TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2651 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2652
a99de90c
TF
2653TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2654 that they are available at delivery time.
2655
e2803e40
TF
2656TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2657
7199e1ee
TF
2658TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2659 incoming_port log selectors.
2660
e276e04b
TF
2661TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2662 setting expands to an empty string.
2663
ce552449 2664NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2665 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2666
e765a0f1 2667NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2668 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2669
4f054c63 2670NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2671 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2672
7d9f747b
PP
2673NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2674 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2675
7d9f747b
PP
2676NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2677 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2678
b52bc06e 2679NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2680 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2681
447de4b0
NM
2682NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2683
4c69d561 2684NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2685 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2686
d5c39246 2687NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2688 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2689
0b23848a
TK
2690TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2691
8f3414a1 2692NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2693 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2694
fb6f955d
NM
2695NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2696
2697NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2698
7d9f747b
PP
2699NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2700 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2701
7d9f747b
PP
2702NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2703 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2704
7d9f747b
PP
2705NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2706 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2707
7d9f747b
PP
2708NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2709 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2710
7d9f747b
PP
2711NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2712 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2713
7d9f747b
PP
2714NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2715 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2716
7d9f747b
PP
2717NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2718 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2719
7d9f747b 2720NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2721 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2722
7d9f747b 2723NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2724
7d9f747b
PP
2725NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2726 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2727
7d9f747b 2728NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2729
7d9f747b 2730NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2731
7d9f747b 2732NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2733
7d9f747b 2734NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2735
17792b53 2736NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2737 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2738
7d9f747b
PP
2739NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2740 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2741
91576cec 2742NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2743 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2744
7d9f747b
PP
2745NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2746 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2747
7d9f747b 2748NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2749
7d9f747b 2750NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2751
7d9f747b 2752NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2753
7d9f747b 2754NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2755
deafd5b3 2756
47db1125
NM
2757Exim version 4.69
2758-----------------
2759
4b3504d0
TK
2760TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2761 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2762 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2763
2764 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2765 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2766 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2767 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2768 build errors in sieve.c.
2769
81ea09ca
NM
2770NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2771 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2772 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2773
f13cddcb
SC
2774SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2775
7d9f747b 2776NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2777
7d9f747b 2778NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2779
7d9f747b 2780NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2781
2782
eb4c0de6
PH
2783Exim version 4.68
2784-----------------
2785
2786PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2787
6a3bceb1
PH
2788PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2789 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2790 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2791 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2792 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2793 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2794 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2795 for iplsearch lookups.
2796
2797 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2798 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2799 previously such lookups could never work.
2800
4c04137d 2801 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2802 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2803 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2804
2e30fa9d
TK
2805TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2806 version.
2807
0806a9c5
MH
2808MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2809 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2810 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2811 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2812 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2813 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2814
ae276964
TK
2815TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2816 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2817
0f2cbd1b
MH
2818MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2819 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2820 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2821 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2822 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2823 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2824
2b85bce7
PH
2825PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2826 local_scan API.
2827
93655c46
PH
2828PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2829
6c512171
PH
2830PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2831 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2832 encrypted.
2833
2834PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2835 by clients under certain conditions.
2836
aa6dc513
PH
2837PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2838 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2839
a96603a0
PH
2840PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2841
8f240103
PH
2842PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2843 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2844
2845PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2846
d677b2f2
PH
2847PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2848
d52120f2
PH
2849PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2850
64f2600a
PH
2851PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2852 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2853
8669f003
PH
2854PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2855
a4dc33a8
PH
2856PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2857 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2858
d6a60c0f
PH
2859PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2860
8f128379
PH
2861PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2862
8932dffe
PH
2863PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2864 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2865 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2866 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2867
ddea74fa 2868PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2869 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2870 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2871
ddea74fa 2872PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2873 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2874
ddea74fa
PH
2875PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2876
ce9f225c
PH
2877PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2878
19897d52
PH
2879PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2880
bc64a74d
PH
2881PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2882 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2883 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2884
eb4c0de6 2885
b4ed4da0
PH
2886Exim version 4.67
2887-----------------
2888
22ad45c9
MH
2889MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2890 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2891 Jan Srzednicki.
2892
b4ed4da0
PH
2893PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2894 issue a MAIL command.
2895
431b7361
PH
2896PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2897
2898 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2899
2900 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2901 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2902 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2903 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2904 item. This has been fixed.
2905
2906PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2907 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2908
83da1223
PH
2909PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2910 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2911
54fc8428
PH
2912PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2913 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2914 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2915
34c5e8dd
SC
2916SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2917
bbe15da8
PH
2918PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2919 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2920 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2921 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2922 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2923
0e8a9471
MH
2924MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2925 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2926 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2927
f0872424
PH
2928PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2929 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2930 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2931 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2932
b01dd148
PH
2933PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2934
6bf342e1
PH
2935PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2936
273f34d0
PH
2937PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2938 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2939 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2940 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2941 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2942
cf8b11a5
PH
2943PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2944
41c7c167
PH
2945PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2946 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2947 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2948 values).
2949
9c57cbc0
PH
2950PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2951
f3f065bb
PH
2952PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2953
047bdd8c
PH
2954PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2955
0ce9abe6
PH
2956PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2957
0e22dfd1
PH
2958PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2959
4c590bd1
PH
2960PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2961 no_callout_flush is set.
2962
09945f1e
PH
2963PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2964 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2965 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2966 fixed.
2967
c51b8e75
PH
2968PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2969
e28326d8 2970PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2971 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2972 other ACL rejections are.
2973
75b1493f
PH
2974PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2975 with slight modification.
2976
7c5214ec
PH
2977PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2978 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2979
4311097e
PH
2980PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2981 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2982 connection.
2983
29f89cad
PH
2984PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2985 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2986
5e687460
SC
2987SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2988
c3611384
PH
2989PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2990 expansion side effects.
2991
5a11a7b4
PH
2992PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2993 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2994 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2995 be the same.
2996
0e20aff9
MH
2997MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2998 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2999 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3000
ca86f471
PH
3001PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3002 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3003 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3004 were accidentally chopped off.
3005
a14e5636
PH
3006PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3007 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3008 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3009 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3010 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3011 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3012 pipelining has not been advertised.
3013
ec95d1a6
PH
3014PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3015
42855d71
PH
3016PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3017 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3018 This has been fixed.
3019
57c2c631
PH
3020PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3021 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3022 reported on Solaris.
3023
58c01c94
PH
3024PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3025 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3026 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3027 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3028 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3029 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3030 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3031
dee5a20a
PH
3032PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3033 cpus.
3034
d2ee6114
PH
3035PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3036
b2d5182b
PH
3037PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3038
79749a79
PH
3039PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3040 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
3041 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3042 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3043 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3044 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 3045
c456d9bb
PH
3046PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3047 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3048 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3049 host_all_ignored option.
3050
cd9868ec
PH
3051PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3052 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3053 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3054 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3055 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3056 is what is supposed to happen).
3057
ebeaf996
PH
3058PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3059 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3060 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3061 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3062 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3063 uses the Exim user.
3064
2679d413
PH
3065PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3066 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3067 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3068 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3069 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3070 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3071 users.
3072
84024b72
PH
3073PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3074
8005d38e
SC
3075SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3076 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3077 (Jez Hancock).
3078 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3079 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3080
3298c6c6
SC
3081SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3082
a43a27c5
PH
3083PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3084
58eb016e 3085PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
3086 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3087 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3088 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3089 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3090 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3091 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3092 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 3093 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
3094 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3095 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 3096
b43a74ea
PH
3097PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3098 advertised in response to EHLO.
3099
b4ed4da0 3100
5dd1517f
PH
3101Exim version 4.66
3102-----------------
3103
3104PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3105 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3106
3107 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3108 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3109
3110 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3111 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3112 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3113
3114 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3115 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3116 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3117 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3118 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3119
3120
93cfa765
TK
3121Exim version 4.65
3122-----------------
3123
3124TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3125 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3126 versions. (#438)
3127
d6066548
MH
3128MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3129 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3130 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3131
4362ff0d
PH
3132PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3133 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3134 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3135 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3136 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3137 rather than extend the field.
3138
93cfa765 3139
944e9e9c
TF
3140Exim version 4.64
3141-----------------
aa41d2de 3142
21d74bd9
TK
3143TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3144 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3145 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3146 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3147 these files.
3148
3149TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3150 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3151 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3152
3153TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3154 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3155 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
3156
3157TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3158 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3159 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3160 in the field name.
3161
2b1c6e3a
PH
3162PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3163 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3164 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3165 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3166 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3167 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3168 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3169 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3170 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3171 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3172 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3173
1f872c80
PH
3174PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3175 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
3176
3177PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3178 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3179 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3180 ignores EPIPE as well.
3181
d203e649
PH
3182PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3183 (quoted-printable decoding).
3184
cc2ed8f7 3185PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 3186 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 3187
ddfcd446
PH
3188PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3189
d45b1de8
PH
3190PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3191
3192PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3193
38a0a95f 3194PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 3195 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 3196
a2405d83
JJ
3197JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3198 in 4.64-PH/09.
3199
3200JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3201 miscellaneous code fixes
3202
6ea85e9a
PH
3203PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3204 rejections.
3205
26da7e20
PH
3206PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3207 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3208 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3209 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3210 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3211 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3212 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3213 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 3214
14aa5a05 3215PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 3216 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
3217 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3218 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3219 function.
3220 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3221 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3222 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3223 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3224 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3225 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3226 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3227 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3228 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3229
ff75a1f7
PH
3230PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3231 decoding.
3232
e6f6568e
PH
3233PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3234 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3235 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3236 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3237 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3238 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3239 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3240 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3241
d6f6e0dc
PH
3242PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3243 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3244 list.
3245
322050c2
PH
3246PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3247 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3248 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3249 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3250 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3251 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3252 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3253 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3254 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3255 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3256 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3257 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3258 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3259
08955dd3
PH
3260PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3261 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3262 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3263 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3264 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3265 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3266 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3267
1eccaa59
PH
3268PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3269 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3270 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3271 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3272 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3273 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3274 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3275 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3276 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3277 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3278
602e59e5
PH
3279PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3280 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3281 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3282 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3283 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3284
411ef850
PH
3285PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3286 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3287 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3288 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3289 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3290 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3291 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3292
7befa435
PH
3293PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3294 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3295 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3296 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3297 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3298 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3299 been verified.
3300
48da4259 3301PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3302 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3303 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3304 and authorization.)
3305
48da4259
PH
3306PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3307 if any retry times were supplied.
3308
d1d5595c
PH
3309PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3310 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3311 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3312
0ef732d9
PH
3313PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3314
328895cc
PH
3315PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3316
fd700877
PH
3317PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3318 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3319 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3320 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3321 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3322 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3323
8dce1a6f
PH
3324PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3325 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3326
17af4a17
PH
3327PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3328 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3329 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3330
3331PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3332 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3333 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3334 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3335 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3336 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3337 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3338 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3339 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3340
3341 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3342 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3343 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3344 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3345 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3346 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3347 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3348 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3349 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3350
3351 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3352 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3353 hammering the server.
3354
c1114884
PH
3355PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3356 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3357
7a0743eb
PH
3358PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3359
0d85fa3f
PH
3360PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3361 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3362 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3363
1bf43b78
PH
3364PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3365 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3366 one case where this was not true.
3367
520de300
PH
3368PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3369 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3370 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3371 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3372 fails.
3373
48c7f9e2
PH
3374PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3375 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3376 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3377 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3378 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3379 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3380 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3381 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3382 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3383 smtp transport.
3384
99ea1c86
PH
3385PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3386 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3387 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3388 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3389
a2042e78
PH
3390PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3391 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3392
4fbcfc2e
PH
3393PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3394 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3395 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3396
aa41d2de
PH
3397PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3398
af561417
PH
3399PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3400
3cc66b45
PH
3401PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3402
194cc0e4
PH
3403PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3404 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3405 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3406 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3407
a401ddaa
PH
3408PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3409 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3410
4e88a19f
PH
3411PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3412 be meaningful with "accept".
3413
d7d7b289
SC
3414SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3415 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3416
3417SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3418 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3419 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3420
3421SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3422 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3423 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3424 there is data to show.
3425 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3426
3427SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3428 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3429 as well as the number of messages.
3430
3431SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3432 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3433 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3434
3435SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3436 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3437 have a flag are now skipped.
3438
3439SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3440 Added the -emptyok flag.
3441
3442SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3443 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3444
0ea2a468
JJ
3445JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3446 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3447 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3448
3449JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3450 match 4.64-PH/13
3451
3452JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3453 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3454
3455JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3456
3457JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3458 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3459
8a10f5a4
PH
3460PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3461
30e18802
PH
3462PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3463 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3464 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3465 contravention of the specifications.
3466
55728a4f
PH
3467PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3468 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3469 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3470
d7837193
PH
3471PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3472 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3473 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3474
87054a31
PH
3475PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3476
ea2c01d2
MH
3477MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3478 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3479 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3480 some point in the past.
3481
e4fa6968
PH
3482PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3483 transport during callout processing was broken.
3484
56f5d9bd
PH
3485PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3486 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3487
922e1c28
PH
3488PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3489 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3490
21eb6e72
PH
3491PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3492 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3493
a0540757
PH
3494PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3495
944e9e9c 3496
478be7b0
SC
3497Exim version 4.63
3498-----------------
3499
3500SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3501 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3502
3503SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3504 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3505 there is data to show.
3506 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3507
3508SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3509 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3510
2b965a65
TF
3511TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3512 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3513
45b91596
PH
3514TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3515 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3516
c59f5781
TF
3517TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3518 submissions from trusted users.
3519
90fc3069
TF
3520TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3521 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3522
6083aca0
TF
3523TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3524 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3525 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3526 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3527 there is now a framework to start from.
3528
765b530f
PH
3529PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3530 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3531 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3532
4e167a8c
PH
3533PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3534
4608d683
PH
3535PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3536
b8dc3e4a
PH
3537PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3538
5418e93b
PH
3539PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3540 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3541 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3542
b4a9bda2
PH
3543PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3544 libradius.
3545
45b91596
PH
3546PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3547 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3548 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3549
5547e2c5
PH
3550PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3551 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3552 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3553 its arguments.
3554
dbcef0ea
PH
3555PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3556 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3557 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3558 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3559 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3560
25257489
PH
3561PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3562 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3563
c816d124
PH
3564PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3565
a9ccd69a
PH
3566PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3567 operations in malware.c.
3568
75fa1910
PH
3569PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3570 signatures.
3571
a7d7aa58
PH
3572PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3573 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3574 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3575 all.
3576
42119b09
PH
3577PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3578 statements to "add_header".
3579
41609df5
PH
3580PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3581 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3582
a5bd321b
PH
3583PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3584 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3585 latter.
3586
e85a7ad5 3587PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3588 so that it is now:
3589
e85a7ad5
PH
3590 ${if or { \
3591 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3592 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3593 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3594 }{no}{yes}}
3595
e85a7ad5
PH
3596 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3597 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3598
d8fe1c03
PH
3599PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3600 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3601
16282d2b
PH
3602PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3603 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3604 any possible encoding problems.
3605
35d40a98
PH
3606PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3607 but not after initializing Perl.
3608
034d99ab
PH
3609PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3610 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3611 apparently, which is not desirable.
3612
6ec97b1b
PH
3613PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3614 queries.
3615
e22ca4ac
JJ
3616JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3617 --not options
3618
3619JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3620
33d73e3b
PH
3621PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3622 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3623 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3624 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3625
9ecb03f3
PH
3626PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3627 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3628 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3629
084efe8d
PH
3630PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3631 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3632 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3633 0.12.
3634
366fc9f0
PH
3635PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3636 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3637 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3638 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3639 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3640
c59f5781 3641
c887c79e
TF
3642Exim version 4.62
3643-----------------
3644
3645TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3646 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3647
1cce3af8
PH
3648PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3649 patch).
3650
afb3eaaf
PH
3651PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3652 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3653 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3654 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3655 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3656 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3657 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3658 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3659 451 error is used.
3660
e173618b
PH
3661PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3662
dd16e114
PH
3663PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3664 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3665 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3666
f7fd3850
PH
3667PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3668 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3669 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3670 odd errors.
3671
d87df92c
PH
3672PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3673 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3674
7e9f683d
PH
3675PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3676 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3677 option (which defaults to 0600).
3678
bfad5236
PH
3679PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3680
01c490df
PH
3681PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3682 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3683 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3684 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3685 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3686 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3687 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3688
d6629cdc
PH
3689PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3690
1cce3af8 3691
214e2000
PH
3692Exim version 4.61
3693-----------------
3694
3695PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3696 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3697 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3698 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3699 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3700 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3701 addresses as local.
3702
f9daeae0
PH
3703PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3704 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3705
7e66e54d
PH
3706PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3707
c8ea1597
PH
3708PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3709 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3710 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3711 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3712 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3713 grumble.
3714
911f6fde
PH
3715PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3716 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3717
47ca6d6c
PH
3718PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3719 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3720 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3721 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3722 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3723
ed0e9820
PH
3724PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3725 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3726 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3727 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3728
eff37e47
PH
3729PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3730 be the same on different OS.
3731
1921d2ea
PH
3732PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3733 testing.
3734
b3f69ca8
JJ
3735JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3736 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3737
3738JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3739 in 4.61-PH/06
3740
424a1c63
PH
3741PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3742 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3743 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3744 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3745 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3746 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3747 bounce message.
3748
7a100415
PH
3749PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3750 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3751 when Exim was called.
3752
19b9dc85
PH
3753PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3754 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3755
309bd837
PH
3756PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3757 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3758 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3759 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3760
59e82a2a
PH
3761PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3762 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3763 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3764 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3765 changes:
3766
3767 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3768 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3769 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3770
3771 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3772 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3773 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3774
9edc04ce
PH
3775PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3776 feature).
3777
1349e1e5
PH
3778PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3779 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3780 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3781 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3782 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3783 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3784 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3785 values from the SRV records were lost.
3786
ea49d0e1
PH
3787PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3788 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3789 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3790
064a94c9
PH
3791PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3792 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3793 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3794
727071f8
PH
3795PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3796 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3797 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3798 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3799 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3800 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3801 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3802 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3803 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3804 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3805
f78eb7c6
PH
3806PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3807 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3808 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3809
21c28500
PH
3810PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3811 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3812
3813PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3814 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3815 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3816 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3817 is given.
3818
1688f43b
PH
3819PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3820 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3821 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3822
3823PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3824 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3825 PH/23 above applies.
3826
9675b384
PH
3827PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3828 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3829 (for which there is an explicit test).
3830
6a3f1455
PH
3831PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3832
dac79d3e
PH
3833PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3834 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3835 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3836 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3837 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3838
5977a0b3
PH
3839PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3840 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3841 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3842 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3843
c91535f3
PH
3844PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3845 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3846 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3847
0d46a8c8
PH
3848PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3849
278c6e6c
PH
3850PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3851
2cbb4081
PH
3852PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3853 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3854 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3855
3eef829e
PH
3856PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3857 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3858 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3859 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3860 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3861
1ab95fa6
PH
3862PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3863 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3864 the message gets confusing).
3865
230205fc
PH
3866PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3867 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3868 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3869 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3870
75e0e026
PH
3871PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3872 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3873 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3874 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3875 same order.
3876
3877PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3878 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3879 the different processes.
3880
145396a6
PH
3881PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3882
3cd34f13
PH
3883PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3884
11121d3d
JJ
3885JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3886 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3887
3888JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3889 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3890
3891JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3892 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3893 messages matching specified criteria.
3894
8def5aaf
PH
3895PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3896
929ba01c
PH
3897PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3898 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3899
2632889e
PH
3900PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3901 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3902 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3903 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3904 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3905 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3906 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3907 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3908 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3909 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3910
944a9c55
PH
3911PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3912 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3913 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3914
4a23603b
PH
3915PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3916
4730f942
PH
3917PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3918 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3919 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3920 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3921 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3922 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3923 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3924 the variable.
3925
30dba1e6
PH
3926PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3927 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3928
382afc6b
PH
3929PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3930
a86229cf
PH
3931PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3932
50c99ba6
PH
3933PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3934
d35e429d
PH
3935PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3936 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3937 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3938 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3939 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3940 size of the count of files.
3941
f90d018c
PH
3942PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3943
75def545
PH
3944PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3945 used in LMTP mode:
3946
3947 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3948 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3949 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3950 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3951
3952 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3953 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3954 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3955
3956PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3957 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3958 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3959 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3960 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3961
c46782ef
PH
3962PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3963 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3964
71fafd95
PH
3965PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3966 will now be deprecated.
3967
2c5db4fd
PH
3968PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3969
9cf6b11a
JJ
3970JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3971 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3972 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3973
3974JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3975 with very large, slow to parse queues
3976
3977JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3978
3979JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3980
898d150f
PH
3981PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3982 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3983 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3984 SMTP output lines.
3985
46218253
PH
3986PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3987 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3988 Sieve code now uses this.
3989
e97957bc
PH
3990PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3991 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3992
81e509d7
PH
3993PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3994 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3995
3d240ff7
PH
3996PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3997
b37c4101
PH
3998PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3999 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4000 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4001 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4002 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4003
79378e0f
PH
4004PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4005 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4006 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4007 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4008
e49c7bb4
PH
4009PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4010
d114ec46
PH
4011PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4012
f3d7df6c
PH
4013PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4014 is preferred over IPv4.
4015
715ab376
PH
4016PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4017 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4018 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4019 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4020 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4021 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4022 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4023
6b31b150
PH
4024PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4025 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4026 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4027
4028PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4029
d515a917
PH
4030PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4031 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4032 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4033 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4034 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4035 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4036 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4037 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4038 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4039 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4040 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4041
9b8fadde
PH
4042PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4043 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4044 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4045
214e2000 4046
5de37277
PH
4047Exim version 4.60
4048-----------------
4049
cc38ddbf
PH
4050PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4051
4052 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4053 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4054
4055 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4056 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4057 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 4058
72fdd6ae
PH
4059PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4060
4061 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4062 not a single digit.
4063
4064 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4065 string.
4066
4067 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4068 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4069 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4070 silly things.
4071
4072 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4073 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4074
4075 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4076 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 4077
cb741023
PH
4078PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4079 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4080 "/bin:/usr/bin".
4081
f174f16e
PH
4082PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4083 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 4084
c25242d7
PH
4085PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4086 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4087
4088 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4089
4090 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4091 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4092 this:
4093
4094 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4095
82c19f95
PH
4096PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4097 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4098 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4099 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4100 identical. For example:
4101
4102 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4103
4104 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4105 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4106 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4107
d7ffbc12
PH
4108PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4109 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4110 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4111 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4112
9f526266
PH
4113PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4114 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4115 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4116 message.
4117
87fcc8b9
PH
4118PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4119
4120 o fixes some comments
4121 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4122 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4123 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4124 and documents the missing references header update
4125
4126 and most important:
4127
4128 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 4129 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
4130 result)
4131
456682f5
PH
4132PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4133 Electronic Mail") by including:
4134
4135 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4136
4137 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 4138 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
4139 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4140 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4141 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4142
4143 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4144
4145 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4146
4147 The auto-replied keyword:
4148
4149 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4150 message by an automatic process,
4151
4152 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4153
4154 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4155 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4156
4157 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4158 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4159 other messages.
4160
3e46c1aa
PH
4161PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4162 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 4163
49826d12
PH
4164PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4165
eba0c039
PH
4166PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4167 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4168 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4169
a0d6ba8a
PH
4170PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4171 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4172 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4173
f0917727
PH
4174PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4175 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4176 and treats the condition as false.
4177
096fee00
PH
4178PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4179
024bd3c2
PH
4180PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4181 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4182 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4183 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4184 not changing the active code.
4185
4186 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4187 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4188
4189 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4190 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4191
df199fec
PH
4192PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4193 (Bugzilla #53).
4194
d27f1df3
PH
4195PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4196 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4197 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4198 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4199 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4200 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4201 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4202 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4203 the text comparison.
4204
96776534
PH
4205PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4206 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4207 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4208 The same fix has been applied.
4209
5de37277 4210
9a799bc0
PH
4211Exim version 4.54
4212-----------------
4213
4214PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4215 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4216 It now does.
4217
99a4b039
PH
4218PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4219 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4220
4221PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4222
4b233853
PH
4223PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4224 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4225 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4226 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4227 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4228
8857ccfd
PH
4229TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4230 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4231 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4232 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4233 or /domain=).
4234
433a2980
PH
4235PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4236 testing suite.
4237
3e46c1aa 4238
9a799bc0 4239
e3a311ba
TK
4240Exim version 4.53
4241-----------------
4242
4243TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4244 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4245
13b685f9
PH
4246PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4247
395ff96d
PH
4248PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4249
5b68f6e4
PH
4250PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4251 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4252 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4253
1ab52c69
PH
4254PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4255 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4256 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4257
b07e6aa3
PH
4258PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4259 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4260 operating systems.
4261
254e032f
PH
4262PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4263 ${stat: expansion item.
4264
3af76a81
PH
4265PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4266 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4267
2548ba04
PH
4268PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4269 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4270 file for comments.
4271
b6c6011d
PH
4272PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4273
cf39cf57
PH
4274PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4275 setting.
4276
f1513293
PH
4277PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4278 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4279
727549a4
PH
4280TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4281
af46795e
PH
4282PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4283 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4284 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4285 the end of the subprocess.
4286
d7b47fd0
PH
4287PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4288 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4289 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4290 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4291 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4292
ee744174
JJ
4293JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4294
b582ab87
PH
4295TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4296
41a13e0a
PH
4297PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4298 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4299
f625cc5a
PH
4300PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4301
4302PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4303
21f7af35
PH
4304PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4305 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4306 HP-UX compiler.
4307
31480e42
PH
4308PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4309
2d280592
PH
4310PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4311 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4312 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4313
7cd1141b
PH
4314PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4315 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4316
4317PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4318 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4319
750af86e
PH
4320PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4321 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4322
4323 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4324 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4325
4326 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4327 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4328 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4329 contributed by a Radius user.
4330
4331PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4332 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4333
4304270b
TK
4334TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4335 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4336
750af86e
PH
4337PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4338 available.
4339
64ffc24f
PH
4340PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4341 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4342 received.
4343
5dd9625b
PH
4344PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4345 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4346 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4347 header lines when this was not necessary.
4348
5591031b
PH
4349PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4350
ba18e66a
PH
4351PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4352 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4353 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4354 exists".
4355
9cec981f
PH
4356PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4357 -bV or -d is used.
4358
aa2b5c79
PH
4359PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4360 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4361 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4362 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4363
48a53b7f
PH
4364PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4365
1c59d63b
PH
4366PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4367
671012da
TK
4368TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4369
1509d3a8
PH
4370PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4371
4372PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4373 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4374 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4375 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4376 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4377 settings.
4378
4379PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4380
2fe1a124
PH
4381PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4382 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4383 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4384 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4385 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4386 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4387 which is clearly wrong.
4388
8800895a
PH
4389PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4390
ccfdb010
PH
4391PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4392 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4393 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4394 subsequently added.
4395
1130bfb0
PH
4396PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4397 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4398
ebcb507f
PH
4399PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4400
c35e155c
PH
4401PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4402 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4403
95d1f782
PH
4404PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4405 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4406
fd6de02e
PH
4407PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4408 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4409
58de37c5
PH
4410PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4411 recipients, not senders.
4412
261cf466
TF
4413TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4414 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4415
3ee512ff
PH
4416PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4417
e08c430f
PH
4418PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4419
bef5a11f
PH
4420PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4421 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4422 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4423 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4424
7546de58
TF
4425TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4426
e5d5a95f
TF
4427TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4428 clock is set back in time.
4429
2e88a017
TF
4430TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4431 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4432
a5f65aa4
TF
4433TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4434 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4435
e7726cbf
PH
4436PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4437 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4438 (see PH/47 above).
4439
a7fdad5b
TF
4440TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4441 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4442 header rewrites.
4443
6af56900
PH
4444PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4445 type ("H").
4446
0925ede6
PH
4447PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4448
66afa403
TF
4449TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4450 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4451 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4452
0154e85a
TF
4453TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4454 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4455 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4456 helo verification defer as a failure.
4457
16f12c76
PH
4458PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4459 actual error message.
4460
bbe902f0 4461
e5a9dba6
PH
4462Exim version 4.52
4463-----------------
4464
4465TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4466
22c3b60b
PH
4467PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4468 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4469 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4470 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4471
06a9b4b5
PH
4472TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4473
c1ac6996
PH
4474PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4475 can still be requested.
4476
9c7a242c
PH
4477PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4478 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4479 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4480 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4481
87ba3f5f
PH
4482TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4483 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4484 circumstances, but probably never did.
4485
4486PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4487 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4488 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4489 in the header line.
4490
29aba418
TF
4491TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4492
fe0dab11
TF
4493TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4494 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4495
11d337a4
TK
4496TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4497
4498TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4499
415c8f3b
PH
4500PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4501 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4502 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4503 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4504 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4505 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4506
958541e9
PH
4507PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4508 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4509 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4510 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4511 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4512 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4513
c206415f
TK
4514TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4515 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4516
2a4be8f9
PH
4517PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4518 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4519
1cba11c5
SC
4520SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4521 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4522
4c04137d 4523SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4524
4525SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4526
4527SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4528
4529SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4530
4531SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4532
4533SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4534
1005d00e
TK
4535TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4536
4537TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4538 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4539 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4540
4541TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4542 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4543 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4544 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4545
9b4768fa
PH
4546PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4547 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4548 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4549
4550PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4551 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4552 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4553 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4554
0d7eb84a
PH
4555PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4556 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4557 to be made).
4558
4559PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4560 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4561 should work with maildirs and everything.
4562
40727bee
TK
4563TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4564 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4565
554d2369
TF
4566TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4567 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4568
1f922db1
PH
4569PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4570 function for BDB 4.3.
4571
ef213c3b
PH
4572PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4573
8ac170f3
PH
4574PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4575 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4576 involved.
4577
b1c749bb
PH
4578PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4579 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4580 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4581 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4582 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4583 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4584
4aac9b49
PH
4585PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4586 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4587 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4588 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4589 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4590 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4591 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4592 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4593
294520c8
TK
4594TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4595 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4596 details.
4597
5bd022fe
PH
4598PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4599 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4600
90e9ce59
PH
4601PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4602 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4603 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4604 test. It is now used for both.
4605
5ea81592
PH
4606PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4607 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4608 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4609 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4610 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4611 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4612
c6c2dc1d
PH
4613PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4614 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4615 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4616 string_vformat().
4617
fffffe4c
PH
4618PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4619 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4620 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4621
9a26b6b2
PH
4622PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4623 experimental DomainKeys support:
4624
4625 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4626 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4627 the control was given.
4628
4629 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4630
4aee0225
PH
4631PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4632
32d668a5
PH
4633PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4634
8187c3f3
PH
4635PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4636 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4637 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4638 db.h files).
4639
ff790e47 4640PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4641 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4642 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4643 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4644 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4645 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4646 course.
ff790e47 4647
5417f6d1
PH
4648PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4649 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4650 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4651 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4652 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4653 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4654
59cf8544
PH
4655PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4656 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4657 do -d+all out of habit.
4658
e7ad8a65
PH
4659PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4660 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4661 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4662
ade42478
PH
4663PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4664 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4665 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4666 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4667 record types that Exim uses.
4668
182ad5cf
PH
4669PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4670 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4671 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4672 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4673 non-existent file that was broken.
4674
b0d9fc80
TK
4675TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4676 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4677
4678TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4679 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4680 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4681
4682TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4683
47c7a64a
PH
4684PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4685 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4686 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4687 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4688 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4689 same time.
4690
a388bce4
SC
4691SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4692 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4693 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4694 at a slight CPU cost.
4695
4696SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4697 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4698
4699SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4700 by Marc Sherman.
4701
0793e4ed
SC
4702SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4703
c58b88df
PH
4704PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4705 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4706
e7ad8a65 4707
7982096b
PH
4708Exim version 4.51
4709-----------------
4710
1a46a8c5
PH
4711TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4712 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4713
2f079f46 4714TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4715
4716TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4717
4718PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4719 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4720
4721PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4722 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4723 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4724 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4725 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4726 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4727 file.
4728
4729PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4730 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4731 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4732 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4733 these two options.
4734
4735PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4736 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4737 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4738 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4739 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4740 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4741 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4742 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4743
4744PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4745 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4746
4747PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4748 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4749 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4750 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4751 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4752 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4753
4754PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4755 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4756 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4757 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4758
4759PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4760 Finch).
4761
4762PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4763 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4764
49c2d5ea
PH
4765PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4766 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4767 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4768 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4769 message.
49c2d5ea 4770
bf759a8b
PH
4771PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4772
83364d30
PH
4773PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4774 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4775
7999bbd7
PH
4776PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4777 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4778 to what was transported.)
4779
7dbf77c9
PH
4780TF/01 Added $received_time.
4781
74e0617f
PH
4782PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4783 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4784 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4785 spamd_address settings.
4786
2f079f46
PH
4787PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4788 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4789 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4790 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4791 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4792
8c841523
PH
4793PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4794
7766a4f0
PH
4795PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4796 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4797 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4798 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4799 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4800
8b417f2c
PH
4801PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4802 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4803
901f42cb
PH
4804PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4805 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4806 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4807 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4808 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4809 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4810 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4811 for failure.
4812
f9b9210e
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4813PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4814 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4815 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4816 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4817 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4818 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4819 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4820 "input=".
4821
54cdb463
PH
4822PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4823
cf00dad6
PH
4824PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4825 driver and ACL definitions.
4826
acb1b346
PH
4827PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4828 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4829
c5ddb310
PH
4830PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4831 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4832 understands it better than I do:
4833
4834 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4835 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4836
4837 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4838 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4839 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4840 => three warnings about OTP not working
4841 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4842
4843 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4844 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4845 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4846 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4847 for each call.)
4848 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4849 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4850
4851 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4852 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4853 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4854
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PH
4855PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4856 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4857 specified.
4858
bebaf0fc
PH
4859PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4860 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4861 "Linux".
4862
475fe28a
PH
4863PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4864 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4865 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4866
4867 warn !verify = sender
4868 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4869
4870 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4871 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4872
7e8bec7a
PH
4873PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4874
4875 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4876 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4877
4878 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4879 nomenclature these days.)
4880
e4a89c47
PH
4881PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4882 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4883
5ca2a9a1
PH
4884PH/30 In these circumstances:
4885 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4886 . First host does not offer TLS;
4887 . First host accepts first address;
4888 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4889 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4890 . Second host accepts second address.
4891 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4892 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4893 address.
7e8bec7a 4894
c688b954
PH
4895PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4896 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4897 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4898 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4899 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4900
fed77020
PH
4901PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4902 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4903
7fe1560f
PH
4904PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4905 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4906
ebb6e6d5
PH
4907PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4908 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4909 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4910
9c4e8f60
PH
4911PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4912 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4913 overlooked.
4914
4915PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4916
d7174846
PH
4917PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4918 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4919 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4920 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4921 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4922 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4923 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4924
4925 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4926 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4927 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4928 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4929 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4930
4931 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4932 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4933 routed further.
4934
cfe75fc3
PH
4935PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4936 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4937 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4938 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4939 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4940 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4941
be22d70e
PH
4942PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4943
0612b098
PH
4944PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4945 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4946 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4947 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4948 printable escape sequences.
4949
2e0c1448
PH
4950PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4951 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4952 body only.
4953
447d236c
PH
4954PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4955 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4956 are as follows:
4957
4958 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4959 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4960 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4961 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4962 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4963
4964 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4965 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4966 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4967
d20976dc
PH
4968PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4969
f656d135
PH
4970PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4971 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4972 play with."
4973
2e2a30b4
PH
4974PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4975 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4976 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4977 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4978 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4979 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4980 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4981 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4982 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4983 the log output.
4984
9176e9f0
PH
4985PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4986 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4987 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4988 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4989 "make".
4990
7982096b 4991
bbe902f0
PH
4992A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4993----------------------------------------
4994
4995Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4996changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4997needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4998in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4999that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5000release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5001from 4.43.
5002
5003I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
50044.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5005those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5006historical information.
5007
5008
f7b63901 5009Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
5010-----------------
5011
5fe762f6
PH
5012 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5013
139059f6 5014 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 5015 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 5016
7086e875
PH
5017 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5018 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5019 place.
5020
35af9f61
PH
5021 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5022 filter fails to execute.
5023
b668c215
PH
5024 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5025 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5026 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5027 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5028 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5029
a494b1e1
PH
5030 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5031
5032 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5033 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5034 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5035 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 5036
c5fcb476
PH
5037 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5038 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5039 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5040 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5041 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5042
69358f02
PH
5043 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5044
5be20824
PH
504510. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5046
eb2c0248
PH
504711. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5048 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5049 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5050 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5051
2a3eea10
PH
505212. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5053 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5054 sender verification.
5055
505613. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5057 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5058
23c7ff99
PH
505914. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5060
4deaf07d
PH
506115. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5062 connection timeout.
5063
926e1192
PH
506416. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5065 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5066
650edc6f
PH
506717. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5068 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5069
2c7db3f5
PH
507018. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5071 information about exactly what failed.
5072
3d235903
PH
507319. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5074
7c7ad977
PH
507520. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5076 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5077 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5078
981756db
PH
507921. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5080 It is now set to "smtps".
5081
d4eb88df
PH
508222. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5083 ignore_target_hosts.
5084
508523. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5086 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5087 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5088 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5089 "[x.x.x.x]".
5090
7d468ab8
PH
509124. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5092 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5093 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5094
509525. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5096 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5097 wake it up if nothing else does.
5098
62c0818f
PH
509926. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5100 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5101 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5102 end up negative.
5103
26034054
PH
510427. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5105 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5106
af66f652
PH
510728. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5108
90af77f4
PH
510929. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5110 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5111 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5112 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5113 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5114 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5115 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5116 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5117
d8ef3577
PH
511830. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5119 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5120 than one IP address.
5121
5cb8cbc6
PH
512231. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5123 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5124 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5125 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5126
14702f5b
PH
512732. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5128 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5129 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5130 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5131 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5132 1024 to 2048 bytes.
5133
063b1e99
PH
513433. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5135 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5136 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5137 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5138
652e1b65
PH
513934. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5140 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5141 respected.
5142
6f0c9a4f
PH
514335. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5144 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5145 $sender_host_address.
5146
33397d19
PH
514736. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5148 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5149 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5150 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5151 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5152 very small.
5153
7bb56e1f
PH
515437. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5155
5156 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5157 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5158
ea3bc19b
PH
5159 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5160 just the host names, not the priorities.
5161
5162 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
5163 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5164 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 5165
ea3bc19b 5166 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 5167 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 5168
0bcb2a0e
PH
516938. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5170 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5171 domain.
5172
2ac0e484
PH
517339. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5174
4e1fde53
PH
517540. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5176 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5177
de365ded
PH
517841. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5179 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5180 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5181
f05da2e8
PH
518242. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5183
d6453af2
PH
518443. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5185
f7b63901
PH
518644. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5187
518845. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5189 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5190 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5191 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5192 because the tests only now provoked it.
5193
a444213a
PH
519446. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5195 (this can affect the format of dates).
5196
0ec020ea
PH
519747. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5198 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5199 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5200 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5201
b1206957
PH
520248. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5203
520449. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5205 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5206 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5207 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5208
26dd5a95
PH
520950. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5210 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5211 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5212
343b2385
PH
521351. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5214 autoreply.
5215
1c5466b9
PH
521652. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5217 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5218 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5219 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5220 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5221 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5222 is going on).
5223
55ee9ee3
PH
522453. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5225 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5226 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5227 the line.
5228
d38f8232
PH
522954. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5230 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5231 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5232
5233 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5234 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5235 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5236 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5237 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5238 so I produce this patch..."
5239
3295e65b
PH
5240 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5241 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5242 is not defined.
5243
7102e136
PH
524455. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5245 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
5246 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5247 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 5248 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 5249
3ca0ba97
PH
525056. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5251
c2bcbe20
PH
525257. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5253 long debug lines gets shown.
5254
18ce445d
PH
525558. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5256 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5257
1f5b4c3d
PH
525859. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5259
5260 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5261 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5262 of $primary_hostname.
5263
b975ba52
PH
526460. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5265 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5266 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5267 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
5268 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5269 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5270 by change 4.50/55 above.
5271
5272 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5273 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5274 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5275 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5276 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5277 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 5278 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
5279
528061. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5281 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5282 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 5283 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 5284
17ffcae7
PH
528562. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5286 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5287
d95f9fdb
PH
528863. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5289 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5290 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5291 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5292 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5293
86b8287f
PH
529464. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5295 This has been fixed.
5296
60dc5e56
PH
529765. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5298 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5299 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5300 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5301 the caching.)
5302
533244af
PH
530366. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5304
a5a28604
PH
530567. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5306 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5307 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5308 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5309
7e634d24
PH
531068. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5311 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5312
3e11c26b
PH
531369. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5314 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5315 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5316
6729cf78
PH
531770. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5318 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5319 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5320 message there.
5321
00f00ca5
PH
532271. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5323 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5324 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5325
c9bdd01c
PH
532672. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5327 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5328 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5329 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5330
d43194df
PH
533173. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5332 during host lookups.
5333
fe5b5d0b
PH
533474. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5335 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5336
5337 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5338
76a2d7ba
PH
533975. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5340 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5341 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5342 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5343 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5344 background.
5345
534676. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5347 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5348
04f7d5b9
PH
534977. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5350 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5351 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5352
bc60667e
PH
535378. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5354
bb6e88ff
PH
535579. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5356 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5357 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5358 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5359 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5360 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5361 process earlier.
5362
1e70f85b
PH
536380. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5364 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5365 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5366 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5367 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5368
536981. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5370 tables).
5371
4e01f9d6
PH
537282. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5373
1ee1cef2
PH
537483. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5375 "vacation" handling.
5376
6e2b4ccc
PH
537784. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5378 OS variants using glibc.
5379
8e669ac1
PH
538085. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5381
495ae4b0 5382
bbe902f0
PH
5383----------------------------------------------------
5384See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5385----------------------------------------------------
5386
5387
5388Exim version 4.44
5389-----------------
5390
5391 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5392 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5393 transport
5394
5395 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5396 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5397 place.
5398
5399 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5400 filter fails to execute.
5401
5402 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5403 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5404 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5405 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5406 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5407
5408 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5409 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5410 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5411 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5412
5413 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5414 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5415 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5416 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5417 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5418
5419 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5420
5421 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5422 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5423 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5424 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5425
5426 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5427 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5428 sender verification.
5429
543010. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5431 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5432
543311. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5434 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5435
543612. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5437 ignore_target_hosts.
5438
543913. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5440 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5441 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5442 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5443 "[x.x.x.x]".
5444
544514. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5446 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5447 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5448
544915. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5450 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5451 wake it up if nothing else does.
5452
545316. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5454 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5455 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5456 end up negative.
5457
545817. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5459 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5460
ea3a6f44 546118. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5462
546319. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5464 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5465 empty pattern.
5466
546720. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5468 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5469 one IP address.
5470
ea3a6f44
NM
547121. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5472 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5473 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5474 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5475 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5476 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5477
ea3a6f44
NM
547822. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5479 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5480 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5481
548223. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5483 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5484 $sender_host_address.
5485
548624. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5487
ea3a6f44
NM
548825. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5489 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5490 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5491
549226. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5493 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5494
ea3a6f44
NM
549527. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5496 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5497
ea3a6f44
NM
549828. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5499 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5500 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5501 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5502
550329. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5504 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5505 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5506
ea3a6f44
NM
550730. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5508 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5509 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5510 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5511
ea3a6f44
NM
551231. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5513 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5514 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5515
ea3a6f44
NM
551631. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5517 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5518
ea3a6f44
NM
551932. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5520 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5521 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5522 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5523 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5524 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5525 is going on).
bbe902f0 5526
ea3a6f44
NM
552733. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5528 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5529 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5530 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5531 CAN-2005-0021
5532
ea3a6f44
NM
553334. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5534 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5535 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5536 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5537 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5538 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5539 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5540
5541 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5542 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5543 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5544 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5545 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5546 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5547 CAN-2005-0021
5548
ea3a6f44
NM
554935. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5550 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5551 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5552 CAN-2005-0022
5553
ea3a6f44
NM
555436. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5555 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5556 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5557 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5558 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5559
ea3a6f44
NM
556037. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5561 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5562 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5563 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5564 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5565
ea3a6f44
NM
556638. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5567 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5568 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5569 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5570 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5571
5572
495ae4b0
PH
5573Exim version 4.43
5574-----------------
5575
5576 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5577 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5578 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5579 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5580 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5581 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5582 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5583
5584 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5585 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5586 the delivery.
5587
5588 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5589
5590 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5591
5592 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5593 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5594 to local_scan().
5595
5596 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5597 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5598 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5599 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5600 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5601
5602 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5603 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5604
5605 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5606
5607 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5608
560910. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5610 header_sender only.
5611
561211. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5613 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5614
561512. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5616 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5617 affecting debugging statements).
5618
561913. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5620
562114. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5622 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5623 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5624 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5625 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5626 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5627 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5628 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5629 after the received time, and all would be well.
5630
563115. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5632 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5633 condition in an expansion string.
5634
563516. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5636
563717. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5638 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5639 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5640 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5641 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5642 job under whatever limits there are.
5643
564418. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5645
564619. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5647 space).
5648
564920. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5650 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5651 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5652 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5653 return path is set.
5654
565521. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5656 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5657 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5658 binary data in such strings.
5659
566022. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5661
566223. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5663 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5664 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5665 failure, which is pointless.
5666
566724. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5668
566925. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5670
567126. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5672 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5673 Sender: header lines.
5674
567527. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5676 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5677 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5678
567928. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5680 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5681 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5682 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5683 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5684 happens.
5685
568629. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5687 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5688 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5689 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5690 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5691
569230. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5693 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5694 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5695 1024.
5696
569731. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5698 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5699
570032. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5701 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5702
570333. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5704
570532. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5706
570733. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5708
570934. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5710 syntax error.
5711
571235. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5713
571436. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5715
571637. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5717 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5718 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5719 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5720
572138. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5722 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5723
5724
5725Exim version 4.42
5726-----------------
5727
5728 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5729 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5730 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5731 it was not quoted.
5732 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5733 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5734 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5735 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5736 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5737 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5738
5739 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5740 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5741 verification failure".
5742
5743 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5744 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5745 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5746 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5747
5748 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5749 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5750 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5751 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5752 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5753 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5754 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5755 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5756 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5757 treated as a timeout.
5758
5759 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5760 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5761 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5762 not set for Exim filters).
5763
5764 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5765 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5766 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5767
5768 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5769
5770 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5771 try to make them clearer.
5772
5773 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5774 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5775
5776 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5777
5778 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5779
578010. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5781 only the Cygwin environment.
5782
578311. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5784 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5785 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5786 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5787 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5788
578912. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5790 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5791 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5792 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5793 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5794 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5795 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5796
579713. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5798 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5799
580014. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5801
5802 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5803 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5804 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5805
5806 To: susanne@some.where
5807
5808 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5809 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5810 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5811 of addresses in From: header lines).
5812
5813 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5814 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5815 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5816
5817 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5818 treated as non-personal.
5819
5820 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5821 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5822
582315. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5824
582516. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5826
582717. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5828 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5829 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5830
583118. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5832 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5833
583419. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5835 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5836 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5837 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5838 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5839 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5840
584120. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5842 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5843 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5844 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5845 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5846 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5847 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5848 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5849
5850 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5851
585221. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5853 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5854
585522. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5856 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5857 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5858
585923. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5860 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5861
586224. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5863 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5864 rather than long int.
5865
586625. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5867
586826. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5869
5870
5871Exim version 4.41
5872-----------------
5873
5874 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5875 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5876 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5877 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5878 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5879 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5880
5881
5882Exim version 4.40
5883-----------------
5884
5885 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5886 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5887
5888 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5889 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5890 socklen_t is defined.
5891
5892 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5893 always exist.
5894
5895 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5896 configured.
5897
5898 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5899 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5900 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5901 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5902 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5903
5904 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5905 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5906 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5907 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5908
5909 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5910 of flapping under certain conditions.
5911
5912 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5913 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5914 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5915
5916 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5917
591810. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5919
592011. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5921 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5922 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5923 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5924
592512. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5926 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5927 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5928 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5929 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5930 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5931 preserved with the message after it was received.
5932
593313. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5934 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5935 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5936 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5937 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5938 test suite worked just fine.
5939
594014. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5941 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5942 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5943
594415. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5945 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5946 string.
5947
594816. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5949 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5950 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5951 does not fully solve it.
5952
595317. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5954 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5955 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5956 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5957 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5958
595918. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5960 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5961 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5962
596319. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5964 string, for example:
5965
5966 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5967
5968 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5969 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5970 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5971 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5972 the routers could not see them.
5973
597420. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5975 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5976
597721. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5978 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5979 output).
5980
598122. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5982 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5983 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5984 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5985 that needed quoting.
5986
598723. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5988 was not being matched caselessly.
5989
599024. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5991 backslashes.
5992
599325. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5994 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5995 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5996 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5997 when use_sender is false.
5998
599926. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6000
600127. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6002
600328. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6004
600529. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6006 the configuration file.
6007
600830. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6009 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6010
601131. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6012
601332. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6014 bytes in the message body.
6015
601633. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6017 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6018 delivery.
6019
602034. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6021
602235. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6023
602436. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6025 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6026 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6027 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6028 another IP address.
6029
6030
6031Exim version 4.34
6032-----------------
6033
6034 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6035 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6036
6037 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6038 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6039 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6040 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6041 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6042
6043 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6044 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6045
6046 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6047 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6048 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6049
6050 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6051 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6052 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6053
6054 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6055 for routers.
6056
6057 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6058 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6059 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6060 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6061 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6062 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6063 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6064
6065
6066Exim version 4.33
6067-----------------
6068
6069 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6070 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6071 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6072 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6073 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6074 default (and expected) setting.
6075
6076 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6077 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6078 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6079 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6080
6081 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6082 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6083
6084 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6085 in domain lists.
6086
6087 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6088 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6089 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6090 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6091 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6092 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6093
6094 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6095 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6096 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6097
6098 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6099 part (NOT match_host).
6100
6101 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6102
6103 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6104 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6105 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6106 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6107 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6108 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6109 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6110 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6111 the same named file.
6112
611310. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6114 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6115 when Exim is built.
6116
611711. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6118 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6119 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6120 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6121 a host name.
6122
612312. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6124 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6125 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6126
612713. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6128
612914. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6130
613115. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6132
613316. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6134 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6135
613617. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6137 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6138 before starting the TLS session.
6139
614018. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6141
614219. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6143 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6144
614520. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6146 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6147 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6148 colon in the middle).
6149
6150
6151Exim version 4.32
6152-----------------
6153
6154 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6155 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6156 multiple configurations are in use.
6157
6158 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6159 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6160 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6161 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6162 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6163 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6164
6165 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6166 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6167
6168 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6169 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6170 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6171
6172 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6173 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6174 occurs.
6175
6176 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6177 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6178
6179 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6180
6181 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6182 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6183
6184 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6185
6186 -prval:sval
6187
6188 is equivalent to
6189
6190 -oMr rval -oMs sval
6191
6192 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6193 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6194 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6195 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6196 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6197
619810. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6199 Exim's behaviour:
6200
6201 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6202 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6203 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6204 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6205 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6206 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6207
6208 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6209 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6210 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6211 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6212 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6213 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6214 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6215 string.
6216
6217 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6218 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6219 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6220 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6221 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6222
622311. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6224
622512. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6226 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6227 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6228
622913. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6230
623114. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6232 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6233 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6234 information.
6235
623615. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6237 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6238
623916. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6240 Three changes have been made:
6241
6242 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6243 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6244 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6245 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6246 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6247
6248 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6249 been restored.
6250
6251 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6252 the modified behaviour.
6253
6254
6255Exim version 4.31
6256-----------------
6257
6258 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6259 Larry Rosenman.
6260
6261 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6262 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6263
6264 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6265 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6266 try to track down a specific problem.
6267
6268 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6269 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6270 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6271
6272 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6273 warning.
6274
6275 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6276 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6277 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6278 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6279 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6280 some earlier ones do not.
6281
6282 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6283
6284 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6285 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6286 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6287 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6288 address literals are enabled, of course).
6289
6290 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6291
629210. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6293 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6294 by a command such as
6295
6296 exim -f "" ...
6297
6298 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6299
630011. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6301
630212. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6303 remained set. It is now erased.
6304
630513. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6306 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6307
630814. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6309 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6310 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6311 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6312 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6313 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6314 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6315 appropriate error code.
6316
631715. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6318 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6319 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6320 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6321 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6322 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6323
632416. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6325 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6326 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6327
632817. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6329 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6330 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6331 terminate the header.
6332
633318. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6334 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6335 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6336
633719. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6338 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6339 (4.30/29). In particular:
6340
6341 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6342 imposed.
6343
6344 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6345 to write a maildirsize file.
6346
6347 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6348 the transport, the new value overrides.
6349
6350 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6351 count.
6352
635320. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6354 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6355 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6356 space or a tab.
6357
635821. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6359 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6360 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6361 the fallback hosts.
6362
636322. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6364 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6365 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6366
636723. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6368 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6369 using a union.
6370
637124. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6372 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6373 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6374
637525. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6376
637726. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6378
637927. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6380
638128. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6382 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6383 become corrupted.
6384
638529. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6386 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6387 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6388 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6389 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6390 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6391 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6392 too great.
6393
639430. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6395 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6396 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6397 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6398 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6399 incorrectly.
6400
640131. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6402 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6403 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6404 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6405 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6406 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6407 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6408 cached value only when the same options are set.
6409
641032. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6411
641233. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6413 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6414 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6415 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6416 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6417
641834: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6419 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6420 it is clearly obsolete.
6421
642235. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6423 transport.
6424
642536. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6426 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6427 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6428 times.
6429
643037. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6431 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6432 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6433 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6434 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6435
643638. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6437 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6438 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6439 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6440
644139. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6442
6443 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6444
6445 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6446 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6447 2^31.
6448
644940. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6450 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6451 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6452 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6453 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6454 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6455 $localpart_data.
6456
645741. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6458 with the -f command-line option.
6459
646042. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6461 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6462 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6463 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6464 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6465 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6466
646743. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6468 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6469 line.
6470
647144. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6472 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6473 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6474 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6475 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6476 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6477 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6478 buffer is too small.
6479
648045. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6481 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6482
648346. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6484 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6485 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6486 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6487 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6488 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6489 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6490 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6491 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6492
649347. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6494 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6495 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6496
649748. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6498 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6499 ACL").
6500
650149. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6502 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6503 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6504 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6505 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6506
650750. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6508 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6509 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6510 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6511 is set.
6512
651351. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6514
651552. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6516
651753. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6518 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6519
652054. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6521 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6522 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6523
652455. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6525 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6526 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6527 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6528 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6529
653056. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6531 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6532 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6533 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6534 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6535 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6536 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6537
653857. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6539 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6540 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6541 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6542 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6543 the test of how many are available.
6544
654558. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6546 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6547 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6548 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6549 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6550 new message is started.
6551
655259. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6553 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6554
655560. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6556 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6557
655861. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6559 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6560 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6561 is no long logged.
6562
656362. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6564 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6565 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6566 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6567 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6568 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6569 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6570
657163. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6572 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6573 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6574 interpreted as octal.
6575
657664. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6577 setting.
6578
657965. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6580 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6581 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6582 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6583 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6584 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6585
658666. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6587 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6588 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6589 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6590
6591 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6592 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6593 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6594 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6595
6596 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6597 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6598 is a bug fix.
6599
6600 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6601 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6602
660367. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6604
660568. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6606 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6607 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6608 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6609
661069. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6611 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6612 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6613 supplied", which is not helpful.
6614
661570. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6616 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6617 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6618
661971. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6620 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6621 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6622 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6623 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6624 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6625 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6626 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6627
662872. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6629 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6630 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6631 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6632 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6633
663473. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6635 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6636 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6637 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6638 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6639 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6640
664174. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6642 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6643 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6644
664575. Added write_rejectlog option.
6646
664776. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6648 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6649 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6650 variables.
6651
665277. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6653
665478. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6655 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6656 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6657 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6658 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6659 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6660 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6661 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6662
666379. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6664 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6665 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6666 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6667 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6668
666980. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6670 Haardt.
6671
667281. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6673 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6674 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6675 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6676 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6677 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6678 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6679 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6680 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6681
6682
6683Exim version 4.30
6684-----------------
6685
6686 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6687 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6688 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6689
6690 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6691 fixed.
6692
6693 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6694 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6695 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6696
6697 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6698 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6699 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6700 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6701 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6702 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6703
6704 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6705 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6706 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6707 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6708 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6709 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6710 the Exim test suite.
6711
6712 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6713 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6714 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6715 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6716
6717 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6718 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6719 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6720 specify it in this variable.
6721
6722 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6723 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6724 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6725 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6726
6727 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6728 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6729 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6730 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6731
6732 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6733 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6734 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6735 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6736 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6737
6738 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6739
674010. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6741 they are logged.
6742
674311. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6744 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6745 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6746 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6747 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6748
674912. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6750 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6751
675213. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6753 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6754 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6755 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6756 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6757
675814. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6759 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6760
676115. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6762 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6763 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6764
676516. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6766 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6767
676817. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6769 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6770
677118. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6772 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6773 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6774
677519. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6776 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6777
677820. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6779 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6780 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6781 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6782
678321. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6784
678522. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6786 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6787 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6788 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6789
679023. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6791
679224. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6793 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6794
679525. Added .include_if_exists.
6796
679726. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6798 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6799 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6800 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6801 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6802 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6803
680427. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6805
680628. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6807 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6808 this.
6809
681029. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6811
681230. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6813 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6814
6815 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6816 550 Sender verify failed
6817
6818 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6819 the final line of the response.
6820
682131. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6822 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6823 all other user lookups.
6824
682532. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6826 delivery time.
6827
682833. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6829 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6830 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6831 result into an int without checking.
6832
683334. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6834 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6835 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
495ae4b0
PH
6836
683735. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6838 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6839 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6840 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6841
684236. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6843 correctly.
6844
684537. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6846 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6847
684838. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6849 to the empty sender.
6850
685139. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6852 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6853 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6854 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6855 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6856 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6857 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6858 panic log.
6859
686040. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6861 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6862 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6863 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6864 used.
6865
686641. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6867 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6868
686942. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6870 timestamps.
6871
687243. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6873 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6874
687544. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6876
687745. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6878 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6879 logs.
6880
688146. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6882 as soon as it is encountered.
6883
688447. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6885
688648. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6887 rewritten to "<>".
6888
688949. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6890 recognizes a tab character.
6891
689250. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6893 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6894 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6895 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6896
689751. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6898
689952. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6900 crash.
6901
690253. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6903
690454. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6905
690655. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6907 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6908 2822.
6909
691056. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6911 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6912 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6913 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6914 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6915
691657. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6917 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6918
691958. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6920 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6921 list (.included file names were always shown).
6922
692359. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6924 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6925 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6926 root at that time.
6927
692860. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6929 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6930
693161. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6932
693362. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6934
693563. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6936
693764. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6938 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6939 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6940 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6941 failures to open the logs.
6942
694365. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6944 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6945 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6946 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6947 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6948 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6949 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6950
6951
6952Exim version 4.24
6953-----------------
6954
6955 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6956 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6957 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6958 change 4.23/1.
6959
6960 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6961 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6962 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6963
6964 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6965 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6966 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6967
6968 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6969 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6970 causing some misleading effects.
6971
6972 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6973 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6974 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6975
6976 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6977 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6978 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6979 queue-runner function directly.
6980
6981
6982Exim version 4.23
6983-----------------
6984
6985 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6986 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6987
6988 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6989 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6990 was always written to the default place.
6991
6992 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6993 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6994 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6995
6996 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6997
6998 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6999
7000 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7001 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7002 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7003
7004 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7005 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7006 must start.
7007
7008 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7009 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7010 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7011
7012 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7013 command line option is disabled.
7014
7015 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7016 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7017
7018 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7019
7020 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7021
7022 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7023 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7024
702510. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7026
702711. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7028 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7029 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7030 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7031 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7032 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7033
703412. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7035 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7036 timeout.
7037
703813. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7039 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7040
704114. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7042 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7043
704415. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7045 received was valid base64.
7046
704716. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7048 name of the variable that was being set.
7049
705017. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7051
705218. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7053 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7054 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7055 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7056 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7057 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7058
705919. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7060
706120. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7062 nor realm was specified.
7063
706421. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7065 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7066 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7067 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7068
706922. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7070 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7071 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7072
707323. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7074 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7075 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7076
707724. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7078 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7079 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7080 some systems use these upper case variants.
7081
708225. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7083 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7084 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7085 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7086
708726. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7088
708927. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7090 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7091
709228. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7093 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7094 expansion variable.
7095
709629. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7097
709830. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7099 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7100 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7101 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7102
710331. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7104 using it.
7105
710632. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7107 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7108 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7109
711033. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7111 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7112
711334. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7114 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7115 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7116 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7117
711835. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7119 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7120 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7121
712236. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7123
712437. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7125 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7126 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7127 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7128 aborted.
7129
713038. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7131 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7132 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7133
713439. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7135
713640. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7137 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7138
713941. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7140 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7141
714242. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7143 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7144 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7145 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7146 when emails are that large.
7147
7148
7149
7150Exim version 4.22
7151-----------------
7152
7153 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7154 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7155
7156 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7157 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7158 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7159
7160 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7161 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7162 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7163
7164 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7165 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7166 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7167 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7168 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7169
7170 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7171 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7172 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7173 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7174 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7175 ever.
7176
7177 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7178 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7179 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7180 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7181 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7182 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7183 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7184 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7185 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7186 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7187 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7188 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7189 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7190 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7191
7192 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7193 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7194 parameterised it.
7195
7196 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7197 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7198 error should be diagnosed.
7199
7200 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7201 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7202 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7203 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7204 appeared instead of "NULL".
7205
720610. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7207 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7208 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7209 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7210 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7211 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7212 proceeds).
7213
7214 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7215 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7216 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7217
7218
7219Exim version 4.21
7220-----------------
7221
7222 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7223 or receiver verification errors.
7224
7225 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7226 name.
7227
7228 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7229 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7230 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7231 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7232
7233 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7234 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7235 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7236 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7237 shouldn't happen again.
7238
7239 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7240 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7241 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7242
7243 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7244 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7245
7246 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7247
7248 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7249 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7250
7251 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7252 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7253 RFC.
7254
725510. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7256 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7257 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7258
725911. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7260 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7261 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7262 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7263
726412. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7265 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7266 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7267 to define what should happen).
7268
726913. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7270 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7271 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7272
727314. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7274
727515. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7276
727716. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7278 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7279
4c04137d 728017. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
7281 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7282 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7283 structure in all cases.
7284
7285 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7286 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7287 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7288 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7289
729018. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7291 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7292 domain name.
7293
729419. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7295 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7296
729720. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7298 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7299
730021. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7301 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7302 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7303
730422. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7305 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7306 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7307
730823. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7309 the book and for uniformity.
7310
731124. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7312
731325. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7314 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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7315 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7316 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7317 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7318 non-existent command as the problem.
7319
732026. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7321 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7322 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7323
732427. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7325
732628. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7327 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7328 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7329
733029. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7331 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7332 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7333 timestamps using strftime().
7334
733530. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7336 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7337
733832. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7339 transport-time rewrites.
7340
734133. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7342 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7343 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7344 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7345
734634. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7347 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7348
734935. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7350 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7351 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7352 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7353 comma and a space.
7354
735536. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7356 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7357 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7358 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7359 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7360 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7361 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7362
736337. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7364 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7365 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7366 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7367 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7368
736938. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7370 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7371 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7372 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7373 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7374 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7375 remaining text gets split now.
7376
737739. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7378 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7379 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7380 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7381
738240. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7383 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7384 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7385 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7386 $return_path.
7387
738841. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7389 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7390 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7391 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7392 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7393 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7394 passed through if needed.
7395
739642. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7397 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7398 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7399 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7400 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7401 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7402
740343. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7404 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7405 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7406 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7407 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7408
740944. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7410 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7411 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7412 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7413 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7414
741545. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7416 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7417 noticed.
7418
741946. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7420 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7421 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7422 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7423 mayhem of various kinds.
7424
742547. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7426 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7427 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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7428 the right test for positive values.
7429
743048. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7431 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7432 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7433 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7434 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7435 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7436 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7437 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7438 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7439 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7440 envelope.
7441
744249. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7443 module.
7444
744550. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7446 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7447 forbidding it.
7448
744951. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7450 the existing equality matching.
7451
745252. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7453 dealing with inode numbers.
7454
745553. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7456 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7457 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7458
745954. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7460 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7461 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7462 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7463 local_scan().
7464
746555. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7466 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7467 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7468 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7469 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7470 relay addresses has also been removed.
7471
747256. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7473
747457. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7475 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7476 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7477
747858. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7479 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7480 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7481 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7482 processing applies to CR:
7483
7484 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7485 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7486
7487 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7488 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7489 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7490 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7491
749259. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7493 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7494 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7495
749660. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7497 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7498 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7499 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7500 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7501 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7502 arisen.
7503
750461. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7505 program routers.
7506
750762. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7508 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7509 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7510 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7511 adds:
7512
7513 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7514
7515 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7516
7517 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7518
751963. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7520 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7521 not considered personal.
7522
752364. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7524
752565. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7526
752766. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7528
752967. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7530 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7531 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7532 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7533 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7534 header lines, and spool format errors.
7535
753668. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7537 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7538 for more flexibility.
7539
754069. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7541 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7542 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7543
754470. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7545 Sabourenkov.
7546
754771. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7548 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7549 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7550 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7551 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7552 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7553 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7554 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7555 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7556
755772. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7558 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7559 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7560 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7561 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7562 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7563 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7564
756573. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7566 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7567 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7568
756974. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7570 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7571 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7572 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7573 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7574 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7575 instead of killing the process with assert().
7576
757775. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7578 than Unicode encoding.
7579
758076. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7581 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7582 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7583 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7584
758577. Added process_log_path.
7586
758778. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7588 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7589
759079. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7591 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7592
759380. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7594 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7595 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7596
759781. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7598 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7599 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7600 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7601 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7602 were applied:
7603
7604 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7605 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7606 as invalid.
7607
760882. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7609 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7610 they will be used during message reception.
7611
7612
7613Exim version 4.20
7614-----------------
7615
7616The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7617
7618****