DKIM: fix signing bug induced by total size of parameter text
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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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10
11JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
12 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
13 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
14 pairs of long lines into single ones.
15
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16PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
17 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
18
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19JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
20 This permits better logging.
21
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22JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
23 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
24 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
25 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
26 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 27 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 28
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29JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
30 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
31 "exiwhat" output.
32
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33PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
34 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
35 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
36
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37JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
38 than 255 are no longer allowed.
39
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40JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
41 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
42 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
43 client, there is no benefit for these.
44 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
45 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
46 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
47 is used (3.2.4 +).
48
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49PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
50 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
51
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52JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
53 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
54 erroneously found still-pending ones.
55
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56JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
57 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
58
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59JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
60 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
61 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
62 signature and again for transmission.
63
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64JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
65 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 66 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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68JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
69 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
70 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
71 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
72 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
73 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
74 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
75
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76JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
77 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
78 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 79 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 80
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81PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
82 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
83 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
84 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
85 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
86 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
87 processing options.
88
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89JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
90 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
91 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
92 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
93 connections.
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95PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
96 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
97 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
98 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
99 versions.
100
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101JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
102 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
103 inaccessible.
104
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105JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
106 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
107 banner-time rejection.
108
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109JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
110 callout/hold.
111
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112PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
113 is the name of a transport.
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114 Fixes bug 2140.
115
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116HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
117
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118JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
119 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
120
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121JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
122 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
123 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
124 during compilation.
125
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126JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
127 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
128 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 129 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 130
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131JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
132 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
133 initial verify call returned a defer.
134
ad1a76fe 135JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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136 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
137
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138JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
139 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
140
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141JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
142 if present. Previously it was ignored.
143
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144JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
145 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
146
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147JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
148 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
149 extensible.
150
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151PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
152 Patch provided by Jaroslav Škarvada.
153
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154PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
155 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
156 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
157
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158JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
159 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
160 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
161 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
162
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9427e879 167JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 168 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 169
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170JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
171
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172PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
173 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
174
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175JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
176 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
177
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178JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
179 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
180 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
181 before acknowledging the chunk.
182
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183PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
184 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
185 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
186
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187JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
188 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
189 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
190 should.
191
192JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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193 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
194 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 196JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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197 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
198
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199JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
200 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
201 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
202 body hash calculated value.
203
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204JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
205 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
206 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
207
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208JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
209
210JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
211 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
212
213JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
214 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
215 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
216
217JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
218 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
219 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
220 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
221 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
222 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
223
224JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
225 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
226 past that check, despite the cost.
227
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228JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
229 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
230 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
231
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232PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
233 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
234 TLS library to consume.
235
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236PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
237
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238PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
239
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240JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
241 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
242 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
243 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
244 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
245 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
246 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
247
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248PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
249
250PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
251
252PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
253 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
254 should be warning-free.
255
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256JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
257
258HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
259 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
260
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261HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
262 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
263 general solution here.
264
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265PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
266 already-broken messages in the queue.
267
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268JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
269
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270JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
271
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276JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
277 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 278
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279JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
280 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
281 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
282
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283JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
284 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
285 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
286 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
287 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
288 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
289 if one fails this test.
290 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
291 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
292
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293JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
294 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
295
23bb6982 296JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 297 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 298
0bd1b1ed 299JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 300 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 301
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302JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
303 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
304
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305JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
306 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
307
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308JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
309
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310JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
311 certificate).
312
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313JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
314 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
315 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
316 connection after a verify cache hit.
317 Do not update it with the verify result either.
318
319JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
320 when routing results in more than one destination address.
321
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322JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
323 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
324 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
325 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
326 when the cutthrough connection is made).
327
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328JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
329 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
330
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331JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
332 Previously they were not counted.
333
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334JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
335 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
336 that needed the lookup.
337
4c04137d 338JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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339 distinguished as "(=".
340
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341JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
342 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
343
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344JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
345
346JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
347 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 348
4c04137d 349JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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350 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
351
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352JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
353 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
354 compatible.
355
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356JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
357 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
358 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
359 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
360
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361JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
362
f59aaaaa 363JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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364 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
365 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 366
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367JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
368 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
369 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
370 be lost.
371
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372JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
373 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
374 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
375 itself :(
376
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377JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
378 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
379 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
380
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381JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
382 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
383 options.
384
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385JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
386
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387PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
388 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
389
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390PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
391 are not in the system include path.
392
ad7fc6eb 393JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 394 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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395 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
396 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 397
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398JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
399 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
400 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
401
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402JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
403
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404HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
405 an incoming connection.
406
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407HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
408 to rspamd.
409
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410HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
411 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 412
87cb4a16 413JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 414 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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420JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
421 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
422 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
423 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 424
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425TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
426 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
427
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428TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
429 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
430 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
431 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
432 outgoing I= field.
433
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434JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
435 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
436 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
437 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
438 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
439 check on the next write.
440
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441HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
442 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
443 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
444 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
445 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
446
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447JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
448 mime_regex ACL conditions.
449
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450JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
451 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
452 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
453
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454JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
455 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
456 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
457 an authenticate fail is not an error.
458
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459HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
460 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
461
4c04137d 462JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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463 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
464
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465JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
466 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
467 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
468 distinct.
469
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470JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
471
472JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
473
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474JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
475
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476JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
477 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
478
98b98887 479JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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480 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
481
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482JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
483
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484JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
485 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
486
487JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
488
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489JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
490 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
491
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492JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
493
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494JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
495 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 496 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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497 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
498 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
499 they will retry in-clear.
500 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
501 at installation time.
502
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503HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
504 with the $config_file variable.
505
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506JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
507 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
508 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
509 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 510 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 511
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512GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
513 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
514 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
515 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
516 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
517
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518JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
519
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520JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
521 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
522 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
523 list order is no longer honoured.
524
4c04137d 525JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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526 for DKIM processing.
527
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528JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
529 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 530
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531JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
532 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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533 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
534 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 535
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536JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
537 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
538
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539JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
540 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
541
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542JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
543 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
544
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545JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
546
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547JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
548 cached by the daemon.
549
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550JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
551 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
552
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553JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
554 keys are given for lookup.
555
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556JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
557 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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558 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
559 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 560
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561JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
562 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
563 server-side so match that on older versions.
564
07c73177 565JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 566 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 567 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 568
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569JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
570 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
571
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572JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
573 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
574 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 575 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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576 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
577 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
578 initial truncated version.
579
ab9152ff 580JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 581
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582JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
583
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584JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
585 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
586
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587JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
588
bc3c7bb7 589HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 590
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591JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
592 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
593 induced overflows.
594
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595JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
596 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
597 stage.
598
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599JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
600 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
601
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602JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
603 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
604 former class.
605
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606JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
607 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
608 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
609
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610JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
611 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
612 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
613 extraction. Accept either.
614
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619JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
620 expanded.
621
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622JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
623
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624JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
625 it.
626
01a4a5c5 627JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 628 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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629 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
630 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
631
cb1d7830 632JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 633 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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634 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
635
610ff438 636JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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637 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
638 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
639 TLS connections
610ff438 640
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641JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
642 sites use this now.
643
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644JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
645 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
646 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
647 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
648 have a dsn_lasthop option.
649
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650JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
651 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 652 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 653
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654JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
655
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656JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
657 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
658
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659JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
660 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
661
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662JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
663 /defer_ok option.
664
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665JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
666 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
667
fd4d8871 668JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 669 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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670 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
671
672JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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673 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
674 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 675
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676JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
677 timeout value per server.
678
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679JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
680 now have the list separator specified.
681
8a512ed5 682JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 683 option values.
8a512ed5 684
82c0c8ea 685JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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686 under OpenSSL.
687
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688JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
689
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690JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
691 rather than the verbs used.
692
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693JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
694 from 255 to 1024 chars.
695
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696JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
697
cfab9d68 698HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 699 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
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701JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
702 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
703
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704HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
705 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
706
4c04137d 707JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
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709JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
710
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711JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
712 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 713 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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714 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
715
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716JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
717
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718JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
719 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
720
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721JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
722 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
723
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724JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
725
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726JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
727
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728JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
729
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730JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
731 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
732
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733JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
734 added for tls authenticator.
735
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736HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
737
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742TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
743 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
744 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
745 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
746 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
747 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
748 the script parsing/test process like normal.
749
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750TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
751 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
752 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
753 function when detected.
754
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755JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
756 cause callback expansion.
757
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758TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
759 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
760 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
761 instead of bool when processing it.
762
0f06b4f2 763JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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764 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
765
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766JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
767
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768JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
769
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770TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
771
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772TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
773 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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775JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
776 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
777 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
778 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 779 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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780 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
781
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782JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
783 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
784 exceeded it.
785
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786JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
787 version 3.3.6 or later.
788
4c04137d 789JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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790 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
791 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 792 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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793 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
794 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
795 option is defined.
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797TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
798 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
799
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800JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
801 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
802 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
803 matches.
804
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805JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
806 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
807 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
808
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809JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
810 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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811
812JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
813 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
814 syntax errors.
815
3394b36a 816JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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817
818JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
819 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
820
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821TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
822 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
823 tarball.
824
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825JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
826
4c04137d 827JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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828 Bug 1561.
829
830JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
831 output list separator was used.
832
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836TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
837 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
838 return.
1f0ebb98 839
a612424f 840JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 841 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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843JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
844
845TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 846 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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852TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
853
854 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
855 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
856 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
857 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
858 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
859 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
860
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861TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
862 utilities have not been installed.
863
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864JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
865 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
866
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867TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
868 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
869
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870TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
871 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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872 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
873 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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875JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
876
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877TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
878 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
879
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880PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
881 not dns_use_dnssec.
882
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883JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
884
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885TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
886 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
887 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
888
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890 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
891 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
892 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
893 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 894 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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896JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
897
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898JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
899 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
900
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901JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
902 failed delivery.
903
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904JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
905
511a6c14 906JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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907
908JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
909 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
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911JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
912 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
913
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914TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
915
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916JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
917
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918JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
919 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
920
921 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
922 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
923 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
924
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925TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
926 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
927 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
928 analysis.
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930JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
931
8c51eead 932JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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934 lookup).
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936TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
937 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
938 Schlichting.
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fd3b6a4a 940JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 941 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
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943TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
944 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
945
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946JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
947
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948TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
949 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
950 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
951
9d1c15ef
JH
952JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
953 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
954
44662487
JH
955JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
956 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
957 hosts_request_ocsp.
958
ed3bba5f 959JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 960 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 961 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 962
8ccd00b1
JH
963JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
964
8ded8589
TL
965TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
966 Christian Aistleitner.
967
f2de3a33
JH
968JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
969
6eb02f88
TL
970TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
971 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
972
00bff6f6
JH
973JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
974 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
975
071c51f7
JH
976JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
977 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
978
a6d4c44e
TF
979TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
980 support and error reporting did not work properly.
981
3ae173e7
ACK
982TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
983 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
984
c13d09b8
TL
985TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
986 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
987 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
988
0df4ab80
JH
989JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
990
66be95e0
PP
991PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
992 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
993 Jasper Wallace.
994
1bd0d12b
JH
995JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
996
0de7239e
TL
997TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
998 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
999 CVE-2014-2972
1000
fd3b6a4a 1001
2c422e6f 1002Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
1003-----------------
1004
1005PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1006
12f69989
PP
1007PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1008 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1009
54c90be1
PP
1010PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1011 by GnuTLS.
1012
1f4a55da
PP
1013PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1014 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1015 routines.
1016
13363eba 1017PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1018
66645890 1019PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1020 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1021 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1022 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1023 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1024
a3fb9793 1025PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1026 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1027 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1028 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1029 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1030 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1031
d27f98fe 1032TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1033
6822b909
TL
1034TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1035
e7568d51
TL
1036TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1037 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1038
ae0e32ee 1039TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1040 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1041 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1042
1043TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1044
e2658fff
TL
1045TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1046
83712b39
TL
1047TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1048 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1049
976b7e9f
JH
1050JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1051
be4a1376
JH
1052JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1053
ec4b68e5
PP
1054PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1055
d7148a07
NM
1056NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1057 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1058
585121e2 1059JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1060
2519e60d
TL
1061PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1062 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1063 function.
a5f239e4 1064
13d08c90
PP
1065PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1066 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1067
bef3ea7f
JH
1068JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1069 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1070 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1071
846726c5
JH
1072JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1073
3a796370
JH
1074JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1075
ea722490 1076JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1077 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1078
b1b05573
JH
1079JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1080 Bugzilla 884.
1081
362145b5
JH
1082JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1083 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1084
3c0a92dc
JH
1085JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1086 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1087
6d7c6175
PP
1088PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1089 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1090 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1091
6f123593
JH
1092JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1093 authenticators.
1094
c8e2fc1e
JH
1095JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1096 for control.
1097
005ac57f
PP
1098PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1099
3f1df0e3
PP
1100PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1101 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1102 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1103 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1104
67bd1ab3
TF
1105TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1106
1107 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1108 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1109 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1110 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1111 the retry rules.
1112
1113 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1114 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1115 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1116
1117 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1118 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1119 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1120 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1121
1ddeb334
TF
1122 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1123 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1124 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1125 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1126 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1127 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1128 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1129
1130 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1131 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1132
326cdc37
TF
1133TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1134
1135 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1136
1137 Resent-From: f
1138
1139 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1140 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1141 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1142 username as equal to the username.
1143
1144 This change corrects that bug.
1145
f62514b3
GF
1146GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1147 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1148 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1149
eb505532
TF
1150TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1151
14c7b357
PP
1152PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1153 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1154 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1155 NULL dereference and crash.
1156
94eaf700
PP
1157JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1158
6f5a440a
PP
1159PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1160 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1161 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1162
514ee161
SC
1163SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1164
fd98a5c6
JH
1165JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1166 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1167 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1168 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1169 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1170 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1171 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1172 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1173 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1174 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1175 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1176
035c7f1e
PP
1177PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1178 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1179
ff284120
PP
1180PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1181 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1182 Bugzilla 880.
1183
26e72755
PP
1184PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1185 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1186 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1187 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1188 an empty string is now equivalent.
1189
0fbd9bff
PP
1190PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1191 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1192 not performing validation itself.
1193
700d22f3
PP
1194PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1195 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1196
fcc8e047
JH
1197JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1198 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1199
4c04137d 1200TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1201
8c020188
PP
1202PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1203 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1204 other false fix of the same issue.
1205 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1206 Bugzilla 1363.
1207
d13cdd30
PP
1208PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1209 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1210
e2fbf4a2
PP
1211PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1212 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1213 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1214
f4c1088b
PP
1215PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1216 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1217 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1218
c5c2182f
PP
1219TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1220
73431ca9
JH
1221JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1222
2d07a215
TL
1223TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1224 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1225
a30a8861
TL
1226TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1227 Alexander Miroch.
1228
33382dd9
TL
1229TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1230 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1231 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1232 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1233 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1234
046172e6
TL
1235TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1236 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1237
581d7bee 1238TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1239 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1240 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1241
1242TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1243 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1244 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1245 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1246
237b2cf2
TL
1247TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1248
9fc5a352
TL
1249TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1250 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1251 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1252
b10e4ec2
TL
1253TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1254
e2cebd74
TL
1255TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1256 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1257 interaction.
1258
1259TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1260 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1261
2519e60d
TL
1262TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1263 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1264
e78e6ecf 1265
4263f395
PP
1266Exim version 4.80.1
1267-------------------
1268
1269PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1270 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1271 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1272
ea722490 1273
b1770b6e 1274Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1275-----------------
1276
1277PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1278 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1279 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1280
23c7e742
NM
1281NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1282
b322aac8
NM
1283NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1284 improved.
1285
4a891427
NM
1286NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1287
c1e794ba 1288PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1289
97753960
PP
1290PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1291
1292PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1293 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1294
df6303fa
PP
1295PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1296 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1297
7e6a8985
PP
1298PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1299 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1300
f1e05cc7 1301PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1302 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1303 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1304
4c287009
PP
1305PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1306
b98bb9ac
PP
1307PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1308 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1309
4a6a987a
PP
1310PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1311
c45dd180 1312PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1313
7db8d074
PP
1314PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1315 non-compliant senders.
1316 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1317
eae0036b 1318NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1319 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1320 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1321
dec5017e
PP
1322PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1323 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1324 in spool file corruption.
1325
c80c5570
PP
1326PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1327 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1328 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1329 "Got SSL error 2".
1330
076b11e2
PP
1331TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1332 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1333 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1334
5407bfff
JH
1335JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1336 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1337
9e45c72b
PP
1338JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1339
e74376d8
PP
1340PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1341 diagnostics.
1342 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1343
4c04137d 1344PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1345 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1346 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1347
7be682ca
PP
1348PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1349 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1350 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1351 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1352
ef840681
PP
1353PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1354 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1355
5bfb4cdf
PP
1356PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1357 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1358 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1359 resolver implementation change.
1360
c6e95d22
PP
1361PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1362 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1363
9cbad13b
PP
1364PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1365
9ee44efb
PP
1366PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1367
6a6084f8
PP
1368PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1369 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1370
12dd53c7
PP
1371PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1372 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1373
9e45c72b 1374JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1375 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1376
17c76198
PP
1377PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1378 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1379 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1380 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1381 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1382
53947857 1383PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1384
eae0036b 1385PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1386 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1387 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1388
9e45c72b 1389JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1390
7390e768
PP
1391PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1392 read-only, out of scope).
1393 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1394
08488c86
PP
1395PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1396 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1397 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1398 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1399
6475bd82
PP
1400PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1401
81f91683
PP
1402PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1403 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1404 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1405 real issues in debug logging.
1406
5779e6aa
PP
1407PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1408 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1409
3375e053
PP
1410PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1411 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1412 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1413
1414PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1415 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1416 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1417 problems.
3375e053 1418
9d26b8c0
PP
1419PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1420 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1421
57eb9e91 1422PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1423 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1424 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1425 needs to override this, it can.
1426
16880d1a
PP
1427PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1428 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1429 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1430
a799883d
PP
1431PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1432 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1433 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1434 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1435
3ecab157 1436PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1437
0599f9cf 1438
867fcbf5
PP
1439Exim version 4.77
1440-----------------
1441
1442PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1443 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1444
f1a29782
TF
1445TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1446
ab42bd23
TK
1447TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1448 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1449
0ca0cf52
TF
1450TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1451 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1452
921b12ca
TF
1453TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1454 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1455 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1456
1457 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1458 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1459 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1460 not safe for signals.
1461
1462 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1463 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1464 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1465 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1466 exiwhat.
1467
c99ce5c9
TF
1468TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1469
1470 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1471 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1472 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1473 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1474 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1475
1476 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1477 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1478 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1479 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1480 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1481 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1482
1483 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1484 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1485 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1486 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1487
1488 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1489 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1490 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1491 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1492
1493 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1494 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1495 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1496 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1497 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1498 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1499 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1500 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1501 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1502
1503 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1504 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1505 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1506 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1507
1508 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1509 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1510 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1511 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1512 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1513 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1514 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1515 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1516 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1517 details in the main documentation.
1518
3634fc25
TF
1519TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1520
792e8a19
TF
1521TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1522
5901f0ab
TF
1523TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1524 repository when doing development or release builds.
1525
7f2a2a43
PP
1526PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1527 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1528
061b7ebd
PP
1529PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1530 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1531 Bugzilla 97.
1532
e12f8c32
PP
1533PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1534
9e949f00 1535PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1536 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1537
1538PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1539 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1540
555ae6af 1541PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1542 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1543
1544PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1545 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1546
6f7fe114
PP
1547PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1548 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1549
c566dd90
PP
1550PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1551 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1552 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1553 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1554
d6cc7c78 1555PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1556 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1557 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1558
0d0e4455
PP
1559PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1560
3399bb60 1561PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1562
1563PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1564 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1565
0ca0cf52 1566
10906672
PP
1567Exim version 4.76
1568-----------------
1569
1570PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1571
754a0503
PP
1572PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1573 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1574
c0c7b2da
PP
1575PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1576
e97d1f08
PP
1577PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1578
084c1d8c
PP
1579PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1580 Bugzilla 1098.
1581
4e7ee012
PP
1582PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1583 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1584
c8d52a00
PP
1585TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1586 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1587
54e7ce4a
PP
1588PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1589 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1590
5ee6f336
PP
1591PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1592 Bugzilla 1104.
1593
c8d52a00 1594TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1595 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1596
1597TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1598 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1599 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1600 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1601
1602PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1603 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1604
10906672 1605
aa097c4c
NM
1606Exim version 4.75
1607-----------------
1608
4c04137d 1609NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1610 Bugzilla 1073
1611
7f3d9eff
TF
1612TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1613 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1614 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1615
159f52d2
TF
1616TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1617 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1618
0cc9542a
PP
1619PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1620 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1621 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1622
f7274286
PP
1623PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1624 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1625
7b797365
PP
1626PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1627 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1628
caacae52
NM
1629NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1630 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1631
09dcaba9
NM
1632NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1633 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1634
bc19a55b
PP
1635PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1636 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1637
bd4c9759
NM
1638NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1639 Fixes bug 943.
1640
b72aab72
PP
1641PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1642 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1643
2fe76745
PP
1644PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1645 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1646
76aa570c
PP
1647PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1648 SQL string expansion failure details.
1649 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1650
f1e5fef5
PP
1651PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1652 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1653
4d805ee9
PP
1654PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1655 extern declarations in function scope.
1656 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1657
cd59ab18
PP
1658PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1659 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1660 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1661 a kernel bug).
1662
332f5cf3
PP
1663PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1664 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1665
29cfeb94
PP
1666PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1667 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1668
660242ad
PP
1669PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1670 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1671
bc4bc4c5
PP
1672PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1673 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1674
2e64baa9
NM
1675NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1676 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1677 Dennis Davis.
1678
4c04137d 1679PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1680
6bac1a9a
PP
1681PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1682
552193f0
NM
1683NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1684 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1685
1b587e48
TF
1686TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1687 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1688
aa097c4c 1689
8c07b69f
TF
1690Exim version 4.74
1691-----------------
1692
1693TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1694 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1695
c0ea85ab
TF
1696TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1697 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1698
0761d44e
TF
1699TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1700
0a349494
PP
1701DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1702 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1703 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1704
1705PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1706 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1707 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1708
fea24b2e
PP
1709PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1710 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1711 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1712 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1713
6545de78
PP
1714PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1715 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1716 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1717 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1718
1670ef10
PP
1719PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1720 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1721 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1722 arbitrary files.
1723
c0886197
PP
1724PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1725 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1726
b7487bce
PP
1727PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1728 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1729 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1730 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1731 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1732
8c07b69f 1733
97fd1e48 1734Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1735-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1736
1737PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1738 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1739 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1740
6901c596
PP
1741PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1742 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1743
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1744JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1745
77bb000f
PP
1746PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1747
a29e5231
PP
1748PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1749
ec5a0394 1750PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1751
55c75993
PP
1752PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1753
453a6645 1754PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1755 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1756 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1757 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1758
8544e77a
PP
1759PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1760 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1761 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1762 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1763 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1764
83e029d5
PP
1765PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1766
ed7f7860
PP
1767PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1768
7d9f747b
PP
1769PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1770
4b2241d2
PP
1771PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1772
10385c15
PP
1773PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1774
dbc4b90d
PP
1775PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1776
532be449
PP
1777PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1778
6a8de854 1779PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1780 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1781 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1782
5dc43717
JJ
1783JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1784
1785JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1786 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1787
3346ab01
PP
1788PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1789 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1790
491fab4c
PP
1791PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1792 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1793 Notification from John Horne.
1794
13eb9497
PP
1795PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1796 compatible.
1797
1798PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1799 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1800 it normally works.
1801
7f36d675
DW
1802DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1803 access.
1804
c1d94452
DW
1805DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1806 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1807 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1808
e2f5dc15
DW
1809DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1810 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1811 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1812 configuration file.
1813
cd25e41d
DW
1814DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1815 option (effectively making it always true).
1816
261dc43e
DW
1817DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1818 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1819
fa32850b
DW
1820DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1821 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1822
79d4bc3d
PP
1823PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1824 run-time user, instead of root.
1825
43236f35 1826PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1827 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1828
fb08281f
DW
1829DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1830 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1831 arguments.
3346ab01 1832
74935b98
DW
1833DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1834 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1835 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1836
90b6341f
DW
1837DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1838
57730b52
ML
1839NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1840
66581d1e 1841
465e92cf
JJ
1842Exim version 4.72
1843-----------------
1844
453a6645
PP
1845JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1846 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1847 typos
465e92cf 1848
453a6645
PP
1849JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1850 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1851 (Finput)
edae0343 1852
9bd3e22c
NM
1853NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1854 Patch from Alain Williams
1855
bb576ff7
NM
1856NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1857
5a1a5845
NM
1858NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1859 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1860
981a9fad
NM
1861NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1862 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1863
7fc497ee
NM
1864NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1865
1a41defa
JJ
1866JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1867
a466095c 1868NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1869 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1870
94a6bd0b
NM
1871TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1872
1873TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1874
1875MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1876 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1877 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1878
c1b141a8
NM
1879NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1880 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1881
b26eacf1 1882NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1883 Patch by Simon Arlott
1884
179c5980 1885PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1886 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1887
9bd3e22c 1888
7c6d71af
NM
1889Exim version 4.71
1890-----------------
1891
7d9f747b 1892TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1893
f013fb92
NM
1894NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1895
0eb8eedd
NM
1896NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1897
663ee6d9
NM
1898NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1899
177ebd9b
NM
1900NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1901
7c6d71af 1902
210f147e
NM
1903Exim version 4.70
1904-----------------
1905
cdd3bb85 1906TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1907 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1908
1909TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1910 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1911 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1912
1913TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1914 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1915 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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1916
1917TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1918 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1919
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1920NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1921 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1922 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1923 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1924
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1925NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1926 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1927 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1928
089793a4
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1929TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1930
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1931TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1932
dae9d94e 1933NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1934 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1935
7d9f747b 1936NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1937
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1938TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1939 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1940 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1941 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1942
65a7d8c3 1943NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1944 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1945
23510047 1946TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1947
7d9f747b 1948NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1949
7d8eec3a 1950NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1951 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1952
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1953TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1954 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1955
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1956TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1957 that they are available at delivery time.
1958
e2803e40
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1959TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1960
7199e1ee
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1961TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1962 incoming_port log selectors.
1963
e276e04b
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1964TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1965 setting expands to an empty string.
1966
ce552449 1967NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1968 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1969
e765a0f1 1970NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1971 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1972
4f054c63 1973NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1974 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1975
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1976NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1977 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1978
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1979NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1980 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1981
b52bc06e 1982NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1983 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1984
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1985NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1986
4c69d561 1987NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1988 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1989
d5c39246 1990NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1991 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1992
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1993TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1994
8f3414a1 1995NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1996 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1997
fb6f955d
NM
1998NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1999
2000NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2001
7d9f747b
PP
2002NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2003 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2004
7d9f747b
PP
2005NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2006 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2007
7d9f747b
PP
2008NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2009 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2010
7d9f747b
PP
2011NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2012 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2013
7d9f747b
PP
2014NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2015 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2016
7d9f747b
PP
2017NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2018 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2019
7d9f747b
PP
2020NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2021 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2022
7d9f747b 2023NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2024 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2025
7d9f747b 2026NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2027
7d9f747b
PP
2028NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2029 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2030
7d9f747b 2031NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2032
7d9f747b 2033NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2034
7d9f747b 2035NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2036
7d9f747b 2037NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2038
17792b53 2039NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2040 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2041
7d9f747b
PP
2042NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2043 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2044
91576cec 2045NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2046 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2047
7d9f747b
PP
2048NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2049 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2050
7d9f747b 2051NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2052
7d9f747b 2053NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2054
7d9f747b 2055NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2056
7d9f747b 2057NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2058
deafd5b3 2059
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2061-----------------
2062
4b3504d0
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2063TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2064 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2065 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2066
2067 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2068 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2069 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2070 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2071 build errors in sieve.c.
2072
81ea09ca
NM
2073NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2074 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2075 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2076
f13cddcb
SC
2077SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2078
7d9f747b 2079NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2080
7d9f747b 2081NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2082
7d9f747b 2083NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2084
2085
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2086Exim version 4.68
2087-----------------
2088
2089PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2090
6a3bceb1
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2091PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2092 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2093 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2094 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2095 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2096 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2097 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2098 for iplsearch lookups.
2099
2100 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2101 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2102 previously such lookups could never work.
2103
4c04137d 2104 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
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2105 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2106 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2107
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2108TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2109 version.
2110
0806a9c5
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2111MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2112 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2113 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2114 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2115 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2116 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2117
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2118TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2119 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2120
0f2cbd1b
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2121MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2122 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2123 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2124 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2125 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2126 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2127
2b85bce7
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2128PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2129 local_scan API.
2130
93655c46
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2131PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2132
6c512171
PH
2133PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2134 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2135 encrypted.
2136
2137PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2138 by clients under certain conditions.
2139
aa6dc513
PH
2140PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2141 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2142
a96603a0
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2143PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2144
8f240103
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2145PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2146 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2147
2148PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2149
d677b2f2
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2150PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2151
d52120f2
PH
2152PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2153
64f2600a
PH
2154PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2155 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2156
8669f003
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2157PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2158
a4dc33a8
PH
2159PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2160 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2161
d6a60c0f
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2162PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2163
8f128379
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2164PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2165
8932dffe
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2166PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2167 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2168 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2169 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2170
ddea74fa 2171PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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2172 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2173 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2174
ddea74fa 2175PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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2176 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2177
ddea74fa
PH
2178PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2179
ce9f225c
PH
2180PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2181
19897d52
PH
2182PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2183
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2184PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2185 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2186 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2187
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2189Exim version 4.67
2190-----------------
2191
22ad45c9
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2192MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2193 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2194 Jan Srzednicki.
2195
b4ed4da0
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2196PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2197 issue a MAIL command.
2198
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2199PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2200
2201 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2202
2203 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2204 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2205 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2206 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2207 item. This has been fixed.
2208
2209PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2210 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2211
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PH
2212PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2213 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2214
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2215PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2216 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2217 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2218
34c5e8dd
SC
2219SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2220
bbe15da8
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2221PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2222 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2223 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2224 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2225 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2226
0e8a9471
MH
2227MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2228 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2229 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2230
f0872424
PH
2231PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2232 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2233 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2234 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2235
b01dd148
PH
2236PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2237
6bf342e1
PH
2238PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2239
273f34d0
PH
2240PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2241 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2242 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2243 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2244 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2245
cf8b11a5
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2246PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2247
41c7c167
PH
2248PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2249 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2250 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2251 values).
2252
9c57cbc0
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2253PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2254
f3f065bb
PH
2255PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2256
047bdd8c
PH
2257PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2258
0ce9abe6
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2259PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2260
0e22dfd1
PH
2261PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2262
4c590bd1
PH
2263PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2264 no_callout_flush is set.
2265
09945f1e
PH
2266PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2267 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2268 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2269 fixed.
2270
c51b8e75
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2271PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2272
e28326d8 2273PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2274 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
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2275 other ACL rejections are.
2276
75b1493f
PH
2277PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2278 with slight modification.
2279
7c5214ec
PH
2280PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2281 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2282
4311097e
PH
2283PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2284 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2285 connection.
2286
29f89cad
PH
2287PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2288 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2289
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SC
2290SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2291
c3611384
PH
2292PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2293 expansion side effects.
2294
5a11a7b4
PH
2295PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2296 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2297 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2298 be the same.
2299
0e20aff9
MH
2300MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2301 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2302 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2303
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2304PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2305 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2306 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2307 were accidentally chopped off.
2308
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2309PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2310 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2311 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2312 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2313 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2314 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2315 pipelining has not been advertised.
2316
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2317PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2318
42855d71
PH
2319PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2320 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2321 This has been fixed.
2322
57c2c631
PH
2323PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2324 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2325 reported on Solaris.
2326
58c01c94
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2327PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2328 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2329 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2330 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2331 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2332 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2333 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2334
dee5a20a
PH
2335PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2336 cpus.
2337
d2ee6114
PH
2338PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2339
b2d5182b
PH
2340PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2341
79749a79
PH
2342PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2343 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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PH
2344 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2345 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2346 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2347 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2348
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PH
2349PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2350 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2351 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2352 host_all_ignored option.
2353
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2354PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2355 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2356 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2357 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2358 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2359 is what is supposed to happen).
2360
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PH
2361PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2362 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2363 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2364 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2365 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2366 uses the Exim user.
2367
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PH
2368PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2369 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2370 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2371 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2372 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2373 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2374 users.
2375
84024b72
PH
2376PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2377
8005d38e
SC
2378SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2379 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2380 (Jez Hancock).
2381 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2382 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2383
3298c6c6
SC
2384SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2385
a43a27c5
PH
2386PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2387
58eb016e 2388PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2389 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2390 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2391 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2392 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2393 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2394 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2395 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2396 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2397 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2398 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2399
b43a74ea
PH
2400PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2401 advertised in response to EHLO.
2402
b4ed4da0 2403
5dd1517f
PH
2404Exim version 4.66
2405-----------------
2406
2407PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2408 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2409
2410 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2411 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2412
2413 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2414 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2415 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2416
2417 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2418 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2419 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2420 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2421 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2422
2423
93cfa765
TK
2424Exim version 4.65
2425-----------------
2426
2427TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2428 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2429 versions. (#438)
2430
d6066548
MH
2431MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2432 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2433 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2434
4362ff0d
PH
2435PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2436 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2437 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2438 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2439 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2440 rather than extend the field.
2441
93cfa765 2442
944e9e9c
TF
2443Exim version 4.64
2444-----------------
aa41d2de 2445
21d74bd9
TK
2446TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2447 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2448 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2449 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2450 these files.
2451
2452TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2453 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2454 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2455
2456TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2457 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2458 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2459
2460TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2461 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2462 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2463 in the field name.
2464
2b1c6e3a
PH
2465PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2466 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2467 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2468 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2469 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2470 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2471 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2472 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2473 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2474 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2475 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2476
1f872c80
PH
2477PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2478 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2479
2480PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2481 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2482 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2483 ignores EPIPE as well.
2484
d203e649
PH
2485PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2486 (quoted-printable decoding).
2487
cc2ed8f7 2488PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2489 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2490
ddfcd446
PH
2491PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2492
d45b1de8
PH
2493PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2494
2495PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2496
38a0a95f 2497PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2498 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2499
a2405d83
JJ
2500JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2501 in 4.64-PH/09.
2502
2503JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2504 miscellaneous code fixes
2505
6ea85e9a
PH
2506PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2507 rejections.
2508
26da7e20
PH
2509PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2510 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2511 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2512 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2513 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2514 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2515 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2516 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2517
14aa5a05 2518PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2519 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2520 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2521 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2522 function.
2523 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2524 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2525 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2526 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2527 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2528 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2529 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2530 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2531 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2532
ff75a1f7
PH
2533PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2534 decoding.
2535
e6f6568e
PH
2536PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2537 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2538 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2539 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2540 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2541 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2542 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2543 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2544
d6f6e0dc
PH
2545PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2546 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2547 list.
2548
322050c2
PH
2549PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2550 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2551 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2552 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2553 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2554 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2555 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2556 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2557 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2558 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2559 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2560 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2561 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2562
08955dd3
PH
2563PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2564 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2565 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2566 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2567 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2568 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2569 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2570
1eccaa59
PH
2571PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2572 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2573 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2574 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2575 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2576 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2577 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2578 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2579 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2580 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2581
602e59e5
PH
2582PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2583 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2584 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2585 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2586 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2587
411ef850
PH
2588PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2589 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2590 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2591 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2592 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2593 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2594 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2595
7befa435
PH
2596PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2597 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2598 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2599 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2600 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2601 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2602 been verified.
2603
48da4259 2604PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2605 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2606 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2607 and authorization.)
2608
48da4259
PH
2609PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2610 if any retry times were supplied.
2611
d1d5595c
PH
2612PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2613 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2614 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2615
0ef732d9
PH
2616PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2617
328895cc
PH
2618PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2619
fd700877
PH
2620PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2621 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2622 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2623 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2624 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2625 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2626
8dce1a6f
PH
2627PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2628 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2629
17af4a17
PH
2630PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2631 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2632 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2633
2634PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2635 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2636 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2637 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2638 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2639 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2640 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2641 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2642 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2643
2644 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2645 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2646 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2647 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2648 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2649 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2650 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2651 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2652 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2653
2654 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2655 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2656 hammering the server.
2657
c1114884
PH
2658PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2659 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2660
7a0743eb
PH
2661PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2662
0d85fa3f
PH
2663PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2664 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2665 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2666
1bf43b78
PH
2667PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2668 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2669 one case where this was not true.
2670
520de300
PH
2671PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2672 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2673 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2674 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2675 fails.
2676
48c7f9e2
PH
2677PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2678 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2679 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2680 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2681 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2682 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2683 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2684 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2685 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2686 smtp transport.
2687
99ea1c86
PH
2688PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2689 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2690 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2691 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2692
a2042e78
PH
2693PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2694 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2695
4fbcfc2e
PH
2696PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2697 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2698 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2699
aa41d2de
PH
2700PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2701
af561417
PH
2702PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2703
3cc66b45
PH
2704PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2705
194cc0e4
PH
2706PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2707 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2708 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2709 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2710
a401ddaa
PH
2711PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2712 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2713
4e88a19f
PH
2714PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2715 be meaningful with "accept".
2716
d7d7b289
SC
2717SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2718 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2719
2720SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2721 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2722 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2723
2724SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2725 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2726 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2727 there is data to show.
2728 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2729
2730SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2731 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2732 as well as the number of messages.
2733
2734SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2735 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2736 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2737
2738SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2739 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2740 have a flag are now skipped.
2741
2742SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2743 Added the -emptyok flag.
2744
2745SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2746 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2747
0ea2a468
JJ
2748JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2749 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2750 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2751
2752JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2753 match 4.64-PH/13
2754
2755JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2756 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2757
2758JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2759
2760JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2761 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2762
8a10f5a4
PH
2763PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2764
30e18802
PH
2765PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2766 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2767 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2768 contravention of the specifications.
2769
55728a4f
PH
2770PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2771 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2772 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2773
d7837193
PH
2774PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2775 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2776 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2777
87054a31
PH
2778PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2779
ea2c01d2
MH
2780MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2781 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2782 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2783 some point in the past.
2784
e4fa6968
PH
2785PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2786 transport during callout processing was broken.
2787
56f5d9bd
PH
2788PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2789 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2790
922e1c28
PH
2791PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2792 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2793
21eb6e72
PH
2794PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2795 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2796
a0540757
PH
2797PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2798
944e9e9c 2799
478be7b0
SC
2800Exim version 4.63
2801-----------------
2802
2803SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2804 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2805
2806SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2807 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2808 there is data to show.
2809 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2810
2811SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2812 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2813
2b965a65
TF
2814TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2815 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2816
45b91596
PH
2817TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2818 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2819
c59f5781
TF
2820TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2821 submissions from trusted users.
2822
90fc3069
TF
2823TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2824 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2825
6083aca0
TF
2826TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2827 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2828 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2829 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2830 there is now a framework to start from.
2831
765b530f
PH
2832PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2833 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2834 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2835
4e167a8c
PH
2836PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2837
4608d683
PH
2838PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2839
b8dc3e4a
PH
2840PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2841
5418e93b
PH
2842PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2843 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2844 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2845
b4a9bda2
PH
2846PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2847 libradius.
2848
45b91596
PH
2849PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2850 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2851 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2852
5547e2c5
PH
2853PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2854 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2855 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2856 its arguments.
2857
dbcef0ea
PH
2858PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2859 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2860 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2861 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2862 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2863
25257489
PH
2864PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2865 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2866
c816d124
PH
2867PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2868
a9ccd69a
PH
2869PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2870 operations in malware.c.
2871
75fa1910
PH
2872PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2873 signatures.
2874
a7d7aa58
PH
2875PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2876 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2877 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2878 all.
2879
42119b09
PH
2880PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2881 statements to "add_header".
2882
41609df5
PH
2883PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2884 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2885
a5bd321b
PH
2886PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2887 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2888 latter.
2889
e85a7ad5 2890PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2891 so that it is now:
2892
e85a7ad5
PH
2893 ${if or { \
2894 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2895 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2896 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2897 }{no}{yes}}
2898
e85a7ad5
PH
2899 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2900 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2901
d8fe1c03
PH
2902PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2903 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2904
16282d2b
PH
2905PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2906 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2907 any possible encoding problems.
2908
35d40a98
PH
2909PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2910 but not after initializing Perl.
2911
034d99ab
PH
2912PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2913 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2914 apparently, which is not desirable.
2915
6ec97b1b
PH
2916PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2917 queries.
2918
e22ca4ac
JJ
2919JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2920 --not options
2921
2922JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2923
33d73e3b
PH
2924PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2925 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2926 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2927 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2928
9ecb03f3
PH
2929PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2930 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2931 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2932
084efe8d
PH
2933PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2934 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2935 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2936 0.12.
2937
366fc9f0
PH
2938PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2939 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2940 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2941 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2942 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2943
c59f5781 2944
c887c79e
TF
2945Exim version 4.62
2946-----------------
2947
2948TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2949 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2950
1cce3af8
PH
2951PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2952 patch).
2953
afb3eaaf
PH
2954PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2955 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2956 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2957 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2958 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2959 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2960 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2961 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2962 451 error is used.
2963
e173618b
PH
2964PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2965
dd16e114
PH
2966PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2967 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2968 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2969
f7fd3850
PH
2970PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2971 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2972 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2973 odd errors.
2974
d87df92c
PH
2975PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2976 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2977
7e9f683d
PH
2978PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2979 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2980 option (which defaults to 0600).
2981
bfad5236
PH
2982PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2983
01c490df
PH
2984PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2985 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2986 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2987 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2988 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2989 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2990 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2991
d6629cdc
PH
2992PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2993
1cce3af8 2994
214e2000
PH
2995Exim version 4.61
2996-----------------
2997
2998PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2999 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3000 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3001 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3002 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3003 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3004 addresses as local.
3005
f9daeae0
PH
3006PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3007 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3008
7e66e54d
PH
3009PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3010
c8ea1597
PH
3011PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3012 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3013 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3014 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3015 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3016 grumble.
3017
911f6fde
PH
3018PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3019 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3020
47ca6d6c
PH
3021PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3022 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3023 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3024 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3025 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3026
ed0e9820
PH
3027PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3028 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3029 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3030 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3031
eff37e47
PH
3032PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3033 be the same on different OS.
3034
1921d2ea
PH
3035PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3036 testing.
3037
b3f69ca8
JJ
3038JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3039 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3040
3041JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3042 in 4.61-PH/06
3043
424a1c63
PH
3044PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3045 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3046 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3047 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3048 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3049 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3050 bounce message.
3051
7a100415
PH
3052PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3053 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3054 when Exim was called.
3055
19b9dc85
PH
3056PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3057 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3058
309bd837
PH
3059PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3060 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3061 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3062 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3063
59e82a2a
PH
3064PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3065 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3066 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3067 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3068 changes:
3069
3070 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3071 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3072 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3073
3074 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3075 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3076 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3077
9edc04ce
PH
3078PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3079 feature).
3080
1349e1e5
PH
3081PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3082 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3083 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3084 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3085 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3086 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3087 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3088 values from the SRV records were lost.
3089
ea49d0e1
PH
3090PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3091 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3092 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3093
064a94c9
PH
3094PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3095 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3096 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3097
727071f8
PH
3098PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3099 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3100 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3101 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3102 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3103 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3104 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3105 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3106 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3107 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3108
f78eb7c6
PH
3109PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3110 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3111 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3112
21c28500
PH
3113PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3114 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3115
3116PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3117 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3118 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3119 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3120 is given.
3121
1688f43b
PH
3122PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3123 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3124 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3125
3126PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3127 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3128 PH/23 above applies.
3129
9675b384
PH
3130PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3131 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3132 (for which there is an explicit test).
3133
6a3f1455
PH
3134PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3135
dac79d3e
PH
3136PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3137 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3138 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3139 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3140 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3141
5977a0b3
PH
3142PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3143 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3144 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3145 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3146
c91535f3
PH
3147PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3148 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3149 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3150
0d46a8c8
PH
3151PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3152
278c6e6c
PH
3153PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3154
2cbb4081
PH
3155PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3156 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3157 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3158
3eef829e
PH
3159PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3160 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3161 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3162 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3163 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3164
1ab95fa6
PH
3165PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3166 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3167 the message gets confusing).
3168
230205fc
PH
3169PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3170 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3171 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3172 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3173
75e0e026
PH
3174PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3175 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3176 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3177 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3178 same order.
3179
3180PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3181 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3182 the different processes.
3183
145396a6
PH
3184PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3185
3cd34f13
PH
3186PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3187
11121d3d
JJ
3188JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3189 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3190
3191JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3192 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3193
3194JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3195 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3196 messages matching specified criteria.
3197
8def5aaf
PH
3198PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3199
929ba01c
PH
3200PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3201 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3202
2632889e
PH
3203PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3204 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3205 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3206 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3207 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3208 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3209 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3210 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3211 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3212 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3213
944a9c55
PH
3214PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3215 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3216 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3217
4a23603b
PH
3218PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3219
4730f942
PH
3220PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3221 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3222 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3223 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3224 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3225 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3226 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3227 the variable.
3228
30dba1e6
PH
3229PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3230 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3231
382afc6b
PH
3232PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3233
a86229cf
PH
3234PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3235
50c99ba6
PH
3236PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3237
d35e429d
PH
3238PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3239 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3240 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3241 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3242 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3243 size of the count of files.
3244
f90d018c
PH
3245PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3246
75def545
PH
3247PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3248 used in LMTP mode:
3249
3250 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3251 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3252 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3253 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3254
3255 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3256 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3257 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3258
3259PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3260 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3261 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3262 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3263 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3264
c46782ef
PH
3265PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3266 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3267
71fafd95
PH
3268PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3269 will now be deprecated.
3270
2c5db4fd
PH
3271PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3272
9cf6b11a
JJ
3273JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3274 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3275 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3276
3277JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3278 with very large, slow to parse queues
3279
3280JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3281
3282JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3283
898d150f
PH
3284PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3285 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3286 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3287 SMTP output lines.
3288
46218253
PH
3289PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3290 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3291 Sieve code now uses this.
3292
e97957bc
PH
3293PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3294 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3295
81e509d7
PH
3296PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3297 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3298
3d240ff7
PH
3299PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3300
b37c4101
PH
3301PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3302 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3303 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3304 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3305 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3306
79378e0f
PH
3307PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3308 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3309 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3310 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3311
e49c7bb4
PH
3312PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3313
d114ec46
PH
3314PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3315
f3d7df6c
PH
3316PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3317 is preferred over IPv4.
3318
715ab376
PH
3319PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3320 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3321 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3322 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3323 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3324 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3325 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3326
6b31b150
PH
3327PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3328 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3329 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3330
3331PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3332
d515a917
PH
3333PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3334 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3335 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3336 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3337 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3338 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3339 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3340 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3341 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3342 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3343 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3344
9b8fadde
PH
3345PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3346 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3347 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3348
214e2000 3349
5de37277
PH
3350Exim version 4.60
3351-----------------
3352
cc38ddbf
PH
3353PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3354
3355 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3356 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3357
3358 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3359 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3360 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3361
72fdd6ae
PH
3362PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3363
3364 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3365 not a single digit.
3366
3367 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3368 string.
3369
3370 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3371 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3372 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3373 silly things.
3374
3375 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3376 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3377
3378 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3379 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3380
cb741023
PH
3381PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3382 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3383 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3384
f174f16e
PH
3385PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3386 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3387
c25242d7
PH
3388PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3389 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3390
3391 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3392
3393 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3394 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3395 this:
3396
3397 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3398
82c19f95
PH
3399PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3400 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3401 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3402 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3403 identical. For example:
3404
3405 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3406
3407 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3408 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3409 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3410
d7ffbc12
PH
3411PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3412 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3413 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3414 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3415
9f526266
PH
3416PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3417 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3418 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3419 message.
3420
87fcc8b9
PH
3421PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3422
3423 o fixes some comments
3424 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3425 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3426 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3427 and documents the missing references header update
3428
3429 and most important:
3430
3431 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3432 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3433 result)
3434
456682f5
PH
3435PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3436 Electronic Mail") by including:
3437
3438 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3439
3440 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3441 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3442 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3443 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3444 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3445
3446 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3447
3448 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3449
3450 The auto-replied keyword:
3451
3452 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3453 message by an automatic process,
3454
3455 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3456
3457 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3458 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3459
3460 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3461 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3462 other messages.
3463
3e46c1aa
PH
3464PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3465 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3466
49826d12
PH
3467PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3468
eba0c039
PH
3469PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3470 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3471 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3472
a0d6ba8a
PH
3473PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3474 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3475 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3476
f0917727
PH
3477PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3478 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3479 and treats the condition as false.
3480
096fee00
PH
3481PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3482
024bd3c2
PH
3483PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3484 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3485 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3486 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3487 not changing the active code.
3488
3489 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3490 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3491
3492 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3493 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3494
df199fec
PH
3495PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3496 (Bugzilla #53).
3497
d27f1df3
PH
3498PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3499 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3500 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3501 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3502 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3503 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3504 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3505 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3506 the text comparison.
3507
96776534
PH
3508PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3509 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3510 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3511 The same fix has been applied.
3512
5de37277 3513
9a799bc0
PH
3514Exim version 4.54
3515-----------------
3516
3517PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3518 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3519 It now does.
3520
99a4b039
PH
3521PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3522 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3523
3524PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3525
4b233853
PH
3526PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3527 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3528 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3529 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3530 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3531
8857ccfd
PH
3532TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3533 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3534 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3535 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3536 or /domain=).
3537
433a2980
PH
3538PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3539 testing suite.
3540
3e46c1aa 3541
9a799bc0 3542
e3a311ba
TK
3543Exim version 4.53
3544-----------------
3545
3546TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3547 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3548
13b685f9
PH
3549PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3550
395ff96d
PH
3551PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3552
5b68f6e4
PH
3553PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3554 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3555 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3556
1ab52c69
PH
3557PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3558 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3559 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3560
b07e6aa3
PH
3561PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3562 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3563 operating systems.
3564
254e032f
PH
3565PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3566 ${stat: expansion item.
3567
3af76a81
PH
3568PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3569 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3570
2548ba04
PH
3571PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3572 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3573 file for comments.
3574
b6c6011d
PH
3575PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3576
cf39cf57
PH
3577PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3578 setting.
3579
f1513293
PH
3580PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3581 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3582
727549a4
PH
3583TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3584
af46795e
PH
3585PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3586 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3587 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3588 the end of the subprocess.
3589
d7b47fd0
PH
3590PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3591 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3592 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3593 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3594 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3595
ee744174
JJ
3596JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3597
b582ab87
PH
3598TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3599
41a13e0a
PH
3600PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3601 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3602
f625cc5a
PH
3603PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3604
3605PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3606
21f7af35
PH
3607PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3608 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3609 HP-UX compiler.
3610
31480e42
PH
3611PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3612
2d280592
PH
3613PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3614 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3615 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3616
7cd1141b
PH
3617PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3618 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3619
3620PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3621 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3622
750af86e
PH
3623PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3624 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3625
3626 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3627 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3628
3629 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3630 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3631 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3632 contributed by a Radius user.
3633
3634PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3635 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3636
4304270b
TK
3637TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3638 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3639
750af86e
PH
3640PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3641 available.
3642
64ffc24f
PH
3643PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3644 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3645 received.
3646
5dd9625b
PH
3647PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3648 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3649 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3650 header lines when this was not necessary.
3651
5591031b
PH
3652PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3653
ba18e66a
PH
3654PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3655 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3656 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3657 exists".
3658
9cec981f
PH
3659PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3660 -bV or -d is used.
3661
aa2b5c79
PH
3662PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3663 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3664 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3665 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3666
48a53b7f
PH
3667PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3668
1c59d63b
PH
3669PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3670
671012da
TK
3671TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3672
1509d3a8
PH
3673PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3674
3675PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3676 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3677 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3678 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3679 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3680 settings.
3681
3682PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3683
2fe1a124
PH
3684PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3685 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3686 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3687 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3688 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3689 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3690 which is clearly wrong.
3691
8800895a
PH
3692PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3693
ccfdb010
PH
3694PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3695 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3696 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3697 subsequently added.
3698
1130bfb0
PH
3699PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3700 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3701
ebcb507f
PH
3702PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3703
c35e155c
PH
3704PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3705 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3706
95d1f782
PH
3707PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3708 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3709
fd6de02e
PH
3710PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3711 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3712
58de37c5
PH
3713PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3714 recipients, not senders.
3715
261cf466
TF
3716TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3717 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3718
3ee512ff
PH
3719PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3720
e08c430f
PH
3721PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3722
bef5a11f
PH
3723PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3724 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3725 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3726 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3727
7546de58
TF
3728TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3729
e5d5a95f
TF
3730TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3731 clock is set back in time.
3732
2e88a017
TF
3733TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3734 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3735
a5f65aa4
TF
3736TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3737 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3738
e7726cbf
PH
3739PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3740 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3741 (see PH/47 above).
3742
a7fdad5b
TF
3743TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3744 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3745 header rewrites.
3746
6af56900
PH
3747PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3748 type ("H").
3749
0925ede6
PH
3750PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3751
66afa403
TF
3752TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3753 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3754 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3755
0154e85a
TF
3756TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3757 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3758 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3759 helo verification defer as a failure.
3760
16f12c76
PH
3761PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3762 actual error message.
3763
bbe902f0 3764
e5a9dba6
PH
3765Exim version 4.52
3766-----------------
3767
3768TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3769
22c3b60b
PH
3770PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3771 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3772 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3773 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3774
06a9b4b5
PH
3775TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3776
c1ac6996
PH
3777PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3778 can still be requested.
3779
9c7a242c
PH
3780PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3781 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3782 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3783 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3784
87ba3f5f
PH
3785TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3786 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3787 circumstances, but probably never did.
3788
3789PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3790 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3791 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3792 in the header line.
3793
29aba418
TF
3794TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3795
fe0dab11
TF
3796TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3797 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3798
11d337a4
TK
3799TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3800
3801TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3802
415c8f3b
PH
3803PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3804 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3805 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3806 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3807 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3808 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3809
958541e9
PH
3810PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3811 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3812 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3813 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3814 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3815 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3816
c206415f
TK
3817TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3818 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3819
2a4be8f9
PH
3820PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3821 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3822
1cba11c5
SC
3823SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3824 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3825
4c04137d 3826SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3827
3828SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3829
3830SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3831
3832SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3833
3834SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3835
3836SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3837
1005d00e
TK
3838TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3839
3840TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3841 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3842 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3843
3844TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3845 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3846 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3847 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3848
9b4768fa
PH
3849PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3850 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3851 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3852
3853PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3854 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3855 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3856 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3857
0d7eb84a
PH
3858PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3859 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3860 to be made).
3861
3862PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3863 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3864 should work with maildirs and everything.
3865
40727bee
TK
3866TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3867 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3868
554d2369
TF
3869TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3870 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3871
1f922db1
PH
3872PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3873 function for BDB 4.3.
3874
ef213c3b
PH
3875PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3876
8ac170f3
PH
3877PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3878 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3879 involved.
3880
b1c749bb
PH
3881PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3882 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3883 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3884 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3885 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3886 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3887
4aac9b49
PH
3888PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3889 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3890 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3891 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3892 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3893 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3894 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3895 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3896
294520c8
TK
3897TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3898 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3899 details.
3900
5bd022fe
PH
3901PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3902 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3903
90e9ce59
PH
3904PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3905 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3906 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3907 test. It is now used for both.
3908
5ea81592
PH
3909PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3910 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3911 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3912 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3913 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3914 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3915
c6c2dc1d
PH
3916PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3917 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3918 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3919 string_vformat().
3920
fffffe4c
PH
3921PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3922 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3923 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3924
9a26b6b2
PH
3925PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3926 experimental DomainKeys support:
3927
3928 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3929 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3930 the control was given.
3931
3932 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3933
4aee0225
PH
3934PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3935
32d668a5
PH
3936PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3937
8187c3f3
PH
3938PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3939 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3940 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3941 db.h files).
3942
ff790e47 3943PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3944 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3945 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3946 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3947 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3948 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3949 course.
ff790e47 3950
5417f6d1
PH
3951PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3952 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3953 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3954 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3955 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3956 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3957
59cf8544
PH
3958PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3959 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3960 do -d+all out of habit.
3961
e7ad8a65
PH
3962PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3963 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3964 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3965
ade42478
PH
3966PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3967 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3968 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3969 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3970 record types that Exim uses.
3971
182ad5cf
PH
3972PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3973 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3974 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3975 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3976 non-existent file that was broken.
3977
b0d9fc80
TK
3978TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3979 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3980
3981TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3982 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3983 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3984
3985TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3986
47c7a64a
PH
3987PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3988 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3989 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3990 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3991 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3992 same time.
3993
a388bce4
SC
3994SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3995 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3996 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3997 at a slight CPU cost.
3998
3999SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4000 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4001
4002SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4003 by Marc Sherman.
4004
0793e4ed
SC
4005SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4006
c58b88df
PH
4007PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4008 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4009
e7ad8a65 4010
7982096b
PH
4011Exim version 4.51
4012-----------------
4013
1a46a8c5
PH
4014TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4015 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4016
2f079f46 4017TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4018
4019TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4020
4021PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4022 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4023
4024PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4025 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4026 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4027 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4028 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4029 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4030 file.
4031
4032PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4033 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4034 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4035 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4036 these two options.
4037
4038PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4039 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4040 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4041 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4042 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4043 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4044 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4045 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4046
4047PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4048 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4049
4050PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4051 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4052 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4053 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4054 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4055 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4056
4057PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4058 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4059 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4060 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4061
4062PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4063 Finch).
4064
4065PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4066 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4067
49c2d5ea
PH
4068PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4069 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4070 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4071 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4072 message.
49c2d5ea 4073
bf759a8b
PH
4074PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4075
83364d30
PH
4076PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4077 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4078
7999bbd7
PH
4079PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4080 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4081 to what was transported.)
4082
7dbf77c9
PH
4083TF/01 Added $received_time.
4084
74e0617f
PH
4085PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4086 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4087 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4088 spamd_address settings.
4089
2f079f46
PH
4090PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4091 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4092 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4093 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4094 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4095
8c841523
PH
4096PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4097
7766a4f0
PH
4098PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4099 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4100 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4101 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4102 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4103
8b417f2c
PH
4104PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4105 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4106
901f42cb
PH
4107PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4108 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4109 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4110 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4111 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4112 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4113 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4114 for failure.
4115
f9b9210e
PH
4116PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4117 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4118 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4119 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4120 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4121 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4122 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4123 "input=".
4124
54cdb463
PH
4125PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4126
cf00dad6
PH
4127PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4128 driver and ACL definitions.
4129
acb1b346
PH
4130PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4131 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4132
c5ddb310
PH
4133PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4134 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4135 understands it better than I do:
4136
4137 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4138 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4139
4140 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4141 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4142 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4143 => three warnings about OTP not working
4144 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4145
4146 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4147 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4148 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4149 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4150 for each call.)
4151 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4152 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4153
4154 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4155 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4156 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4157
31619da6
PH
4158PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4159 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4160 specified.
4161
bebaf0fc
PH
4162PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4163 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4164 "Linux".
4165
475fe28a
PH
4166PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4167 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4168 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4169
4170 warn !verify = sender
4171 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4172
4173 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4174 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4175
7e8bec7a
PH
4176PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4177
4178 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4179 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4180
4181 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4182 nomenclature these days.)
4183
e4a89c47
PH
4184PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4185 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4186
5ca2a9a1
PH
4187PH/30 In these circumstances:
4188 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4189 . First host does not offer TLS;
4190 . First host accepts first address;
4191 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4192 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4193 . Second host accepts second address.
4194 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4195 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4196 address.
7e8bec7a 4197
c688b954
PH
4198PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4199 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4200 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4201 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4202 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4203
fed77020
PH
4204PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4205 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4206
7fe1560f
PH
4207PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4208 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4209
ebb6e6d5
PH
4210PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4211 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4212 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4213
9c4e8f60
PH
4214PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4215 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4216 overlooked.
4217
4218PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4219
d7174846
PH
4220PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4221 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4222 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4223 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4224 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4225 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4226 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4227
4228 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4229 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4230 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4231 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4232 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4233
4234 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4235 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4236 routed further.
4237
cfe75fc3
PH
4238PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4239 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4240 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4241 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4242 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4243 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4244
be22d70e
PH
4245PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4246
0612b098
PH
4247PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4248 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4249 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4250 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4251 printable escape sequences.
4252
2e0c1448
PH
4253PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4254 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4255 body only.
4256
447d236c
PH
4257PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4258 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4259 are as follows:
4260
4261 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4262 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4263 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4264 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4265 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4266
4267 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4268 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4269 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4270
d20976dc
PH
4271PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4272
f656d135
PH
4273PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4274 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4275 play with."
4276
2e2a30b4
PH
4277PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4278 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4279 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4280 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4281 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4282 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4283 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4284 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4285 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4286 the log output.
4287
9176e9f0
PH
4288PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4289 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4290 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4291 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4292 "make".
4293
7982096b 4294
bbe902f0
PH
4295A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4296----------------------------------------
4297
4298Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4299changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4300needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4301in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4302that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4303release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4304from 4.43.
4305
4306I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
43074.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4308those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4309historical information.
4310
4311
f7b63901 4312Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4313-----------------
4314
5fe762f6
PH
4315 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4316
139059f6 4317 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4318 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4319
7086e875
PH
4320 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4321 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4322 place.
4323
35af9f61
PH
4324 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4325 filter fails to execute.
4326
b668c215
PH
4327 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4328 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4329 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4330 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4331 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4332
a494b1e1
PH
4333 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4334
4335 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4336 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4337 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4338 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4339
c5fcb476
PH
4340 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4341 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4342 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4343 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4344 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4345
69358f02
PH
4346 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4347
5be20824
PH
434810. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4349
eb2c0248
PH
435011. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4351 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4352 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4353 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4354
2a3eea10
PH
435512. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4356 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4357 sender verification.
4358
435913. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4360 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4361
23c7ff99
PH
436214. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4363
4deaf07d
PH
436415. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4365 connection timeout.
4366
926e1192
PH
436716. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4368 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4369
650edc6f
PH
437017. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4371 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4372
2c7db3f5
PH
437318. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4374 information about exactly what failed.
4375
3d235903
PH
437619. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4377
7c7ad977
PH
437820. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4379 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4380 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4381
981756db
PH
438221. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4383 It is now set to "smtps".
4384
d4eb88df
PH
438522. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4386 ignore_target_hosts.
4387
438823. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4389 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4390 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4391 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4392 "[x.x.x.x]".
4393
7d468ab8
PH
439424. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4395 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4396 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4397
439825. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4399 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4400 wake it up if nothing else does.
4401
62c0818f
PH
440226. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4403 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4404 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4405 end up negative.
4406
26034054
PH
440727. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4408 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4409
af66f652
PH
441028. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4411
90af77f4
PH
441229. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4413 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4414 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4415 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4416 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4417 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4418 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4419 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4420
d8ef3577
PH
442130. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4422 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4423 than one IP address.
4424
5cb8cbc6
PH
442531. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4426 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4427 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4428 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4429
14702f5b
PH
443032. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4431 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4432 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4433 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4434 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4435 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4436
063b1e99
PH
443733. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4438 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4439 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4440 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4441
652e1b65
PH
444234. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4443 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4444 respected.
4445
6f0c9a4f
PH
444635. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4447 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4448 $sender_host_address.
4449
33397d19
PH
445036. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4451 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4452 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4453 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4454 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4455 very small.
4456
7bb56e1f
PH
445737. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4458
4459 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4460 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4461
ea3bc19b
PH
4462 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4463 just the host names, not the priorities.
4464
4465 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4466 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4467 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4468
ea3bc19b 4469 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4470 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4471
0bcb2a0e
PH
447238. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4473 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4474 domain.
4475
2ac0e484
PH
447639. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4477
4e1fde53
PH
447840. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4479 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4480
de365ded
PH
448141. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4482 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4483 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4484
f05da2e8
PH
448542. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4486
d6453af2
PH
448743. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4488
f7b63901
PH
448944. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4490
449145. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4492 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4493 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4494 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4495 because the tests only now provoked it.
4496
a444213a
PH
449746. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4498 (this can affect the format of dates).
4499
0ec020ea
PH
450047. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4501 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4502 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4503 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4504
b1206957
PH
450548. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4506
450749. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4508 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4509 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4510 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4511
26dd5a95
PH
451250. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4513 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4514 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4515
343b2385
PH
451651. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4517 autoreply.
4518
1c5466b9
PH
451952. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4520 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4521 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4522 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4523 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4524 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4525 is going on).
4526
55ee9ee3
PH
452753. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4528 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4529 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4530 the line.
4531
d38f8232
PH
453254. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4533 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4534 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4535
4536 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4537 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4538 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4539 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4540 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4541 so I produce this patch..."
4542
3295e65b
PH
4543 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4544 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4545 is not defined.
4546
7102e136
PH
454755. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4548 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4549 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4550 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4551 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4552
3ca0ba97
PH
455356. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4554
c2bcbe20
PH
455557. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4556 long debug lines gets shown.
4557
18ce445d
PH
455858. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4559 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4560
1f5b4c3d
PH
456159. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4562
4563 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4564 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4565 of $primary_hostname.
4566
b975ba52
PH
456760. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4568 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4569 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4570 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4571 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4572 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4573 by change 4.50/55 above.
4574
4575 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4576 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4577 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4578 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4579 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4580 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4581 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4582
458361. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4584 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4585 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4586 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4587
17ffcae7
PH
458862. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4589 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4590
d95f9fdb
PH
459163. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4592 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4593 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4594 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4595 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4596
86b8287f
PH
459764. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4598 This has been fixed.
4599
60dc5e56
PH
460065. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4601 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4602 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4603 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4604 the caching.)
4605
533244af
PH
460666. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4607
a5a28604
PH
460867. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4609 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4610 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4611 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4612
7e634d24
PH
461368. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4614 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4615
3e11c26b
PH
461669. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4617 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4618 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4619
6729cf78
PH
462070. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4621 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4622 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4623 message there.
4624
00f00ca5
PH
462571. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4626 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4627 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4628
c9bdd01c
PH
462972. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4630 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4631 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4632 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4633
d43194df
PH
463473. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4635 during host lookups.
4636
fe5b5d0b
PH
463774. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4638 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4639
4640 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4641
76a2d7ba
PH
464275. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4643 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4644 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4645 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4646 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4647 background.
4648
464976. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4650 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4651
04f7d5b9
PH
465277. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4653 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4654 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4655
bc60667e
PH
465678. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4657
bb6e88ff
PH
465879. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4659 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4660 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4661 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4662 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4663 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4664 process earlier.
4665
1e70f85b
PH
466680. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4667 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4668 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4669 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4670 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4671
467281. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4673 tables).
4674
4e01f9d6
PH
467582. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4676
1ee1cef2
PH
467783. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4678 "vacation" handling.
4679
6e2b4ccc
PH
468084. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4681 OS variants using glibc.
4682
8e669ac1
PH
468385. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4684
495ae4b0 4685
bbe902f0
PH
4686----------------------------------------------------
4687See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4688----------------------------------------------------
4689
4690
4691Exim version 4.44
4692-----------------
4693
4694 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4695 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4696 transport
4697
4698 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4699 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4700 place.
4701
4702 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4703 filter fails to execute.
4704
4705 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4706 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4707 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4708 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4709 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4710
4711 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4712 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4713 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4714 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4715
4716 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4717 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4718 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4719 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4720 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4721
4722 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4723
4724 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4725 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4726 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4727 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4728
4729 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4730 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4731 sender verification.
4732
473310. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4734 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4735
473611. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4737 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4738
473912. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4740 ignore_target_hosts.
4741
474213. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4743 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4744 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4745 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4746 "[x.x.x.x]".
4747
474814. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4749 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4750 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4751
475215. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4753 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4754 wake it up if nothing else does.
4755
475616. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4757 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4758 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4759 end up negative.
4760
476117. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4762 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4763
ea3a6f44 476418. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4765
476619. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4767 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4768 empty pattern.
4769
477020. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4771 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4772 one IP address.
4773
ea3a6f44
NM
477421. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4775 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4776 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4777 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4778 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4779 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4780
ea3a6f44
NM
478122. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4782 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4783 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4784
478523. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4786 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4787 $sender_host_address.
4788
478924. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4790
ea3a6f44
NM
479125. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4792 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4793 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4794
479526. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4796 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4797
ea3a6f44
NM
479827. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4799 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4800
ea3a6f44
NM
480128. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4802 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4803 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4804 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4805
480629. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4807 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4808 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4809
ea3a6f44
NM
481030. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4811 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4812 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4813 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4814
ea3a6f44
NM
481531. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4816 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4817 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4818
ea3a6f44
NM
481931. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4820 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4821
ea3a6f44
NM
482232. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4823 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4824 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4825 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4826 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4827 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4828 is going on).
bbe902f0 4829
ea3a6f44
NM
483033. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4831 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4832 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4833 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4834 CAN-2005-0021
4835
ea3a6f44
NM
483634. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4837 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4838 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4839 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4840 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4841 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4842 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4843
4844 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4845 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4846 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4847 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4848 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4849 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4850 CAN-2005-0021
4851
ea3a6f44
NM
485235. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4853 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4854 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4855 CAN-2005-0022
4856
ea3a6f44
NM
485736. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4858 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4859 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4860 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4861 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4862
ea3a6f44
NM
486337. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4864 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4865 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4866 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4867 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4868
ea3a6f44
NM
486938. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4870 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4871 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4872 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4873 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4874
4875
495ae4b0
PH
4876Exim version 4.43
4877-----------------
4878
4879 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4880 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4881 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4882 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4883 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4884 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4885 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4886
4887 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4888 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4889 the delivery.
4890
4891 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4892
4893 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4894
4895 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4896 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4897 to local_scan().
4898
4899 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4900 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4901 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4902 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4903 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4904
4905 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4906 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4907
4908 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4909
4910 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4911
491210. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4913 header_sender only.
4914
491511. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4916 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4917
491812. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4919 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4920 affecting debugging statements).
4921
492213. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4923
492414. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4925 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4926 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4927 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4928 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4929 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4930 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4931 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4932 after the received time, and all would be well.
4933
493415. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4935 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4936 condition in an expansion string.
4937
493816. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4939
494017. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4941 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4942 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4943 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4944 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4945 job under whatever limits there are.
4946
494718. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4948
494919. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4950 space).
4951
495220. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4953 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4954 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4955 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4956 return path is set.
4957
495821. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4959 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4960 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4961 binary data in such strings.
4962
496322. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4964
496523. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4966 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4967 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4968 failure, which is pointless.
4969
497024. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4971
497225. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4973
497426. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4975 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4976 Sender: header lines.
4977
497827. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4979 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4980 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4981
498228. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4983 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4984 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4985 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4986 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4987 happens.
4988
498929. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4990 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4991 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4992 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4993 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4994
499530. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4996 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4997 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4998 1024.
4999
500031. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5001 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5002
500332. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5004 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5005
500633. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5007
500832. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5009
501033. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5011
501234. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5013 syntax error.
5014
501535. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5016
501736. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5018
501937. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5020 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5021 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5022 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5023
502438. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5025 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5026
5027
5028Exim version 4.42
5029-----------------
5030
5031 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5032 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5033 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5034 it was not quoted.
5035 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5036 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5037 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5038 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5039 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5040 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5041
5042 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5043 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5044 verification failure".
5045
5046 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5047 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5048 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5049 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5050
5051 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5052 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5053 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5054 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5055 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5056 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5057 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5058 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5059 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5060 treated as a timeout.
5061
5062 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5063 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5064 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5065 not set for Exim filters).
5066
5067 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5068 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5069 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5070
5071 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5072
5073 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5074 try to make them clearer.
5075
5076 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5077 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5078
5079 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5080
5081 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5082
508310. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5084 only the Cygwin environment.
5085
508611. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5087 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5088 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5089 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5090 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5091
509212. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5093 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5094 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5095 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5096 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5097 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5098 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5099
510013. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5101 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5102
510314. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5104
5105 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5106 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5107 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5108
5109 To: susanne@some.where
5110
5111 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5112 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5113 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5114 of addresses in From: header lines).
5115
5116 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5117 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5118 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5119
5120 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5121 treated as non-personal.
5122
5123 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5124 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5125
512615. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5127
512816. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5129
513017. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5131 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5132 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5133
513418. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5135 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5136
513719. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5138 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5139 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5140 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5141 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5142 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5143
514420. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5145 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5146 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5147 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5148 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5149 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5150 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5151 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5152
5153 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5154
515521. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5156 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5157
515822. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5159 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5160 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5161
516223. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5163 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5164
516524. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5166 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5167 rather than long int.
5168
516925. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5170
517126. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5172
5173
5174Exim version 4.41
5175-----------------
5176
5177 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5178 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5179 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5180 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5181 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5182 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5183
5184
5185Exim version 4.40
5186-----------------
5187
5188 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5189 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5190
5191 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5192 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5193 socklen_t is defined.
5194
5195 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5196 always exist.
5197
5198 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5199 configured.
5200
5201 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5202 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5203 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5204 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5205 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5206
5207 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5208 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5209 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5210 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5211
5212 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5213 of flapping under certain conditions.
5214
5215 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5216 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5217 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5218
5219 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5220
522110. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5222
522311. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5224 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5225 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5226 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5227
522812. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5229 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5230 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5231 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5232 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5233 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5234 preserved with the message after it was received.
5235
523613. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5237 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5238 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5239 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5240 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5241 test suite worked just fine.
5242
524314. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5244 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5245 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5246
524715. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5248 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5249 string.
5250
525116. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5252 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5253 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5254 does not fully solve it.
5255
525617. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5257 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5258 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5259 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5260 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5261
526218. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5263 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5264 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5265
526619. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5267 string, for example:
5268
5269 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5270
5271 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5272 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5273 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5274 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5275 the routers could not see them.
5276
527720. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5278 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5279
528021. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5281 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5282 output).
5283
528422. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5285 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5286 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5287 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5288 that needed quoting.
5289
529023. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5291 was not being matched caselessly.
5292
529324. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5294 backslashes.
5295
529625. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5297 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5298 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5299 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5300 when use_sender is false.
5301
530226. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5303
530427. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5305
530628. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5307
530829. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5309 the configuration file.
5310
531130. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5312 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5313
531431. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5315
531632. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5317 bytes in the message body.
5318
531933. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5320 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5321 delivery.
5322
532334. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5324
532535. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5326
532736. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5328 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5329 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5330 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5331 another IP address.
5332
5333
5334Exim version 4.34
5335-----------------
5336
5337 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5338 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5339
5340 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5341 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5342 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5343 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5344 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5345
5346 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5347 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5348
5349 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5350 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5351 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5352
5353 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5354 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5355 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5356
5357 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5358 for routers.
5359
5360 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5361 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5362 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5363 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5364 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5365 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5366 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5367
5368
5369Exim version 4.33
5370-----------------
5371
5372 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5373 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5374 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5375 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5376 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5377 default (and expected) setting.
5378
5379 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5380 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5381 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5382 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5383
5384 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5385 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5386
5387 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5388 in domain lists.
5389
5390 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5391 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5392 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5393 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5394 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5395 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5396
5397 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5398 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5399 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5400
5401 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5402 part (NOT match_host).
5403
5404 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5405
5406 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5407 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5408 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5409 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5410 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5411 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5412 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5413 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5414 the same named file.
5415
541610. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5417 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5418 when Exim is built.
5419
542011. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5421 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5422 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5423 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5424 a host name.
5425
542612. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5427 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5428 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5429
543013. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5431
543214. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5433
543415. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5435
543616. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5437 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5438
543917. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5440 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5441 before starting the TLS session.
5442
544318. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5444
544519. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5446 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5447
544820. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5449 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5450 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5451 colon in the middle).
5452
5453
5454Exim version 4.32
5455-----------------
5456
5457 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5458 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5459 multiple configurations are in use.
5460
5461 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5462 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5463 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5464 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5465 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5466 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5467
5468 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5469 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5470
5471 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5472 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5473 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5474
5475 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5476 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5477 occurs.
5478
5479 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5480 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5481
5482 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5483
5484 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5485 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5486
5487 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5488
5489 -prval:sval
5490
5491 is equivalent to
5492
5493 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5494
5495 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5496 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5497 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5498 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5499 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5500
550110. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5502 Exim's behaviour:
5503
5504 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5505 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5506 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5507 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5508 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5509 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5510
5511 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5512 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5513 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5514 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5515 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5516 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5517 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5518 string.
5519
5520 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5521 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5522 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5523 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5524 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5525
552611. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5527
552812. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5529 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5530 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5531
553213. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5533
553414. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5535 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5536 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5537 information.
5538
553915. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5540 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5541
554216. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5543 Three changes have been made:
5544
5545 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5546 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5547 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5548 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5549 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5550
5551 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5552 been restored.
5553
5554 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5555 the modified behaviour.
5556
5557
5558Exim version 4.31
5559-----------------
5560
5561 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5562 Larry Rosenman.
5563
5564 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5565 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5566
5567 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5568 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5569 try to track down a specific problem.
5570
5571 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5572 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5573 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5574
5575 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5576 warning.
5577
5578 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5579 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5580 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5581 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5582 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5583 some earlier ones do not.
5584
5585 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5586
5587 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5588 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5589 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5590 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5591 address literals are enabled, of course).
5592
5593 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5594
559510. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5596 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5597 by a command such as
5598
5599 exim -f "" ...
5600
5601 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5602
560311. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5604
560512. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5606 remained set. It is now erased.
5607
560813. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5609 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5610
561114. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5612 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5613 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5614 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5615 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5616 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5617 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5618 appropriate error code.
5619
562015. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5621 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5622 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5623 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5624 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5625 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5626
562716. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5628 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5629 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5630
563117. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5632 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5633 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5634 terminate the header.
5635
563618. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5637 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5638 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5639
564019. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5641 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5642 (4.30/29). In particular:
5643
5644 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5645 imposed.
5646
5647 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5648 to write a maildirsize file.
5649
5650 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5651 the transport, the new value overrides.
5652
5653 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5654 count.
5655
565620. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5657 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5658 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5659 space or a tab.
5660
566121. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5662 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5663 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5664 the fallback hosts.
5665
566622. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5667 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5668 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5669
567023. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5671 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5672 using a union.
5673
567424. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5675 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5676 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5677
567825. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5679
568026. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5681
568227. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5683
568428. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5685 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5686 become corrupted.
5687
568829. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5689 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5690 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5691 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5692 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5693 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5694 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5695 too great.
5696
569730. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5698 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5699 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5700 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5701 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5702 incorrectly.
5703
570431. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5705 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5706 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5707 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5708 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5709 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5710 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5711 cached value only when the same options are set.
5712
571332. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5714
571533. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5716 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5717 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5718 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5719 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5720
572134: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5722 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5723 it is clearly obsolete.
5724
572535. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5726 transport.
5727
572836. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5729 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5730 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5731 times.
5732
573337. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5734 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5735 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5736 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5737 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5738
573938. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5740 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5741 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5742 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5743
574439. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5745
5746 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5747
5748 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5749 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5750 2^31.
5751
575240. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5753 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5754 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5755 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5756 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5757 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5758 $localpart_data.
5759
576041. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5761 with the -f command-line option.
5762
576342. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5764 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5765 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5766 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5767 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5768 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5769
577043. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5771 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5772 line.
5773
577444. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5775 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5776 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5777 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5778 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5779 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5780 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5781 buffer is too small.
5782
578345. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5784 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5785
578646. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5787 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5788 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5789 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5790 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5791 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5792 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5793 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5794 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5795
579647. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5797 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5798 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5799
580048. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5801 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5802 ACL").
5803
580449. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5805 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5806 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5807 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5808 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5809
581050. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5811 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5812 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5813 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5814 is set.
5815
581651. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5817
581852. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5819
582053. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5821 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5822
582354. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5824 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5825 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5826
582755. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5828 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5829 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5830 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5831 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5832
583356. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5834 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5835 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5836 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5837 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5838 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5839 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5840
584157. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5842 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5843 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5844 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5845 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5846 the test of how many are available.
5847
584858. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5849 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5850 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5851 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
495ae4b0
PH
5852 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5853 new message is started.
5854
585559. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5856 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5857
585860. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5859 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5860
586161. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5862 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5863 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5864 is no long logged.
5865
586662. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5867 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5868 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5869 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5870 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5871 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5872 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5873
587463. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5875 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5876 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5877 interpreted as octal.
5878
587964. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5880 setting.
5881
588265. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5883 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5884 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5885 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5886 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5887 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5888
588966. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5890 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5891 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5892 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5893
5894 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5895 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5896 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5897 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5898
5899 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5900 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5901 is a bug fix.
5902
5903 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5904 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5905
590667. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5907
590868. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5909 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5910 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5911 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5912
591369. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5914 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5915 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5916 supplied", which is not helpful.
5917
591870. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5919 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5920 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5921
592271. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5923 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5924 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5925 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5926 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5927 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5928 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5929 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5930
593172. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5932 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5933 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5934 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5935 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5936
593773. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5938 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5939 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5940 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 5941 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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5942 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5943
594474. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5945 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5946 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5947
594875. Added write_rejectlog option.
5949
595076. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5951 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5952 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5953 variables.
5954
595577. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5956
595778. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5958 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5959 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5960 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5961 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5962 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5963 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5964 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5965
596679. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5967 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5968 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5969 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5970 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5971
597280. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5973 Haardt.
5974
597581. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5976 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5977 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5978 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5979 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5980 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5981 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5982 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5983 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5984
5985
5986Exim version 4.30
5987-----------------
5988
5989 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5990 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5991 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5992
5993 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5994 fixed.
5995
5996 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5997 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5998 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5999
6000 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6001 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6002 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6003 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6004 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6005 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6006
6007 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6008 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6009 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6010 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6011 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6012 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6013 the Exim test suite.
6014
6015 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6016 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6017 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6018 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6019
6020 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6021 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6022 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6023 specify it in this variable.
6024
6025 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6026 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6027 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6028 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6029
6030 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6031 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6032 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6033 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6034
6035 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6036 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6037 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6038 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6039 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6040
6041 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6042
604310. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6044 they are logged.
6045
604611. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6047 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6048 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6049 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6050 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6051
605212. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6053 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6054
605513. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6056 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6057 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6058 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6059 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6060
606114. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6062 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6063
606415. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6065 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6066 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6067
606816. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6069 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6070
607117. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6072 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6073
607418. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6075 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6076 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6077
607819. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6079 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6080
608120. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6082 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6083 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6084 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6085
608621. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6087
608822. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6089 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6090 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6091 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6092
609323. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6094
609524. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6096 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6097
609825. Added .include_if_exists.
6099
610026. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6101 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6102 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6103 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6104 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6105 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6106
610727. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6108
610928. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6110 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6111 this.
6112
611329. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6114
611530. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6116 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6117
6118 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6119 550 Sender verify failed
6120
6121 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6122 the final line of the response.
6123
612431. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6125 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6126 all other user lookups.
6127
612832. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6129 delivery time.
6130
613133. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6132 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6133 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6134 result into an int without checking.
6135
613634. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6137 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6138 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6139
614035. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6141 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6142 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6143 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6144
614536. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6146 correctly.
6147
614837. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6149 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6150
615138. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6152 to the empty sender.
6153
615439. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6155 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6156 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6157 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6158 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6159 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6160 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6161 panic log.
6162
616340. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6164 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6165 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6166 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6167 used.
6168
616941. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6170 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6171
617242. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6173 timestamps.
6174
617543. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6176 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6177
617844. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6179
618045. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6181 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6182 logs.
6183
618446. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6185 as soon as it is encountered.
6186
618747. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6188
618948. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6190 rewritten to "<>".
6191
619249. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6193 recognizes a tab character.
6194
619550. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6196 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6197 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6198 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6199
620051. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6201
620252. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6203 crash.
6204
620553. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6206
620754. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6208
620955. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6210 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6211 2822.
6212
621356. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6214 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6215 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6216 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6217 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6218
621957. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6220 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6221
622258. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6223 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6224 list (.included file names were always shown).
6225
622659. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6227 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6228 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6229 root at that time.
6230
623160. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6232 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6233
623461. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6235
623662. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6237
623863. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6239
624064. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6241 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6242 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6243 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6244 failures to open the logs.
6245
624665. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6247 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6248 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6249 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6250 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6251 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6252 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6253
6254
6255Exim version 4.24
6256-----------------
6257
6258 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6259 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6260 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6261 change 4.23/1.
6262
6263 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6264 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6265 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6266
6267 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6268 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6269 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6270
6271 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6272 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6273 causing some misleading effects.
6274
6275 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6276 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6277 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6278
6279 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6280 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6281 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6282 queue-runner function directly.
6283
6284
6285Exim version 4.23
6286-----------------
6287
6288 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6289 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6290
6291 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6292 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6293 was always written to the default place.
6294
6295 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6296 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6297 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6298
6299 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6300
6301 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6302
6303 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6304 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6305 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6306
6307 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6308 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6309 must start.
6310
6311 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6312 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6313 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6314
6315 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6316 command line option is disabled.
6317
6318 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6319 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6320
6321 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6322
6323 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6324
6325 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6326 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6327
632810. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6329
633011. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6331 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6332 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6333 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6334 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6335 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6336
633712. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6338 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6339 timeout.
6340
634113. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6342 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6343
634414. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6345 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6346
634715. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6348 received was valid base64.
6349
635016. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6351 name of the variable that was being set.
6352
635317. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6354
635518. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6356 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6357 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6358 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6359 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6360 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6361
636219. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6363
636420. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6365 nor realm was specified.
6366
636721. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6368 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6369 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6370 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6371
637222. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6373 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6374 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6375
637623. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6377 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6378 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6379
638024. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6381 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6382 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6383 some systems use these upper case variants.
6384
638525. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6386 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6387 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6388 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6389
639026. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6391
639227. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6393 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6394
639528. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6396 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6397 expansion variable.
6398
639929. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6400
640130. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6402 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6403 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6404 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6405
640631. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6407 using it.
6408
640932. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6410 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6411 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6412
641333. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6414 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6415
641634. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6417 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6418 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6419 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6420
642135. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6422 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6423 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6424
642536. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6426
642737. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6428 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6429 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6430 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6431 aborted.
6432
643338. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6434 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6435 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6436
643739. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6438
643940. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6440 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6441
644241. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6443 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6444
644542. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6446 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6447 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6448 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6449 when emails are that large.
6450
6451
6452
6453Exim version 4.22
6454-----------------
6455
6456 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6457 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6458
6459 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6460 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6461 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6462
6463 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6464 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6465 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6466
6467 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6468 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6469 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6470 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6471 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6472
6473 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6474 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6475 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6476 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6477 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6478 ever.
6479
6480 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6481 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6482 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6483 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6484 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6485 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6486 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6487 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6488 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6489 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6490 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6491 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6492 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6493 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6494
6495 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6496 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6497 parameterised it.
6498
6499 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6500 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6501 error should be diagnosed.
6502
6503 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6504 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6505 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6506 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6507 appeared instead of "NULL".
6508
650910. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6510 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6511 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6512 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6513 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6514 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6515 proceeds).
6516
6517 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6518 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6519 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6520
6521
6522Exim version 4.21
6523-----------------
6524
6525 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6526 or receiver verification errors.
6527
6528 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6529 name.
6530
6531 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6532 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6533 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6534 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6535
6536 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6537 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6538 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6539 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6540 shouldn't happen again.
6541
6542 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6543 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6544 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6545
6546 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6547 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6548
6549 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6550
6551 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6552 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6553
6554 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6555 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6556 RFC.
6557
655810. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6559 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6560 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6561
656211. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6563 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6564 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6565 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6566
656712. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6568 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6569 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6570 to define what should happen).
6571
657213. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6573 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6574 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6575
657614. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6577
657815. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6579
658016. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6581 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6582
4c04137d 658317. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6584 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6585 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6586 structure in all cases.
6587
6588 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6589 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6590 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6591 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6592
659318. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6594 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6595 domain name.
6596
659719. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6598 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6599
660020. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6601 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6602
660321. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6604 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6605 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6606
660722. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6608 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6609 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6610
661123. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6612 the book and for uniformity.
6613
661424. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6615
661625. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6617 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6618 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6619 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6620 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6621 non-existent command as the problem.
6622
662326. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6624 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6625 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6626
662727. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6628
662928. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6630 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6631 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6632
663329. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6634 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6635 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6636 timestamps using strftime().
6637
663830. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6639 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6640
664132. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6642 transport-time rewrites.
6643
664433. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6645 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6646 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6647 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6648
664934. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6650 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6651
665235. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6653 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6654 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6655 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6656 comma and a space.
6657
665836. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6659 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6660 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6661 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6662 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6663 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6664 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6665
666637. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6667 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6668 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6669 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6670 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6671
667238. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6673 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6674 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6675 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6676 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6677 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6678 remaining text gets split now.
6679
668039. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6681 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6682 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6683 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6684
668540. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6686 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6687 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6688 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6689 $return_path.
6690
669141. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6692 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6693 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6694 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6695 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6696 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6697 passed through if needed.
6698
669942. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6700 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6701 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6702 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6703 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6704 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6705
670643. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6707 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6708 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6709 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6710 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6711
671244. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6713 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6714 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6715 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6716 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6717
671845. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6719 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6720 noticed.
6721
672246. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6723 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6724 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6725 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6726 mayhem of various kinds.
6727
672847. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6729 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6730 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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6731 the right test for positive values.
6732
673348. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6734 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6735 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6736 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6737 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6738 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6739 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6740 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6741 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6742 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6743 envelope.
6744
674549. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6746 module.
6747
674850. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6749 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6750 forbidding it.
6751
675251. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6753 the existing equality matching.
6754
675552. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6756 dealing with inode numbers.
6757
675853. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6759 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6760 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6761
676254. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6763 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6764 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6765 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6766 local_scan().
6767
676855. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6769 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6770 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6771 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6772 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6773 relay addresses has also been removed.
6774
677556. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6776
677757. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6778 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6779 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6780
678158. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6782 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6783 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6784 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6785 processing applies to CR:
6786
6787 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6788 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6789
6790 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6791 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6792 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6793 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6794
679559. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6796 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6797 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6798
679960. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6800 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6801 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6802 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6803 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6804 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6805 arisen.
6806
680761. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6808 program routers.
6809
681062. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6811 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6812 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6813 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6814 adds:
6815
6816 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6817
6818 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6819
6820 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6821
682263. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6823 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6824 not considered personal.
6825
682664. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6827
682865. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6829
683066. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6831
683267. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6833 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6834 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6835 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6836 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6837 header lines, and spool format errors.
6838
683968. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6840 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6841 for more flexibility.
6842
684369. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6844 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6845 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6846
684770. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6848 Sabourenkov.
6849
685071. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6851 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6852 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6853 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6854 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6855 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6856 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6857 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6858 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6859
686072. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6861 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6862 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6863 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6864 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6865 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6866 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6867
686873. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6869 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6870 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6871
687274. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6873 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6874 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6875 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6876 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6877 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6878 instead of killing the process with assert().
6879
688075. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6881 than Unicode encoding.
6882
688376. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6884 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6885 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6886 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6887
688877. Added process_log_path.
6889
689078. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6891 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6892
689379. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6894 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6895
689680. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6897 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6898 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6899
690081. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6901 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6902 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6903 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6904 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6905 were applied:
6906
6907 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6908 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6909 as invalid.
6910
691182. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6912 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6913 they will be used during message reception.
6914
6915
6916Exim version 4.20
6917-----------------
6918
6919The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6920
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