Add option commandline_checks_require_admin
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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.
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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
79 awareness of the SMTP input buferring.
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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9427e879 93JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 94 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
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96JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
97
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98PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
99 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
100
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101JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
102 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
103
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104JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
105 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
106 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
107 before acknowledging the chunk.
108
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109PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
110 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
111 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
112
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113JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
114 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
115 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
116 should.
117
118JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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119 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
120 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 121
bd8fbe36 122JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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123 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
124
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125JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
126 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
127 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
128 body hash calculated value.
129
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130JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
131 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
132 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
133
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134JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
135
136JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
137 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
138
139JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
140 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
141 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
142
143JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
144 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
145 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
146 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
147 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
148 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
149
150JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
151 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
152 past that check, despite the cost.
153
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154JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
155 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
156 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
157
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158PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
159 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
160 TLS library to consume.
161
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162PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
163
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164PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
165
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166JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
167 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
168 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
169 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
170 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
171 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
172 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
173
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174PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
175
176PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
177
178PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
179 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
180 should be warning-free.
181
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182JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
183
184HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
185 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
186
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187HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
188 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
189 general solution here.
190
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191PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
192 already-broken messages in the queue.
193
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194JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
195
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196JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
197
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202JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
203 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 204
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205JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
206 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
207 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
208
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209JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
210 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
211 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
212 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
213 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
214 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
215 if one fails this test.
216 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
217 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
218
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219JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
220 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
221
23bb6982 222JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 223 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 224
0bd1b1ed 225JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 226 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 227
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228JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
229 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
230
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231JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
232 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
233
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234JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
235
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236JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
237 certificate).
238
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239JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
240 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
241 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
242 connection after a verify cache hit.
243 Do not update it with the verify result either.
244
245JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
246 when routing results in more than one destination address.
247
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248JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
249 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
250 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
251 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
252 when the cutthrough connection is made).
253
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254JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
255 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
256
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257JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
258 Previously they were not counted.
259
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260JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
261 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
262 that needed the lookup.
263
4c04137d 264JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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265 distinguished as "(=".
266
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267JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
268 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
269
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270JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
271
272JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
273 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 274
4c04137d 275JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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276 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
277
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278JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
279 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
280 compatible.
281
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282JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
283 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
284 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
285 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
286
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287JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
288
f59aaaaa 289JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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290 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
291 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 292
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293JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
294 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
295 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
296 be lost.
297
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298JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
299 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
300 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
301 itself :(
302
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303JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
304 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
305 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
306
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307JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
308 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
309 options.
310
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311JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
312
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313PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
314 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
315
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316PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
317 are not in the system include path.
318
ad7fc6eb 319JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 320 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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321 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
322 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 323
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324JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
325 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
326 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
327
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328JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
329
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330HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
331 an incoming connection.
332
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333HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
334 to rspamd.
335
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336HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
337 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 338
87cb4a16 339JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 340 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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346JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
347 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
348 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
349 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 350
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351TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
352 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
353
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354TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
355 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
356 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
357 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
358 outgoing I= field.
359
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360JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
361 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
362 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
363 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
364 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
365 check on the next write.
366
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367HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
368 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
369 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
370 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
371 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
372
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373JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
374 mime_regex ACL conditions.
375
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376JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
377 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
378 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
379
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380JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
381 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
382 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
383 an authenticate fail is not an error.
384
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385HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
386 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
387
4c04137d 388JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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389 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
390
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391JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
392 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
393 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
394 distinct.
395
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396JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
397
398JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
399
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400JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
401
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402JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
403 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
404
98b98887 405JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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406 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
407
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408JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
409
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410JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
411 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
412
413JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
414
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415JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
416 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
417
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418JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
419
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420JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
421 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 422 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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423 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
424 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
425 they will retry in-clear.
426 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
427 at installation time.
428
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429HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
430 with the $config_file variable.
431
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432JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
433 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
434 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
435 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 436 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 437
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438GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
439 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
440 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
441 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
442 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
443
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444JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
445
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446JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
447 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
448 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
449 list order is no longer honoured.
450
4c04137d 451JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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452 for DKIM processing.
453
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454JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
455 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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457JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
458 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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459 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
460 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 461
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462JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
463 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
464
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465JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
466 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
467
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468JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
469 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
470
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471JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
472
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473JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
474 cached by the daemon.
475
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476JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
477 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
478
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479JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
480 keys are given for lookup.
481
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482JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
483 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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484 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
485 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 486
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487JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
488 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
489 server-side so match that on older versions.
490
07c73177 491JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 492 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 493 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 494
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495JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
496 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
497
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498JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
499 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
500 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 501 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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502 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
503 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
504 initial truncated version.
505
ab9152ff 506JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 507
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508JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
509
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510JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
511 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
512
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513JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
514
bc3c7bb7 515HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 516
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517JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
518 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
519 induced overflows.
520
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521JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
522 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
523 stage.
524
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525JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
526 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
527
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528JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
529 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
530 former class.
531
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532JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
533 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
534 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
535
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536JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
537 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
538 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
539 extraction. Accept either.
540
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545JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
546 expanded.
547
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548JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
549
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550JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
551 it.
552
01a4a5c5 553JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 554 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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555 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
556 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
557
cb1d7830 558JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 559 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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560 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
561
610ff438 562JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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563 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
564 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
565 TLS connections
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567JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
568 sites use this now.
569
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570JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
571 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
572 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
573 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
574 have a dsn_lasthop option.
575
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576JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
577 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 578 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 579
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580JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
581
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582JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
583 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
584
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585JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
586 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
587
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588JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
589 /defer_ok option.
590
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591JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
592 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
593
fd4d8871 594JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 595 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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596 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
597
598JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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599 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
600 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 601
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602JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
603 timeout value per server.
604
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605JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
606 now have the list separator specified.
607
8a512ed5 608JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 609 option values.
8a512ed5 610
82c0c8ea 611JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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612 under OpenSSL.
613
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614JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
615
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616JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
617 rather than the verbs used.
618
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619JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
620 from 255 to 1024 chars.
621
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622JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
623
cfab9d68 624HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 625 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 626
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627JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
628 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
629
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630HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
631 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
632
4c04137d 633JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 634
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635JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
636
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637JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
638 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 639 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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640 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
641
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642JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
643
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644JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
645 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
646
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647JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
648 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
649
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650JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
651
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652JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
653
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654JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
655
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656JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
657 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
658
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659JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
660 added for tls authenticator.
661
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662HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
663
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668TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
669 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
670 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
671 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
672 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
673 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
674 the script parsing/test process like normal.
675
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676TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
677 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
678 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
679 function when detected.
680
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681JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
682 cause callback expansion.
683
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684TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
685 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
686 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
687 instead of bool when processing it.
688
0f06b4f2 689JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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690 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
691
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692JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
693
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694JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
695
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696TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
697
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698TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
699 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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701JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
702 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
703 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
704 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 705 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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706 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
707
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708JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
709 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
710 exceeded it.
711
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712JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
713 version 3.3.6 or later.
714
4c04137d 715JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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716 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
717 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 718 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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719 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
720 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
721 option is defined.
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723TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
724 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
725
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726JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
727 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
728 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
729 matches.
730
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731JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
732 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
733 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
734
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735JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
736 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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737
738JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
739 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
740 syntax errors.
741
3394b36a 742JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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743
744JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
745 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
746
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747TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
748 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
749 tarball.
750
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751JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
752
4c04137d 753JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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754 Bug 1561.
755
756JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
757 output list separator was used.
758
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762TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
763 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
764 return.
1f0ebb98 765
a612424f 766JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 767 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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768
769JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
770
771TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 772 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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778TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
779
780 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
781 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
782 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
783 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
784 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
785 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
786
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787TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
788 utilities have not been installed.
789
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790JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
791 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
792
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793TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
794 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
795
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796TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
797 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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798 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
799 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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801JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
802
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803TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
804 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
805
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806PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
807 not dns_use_dnssec.
808
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809JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
810
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811TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
812 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
813 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
814
8ddef691 815TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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816 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
817 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
818 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
819 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 820 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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822JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
823
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824JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
825 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
826
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827JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
828 failed delivery.
829
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830JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
831
511a6c14 832JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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833
834JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
835 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 836
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837JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
838 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
839
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840TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
841
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842JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
843
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844JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
845 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
846
847 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
848 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
849 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
850
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851TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
852 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
853 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
854 analysis.
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856JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
857
8c51eead 858JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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859 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
860 lookup).
8c51eead 861
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862TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
863 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
864 Schlichting.
35aba663 865
fd3b6a4a 866JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 867 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
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869TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
870 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
871
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872JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
873
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874TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
875 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
876 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
877
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878JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
879 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
880
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881JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
882 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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883 hosts_request_ocsp.
884
ed3bba5f 885JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 886 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 887 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
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889JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
890
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891TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
892 Christian Aistleitner.
893
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894JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
895
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896TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
897 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
898
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899JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
900 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
901
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902JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
903 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
904
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905TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
906 support and error reporting did not work properly.
907
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908TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
909 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
910
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911TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
912 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
913 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
914
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915JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
916
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917PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
918 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
919 Jasper Wallace.
920
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921JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
922
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923TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
924 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
925 CVE-2014-2972
926
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931PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
932
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933PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
934 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
935
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936PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
937 by GnuTLS.
938
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939PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
940 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
941 routines.
942
13363eba 943PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 944
66645890 945PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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946 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
947 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
948 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
949 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 950
a3fb9793 951PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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952 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
953 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
954 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 955 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 956 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 957
d27f98fe 958TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 959
6822b909
TL
960TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
961
e7568d51
TL
962TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
963 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
964
ae0e32ee 965TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 966 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 967 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
968
969TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 970
e2658fff
TL
971TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
972
83712b39
TL
973TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
974 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
975
976b7e9f
JH
976JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
977
be4a1376
JH
978JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
979
ec4b68e5
PP
980PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
981
d7148a07
NM
982NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
983 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 984
585121e2 985JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 986
2519e60d
TL
987PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
988 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
989 function.
a5f239e4 990
13d08c90
PP
991PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
992 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
993
bef3ea7f
JH
994JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
995 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
996 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 997
846726c5
JH
998JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
999
3a796370
JH
1000JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1001
ea722490 1002JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1003 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1004
b1b05573
JH
1005JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1006 Bugzilla 884.
1007
362145b5
JH
1008JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1009 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1010
3c0a92dc
JH
1011JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1012 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1013
6d7c6175
PP
1014PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1015 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1016 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1017
6f123593
JH
1018JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1019 authenticators.
1020
c8e2fc1e
JH
1021JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1022 for control.
1023
005ac57f
PP
1024PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1025
3f1df0e3
PP
1026PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1027 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1028 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1029 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1030
67bd1ab3
TF
1031TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1032
1033 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1034 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1035 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1036 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1037 the retry rules.
1038
1039 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1040 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1041 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1042
1043 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1044 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1045 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1046 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1047
1ddeb334
TF
1048 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1049 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1050 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1051 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1052 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1053 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1054 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1055
1056 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1057 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1058
326cdc37
TF
1059TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1060
1061 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1062
1063 Resent-From: f
1064
1065 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1066 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1067 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1068 username as equal to the username.
1069
1070 This change corrects that bug.
1071
f62514b3
GF
1072GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1073 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1074 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1075
eb505532
TF
1076TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1077
14c7b357
PP
1078PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1079 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1080 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1081 NULL dereference and crash.
1082
94eaf700
PP
1083JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1084
6f5a440a
PP
1085PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1086 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1087 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1088
514ee161
SC
1089SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1090
fd98a5c6
JH
1091JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1092 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1093 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1094 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1095 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1096 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1097 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1098 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1099 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1100 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1101 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1102
035c7f1e
PP
1103PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1104 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1105
ff284120
PP
1106PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1107 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1108 Bugzilla 880.
1109
26e72755
PP
1110PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1111 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1112 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1113 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1114 an empty string is now equivalent.
1115
0fbd9bff
PP
1116PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1117 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1118 not performing validation itself.
1119
700d22f3
PP
1120PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1121 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1122
fcc8e047
JH
1123JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1124 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1125
4c04137d 1126TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1127
8c020188
PP
1128PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1129 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1130 other false fix of the same issue.
1131 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1132 Bugzilla 1363.
1133
d13cdd30
PP
1134PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1135 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1136
e2fbf4a2
PP
1137PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1138 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1139 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1140
f4c1088b
PP
1141PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1142 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1143 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1144
c5c2182f
PP
1145TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1146
73431ca9
JH
1147JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1148
2d07a215
TL
1149TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1150 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1151
a30a8861
TL
1152TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1153 Alexander Miroch.
1154
33382dd9
TL
1155TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1156 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1157 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1158 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1159 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1160
046172e6
TL
1161TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1162 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1163
581d7bee 1164TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1165 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1166 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1167
1168TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1169 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1170 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1171 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1172
237b2cf2
TL
1173TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1174
9fc5a352
TL
1175TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1176 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1177 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1178
b10e4ec2
TL
1179TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1180
e2cebd74
TL
1181TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1182 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1183 interaction.
1184
1185TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1186 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1187
2519e60d
TL
1188TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1189 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1190
e78e6ecf 1191
4263f395
PP
1192Exim version 4.80.1
1193-------------------
1194
1195PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1196 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1197 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1198
ea722490 1199
b1770b6e 1200Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1201-----------------
1202
1203PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1204 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1205 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1206
23c7e742
NM
1207NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1208
b322aac8
NM
1209NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1210 improved.
1211
4a891427
NM
1212NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1213
c1e794ba 1214PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1215
97753960
PP
1216PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1217
1218PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1219 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1220
df6303fa
PP
1221PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1222 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1223
7e6a8985
PP
1224PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1225 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1226
f1e05cc7 1227PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1228 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1229 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1230
4c287009
PP
1231PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1232
b98bb9ac
PP
1233PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1234 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1235
4a6a987a
PP
1236PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1237
c45dd180 1238PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1239
7db8d074
PP
1240PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1241 non-compliant senders.
1242 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1243
eae0036b 1244NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1245 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1246 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1247
dec5017e
PP
1248PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1249 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1250 in spool file corruption.
1251
c80c5570
PP
1252PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1253 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1254 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1255 "Got SSL error 2".
1256
076b11e2
PP
1257TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1258 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1259 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1260
5407bfff
JH
1261JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1262 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1263
9e45c72b
PP
1264JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1265
e74376d8
PP
1266PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1267 diagnostics.
1268 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1269
4c04137d 1270PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1271 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1272 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1273
7be682ca
PP
1274PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1275 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1276 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1277 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1278
ef840681
PP
1279PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1280 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1281
5bfb4cdf
PP
1282PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1283 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1284 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1285 resolver implementation change.
1286
c6e95d22
PP
1287PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1288 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1289
9cbad13b
PP
1290PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1291
9ee44efb
PP
1292PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1293
6a6084f8
PP
1294PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1295 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1296
12dd53c7
PP
1297PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1298 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1299
9e45c72b 1300JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1301 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1302
17c76198
PP
1303PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1304 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1305 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1306 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1307 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1308
53947857 1309PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1310
eae0036b 1311PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1312 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1313 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1314
9e45c72b 1315JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1316
7390e768
PP
1317PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1318 read-only, out of scope).
1319 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1320
08488c86
PP
1321PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1322 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1323 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1324 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1325
6475bd82
PP
1326PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1327
81f91683
PP
1328PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1329 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1330 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1331 real issues in debug logging.
1332
5779e6aa
PP
1333PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1334 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1335
3375e053
PP
1336PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1337 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1338 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1339
1340PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1341 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1342 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1343 problems.
3375e053 1344
9d26b8c0
PP
1345PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1346 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1347
57eb9e91 1348PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1349 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1350 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1351 needs to override this, it can.
1352
16880d1a
PP
1353PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1354 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1355 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1356
a799883d
PP
1357PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1358 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1359 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1360 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1361
3ecab157 1362PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1363
0599f9cf 1364
867fcbf5
PP
1365Exim version 4.77
1366-----------------
1367
1368PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1369 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1370
f1a29782
TF
1371TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1372
ab42bd23
TK
1373TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1374 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1375
0ca0cf52
TF
1376TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1377 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1378
921b12ca
TF
1379TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1380 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1381 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1382
1383 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1384 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1385 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1386 not safe for signals.
1387
1388 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1389 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1390 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1391 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1392 exiwhat.
1393
c99ce5c9
TF
1394TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1395
1396 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1397 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1398 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1399 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1400 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1401
1402 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1403 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1404 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1405 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1406 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1407 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1408
1409 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1410 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1411 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1412 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1413
1414 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1415 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1416 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1417 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1418
1419 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1420 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1421 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1422 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1423 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1424 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1425 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1426 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1427 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1428
1429 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1430 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1431 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1432 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1433
1434 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1435 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1436 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1437 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1438 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1439 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1440 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1441 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1442 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1443 details in the main documentation.
1444
3634fc25
TF
1445TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1446
792e8a19
TF
1447TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1448
5901f0ab
TF
1449TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1450 repository when doing development or release builds.
1451
7f2a2a43
PP
1452PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1453 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1454
061b7ebd
PP
1455PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1456 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1457 Bugzilla 97.
1458
e12f8c32
PP
1459PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1460
9e949f00 1461PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1462 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1463
1464PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1465 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1466
555ae6af 1467PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1468 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1469
1470PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1471 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1472
6f7fe114
PP
1473PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1474 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1475
c566dd90
PP
1476PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1477 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1478 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1479 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1480
d6cc7c78 1481PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1482 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1483 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1484
0d0e4455
PP
1485PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1486
3399bb60 1487PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1488
1489PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1490 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1491
0ca0cf52 1492
10906672
PP
1493Exim version 4.76
1494-----------------
1495
1496PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1497
754a0503
PP
1498PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1499 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1500
c0c7b2da
PP
1501PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1502
e97d1f08
PP
1503PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1504
084c1d8c
PP
1505PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1506 Bugzilla 1098.
1507
4e7ee012
PP
1508PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1509 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1510
c8d52a00
PP
1511TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1512 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1513
54e7ce4a
PP
1514PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1515 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1516
5ee6f336
PP
1517PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1518 Bugzilla 1104.
1519
c8d52a00 1520TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1521 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1522
1523TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1524 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1525 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1526 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1527
1528PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1529 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1530
10906672 1531
aa097c4c
NM
1532Exim version 4.75
1533-----------------
1534
4c04137d 1535NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1536 Bugzilla 1073
1537
7f3d9eff
TF
1538TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1539 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1540 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1541
159f52d2
TF
1542TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1543 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1544
0cc9542a
PP
1545PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1546 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1547 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1548
f7274286
PP
1549PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1550 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1551
7b797365
PP
1552PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1553 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1554
caacae52
NM
1555NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1556 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1557
09dcaba9
NM
1558NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1559 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1560
bc19a55b
PP
1561PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1562 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1563
bd4c9759
NM
1564NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1565 Fixes bug 943.
1566
b72aab72
PP
1567PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1568 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1569
2fe76745
PP
1570PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1571 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1572
76aa570c
PP
1573PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1574 SQL string expansion failure details.
1575 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1576
f1e5fef5
PP
1577PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1578 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1579
4d805ee9
PP
1580PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1581 extern declarations in function scope.
1582 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1583
cd59ab18
PP
1584PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1585 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1586 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1587 a kernel bug).
1588
332f5cf3
PP
1589PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1590 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1591
29cfeb94
PP
1592PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1593 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1594
660242ad
PP
1595PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1596 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1597
bc4bc4c5
PP
1598PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1599 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1600
2e64baa9
NM
1601NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1602 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1603 Dennis Davis.
1604
4c04137d 1605PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1606
6bac1a9a
PP
1607PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1608
552193f0
NM
1609NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1610 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1611
1b587e48
TF
1612TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1613 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1614
aa097c4c 1615
8c07b69f
TF
1616Exim version 4.74
1617-----------------
1618
1619TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1620 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1621
c0ea85ab
TF
1622TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1623 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1624
0761d44e
TF
1625TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1626
0a349494
PP
1627DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1628 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1629 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1630
1631PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1632 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1633 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1634
fea24b2e
PP
1635PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1636 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1637 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1638 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1639
6545de78
PP
1640PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1641 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1642 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1643 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1644
1670ef10
PP
1645PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1646 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1647 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1648 arbitrary files.
1649
c0886197
PP
1650PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1651 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1652
b7487bce
PP
1653PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1654 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1655 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1656 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1657 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1658
8c07b69f 1659
97fd1e48 1660Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1661-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1662
1663PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1664 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1665 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1666
6901c596
PP
1667PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1668 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1669
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1670JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1671
77bb000f
PP
1672PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1673
a29e5231
PP
1674PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1675
ec5a0394 1676PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1677
55c75993
PP
1678PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1679
453a6645 1680PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1681 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1682 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1683 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1684
8544e77a
PP
1685PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1686 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1687 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1688 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1689 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1690
83e029d5
PP
1691PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1692
ed7f7860
PP
1693PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1694
7d9f747b
PP
1695PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1696
4b2241d2
PP
1697PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1698
10385c15
PP
1699PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1700
dbc4b90d
PP
1701PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1702
532be449
PP
1703PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1704
6a8de854 1705PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1706 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1707 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1708
5dc43717
JJ
1709JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1710
1711JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1712 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1713
3346ab01
PP
1714PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1715 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1716
491fab4c
PP
1717PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1718 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1719 Notification from John Horne.
1720
13eb9497
PP
1721PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1722 compatible.
1723
1724PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1725 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1726 it normally works.
1727
7f36d675
DW
1728DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1729 access.
1730
c1d94452
DW
1731DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1732 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1733 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1734
e2f5dc15
DW
1735DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1736 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1737 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1738 configuration file.
1739
cd25e41d
DW
1740DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1741 option (effectively making it always true).
1742
261dc43e
DW
1743DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1744 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1745
fa32850b
DW
1746DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1747 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1748
79d4bc3d
PP
1749PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1750 run-time user, instead of root.
1751
43236f35 1752PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1753 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1754
fb08281f
DW
1755DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1756 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1757 arguments.
3346ab01 1758
74935b98
DW
1759DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1760 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1761 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1762
90b6341f
DW
1763DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1764
57730b52
ML
1765NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1766
66581d1e 1767
465e92cf
JJ
1768Exim version 4.72
1769-----------------
1770
453a6645
PP
1771JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1772 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1773 typos
465e92cf 1774
453a6645
PP
1775JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1776 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1777 (Finput)
edae0343 1778
9bd3e22c
NM
1779NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1780 Patch from Alain Williams
1781
bb576ff7
NM
1782NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1783
5a1a5845
NM
1784NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1785 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1786
981a9fad
NM
1787NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1788 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1789
7fc497ee
NM
1790NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1791
1a41defa
JJ
1792JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1793
a466095c 1794NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1795 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1796
94a6bd0b
NM
1797TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1798
1799TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1800
1801MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1802 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1803 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1804
c1b141a8
NM
1805NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1806 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1807
b26eacf1 1808NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1809 Patch by Simon Arlott
1810
179c5980 1811PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1812 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1813
9bd3e22c 1814
7c6d71af
NM
1815Exim version 4.71
1816-----------------
1817
7d9f747b 1818TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1819
f013fb92
NM
1820NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1821
0eb8eedd
NM
1822NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1823
663ee6d9
NM
1824NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1825
177ebd9b
NM
1826NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1827
7c6d71af 1828
210f147e
NM
1829Exim version 4.70
1830-----------------
1831
cdd3bb85 1832TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1833 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1834
1835TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1836 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1837 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1838
1839TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1840 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1841 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1842
1843TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1844 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1845
210f147e
NM
1846NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1847 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1848 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1849 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1850
deafd5b3
NM
1851NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1852 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1853 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1854
089793a4
TF
1855TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1856
5f16ca82
TF
1857TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1858
dae9d94e 1859NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1860 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1861
7d9f747b 1862NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1863
06864c44
TF
1864TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1865 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1866 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1867 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1868
65a7d8c3 1869NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1870 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1871
23510047 1872TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1873
7d9f747b 1874NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1875
7d8eec3a 1876NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1877 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1878
89dec7b6
TF
1879TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1880 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1881
a99de90c
TF
1882TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1883 that they are available at delivery time.
1884
e2803e40
TF
1885TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1886
7199e1ee
TF
1887TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1888 incoming_port log selectors.
1889
e276e04b
TF
1890TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1891 setting expands to an empty string.
1892
ce552449 1893NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1894 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1895
e765a0f1 1896NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1897 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1898
4f054c63 1899NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1900 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1901
7d9f747b
PP
1902NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1903 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1904
7d9f747b
PP
1905NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1906 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1907
b52bc06e 1908NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1909 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1910
447de4b0
NM
1911NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1912
4c69d561 1913NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1914 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1915
d5c39246 1916NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1917 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1918
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1919TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1920
8f3414a1 1921NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1922 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1923
fb6f955d
NM
1924NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1925
1926NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1927
7d9f747b
PP
1928NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1929 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1930
7d9f747b
PP
1931NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1932 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1933
7d9f747b
PP
1934NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1935 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1936
7d9f747b
PP
1937NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1938 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1939
7d9f747b
PP
1940NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1941 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1942
7d9f747b
PP
1943NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1944 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1945
7d9f747b
PP
1946NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1947 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1948
7d9f747b 1949NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1950 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1951
7d9f747b 1952NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1953
7d9f747b
PP
1954NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1955 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1956
7d9f747b 1957NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1958
7d9f747b 1959NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1960
7d9f747b 1961NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1962
7d9f747b 1963NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1964
17792b53 1965NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1966 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1967
7d9f747b
PP
1968NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1969 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1970
91576cec 1971NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1972 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1973
7d9f747b
PP
1974NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1975 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1976
7d9f747b 1977NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1978
7d9f747b 1979NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1980
7d9f747b 1981NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1982
7d9f747b 1983NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1984
deafd5b3 1985
47db1125
NM
1986Exim version 4.69
1987-----------------
1988
4b3504d0
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1989TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1990 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1991 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1992
1993 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1994 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1995 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1996 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1997 build errors in sieve.c.
1998
81ea09ca
NM
1999NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2000 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2001 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2002
f13cddcb
SC
2003SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2004
7d9f747b 2005NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2006
7d9f747b 2007NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2008
7d9f747b 2009NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2010
2011
eb4c0de6
PH
2012Exim version 4.68
2013-----------------
2014
2015PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2016
6a3bceb1
PH
2017PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2018 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2019 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2020 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2021 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2022 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2023 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2024 for iplsearch lookups.
2025
2026 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2027 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2028 previously such lookups could never work.
2029
4c04137d 2030 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2031 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2032 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2033
2e30fa9d
TK
2034TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2035 version.
2036
0806a9c5
MH
2037MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2038 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2039 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2040 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2041 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2042 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2043
ae276964
TK
2044TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2045 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2046
0f2cbd1b
MH
2047MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2048 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2049 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2050 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2051 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2052 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2053
2b85bce7
PH
2054PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2055 local_scan API.
2056
93655c46
PH
2057PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2058
6c512171
PH
2059PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2060 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2061 encrypted.
2062
2063PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2064 by clients under certain conditions.
2065
aa6dc513
PH
2066PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2067 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2068
a96603a0
PH
2069PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2070
8f240103
PH
2071PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2072 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2073
2074PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2075
d677b2f2
PH
2076PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2077
d52120f2
PH
2078PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2079
64f2600a
PH
2080PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2081 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2082
8669f003
PH
2083PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2084
a4dc33a8
PH
2085PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2086 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2087
d6a60c0f
PH
2088PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2089
8f128379
PH
2090PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2091
8932dffe
PH
2092PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2093 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2094 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2095 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2096
ddea74fa 2097PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2098 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2099 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2100
ddea74fa 2101PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2102 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2103
ddea74fa
PH
2104PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2105
ce9f225c
PH
2106PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2107
19897d52
PH
2108PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2109
bc64a74d
PH
2110PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2111 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2112 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2113
eb4c0de6 2114
b4ed4da0
PH
2115Exim version 4.67
2116-----------------
2117
22ad45c9
MH
2118MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2119 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2120 Jan Srzednicki.
2121
b4ed4da0
PH
2122PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2123 issue a MAIL command.
2124
431b7361
PH
2125PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2126
2127 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2128
2129 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2130 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2131 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2132 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2133 item. This has been fixed.
2134
2135PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2136 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2137
83da1223
PH
2138PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2139 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2140
54fc8428
PH
2141PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2142 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2143 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2144
34c5e8dd
SC
2145SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2146
bbe15da8
PH
2147PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2148 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2149 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2150 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2151 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2152
0e8a9471
MH
2153MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2154 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2155 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2156
f0872424
PH
2157PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2158 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2159 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2160 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2161
b01dd148
PH
2162PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2163
6bf342e1
PH
2164PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2165
273f34d0
PH
2166PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2167 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2168 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2169 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2170 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2171
cf8b11a5
PH
2172PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2173
41c7c167
PH
2174PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2175 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2176 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2177 values).
2178
9c57cbc0
PH
2179PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2180
f3f065bb
PH
2181PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2182
047bdd8c
PH
2183PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2184
0ce9abe6
PH
2185PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2186
0e22dfd1
PH
2187PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2188
4c590bd1
PH
2189PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2190 no_callout_flush is set.
2191
09945f1e
PH
2192PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2193 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2194 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2195 fixed.
2196
c51b8e75
PH
2197PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2198
e28326d8 2199PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2200 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2201 other ACL rejections are.
2202
75b1493f
PH
2203PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2204 with slight modification.
2205
7c5214ec
PH
2206PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2207 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2208
4311097e
PH
2209PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2210 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2211 connection.
2212
29f89cad
PH
2213PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2214 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2215
5e687460
SC
2216SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2217
c3611384
PH
2218PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2219 expansion side effects.
2220
5a11a7b4
PH
2221PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2222 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2223 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2224 be the same.
2225
0e20aff9
MH
2226MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2227 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2228 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2229
ca86f471
PH
2230PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2231 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2232 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2233 were accidentally chopped off.
2234
a14e5636
PH
2235PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2236 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2237 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2238 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2239 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2240 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2241 pipelining has not been advertised.
2242
ec95d1a6
PH
2243PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2244
42855d71
PH
2245PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2246 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2247 This has been fixed.
2248
57c2c631
PH
2249PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2250 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2251 reported on Solaris.
2252
58c01c94
PH
2253PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2254 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2255 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2256 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2257 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2258 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2259 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2260
dee5a20a
PH
2261PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2262 cpus.
2263
d2ee6114
PH
2264PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2265
b2d5182b
PH
2266PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2267
79749a79
PH
2268PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2269 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2270 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2271 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2272 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2273 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2274
c456d9bb
PH
2275PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2276 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2277 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2278 host_all_ignored option.
2279
cd9868ec
PH
2280PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2281 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2282 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2283 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2284 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2285 is what is supposed to happen).
2286
ebeaf996
PH
2287PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2288 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2289 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2290 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2291 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2292 uses the Exim user.
2293
2679d413
PH
2294PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2295 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2296 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2297 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2298 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2299 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2300 users.
2301
84024b72
PH
2302PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2303
8005d38e
SC
2304SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2305 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2306 (Jez Hancock).
2307 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2308 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2309
3298c6c6
SC
2310SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2311
a43a27c5
PH
2312PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2313
58eb016e 2314PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2315 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2316 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2317 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2318 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2319 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2320 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2321 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2322 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2323 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2324 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2325
b43a74ea
PH
2326PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2327 advertised in response to EHLO.
2328
b4ed4da0 2329
5dd1517f
PH
2330Exim version 4.66
2331-----------------
2332
2333PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2334 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2335
2336 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2337 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2338
2339 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2340 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2341 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2342
2343 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2344 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2345 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2346 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2347 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2348
2349
93cfa765
TK
2350Exim version 4.65
2351-----------------
2352
2353TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2354 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2355 versions. (#438)
2356
d6066548
MH
2357MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2358 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2359 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2360
4362ff0d
PH
2361PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2362 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2363 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2364 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2365 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2366 rather than extend the field.
2367
93cfa765 2368
944e9e9c
TF
2369Exim version 4.64
2370-----------------
aa41d2de 2371
21d74bd9
TK
2372TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2373 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2374 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2375 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2376 these files.
2377
2378TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2379 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2380 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2381
2382TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2383 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2384 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2385
2386TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2387 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2388 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2389 in the field name.
2390
2b1c6e3a
PH
2391PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2392 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2393 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2394 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2395 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2396 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2397 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2398 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2399 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2400 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2401 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2402
1f872c80
PH
2403PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2404 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2405
2406PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2407 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2408 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2409 ignores EPIPE as well.
2410
d203e649
PH
2411PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2412 (quoted-printable decoding).
2413
cc2ed8f7 2414PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2415 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2416
ddfcd446
PH
2417PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2418
d45b1de8
PH
2419PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2420
2421PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2422
38a0a95f 2423PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2424 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2425
a2405d83
JJ
2426JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2427 in 4.64-PH/09.
2428
2429JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2430 miscellaneous code fixes
2431
6ea85e9a
PH
2432PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2433 rejections.
2434
26da7e20
PH
2435PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2436 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2437 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2438 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2439 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2440 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2441 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2442 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2443
14aa5a05 2444PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2445 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2446 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2447 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2448 function.
2449 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2450 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2451 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2452 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2453 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2454 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2455 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2456 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2457 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2458
ff75a1f7
PH
2459PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2460 decoding.
2461
e6f6568e
PH
2462PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2463 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2464 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2465 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2466 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2467 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2468 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2469 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2470
d6f6e0dc
PH
2471PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2472 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2473 list.
2474
322050c2
PH
2475PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2476 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2477 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2478 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2479 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2480 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2481 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2482 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2483 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2484 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2485 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2486 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2487 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2488
08955dd3
PH
2489PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2490 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2491 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2492 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2493 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2494 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2495 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2496
1eccaa59
PH
2497PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2498 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2499 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2500 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2501 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2502 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2503 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2504 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2505 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2506 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2507
602e59e5
PH
2508PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2509 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2510 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2511 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2512 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2513
411ef850
PH
2514PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2515 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2516 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2517 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2518 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2519 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2520 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2521
7befa435
PH
2522PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2523 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2524 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2525 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2526 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2527 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2528 been verified.
2529
48da4259 2530PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2531 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2532 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2533 and authorization.)
2534
48da4259
PH
2535PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2536 if any retry times were supplied.
2537
d1d5595c
PH
2538PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2539 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2540 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2541
0ef732d9
PH
2542PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2543
328895cc
PH
2544PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2545
fd700877
PH
2546PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2547 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2548 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2549 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2550 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2551 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2552
8dce1a6f
PH
2553PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2554 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2555
17af4a17
PH
2556PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2557 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2558 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2559
2560PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2561 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2562 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2563 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2564 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2565 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2566 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2567 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2568 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2569
2570 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2571 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2572 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2573 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2574 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2575 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2576 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2577 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2578 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2579
2580 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2581 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2582 hammering the server.
2583
c1114884
PH
2584PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2585 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2586
7a0743eb
PH
2587PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2588
0d85fa3f
PH
2589PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2590 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2591 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2592
1bf43b78
PH
2593PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2594 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2595 one case where this was not true.
2596
520de300
PH
2597PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2598 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2599 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2600 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2601 fails.
2602
48c7f9e2
PH
2603PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2604 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2605 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2606 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2607 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2608 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2609 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2610 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2611 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2612 smtp transport.
2613
99ea1c86
PH
2614PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2615 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2616 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2617 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2618
a2042e78
PH
2619PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2620 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2621
4fbcfc2e
PH
2622PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2623 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2624 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2625
aa41d2de
PH
2626PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2627
af561417
PH
2628PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2629
3cc66b45
PH
2630PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2631
194cc0e4
PH
2632PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2633 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2634 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2635 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2636
a401ddaa
PH
2637PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2638 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2639
4e88a19f
PH
2640PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2641 be meaningful with "accept".
2642
d7d7b289
SC
2643SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2644 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2645
2646SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2647 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2648 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2649
2650SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2651 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2652 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2653 there is data to show.
2654 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2655
2656SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2657 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2658 as well as the number of messages.
2659
2660SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2661 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2662 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2663
2664SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2665 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2666 have a flag are now skipped.
2667
2668SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2669 Added the -emptyok flag.
2670
2671SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2672 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2673
0ea2a468
JJ
2674JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2675 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2676 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2677
2678JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2679 match 4.64-PH/13
2680
2681JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2682 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2683
2684JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2685
2686JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2687 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2688
8a10f5a4
PH
2689PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2690
30e18802
PH
2691PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2692 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2693 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2694 contravention of the specifications.
2695
55728a4f
PH
2696PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2697 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2698 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2699
d7837193
PH
2700PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2701 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2702 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2703
87054a31
PH
2704PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2705
ea2c01d2
MH
2706MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2707 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2708 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2709 some point in the past.
2710
e4fa6968
PH
2711PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2712 transport during callout processing was broken.
2713
56f5d9bd
PH
2714PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2715 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2716
922e1c28
PH
2717PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2718 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2719
21eb6e72
PH
2720PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2721 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2722
a0540757
PH
2723PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2724
944e9e9c 2725
478be7b0
SC
2726Exim version 4.63
2727-----------------
2728
2729SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2730 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2731
2732SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2733 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2734 there is data to show.
2735 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2736
2737SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2738 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2739
2b965a65
TF
2740TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2741 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2742
45b91596
PH
2743TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2744 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2745
c59f5781
TF
2746TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2747 submissions from trusted users.
2748
90fc3069
TF
2749TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2750 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2751
6083aca0
TF
2752TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2753 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2754 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2755 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2756 there is now a framework to start from.
2757
765b530f
PH
2758PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2759 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2760 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2761
4e167a8c
PH
2762PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2763
4608d683
PH
2764PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2765
b8dc3e4a
PH
2766PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2767
5418e93b
PH
2768PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2769 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2770 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2771
b4a9bda2
PH
2772PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2773 libradius.
2774
45b91596
PH
2775PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2776 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2777 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2778
5547e2c5
PH
2779PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2780 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2781 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2782 its arguments.
2783
dbcef0ea
PH
2784PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2785 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2786 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2787 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2788 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2789
25257489
PH
2790PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2791 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2792
c816d124
PH
2793PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2794
a9ccd69a
PH
2795PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2796 operations in malware.c.
2797
75fa1910
PH
2798PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2799 signatures.
2800
a7d7aa58
PH
2801PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2802 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2803 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2804 all.
2805
42119b09
PH
2806PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2807 statements to "add_header".
2808
41609df5
PH
2809PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2810 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2811
a5bd321b
PH
2812PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2813 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2814 latter.
2815
e85a7ad5 2816PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2817 so that it is now:
2818
e85a7ad5
PH
2819 ${if or { \
2820 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2821 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2822 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2823 }{no}{yes}}
2824
e85a7ad5
PH
2825 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2826 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2827
d8fe1c03
PH
2828PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2829 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2830
16282d2b
PH
2831PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2832 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2833 any possible encoding problems.
2834
35d40a98
PH
2835PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2836 but not after initializing Perl.
2837
034d99ab
PH
2838PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2839 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2840 apparently, which is not desirable.
2841
6ec97b1b
PH
2842PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2843 queries.
2844
e22ca4ac
JJ
2845JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2846 --not options
2847
2848JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2849
33d73e3b
PH
2850PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2851 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2852 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2853 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2854
9ecb03f3
PH
2855PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2856 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2857 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2858
084efe8d
PH
2859PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2860 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2861 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2862 0.12.
2863
366fc9f0
PH
2864PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2865 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2866 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2867 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2868 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2869
c59f5781 2870
c887c79e
TF
2871Exim version 4.62
2872-----------------
2873
2874TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2875 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2876
1cce3af8
PH
2877PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2878 patch).
2879
afb3eaaf
PH
2880PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2881 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2882 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2883 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2884 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2885 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2886 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2887 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2888 451 error is used.
2889
e173618b
PH
2890PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2891
dd16e114
PH
2892PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2893 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2894 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2895
f7fd3850
PH
2896PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2897 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2898 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2899 odd errors.
2900
d87df92c
PH
2901PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2902 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2903
7e9f683d
PH
2904PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2905 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2906 option (which defaults to 0600).
2907
bfad5236
PH
2908PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2909
01c490df
PH
2910PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2911 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2912 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2913 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2914 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2915 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2916 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2917
d6629cdc
PH
2918PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2919
1cce3af8 2920
214e2000
PH
2921Exim version 4.61
2922-----------------
2923
2924PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2925 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2926 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2927 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2928 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2929 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2930 addresses as local.
2931
f9daeae0
PH
2932PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2933 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2934
7e66e54d
PH
2935PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2936
c8ea1597
PH
2937PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2938 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2939 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2940 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2941 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2942 grumble.
2943
911f6fde
PH
2944PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2945 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2946
47ca6d6c
PH
2947PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2948 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2949 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2950 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2951 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2952
ed0e9820
PH
2953PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2954 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2955 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2956 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2957
eff37e47
PH
2958PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2959 be the same on different OS.
2960
1921d2ea
PH
2961PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2962 testing.
2963
b3f69ca8
JJ
2964JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2965 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2966
2967JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2968 in 4.61-PH/06
2969
424a1c63
PH
2970PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2971 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2972 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2973 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2974 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2975 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2976 bounce message.
2977
7a100415
PH
2978PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2979 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2980 when Exim was called.
2981
19b9dc85
PH
2982PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2983 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2984
309bd837
PH
2985PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2986 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2987 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2988 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2989
59e82a2a
PH
2990PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2991 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2992 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2993 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2994 changes:
2995
2996 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2997 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 2998 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
2999
3000 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3001 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3002 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3003
9edc04ce
PH
3004PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3005 feature).
3006
1349e1e5
PH
3007PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3008 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3009 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3010 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3011 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3012 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3013 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3014 values from the SRV records were lost.
3015
ea49d0e1
PH
3016PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3017 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3018 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3019
064a94c9
PH
3020PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3021 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3022 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3023
727071f8
PH
3024PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3025 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3026 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3027 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3028 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3029 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3030 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3031 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3032 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3033 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3034
f78eb7c6
PH
3035PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3036 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3037 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3038
21c28500
PH
3039PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3040 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3041
3042PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3043 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3044 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3045 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3046 is given.
3047
1688f43b
PH
3048PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3049 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3050 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3051
3052PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3053 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3054 PH/23 above applies.
3055
9675b384
PH
3056PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3057 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3058 (for which there is an explicit test).
3059
6a3f1455
PH
3060PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3061
dac79d3e
PH
3062PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3063 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3064 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3065 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3066 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3067
5977a0b3
PH
3068PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3069 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3070 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3071 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3072
c91535f3
PH
3073PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3074 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3075 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3076
0d46a8c8
PH
3077PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3078
278c6e6c
PH
3079PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3080
2cbb4081
PH
3081PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3082 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3083 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3084
3eef829e
PH
3085PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3086 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3087 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3088 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3089 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3090
1ab95fa6
PH
3091PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3092 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3093 the message gets confusing).
3094
230205fc
PH
3095PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3096 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3097 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3098 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3099
75e0e026
PH
3100PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3101 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3102 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3103 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3104 same order.
3105
3106PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3107 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3108 the different processes.
3109
145396a6
PH
3110PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3111
3cd34f13
PH
3112PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3113
11121d3d
JJ
3114JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3115 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3116
3117JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3118 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3119
3120JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3121 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3122 messages matching specified criteria.
3123
8def5aaf
PH
3124PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3125
929ba01c
PH
3126PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3127 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3128
2632889e
PH
3129PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3130 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3131 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3132 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3133 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3134 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3135 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3136 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3137 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3138 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3139
944a9c55
PH
3140PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3141 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3142 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3143
4a23603b
PH
3144PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3145
4730f942
PH
3146PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3147 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3148 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3149 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3150 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3151 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3152 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3153 the variable.
3154
30dba1e6
PH
3155PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3156 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3157
382afc6b
PH
3158PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3159
a86229cf
PH
3160PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3161
50c99ba6
PH
3162PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3163
d35e429d
PH
3164PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3165 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3166 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3167 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3168 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3169 size of the count of files.
3170
f90d018c
PH
3171PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3172
75def545
PH
3173PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3174 used in LMTP mode:
3175
3176 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3177 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3178 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3179 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3180
3181 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3182 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3183 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3184
3185PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3186 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3187 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3188 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3189 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3190
c46782ef
PH
3191PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3192 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3193
71fafd95
PH
3194PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3195 will now be deprecated.
3196
2c5db4fd
PH
3197PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3198
9cf6b11a
JJ
3199JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3200 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3201 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3202
3203JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3204 with very large, slow to parse queues
3205
3206JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3207
3208JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3209
898d150f
PH
3210PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3211 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3212 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3213 SMTP output lines.
3214
46218253
PH
3215PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3216 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3217 Sieve code now uses this.
3218
e97957bc
PH
3219PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3220 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3221
81e509d7
PH
3222PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3223 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3224
3d240ff7
PH
3225PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3226
b37c4101
PH
3227PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3228 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3229 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3230 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3231 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3232
79378e0f
PH
3233PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3234 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3235 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3236 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3237
e49c7bb4
PH
3238PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3239
d114ec46
PH
3240PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3241
f3d7df6c
PH
3242PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3243 is preferred over IPv4.
3244
715ab376
PH
3245PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3246 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3247 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3248 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3249 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3250 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3251 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3252
6b31b150
PH
3253PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3254 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3255 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3256
3257PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3258
d515a917
PH
3259PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3260 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3261 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3262 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3263 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3264 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3265 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3266 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3267 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3268 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3269 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3270
9b8fadde
PH
3271PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3272 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3273 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3274
214e2000 3275
5de37277
PH
3276Exim version 4.60
3277-----------------
3278
cc38ddbf
PH
3279PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3280
3281 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3282 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3283
3284 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3285 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3286 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3287
72fdd6ae
PH
3288PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3289
3290 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3291 not a single digit.
3292
3293 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3294 string.
3295
3296 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3297 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3298 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3299 silly things.
3300
3301 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3302 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3303
3304 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3305 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3306
cb741023
PH
3307PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3308 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3309 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3310
f174f16e
PH
3311PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3312 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3313
c25242d7
PH
3314PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3315 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3316
3317 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3318
3319 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3320 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3321 this:
3322
3323 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3324
82c19f95
PH
3325PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3326 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3327 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3328 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3329 identical. For example:
3330
3331 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3332
3333 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3334 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3335 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3336
d7ffbc12
PH
3337PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3338 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3339 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3340 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3341
9f526266
PH
3342PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3343 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3344 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3345 message.
3346
87fcc8b9
PH
3347PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3348
3349 o fixes some comments
3350 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3351 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3352 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3353 and documents the missing references header update
3354
3355 and most important:
3356
3357 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3358 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3359 result)
3360
456682f5
PH
3361PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3362 Electronic Mail") by including:
3363
3364 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3365
3366 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3367 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3368 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3369 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3370 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3371
3372 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3373
3374 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3375
3376 The auto-replied keyword:
3377
3378 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3379 message by an automatic process,
3380
3381 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3382
3383 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3384 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3385
3386 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3387 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3388 other messages.
3389
3e46c1aa
PH
3390PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3391 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3392
49826d12
PH
3393PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3394
eba0c039
PH
3395PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3396 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3397 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3398
a0d6ba8a
PH
3399PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3400 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3401 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3402
f0917727
PH
3403PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3404 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3405 and treats the condition as false.
3406
096fee00
PH
3407PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3408
024bd3c2
PH
3409PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3410 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3411 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3412 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3413 not changing the active code.
3414
3415 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3416 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3417
3418 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3419 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3420
df199fec
PH
3421PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3422 (Bugzilla #53).
3423
d27f1df3
PH
3424PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3425 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3426 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3427 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3428 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3429 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3430 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3431 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3432 the text comparison.
3433
96776534
PH
3434PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3435 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3436 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3437 The same fix has been applied.
3438
5de37277 3439
9a799bc0
PH
3440Exim version 4.54
3441-----------------
3442
3443PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3444 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3445 It now does.
3446
99a4b039
PH
3447PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3448 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3449
3450PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3451
4b233853
PH
3452PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3453 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3454 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3455 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3456 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3457
8857ccfd
PH
3458TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3459 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3460 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3461 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3462 or /domain=).
3463
433a2980
PH
3464PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3465 testing suite.
3466
3e46c1aa 3467
9a799bc0 3468
e3a311ba
TK
3469Exim version 4.53
3470-----------------
3471
3472TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3473 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3474
13b685f9
PH
3475PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3476
395ff96d
PH
3477PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3478
5b68f6e4
PH
3479PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3480 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3481 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3482
1ab52c69
PH
3483PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3484 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3485 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3486
b07e6aa3
PH
3487PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3488 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3489 operating systems.
3490
254e032f
PH
3491PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3492 ${stat: expansion item.
3493
3af76a81
PH
3494PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3495 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3496
2548ba04
PH
3497PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3498 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3499 file for comments.
3500
b6c6011d
PH
3501PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3502
cf39cf57
PH
3503PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3504 setting.
3505
f1513293
PH
3506PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3507 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3508
727549a4
PH
3509TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3510
af46795e
PH
3511PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3512 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3513 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3514 the end of the subprocess.
3515
d7b47fd0
PH
3516PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3517 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3518 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3519 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3520 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3521
ee744174
JJ
3522JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3523
b582ab87
PH
3524TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3525
41a13e0a
PH
3526PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3527 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3528
f625cc5a
PH
3529PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3530
3531PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3532
21f7af35
PH
3533PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3534 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3535 HP-UX compiler.
3536
31480e42
PH
3537PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3538
2d280592
PH
3539PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3540 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3541 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3542
7cd1141b
PH
3543PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3544 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3545
3546PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3547 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3548
750af86e
PH
3549PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3550 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3551
3552 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3553 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3554
3555 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3556 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3557 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3558 contributed by a Radius user.
3559
3560PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3561 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3562
4304270b
TK
3563TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3564 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3565
750af86e
PH
3566PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3567 available.
3568
64ffc24f
PH
3569PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3570 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3571 received.
3572
5dd9625b
PH
3573PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3574 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3575 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3576 header lines when this was not necessary.
3577
5591031b
PH
3578PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3579
ba18e66a
PH
3580PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3581 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3582 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3583 exists".
3584
9cec981f
PH
3585PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3586 -bV or -d is used.
3587
aa2b5c79
PH
3588PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3589 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3590 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3591 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3592
48a53b7f
PH
3593PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3594
1c59d63b
PH
3595PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3596
671012da
TK
3597TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3598
1509d3a8
PH
3599PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3600
3601PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3602 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3603 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3604 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3605 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3606 settings.
3607
3608PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3609
2fe1a124
PH
3610PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3611 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3612 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3613 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3614 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3615 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3616 which is clearly wrong.
3617
8800895a
PH
3618PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3619
ccfdb010
PH
3620PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3621 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3622 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3623 subsequently added.
3624
1130bfb0
PH
3625PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3626 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3627
ebcb507f
PH
3628PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3629
c35e155c
PH
3630PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3631 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3632
95d1f782
PH
3633PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3634 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3635
fd6de02e
PH
3636PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3637 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3638
58de37c5
PH
3639PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3640 recipients, not senders.
3641
261cf466
TF
3642TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3643 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3644
3ee512ff
PH
3645PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3646
e08c430f
PH
3647PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3648
bef5a11f
PH
3649PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3650 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3651 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3652 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3653
7546de58
TF
3654TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3655
e5d5a95f
TF
3656TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3657 clock is set back in time.
3658
2e88a017
TF
3659TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3660 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3661
a5f65aa4
TF
3662TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3663 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3664
e7726cbf
PH
3665PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3666 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3667 (see PH/47 above).
3668
a7fdad5b
TF
3669TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3670 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3671 header rewrites.
3672
6af56900
PH
3673PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3674 type ("H").
3675
0925ede6
PH
3676PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3677
66afa403
TF
3678TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3679 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3680 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3681
0154e85a
TF
3682TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3683 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3684 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3685 helo verification defer as a failure.
3686
16f12c76
PH
3687PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3688 actual error message.
3689
bbe902f0 3690
e5a9dba6
PH
3691Exim version 4.52
3692-----------------
3693
3694TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3695
22c3b60b
PH
3696PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3697 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3698 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3699 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3700
06a9b4b5
PH
3701TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3702
c1ac6996
PH
3703PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3704 can still be requested.
3705
9c7a242c
PH
3706PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3707 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3708 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3709 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3710
87ba3f5f
PH
3711TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3712 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3713 circumstances, but probably never did.
3714
3715PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3716 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3717 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3718 in the header line.
3719
29aba418
TF
3720TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3721
fe0dab11
TF
3722TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3723 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3724
11d337a4
TK
3725TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3726
3727TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3728
415c8f3b
PH
3729PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3730 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3731 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3732 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3733 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3734 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3735
958541e9
PH
3736PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3737 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3738 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3739 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3740 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3741 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3742
c206415f
TK
3743TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3744 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3745
2a4be8f9
PH
3746PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3747 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3748
1cba11c5
SC
3749SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3750 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3751
4c04137d 3752SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3753
3754SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3755
3756SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3757
3758SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3759
3760SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3761
3762SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3763
1005d00e
TK
3764TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3765
3766TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3767 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3768 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3769
3770TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3771 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3772 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3773 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3774
9b4768fa
PH
3775PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3776 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3777 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3778
3779PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3780 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3781 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3782 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3783
0d7eb84a
PH
3784PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3785 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3786 to be made).
3787
3788PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3789 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3790 should work with maildirs and everything.
3791
40727bee
TK
3792TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3793 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3794
554d2369
TF
3795TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3796 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3797
1f922db1
PH
3798PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3799 function for BDB 4.3.
3800
ef213c3b
PH
3801PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3802
8ac170f3
PH
3803PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3804 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3805 involved.
3806
b1c749bb
PH
3807PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3808 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3809 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3810 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3811 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3812 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3813
4aac9b49
PH
3814PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3815 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3816 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3817 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3818 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3819 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3820 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3821 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3822
294520c8
TK
3823TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3824 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3825 details.
3826
5bd022fe
PH
3827PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3828 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3829
90e9ce59
PH
3830PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3831 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3832 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3833 test. It is now used for both.
3834
5ea81592
PH
3835PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3836 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3837 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3838 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3839 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3840 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3841
c6c2dc1d
PH
3842PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3843 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3844 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3845 string_vformat().
3846
fffffe4c
PH
3847PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3848 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3849 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3850
9a26b6b2
PH
3851PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3852 experimental DomainKeys support:
3853
3854 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3855 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3856 the control was given.
3857
3858 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3859
4aee0225
PH
3860PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3861
32d668a5
PH
3862PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3863
8187c3f3
PH
3864PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3865 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3866 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3867 db.h files).
3868
ff790e47 3869PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3870 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3871 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3872 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3873 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3874 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3875 course.
ff790e47 3876
5417f6d1
PH
3877PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3878 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3879 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3880 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3881 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3882 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3883
59cf8544
PH
3884PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3885 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3886 do -d+all out of habit.
3887
e7ad8a65
PH
3888PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3889 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3890 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3891
ade42478
PH
3892PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3893 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3894 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3895 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3896 record types that Exim uses.
3897
182ad5cf
PH
3898PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3899 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3900 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3901 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3902 non-existent file that was broken.
3903
b0d9fc80
TK
3904TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3905 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3906
3907TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3908 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3909 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3910
3911TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3912
47c7a64a
PH
3913PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3914 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3915 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3916 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3917 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3918 same time.
3919
a388bce4
SC
3920SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3921 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3922 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3923 at a slight CPU cost.
3924
3925SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3926 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3927
3928SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3929 by Marc Sherman.
3930
0793e4ed
SC
3931SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3932
c58b88df
PH
3933PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3934 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3935
e7ad8a65 3936
7982096b
PH
3937Exim version 4.51
3938-----------------
3939
1a46a8c5
PH
3940TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3941 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3942
2f079f46 3943TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3944
3945TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3946
3947PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3948 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3949
3950PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3951 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3952 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3953 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3954 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3955 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3956 file.
3957
3958PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3959 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3960 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3961 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3962 these two options.
3963
3964PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3965 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3966 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3967 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3968 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3969 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3970 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3971 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3972
3973PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3974 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3975
3976PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3977 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3978 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3979 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3980 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3981 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3982
3983PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3984 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3985 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3986 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3987
3988PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3989 Finch).
3990
3991PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3992 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3993
49c2d5ea
PH
3994PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3995 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3996 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3997 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3998 message.
49c2d5ea 3999
bf759a8b
PH
4000PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4001
83364d30
PH
4002PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4003 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4004
7999bbd7
PH
4005PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4006 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4007 to what was transported.)
4008
7dbf77c9
PH
4009TF/01 Added $received_time.
4010
74e0617f
PH
4011PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4012 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4013 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4014 spamd_address settings.
4015
2f079f46
PH
4016PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4017 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4018 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4019 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4020 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4021
8c841523
PH
4022PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4023
7766a4f0
PH
4024PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4025 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4026 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4027 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4028 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4029
8b417f2c
PH
4030PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4031 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4032
901f42cb
PH
4033PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4034 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4035 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4036 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4037 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4038 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4039 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4040 for failure.
4041
f9b9210e
PH
4042PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4043 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4044 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4045 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4046 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4047 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4048 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4049 "input=".
4050
54cdb463
PH
4051PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4052
cf00dad6
PH
4053PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4054 driver and ACL definitions.
4055
acb1b346
PH
4056PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4057 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4058
c5ddb310
PH
4059PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4060 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4061 understands it better than I do:
4062
4063 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4064 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4065
4066 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4067 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4068 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4069 => three warnings about OTP not working
4070 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4071
4072 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4073 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4074 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4075 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4076 for each call.)
4077 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4078 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4079
4080 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4081 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4082 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4083
31619da6
PH
4084PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4085 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4086 specified.
4087
bebaf0fc
PH
4088PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4089 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4090 "Linux".
4091
475fe28a
PH
4092PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4093 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4094 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4095
4096 warn !verify = sender
4097 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4098
4099 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4100 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4101
7e8bec7a
PH
4102PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4103
4104 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4105 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4106
4107 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4108 nomenclature these days.)
4109
e4a89c47
PH
4110PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4111 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4112
5ca2a9a1
PH
4113PH/30 In these circumstances:
4114 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4115 . First host does not offer TLS;
4116 . First host accepts first address;
4117 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4118 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4119 . Second host accepts second address.
4120 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4121 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4122 address.
7e8bec7a 4123
c688b954
PH
4124PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4125 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4126 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4127 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4128 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4129
fed77020
PH
4130PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4131 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4132
7fe1560f
PH
4133PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4134 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4135
ebb6e6d5
PH
4136PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4137 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4138 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4139
9c4e8f60
PH
4140PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4141 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4142 overlooked.
4143
4144PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4145
d7174846
PH
4146PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4147 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4148 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4149 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4150 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4151 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4152 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4153
4154 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4155 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4156 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4157 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4158 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4159
4160 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4161 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4162 routed further.
4163
cfe75fc3
PH
4164PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4165 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4166 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4167 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4168 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4169 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4170
be22d70e
PH
4171PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4172
0612b098
PH
4173PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4174 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4175 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4176 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4177 printable escape sequences.
4178
2e0c1448
PH
4179PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4180 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4181 body only.
4182
447d236c
PH
4183PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4184 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4185 are as follows:
4186
4187 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4188 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4189 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4190 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4191 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4192
4193 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4194 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4195 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4196
d20976dc
PH
4197PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4198
f656d135
PH
4199PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4200 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4201 play with."
4202
2e2a30b4
PH
4203PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4204 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4205 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4206 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4207 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4208 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4209 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4210 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4211 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4212 the log output.
4213
9176e9f0
PH
4214PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4215 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4216 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4217 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4218 "make".
4219
7982096b 4220
bbe902f0
PH
4221A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4222----------------------------------------
4223
4224Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4225changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4226needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4227in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4228that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4229release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4230from 4.43.
4231
4232I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
42334.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4234those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4235historical information.
4236
4237
f7b63901 4238Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4239-----------------
4240
5fe762f6
PH
4241 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4242
139059f6 4243 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4244 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4245
7086e875
PH
4246 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4247 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4248 place.
4249
35af9f61
PH
4250 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4251 filter fails to execute.
4252
b668c215
PH
4253 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4254 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4255 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4256 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4257 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4258
a494b1e1
PH
4259 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4260
4261 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4262 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4263 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4264 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4265
c5fcb476
PH
4266 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4267 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4268 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4269 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4270 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4271
69358f02
PH
4272 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4273
5be20824
PH
427410. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4275
eb2c0248
PH
427611. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4277 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4278 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4279 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4280
2a3eea10
PH
428112. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4282 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4283 sender verification.
4284
428513. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4286 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4287
23c7ff99
PH
428814. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4289
4deaf07d
PH
429015. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4291 connection timeout.
4292
926e1192
PH
429316. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4294 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4295
650edc6f
PH
429617. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4297 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4298
2c7db3f5
PH
429918. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4300 information about exactly what failed.
4301
3d235903
PH
430219. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4303
7c7ad977
PH
430420. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4305 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4306 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4307
981756db
PH
430821. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4309 It is now set to "smtps".
4310
d4eb88df
PH
431122. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4312 ignore_target_hosts.
4313
431423. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4315 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4316 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4317 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4318 "[x.x.x.x]".
4319
7d468ab8
PH
432024. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4321 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4322 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4323
432425. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4325 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4326 wake it up if nothing else does.
4327
62c0818f
PH
432826. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4329 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4330 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4331 end up negative.
4332
26034054
PH
433327. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4334 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4335
af66f652
PH
433628. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4337
90af77f4
PH
433829. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4339 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4340 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4341 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4342 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4343 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4344 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4345 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4346
d8ef3577
PH
434730. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4348 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4349 than one IP address.
4350
5cb8cbc6
PH
435131. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4352 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4353 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4354 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4355
14702f5b
PH
435632. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4357 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4358 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4359 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4360 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4361 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4362
063b1e99
PH
436333. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4364 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4365 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4366 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4367
652e1b65
PH
436834. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4369 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4370 respected.
4371
6f0c9a4f
PH
437235. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4373 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4374 $sender_host_address.
4375
33397d19
PH
437636. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4377 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4378 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4379 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4380 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4381 very small.
4382
7bb56e1f
PH
438337. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4384
4385 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4386 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4387
ea3bc19b
PH
4388 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4389 just the host names, not the priorities.
4390
4391 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4392 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4393 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4394
ea3bc19b 4395 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4396 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4397
0bcb2a0e
PH
439838. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4399 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4400 domain.
4401
2ac0e484
PH
440239. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4403
4e1fde53
PH
440440. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4405 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4406
de365ded
PH
440741. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4408 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4409 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4410
f05da2e8
PH
441142. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4412
d6453af2
PH
441343. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4414
f7b63901
PH
441544. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4416
441745. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4418 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4419 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4420 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4421 because the tests only now provoked it.
4422
a444213a
PH
442346. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4424 (this can affect the format of dates).
4425
0ec020ea
PH
442647. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4427 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4428 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4429 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4430
b1206957
PH
443148. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4432
443349. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4434 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4435 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4436 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4437
26dd5a95
PH
443850. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4439 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4440 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4441
343b2385
PH
444251. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4443 autoreply.
4444
1c5466b9
PH
444552. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4446 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4447 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4448 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4449 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4450 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4451 is going on).
4452
55ee9ee3
PH
445353. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4454 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4455 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4456 the line.
4457
d38f8232
PH
445854. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4459 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4460 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4461
4462 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4463 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4464 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4465 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4466 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4467 so I produce this patch..."
4468
3295e65b
PH
4469 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4470 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4471 is not defined.
4472
7102e136
PH
447355. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4474 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4475 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4476 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4477 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4478
3ca0ba97
PH
447956. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4480
c2bcbe20
PH
448157. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4482 long debug lines gets shown.
4483
18ce445d
PH
448458. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4485 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4486
1f5b4c3d
PH
448759. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4488
4489 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4490 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4491 of $primary_hostname.
4492
b975ba52
PH
449360. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4494 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4495 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4496 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4497 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4498 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4499 by change 4.50/55 above.
4500
4501 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4502 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4503 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4504 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4505 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4506 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4507 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4508
450961. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4510 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4511 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4512 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4513
17ffcae7
PH
451462. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4515 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4516
d95f9fdb
PH
451763. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4518 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4519 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4520 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4521 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4522
86b8287f
PH
452364. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4524 This has been fixed.
4525
60dc5e56
PH
452665. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4527 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4528 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4529 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4530 the caching.)
4531
533244af
PH
453266. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4533
a5a28604
PH
453467. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4535 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4536 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4537 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4538
7e634d24
PH
453968. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4540 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4541
3e11c26b
PH
454269. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4543 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4544 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4545
6729cf78
PH
454670. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4547 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4548 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4549 message there.
4550
00f00ca5
PH
455171. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4552 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4553 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4554
c9bdd01c
PH
455572. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4556 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4557 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4558 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4559
d43194df
PH
456073. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4561 during host lookups.
4562
fe5b5d0b
PH
456374. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4564 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4565
4566 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4567
76a2d7ba
PH
456875. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4569 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4570 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4571 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4572 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4573 background.
4574
457576. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4576 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4577
04f7d5b9
PH
457877. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4579 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4580 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4581
bc60667e
PH
458278. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4583
bb6e88ff
PH
458479. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4585 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4586 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4587 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4588 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4589 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4590 process earlier.
4591
1e70f85b
PH
459280. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4593 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4594 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4595 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4596 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4597
459881. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4599 tables).
4600
4e01f9d6
PH
460182. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4602
1ee1cef2
PH
460383. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4604 "vacation" handling.
4605
6e2b4ccc
PH
460684. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4607 OS variants using glibc.
4608
8e669ac1
PH
460985. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4610
495ae4b0 4611
bbe902f0
PH
4612----------------------------------------------------
4613See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4614----------------------------------------------------
4615
4616
4617Exim version 4.44
4618-----------------
4619
4620 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4621 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4622 transport
4623
4624 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4625 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4626 place.
4627
4628 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4629 filter fails to execute.
4630
4631 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4632 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4633 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4634 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4635 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4636
4637 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4638 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4639 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4640 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4641
4642 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4643 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4644 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4645 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4646 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4647
4648 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4649
4650 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4651 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4652 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4653 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4654
4655 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4656 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4657 sender verification.
4658
465910. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4660 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4661
466211. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4663 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4664
466512. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4666 ignore_target_hosts.
4667
466813. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4669 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4670 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4671 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4672 "[x.x.x.x]".
4673
467414. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4675 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4676 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4677
467815. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4679 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4680 wake it up if nothing else does.
4681
468216. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4683 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4684 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4685 end up negative.
4686
468717. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4688 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4689
ea3a6f44 469018. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4691
469219. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4693 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4694 empty pattern.
4695
469620. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4697 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4698 one IP address.
4699
ea3a6f44
NM
470021. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4701 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4702 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4703 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4704 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4705 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4706
ea3a6f44
NM
470722. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4708 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4709 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4710
471123. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4712 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4713 $sender_host_address.
4714
471524. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4716
ea3a6f44
NM
471725. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4718 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4719 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4720
472126. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4722 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4723
ea3a6f44
NM
472427. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4725 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4726
ea3a6f44
NM
472728. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4728 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4729 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4730 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4731
473229. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4733 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4734 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4735
ea3a6f44
NM
473630. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4737 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4738 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4739 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4740
ea3a6f44
NM
474131. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4742 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4743 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4744
ea3a6f44
NM
474531. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4746 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4747
ea3a6f44
NM
474832. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4749 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4750 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4751 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4752 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4753 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4754 is going on).
bbe902f0 4755
ea3a6f44
NM
475633. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4757 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4758 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4759 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4760 CAN-2005-0021
4761
ea3a6f44
NM
476234. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4763 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4764 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4765 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4766 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4767 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4768 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4769
4770 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4771 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4772 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4773 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4774 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4775 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4776 CAN-2005-0021
4777
ea3a6f44
NM
477835. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4779 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4780 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4781 CAN-2005-0022
4782
ea3a6f44
NM
478336. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4784 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4785 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4786 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4787 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4788
ea3a6f44
NM
478937. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4790 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4791 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4792 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4793 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4794
ea3a6f44
NM
479538. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4796 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4797 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4798 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4799 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4800
4801
495ae4b0
PH
4802Exim version 4.43
4803-----------------
4804
4805 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4806 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4807 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4808 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4809 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4810 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4811 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4812
4813 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4814 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4815 the delivery.
4816
4817 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4818
4819 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4820
4821 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4822 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4823 to local_scan().
4824
4825 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4826 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4827 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4828 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4829 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4830
4831 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4832 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4833
4834 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4835
4836 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4837
483810. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4839 header_sender only.
4840
484111. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4842 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4843
484412. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4845 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4846 affecting debugging statements).
4847
484813. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4849
485014. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4851 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4852 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4853 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4854 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4855 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4856 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4857 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4858 after the received time, and all would be well.
4859
486015. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4861 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4862 condition in an expansion string.
4863
486416. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4865
486617. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4867 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4868 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4869 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4870 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4871 job under whatever limits there are.
4872
487318. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4874
487519. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4876 space).
4877
487820. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4879 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4880 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4881 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4882 return path is set.
4883
488421. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4885 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4886 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4887 binary data in such strings.
4888
488922. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4890
489123. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4892 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4893 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4894 failure, which is pointless.
4895
489624. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4897
489825. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4899
490026. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4901 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4902 Sender: header lines.
4903
490427. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4905 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4906 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4907
490828. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4909 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4910 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4911 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4912 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4913 happens.
4914
491529. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4916 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4917 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4918 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4919 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4920
492130. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4922 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4923 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4924 1024.
4925
492631. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4927 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4928
492932. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4930 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4931
493233. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4933
493432. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4935
493633. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4937
493834. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4939 syntax error.
4940
494135. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4942
494336. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4944
494537. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4946 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4947 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4948 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4949
495038. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4951 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4952
4953
4954Exim version 4.42
4955-----------------
4956
4957 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4958 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4959 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4960 it was not quoted.
4961 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4962 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4963 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4964 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4965 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4966 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4967
4968 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4969 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4970 verification failure".
4971
4972 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4973 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4974 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4975 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4976
4977 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4978 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4979 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4980 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4981 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4982 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4983 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4984 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4985 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4986 treated as a timeout.
4987
4988 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4989 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4990 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4991 not set for Exim filters).
4992
4993 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4994 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4995 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4996
4997 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4998
4999 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5000 try to make them clearer.
5001
5002 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5003 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5004
5005 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5006
5007 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5008
500910. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5010 only the Cygwin environment.
5011
501211. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5013 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5014 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5015 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5016 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5017
501812. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5019 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5020 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5021 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5022 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5023 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5024 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5025
502613. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5027 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5028
502914. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5030
5031 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5032 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5033 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5034
5035 To: susanne@some.where
5036
5037 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5038 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5039 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5040 of addresses in From: header lines).
5041
5042 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5043 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5044 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5045
5046 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5047 treated as non-personal.
5048
5049 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5050 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5051
505215. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5053
505416. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5055
505617. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5057 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5058 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5059
506018. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5061 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5062
506319. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5064 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5065 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5066 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5067 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5068 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5069
507020. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5071 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5072 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5073 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5074 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5075 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5076 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5077 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5078
5079 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5080
508121. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5082 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5083
508422. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5085 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5086 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5087
508823. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5089 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5090
509124. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5092 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5093 rather than long int.
5094
509525. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5096
509726. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5098
5099
5100Exim version 4.41
5101-----------------
5102
5103 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5104 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5105 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5106 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5107 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5108 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5109
5110
5111Exim version 4.40
5112-----------------
5113
5114 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5115 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5116
5117 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5118 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5119 socklen_t is defined.
5120
5121 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5122 always exist.
5123
5124 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5125 configured.
5126
5127 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5128 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5129 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5130 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5131 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5132
5133 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5134 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5135 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5136 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5137
5138 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5139 of flapping under certain conditions.
5140
5141 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5142 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5143 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5144
5145 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5146
514710. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5148
514911. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5150 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5151 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5152 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5153
515412. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5155 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5156 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5157 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5158 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5159 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5160 preserved with the message after it was received.
5161
516213. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5163 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5164 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5165 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5166 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5167 test suite worked just fine.
5168
516914. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5170 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5171 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5172
517315. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5174 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5175 string.
5176
517716. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5178 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5179 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5180 does not fully solve it.
5181
518217. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5183 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5184 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5185 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5186 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5187
518818. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5189 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5190 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5191
519219. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5193 string, for example:
5194
5195 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5196
5197 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5198 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5199 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5200 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5201 the routers could not see them.
5202
520320. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5204 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5205
520621. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5207 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5208 output).
5209
521022. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5211 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5212 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5213 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5214 that needed quoting.
5215
521623. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5217 was not being matched caselessly.
5218
521924. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5220 backslashes.
5221
522225. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5223 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5224 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5225 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5226 when use_sender is false.
5227
522826. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5229
523027. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5231
523228. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5233
523429. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5235 the configuration file.
5236
523730. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5238 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5239
524031. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5241
524232. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5243 bytes in the message body.
5244
524533. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5246 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5247 delivery.
5248
524934. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5250
525135. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5252
525336. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5254 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5255 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5256 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5257 another IP address.
5258
5259
5260Exim version 4.34
5261-----------------
5262
5263 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5264 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5265
5266 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5267 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5268 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5269 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5270 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5271
5272 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5273 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5274
5275 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5276 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5277 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5278
5279 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5280 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5281 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5282
5283 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5284 for routers.
5285
5286 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5287 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5288 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5289 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5290 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5291 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5292 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5293
5294
5295Exim version 4.33
5296-----------------
5297
5298 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5299 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5300 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5301 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5302 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5303 default (and expected) setting.
5304
5305 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5306 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5307 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5308 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5309
5310 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5311 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5312
5313 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5314 in domain lists.
5315
5316 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5317 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5318 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5319 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5320 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5321 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5322
5323 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5324 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5325 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5326
5327 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5328 part (NOT match_host).
5329
5330 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5331
5332 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5333 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5334 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5335 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5336 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5337 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5338 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5339 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5340 the same named file.
5341
534210. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5343 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5344 when Exim is built.
5345
534611. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5347 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5348 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5349 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5350 a host name.
5351
535212. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5353 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5354 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5355
535613. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5357
535814. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5359
536015. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5361
536216. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5363 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5364
536517. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5366 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5367 before starting the TLS session.
5368
536918. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5370
537119. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5372 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5373
537420. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5375 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5376 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5377 colon in the middle).
5378
5379
5380Exim version 4.32
5381-----------------
5382
5383 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5384 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5385 multiple configurations are in use.
5386
5387 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5388 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5389 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5390 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5391 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5392 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5393
5394 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5395 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5396
5397 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5398 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5399 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5400
5401 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5402 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5403 occurs.
5404
5405 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5406 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5407
5408 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5409
5410 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5411 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5412
5413 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5414
5415 -prval:sval
5416
5417 is equivalent to
5418
5419 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5420
5421 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5422 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5423 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5424 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5425 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5426
542710. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5428 Exim's behaviour:
5429
5430 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5431 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5432 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5433 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5434 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5435 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5436
5437 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5438 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5439 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5440 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5441 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5442 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5443 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5444 string.
5445
5446 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5447 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5448 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5449 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5450 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5451
545211. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5453
545412. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5455 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5456 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5457
545813. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5459
546014. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5461 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5462 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5463 information.
5464
546515. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5466 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5467
546816. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5469 Three changes have been made:
5470
5471 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5472 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5473 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5474 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5475 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5476
5477 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5478 been restored.
5479
5480 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5481 the modified behaviour.
5482
5483
5484Exim version 4.31
5485-----------------
5486
5487 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5488 Larry Rosenman.
5489
5490 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5491 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5492
5493 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5494 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5495 try to track down a specific problem.
5496
5497 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5498 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5499 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5500
5501 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5502 warning.
5503
5504 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5505 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5506 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5507 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5508 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5509 some earlier ones do not.
5510
5511 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5512
5513 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5514 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5515 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5516 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5517 address literals are enabled, of course).
5518
5519 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5520
552110. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5522 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5523 by a command such as
5524
5525 exim -f "" ...
5526
5527 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5528
552911. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5530
553112. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5532 remained set. It is now erased.
5533
553413. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5535 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5536
553714. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5538 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5539 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5540 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5541 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5542 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5543 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5544 appropriate error code.
5545
554615. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5547 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5548 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5549 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5550 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5551 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5552
555316. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5554 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5555 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5556
555717. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5558 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5559 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5560 terminate the header.
5561
556218. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5563 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5564 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5565
556619. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5567 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5568 (4.30/29). In particular:
5569
5570 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5571 imposed.
5572
5573 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5574 to write a maildirsize file.
5575
5576 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5577 the transport, the new value overrides.
5578
5579 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5580 count.
5581
558220. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5583 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5584 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5585 space or a tab.
5586
558721. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5588 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5589 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5590 the fallback hosts.
5591
559222. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5593 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5594 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5595
559623. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5597 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5598 using a union.
5599
560024. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5601 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5602 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5603
560425. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5605
560626. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5607
560827. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5609
561028. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5611 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5612 become corrupted.
5613
561429. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5615 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5616 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5617 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5618 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5619 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5620 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5621 too great.
5622
562330. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5624 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5625 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5626 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5627 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5628 incorrectly.
5629
563031. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5631 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5632 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5633 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5634 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5635 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5636 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5637 cached value only when the same options are set.
5638
563932. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5640
564133. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5642 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5643 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5644 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5645 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5646
564734: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5648 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5649 it is clearly obsolete.
5650
565135. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5652 transport.
5653
565436. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5655 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5656 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5657 times.
5658
565937. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5660 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5661 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5662 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5663 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5664
566538. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5666 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5667 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5668 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5669
567039. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5671
5672 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5673
5674 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5675 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5676 2^31.
5677
567840. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5679 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5680 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5681 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5682 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5683 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5684 $localpart_data.
5685
568641. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5687 with the -f command-line option.
5688
568942. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5690 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5691 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5692 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5693 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5694 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5695
569643. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5697 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5698 line.
5699
570044. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5701 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5702 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5703 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5704 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5705 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5706 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5707 buffer is too small.
5708
570945. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5710 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5711
571246. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5713 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5714 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5715 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5716 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5717 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5718 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5719 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5720 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5721
572247. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5723 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5724 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5725
572648. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5727 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5728 ACL").
5729
573049. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5731 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5732 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5733 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5734 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5735
573650. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5737 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5738 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5739 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5740 is set.
5741
574251. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5743
574452. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5745
574653. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5747 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5748
574954. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5750 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5751 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5752
575355. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5754 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5755 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5756 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5757 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5758
575956. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5760 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5761 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5762 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5763 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5764 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5765 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5766
576757. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5768 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5769 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5770 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5771 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5772 the test of how many are available.
5773
577458. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5775 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5776 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5777 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
495ae4b0
PH
5778 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5779 new message is started.
5780
578159. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5782 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5783
578460. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5785 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5786
578761. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5788 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5789 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5790 is no long logged.
5791
579262. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5793 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5794 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5795 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5796 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5797 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5798 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5799
580063. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5801 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5802 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5803 interpreted as octal.
5804
580564. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5806 setting.
5807
580865. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5809 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5810 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5811 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5812 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5813 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5814
581566. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5816 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5817 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5818 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5819
5820 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5821 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5822 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5823 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5824
5825 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5826 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5827 is a bug fix.
5828
5829 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5830 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5831
583267. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5833
583468. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5835 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5836 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5837 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5838
583969. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5840 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5841 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5842 supplied", which is not helpful.
5843
584470. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5845 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5846 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5847
584871. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5849 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5850 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5851 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5852 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5853 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5854 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5855 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5856
585772. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5858 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5859 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5860 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5861 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5862
586373. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5864 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5865 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5866 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 5867 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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5868 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5869
587074. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5871 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5872 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5873
587475. Added write_rejectlog option.
5875
587676. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5877 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5878 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5879 variables.
5880
588177. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5882
588378. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5884 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5885 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5886 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5887 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5888 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5889 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5890 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5891
589279. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5893 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5894 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5895 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5896 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5897
589880. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5899 Haardt.
5900
590181. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5902 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5903 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5904 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5905 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5906 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5907 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5908 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5909 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5910
5911
5912Exim version 4.30
5913-----------------
5914
5915 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5916 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5917 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5918
5919 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5920 fixed.
5921
5922 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5923 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5924 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5925
5926 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5927 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5928 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5929 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5930 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 5931 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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5933 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5934 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5935 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5936 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5937 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5938 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5939 the Exim test suite.
5940
5941 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5942 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5943 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5944 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5945
5946 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5947 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5948 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5949 specify it in this variable.
5950
5951 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5952 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5953 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5954 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5955
5956 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5957 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5958 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5959 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5960
5961 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5962 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5963 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5964 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5965 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5966
5967 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5968
596910. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5970 they are logged.
5971
597211. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5973 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5974 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5975 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5976 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5977
597812. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5979 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5980
598113. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5982 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 5983 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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5984 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5985 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5986
598714. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5988 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5989
599015. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5991 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5992 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5993
599416. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5995 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5996
599717. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5998 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5999
600018. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6001 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6002 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6003
600419. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6005 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6006
600720. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6008 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6009 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6010 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6011
601221. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6013
601422. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6015 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6016 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6017 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6018
601923. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6020
602124. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6022 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6023
602425. Added .include_if_exists.
6025
602626. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6027 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6028 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6029 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6030 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6031 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6032
603327. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6034
603528. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6036 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6037 this.
6038
603929. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6040
604130. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6042 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6043
6044 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6045 550 Sender verify failed
6046
6047 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6048 the final line of the response.
6049
605031. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6051 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6052 all other user lookups.
6053
605432. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6055 delivery time.
6056
605733. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6058 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6059 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6060 result into an int without checking.
6061
606234. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6063 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6064 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6065
606635. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6067 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6068 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6069 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6070
607136. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6072 correctly.
6073
607437. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6075 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6076
607738. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6078 to the empty sender.
6079
608039. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6081 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6082 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6083 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6084 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6085 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6086 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6087 panic log.
6088
608940. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6090 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6091 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6092 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6093 used.
6094
609541. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6096 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6097
609842. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6099 timestamps.
6100
610143. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6102 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6103
610444. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6105
610645. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6107 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6108 logs.
6109
611046. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6111 as soon as it is encountered.
6112
611347. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6114
611548. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6116 rewritten to "<>".
6117
611849. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6119 recognizes a tab character.
6120
612150. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6122 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6123 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6124 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6125
612651. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6127
612852. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6129 crash.
6130
613153. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6132
613354. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6134
613555. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6136 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6137 2822.
6138
613956. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6140 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6141 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6142 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6143 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6144
614557. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6146 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6147
614858. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6149 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6150 list (.included file names were always shown).
6151
615259. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6153 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6154 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6155 root at that time.
6156
615760. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6158 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6159
616061. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6161
616262. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6163
616463. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6165
616664. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6167 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6168 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6169 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6170 failures to open the logs.
6171
617265. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6173 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6174 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6175 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6176 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6177 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6178 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6179
6180
6181Exim version 4.24
6182-----------------
6183
6184 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6185 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6186 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6187 change 4.23/1.
6188
6189 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6190 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6191 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6192
6193 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6194 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6195 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6196
6197 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6198 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6199 causing some misleading effects.
6200
6201 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6202 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6203 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6204
6205 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6206 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6207 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6208 queue-runner function directly.
6209
6210
6211Exim version 4.23
6212-----------------
6213
6214 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6215 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6216
6217 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6218 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6219 was always written to the default place.
6220
6221 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6222 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6223 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6224
6225 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6226
6227 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6228
6229 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6230 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6231 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6232
6233 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6234 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6235 must start.
6236
6237 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6238 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6239 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6240
6241 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6242 command line option is disabled.
6243
6244 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6245 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6246
6247 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6248
6249 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6250
6251 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6252 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6253
625410. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6255
625611. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6257 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6258 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6259 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6260 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6261 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6262
626312. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6264 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6265 timeout.
6266
626713. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6268 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6269
627014. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6271 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6272
627315. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6274 received was valid base64.
6275
627616. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6277 name of the variable that was being set.
6278
627917. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6280
628118. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6282 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6283 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6284 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6285 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6286 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6287
628819. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6289
629020. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6291 nor realm was specified.
6292
629321. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6294 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6295 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6296 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6297
629822. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6299 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6300 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6301
630223. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6303 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6304 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6305
630624. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6307 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6308 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6309 some systems use these upper case variants.
6310
631125. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6312 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6313 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6314 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6315
631626. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6317
631827. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6319 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6320
632128. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6322 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6323 expansion variable.
6324
632529. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6326
632730. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6328 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6329 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6330 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6331
633231. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6333 using it.
6334
633532. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6336 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6337 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6338
633933. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6340 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6341
634234. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6343 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6344 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6345 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6346
634735. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6348 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6349 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6350
635136. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6352
635337. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6354 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6355 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6356 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6357 aborted.
6358
635938. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6360 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6361 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6362
636339. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6364
636540. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6366 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6367
636841. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6369 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6370
637142. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6372 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6373 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6374 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6375 when emails are that large.
6376
6377
6378
6379Exim version 4.22
6380-----------------
6381
6382 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6383 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6384
6385 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6386 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6387 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6388
6389 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6390 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6391 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6392
6393 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6394 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6395 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6396 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6397 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6398
6399 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6400 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6401 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6402 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6403 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6404 ever.
6405
6406 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6407 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6408 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6409 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6410 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6411 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6412 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6413 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6414 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6415 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6416 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6417 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6418 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6419 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6420
6421 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6422 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6423 parameterised it.
6424
6425 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6426 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6427 error should be diagnosed.
6428
6429 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6430 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6431 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6432 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6433 appeared instead of "NULL".
6434
643510. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6436 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6437 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6438 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6439 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6440 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6441 proceeds).
6442
6443 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6444 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6445 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6446
6447
6448Exim version 4.21
6449-----------------
6450
6451 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6452 or receiver verification errors.
6453
6454 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6455 name.
6456
6457 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6458 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6459 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6460 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6461
6462 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6463 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6464 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6465 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6466 shouldn't happen again.
6467
6468 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6469 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6470 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6471
6472 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6473 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6474
6475 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6476
6477 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6478 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6479
6480 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6481 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6482 RFC.
6483
648410. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6485 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6486 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6487
648811. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6489 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6490 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6491 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6492
649312. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6494 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6495 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6496 to define what should happen).
6497
649813. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6499 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6500 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6501
650214. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6503
650415. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6505
650616. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6507 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6508
4c04137d 650917. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6510 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6511 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6512 structure in all cases.
6513
6514 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6515 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6516 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6517 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6518
651918. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6520 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6521 domain name.
6522
652319. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6524 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6525
652620. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6527 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6528
652921. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6530 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6531 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6532
653322. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6534 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6535 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6536
653723. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6538 the book and for uniformity.
6539
654024. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6541
654225. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6543 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6544 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6545 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6546 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6547 non-existent command as the problem.
6548
654926. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6550 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6551 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6552
655327. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6554
655528. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6556 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6557 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6558
655929. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6560 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6561 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6562 timestamps using strftime().
6563
656430. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6565 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6566
656732. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6568 transport-time rewrites.
6569
657033. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6571 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6572 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6573 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6574
657534. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6576 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6577
657835. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6579 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6580 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6581 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6582 comma and a space.
6583
658436. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6585 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6586 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6587 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6588 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6589 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6590 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6591
659237. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6593 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6594 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6595 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6596 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6597
659838. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6599 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6600 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6601 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6602 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6603 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6604 remaining text gets split now.
6605
660639. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6607 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6608 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6609 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6610
661140. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6612 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6613 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6614 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6615 $return_path.
6616
661741. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6618 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6619 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6620 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6621 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6622 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6623 passed through if needed.
6624
662542. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6626 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6627 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6628 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6629 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6630 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6631
663243. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6633 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6634 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6635 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6636 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6637
663844. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6639 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6640 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6641 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6642 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6643
664445. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6645 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6646 noticed.
6647
664846. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6649 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6650 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6651 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6652 mayhem of various kinds.
6653
665447. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6655 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6656 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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6657 the right test for positive values.
6658
665948. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6660 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6661 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6662 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6663 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6664 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6665 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6666 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6667 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6668 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6669 envelope.
6670
667149. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6672 module.
6673
667450. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6675 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6676 forbidding it.
6677
667851. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6679 the existing equality matching.
6680
668152. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6682 dealing with inode numbers.
6683
668453. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6685 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6686 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6687
668854. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6689 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6690 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6691 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6692 local_scan().
6693
669455. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6695 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6696 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6697 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6698 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6699 relay addresses has also been removed.
6700
670156. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6702
670357. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6704 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6705 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6706
670758. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6708 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6709 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6710 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6711 processing applies to CR:
6712
6713 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6714 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6715
6716 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6717 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6718 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6719 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6720
672159. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6722 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6723 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6724
672560. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6726 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6727 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6728 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6729 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6730 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6731 arisen.
6732
673361. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6734 program routers.
6735
673662. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6737 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6738 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6739 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6740 adds:
6741
6742 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6743
6744 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6745
6746 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6747
674863. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6749 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6750 not considered personal.
6751
675264. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6753
675465. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6755
675666. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6757
675867. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6759 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6760 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6761 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6762 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6763 header lines, and spool format errors.
6764
676568. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6766 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6767 for more flexibility.
6768
676969. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6770 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6771 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6772
677370. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6774 Sabourenkov.
6775
677671. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6777 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6778 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6779 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6780 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6781 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6782 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6783 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6784 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6785
678672. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6787 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6788 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6789 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6790 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6791 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6792 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6793
679473. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6795 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6796 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6797
679874. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6799 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6800 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6801 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6802 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6803 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6804 instead of killing the process with assert().
6805
680675. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6807 than Unicode encoding.
6808
680976. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6810 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6811 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6812 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6813
681477. Added process_log_path.
6815
681678. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6817 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6818
681979. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6820 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6821
682280. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6823 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6824 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6825
682681. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6827 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6828 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6829 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6830 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6831 were applied:
6832
6833 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6834 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6835 as invalid.
6836
683782. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6838 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6839 they will be used during message reception.
6840
6841
6842Exim version 4.20
6843-----------------
6844
6845The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6846
6847****