GnuTLS: Fix client detection of server reject of client cert under TLS1.3
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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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11JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
12 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
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fc243e94 14JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
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15 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
16 its own TCP segment.
17
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18JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
19 each verb.
20
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21JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
22
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23JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
24
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25JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
26 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
27
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28JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
29 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
30 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
31 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
32 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
33 suitably configured).
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38
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39JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
40 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
41
42JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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43 non-signal-safe functions being used.
44
45JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
46 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
47 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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49JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
50 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
51 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
52
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53JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
54 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
55 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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56 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
57 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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58 messed with.
59
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60PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
61 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
62
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63JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
64 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
65 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
66 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
67 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
68 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
69 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
70
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71JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
72 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
73
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74JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
75 legitimate.
76
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77JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
78 Previously this would segfault.
79
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80JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
81 segfault.
82
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83JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
84 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
85 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
86 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
87 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
88 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
89
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90JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
91
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92JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
93 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
94 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
95 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
96
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97JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
98
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99JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
100 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
101 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
102 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
103
5054c4fd 104JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
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106JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
5054c4fd 107
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108JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
109 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
110 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
111
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112JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
113 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
114 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
115
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116PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
117
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118JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
119 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
120 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
121 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
122
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123PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
124 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
125 promised '?' replacement.
126
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127PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
128
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129JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
130 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
131 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
132 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
133 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
134
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135JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
136 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
137 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
138
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139JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
140 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
141 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
142
7ea1237c 143JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 144 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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145 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
146
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147JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
148 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
149 hope that is portable enough.
150
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151JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
152 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
153 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
154 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
155
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156JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
157 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
158 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
159
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160JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
161 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
162 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
163 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
164
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165JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
166 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
167
75c121f0 168JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 169 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
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170 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
171 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
172
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173JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
174 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
175 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
176
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177JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
178 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
179 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
180 the previous G, M, k.
181
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182JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
183 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
184 it was unset.
185
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186JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
187 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
188 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
189 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
190
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191JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
192 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
193
de6f74f2 194JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
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195 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
196 off past the nul-terimation.
197
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198JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
199 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
200 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
201 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
202 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
203
aa6e77af 204JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
aaf3e414 205
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206JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
207 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
208 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
209 actually does fail.
210
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211AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
212 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
213
214JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
215 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
216 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
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218JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
219 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
220 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
221
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222JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
223 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
224
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c39c8870 229GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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230 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
231 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
232 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
233 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
234 be defined in redis_servers.
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236GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
237 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
238
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239JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
240 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
241 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
242 extant use locations.
243
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244JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
245 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
246
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247JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
248 Previously only the last row was returned.
249
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250JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
251 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
252 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
253 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
254 input.
255
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256JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
257 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
258 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
259 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
260 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
261 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
262 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
263 Main pool for expansions.
264 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
265 active in the testsuite.
266 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
267
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268JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
269 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
270 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
271 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
272 round-robin DNS.
273
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274JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
275 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
276 failure response.
277
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278JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
279 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
280 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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282JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
283 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
284 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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286JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
287 rows affected is given instead).
288
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289JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
290 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
291
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292JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
293 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
294 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
295 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
296 for all multi-message initiating connections.
297
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298JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
299 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
300 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
301
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302JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
303 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
304 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
305 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
306 separate.
307
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308JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
309 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
310 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
311 fake-reject.
312
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313HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
314
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315JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
316 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
317
aab9a843 318PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 319 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 320 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 321
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322JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
323 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
324 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
325 and send a quit.
326
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327JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
328 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
329
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330JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
331 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
332 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
333
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334JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
335 for the build is renamed.
336
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337JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
338 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
339 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
340
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341JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
342 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
343 result replacing the original.
344
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345JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
346 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
347 and the resources needed to be freed.
348
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349JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
350
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351JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
352 was not propagated.
353
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354JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
355 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
356 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
357 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
358
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359JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
360 length value. Previously this would segfault.
361
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362HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
363 newer versions of the scanner.
364
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365JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
366 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
367 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
368 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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369 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
370 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
371 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
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373JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
374 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
375 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
376 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
377 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
378 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
379 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
380 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
381 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
382 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
383
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384JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
385 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
386
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387JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
388
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389HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
390 allows proper process termination in container environments.
391
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392JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
393 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
394
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395JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
396 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
397 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
398
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399JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
400 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
401 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 402 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 403
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404JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
405 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
406 would be spooled.
407
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408PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
409 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
410
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411HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
412 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
413 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
414 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
415 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
ad93c40f 416
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417JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
418 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
419 lines.
420
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421JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
422 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
423
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424PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
425 suffix list.
426
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427JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
428 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
429 "bare" representation.
430
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431JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
432 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
433 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
434 corrupted the output.
435
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440JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
441 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
442 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
443 pairs of long lines into single ones.
444
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445PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
446 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
447
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448JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
449 This permits better logging.
450
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451JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
452 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
453 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
454 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
455 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 456 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 457
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458JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
459 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
460 "exiwhat" output.
461
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462PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
463 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
464 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
465
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466JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
467 than 255 are no longer allowed.
468
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469JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
470 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
471 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
472 client, there is no benefit for these.
473 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
474 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
475 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
476 is used (3.2.4 +).
477
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478PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
479 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
480
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481JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
482 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
483 erroneously found still-pending ones.
484
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485JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
486 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
487
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488JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
489 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
490 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
491 signature and again for transmission.
492
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493JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
494 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 495 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 496
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497JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
498 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
499 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
500 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
501 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
502 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
503 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
504
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505JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
506 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
507 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 508 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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510PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
511 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
512 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
513 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
514 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
515 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
516 processing options.
517
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518JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
519 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
520 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
521 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
522 connections.
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524PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
525 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
526 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
527 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
528 versions.
529
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530JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
531 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
532 inaccessible.
533
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534JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
535 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
536 banner-time rejection.
537
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538JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
539 callout/hold.
540
8e041ae0
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541PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
542 is the name of a transport.
833c70bc
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543 Fixes bug 2140.
544
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545HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
546
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547JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
548 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
549
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550JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
551 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
552 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
553 during compilation.
554
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555JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
556 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
557 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 558 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 559
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560JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
561 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
562 initial verify call returned a defer.
563
ad1a76fe 564JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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565 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
566
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567JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
568 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
569
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570JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
571 if present. Previously it was ignored.
572
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573JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
574 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
575
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576JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
577 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
578 extensible.
579
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580PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
581 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
582
dc4de9cc
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583PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
584 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
585 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
586
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587JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
588 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
589 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
590 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
591
0768462d 592HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
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593 and confused the parent.
594
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595JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
596 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
597
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598JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
599 for log purposes.
600
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601JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
602 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
603 out-of-order delivery.
604
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605JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
606 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
607 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
608 error for the HELO.
609
e99a3a6c
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610JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
611 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
612 desynchronisation.
613
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614JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
615 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
616 one run was done. Bug 2189.
617
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618JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
619 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
620 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
621 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
622 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
623 message is still "Temporary local problem".
624
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625JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
626 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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627 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
628
629HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
630 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
631 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 632
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633JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
634 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
635 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
636 though a different problem.
637
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9427e879 642JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 643 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 644
7b283890
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645JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
646
4c57a40e
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647PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
648 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
649
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650JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
651 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
652
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653JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
654 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
655 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
656 before acknowledging the chunk.
657
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658PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
659 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
660 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
661
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662JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
663 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
664 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
665 should.
666
667JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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668 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
669 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 670
bd8fbe36 671JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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672 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
673
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674JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
675 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
676 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
677 body hash calculated value.
678
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679JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
680 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
681 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
682
44e6651b
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683JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
684
685JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
686 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
687
688JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
689 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
690 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
691
692JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
693 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
694 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
695 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
696 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
697 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
698
699JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
700 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
701 past that check, despite the cost.
702
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703JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
704 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
705 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
706
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707PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
708 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
709 TLS library to consume.
710
da88acae
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711PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
712
f6ef9370
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713PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
714
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715JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
716 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
717 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
718 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
719 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
720 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
721 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
722
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723PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
724
725PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
726
727PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
728 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
729 should be warning-free.
730
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731JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
732
733HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
734 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
735
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736HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
737 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
738 general solution here.
739
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740PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
741 already-broken messages in the queue.
742
4bb432cb
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743JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
744
3b1a84c8
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745JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
746
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751JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
752 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 753
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754JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
755 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
756 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
757
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758JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
759 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
760 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
761 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
762 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
763 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
764 if one fails this test.
765 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
766 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
767
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768JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
769 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
770
23bb6982 771JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 772 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 773
0bd1b1ed 774JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 775 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 776
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777JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
778 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
779
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780JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
781 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
782
1a6230a3
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783JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
784
cfab9d68
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785JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
786 certificate).
787
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788JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
789 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
790 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
791 connection after a verify cache hit.
792 Do not update it with the verify result either.
793
794JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
795 when routing results in more than one destination address.
796
ae8386f0
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797JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
798 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
799 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
800 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
801 when the cutthrough connection is made).
802
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803JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
804 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
805
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806JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
807 Previously they were not counted.
808
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809JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
810 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
811 that needed the lookup.
812
4c04137d 813JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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814 distinguished as "(=".
815
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816JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
817 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
818
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819JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
820
821JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
822 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 823
4c04137d 824JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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825 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
826
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827JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
828 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
829 compatible.
830
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831JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
832 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
833 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
834 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
835
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836JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
837
f59aaaaa 838JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2d009132
JH
839 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
840 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 841
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842JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
843 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
844 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
845 be lost.
846
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847JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
848 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
849 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
850 itself :(
851
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852JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
853 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
854 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
855
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856JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
857 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
858 options.
859
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860JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
861
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862PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
863 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
864
8b0fb68e
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865PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
866 are not in the system include path.
867
ad7fc6eb 868JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 869 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
ad7fc6eb
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870 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
871 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
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873JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
874 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
875 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
876
5ddc9771
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877JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
878
8d73599f
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879HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
880 an incoming connection.
881
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882HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
883 to rspamd.
884
8e53a4fc
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885HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
886 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 887
87cb4a16 888JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 889 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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890
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895JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
896 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
897 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
898 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 899
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900TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
901 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
902
ac881e27
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903TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
904 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
905 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
906 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
907 outgoing I= field.
908
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909JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
910 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
911 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
912 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
913 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
914 check on the next write.
915
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916HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
917 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
918 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
919 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
920 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
921
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922JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
923 mime_regex ACL conditions.
924
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925JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
926 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
927 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
928
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929JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
930 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
931 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
932 an authenticate fail is not an error.
933
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934HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
935 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
936
4c04137d 937JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
14b3c5bc
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938 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
939
6f6dedcc
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940JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
941 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
942 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
943 distinct.
944
0f557e90
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945JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
946
947JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
948
ec0eb1a3
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949JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
950
41e93589
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951JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
952 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
953
98b98887 954JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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955 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
956
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957JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
958
858e91c2
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959JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
960 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
961
962JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
963
6ff55e50
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964JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
965 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
966
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967JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
968
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969JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
970 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 971 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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972 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
973 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
974 they will retry in-clear.
975 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
976 at installation time.
977
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978HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
979 with the $config_file variable.
980
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981JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
982 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
983 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
984 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 985 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 986
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987GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
988 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
989 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
990 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
991 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
992
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993JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
994
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995JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
996 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
997 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
998 list order is no longer honoured.
999
4c04137d 1000JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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1001 for DKIM processing.
1002
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1003JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1004 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 1005
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1006JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1007 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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1008 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1009 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 1010
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1011JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1012 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1013
2d8d625b
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1014JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1015 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1016
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1017JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1018 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1019
f2f2c91b
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1020JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1021
ce325893
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1022JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1023 cached by the daemon.
1024
de78e2d5
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1025JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1026 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1027
379ba7d0
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1028JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1029 keys are given for lookup.
1030
f444c2c7
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1031JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1032 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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1033 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1034 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 1035
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1036JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1037 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1038 server-side so match that on older versions.
1039
07c73177 1040JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 1041 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 1042 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 1043
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1044JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1045 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1046
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1047JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1048 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1049 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 1050 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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1051 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1052 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1053 initial truncated version.
1054
ab9152ff 1055JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 1056
67e87fcf
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1057JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1058
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1059JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1060 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1061
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1062JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1063
bc3c7bb7 1064HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 1065
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1066JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1067 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1068 induced overflows.
1069
59eaad2b
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1070JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1071 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1072 stage.
1073
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1074JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1075 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1076
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1077JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1078 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1079 former class.
1080
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1081JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1082 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1083 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1084
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1085JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1086 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1087 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1088 extraction. Accept either.
1089
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4c57a40e 1093
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1094JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1095 expanded.
1096
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1097JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1098
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1099JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1100 it.
1101
01a4a5c5 1102JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1103 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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1104 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1105 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1106
cb1d7830 1107JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1108 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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1109 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1110
610ff438 1111JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1112 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1113 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1114 TLS connections
610ff438 1115
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1116JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1117 sites use this now.
1118
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1119JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1120 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1121 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1122 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1123 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1124
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1125JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1126 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1127 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1128
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1129JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1130
aeaf5db3
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1131JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1132 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1133
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1134JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1135 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1136
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1137JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1138 /defer_ok option.
1139
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1140JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1141 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1142
fd4d8871 1143JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1144 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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1145 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1146
1147JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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1148 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1149 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1150
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1151JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1152 timeout value per server.
1153
2ad78978
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1154JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1155 now have the list separator specified.
1156
8a512ed5 1157JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1158 option values.
8a512ed5 1159
82c0c8ea 1160JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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1161 under OpenSSL.
1162
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1163JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1164
82c0c8ea
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1165JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1166 rather than the verbs used.
1167
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1168JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1169 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1170
6c9ed72e
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1171JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1172
cfab9d68 1173HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1174 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1175
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1176JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1177 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1178
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1179HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1180 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1181
4c04137d 1182JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1183
d2a2c69b
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1184JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1185
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1186JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1187 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1188 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1189 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1190
1f12df4d
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1191JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1192
1f155f8e
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1193JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1194 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1195
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1196JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1197 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1198
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1199JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1200
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1201JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1202
7137ca4b
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1203JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1204
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1205JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1206 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1207
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1208JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1209 added for tls authenticator.
1210
2f680c0c
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1211HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1212
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1217TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1218 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1219 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1220 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1221 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1222 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1223 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1224
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1225TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1226 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1227 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1228 function when detected.
1229
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1230JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1231 cause callback expansion.
1232
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1233TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1234 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1235 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1236 instead of bool when processing it.
1237
0f06b4f2 1238JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1239 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1240
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1241JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1242
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1243JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1244
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1245TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1246
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1247TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1248 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1249
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1250JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1251 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1252 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1253 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1254 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1255 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1256
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1257JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1258 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1259 exceeded it.
1260
a7fec7a7
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1261JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1262 version 3.3.6 or later.
1263
4c04137d 1264JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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1265 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1266 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1267 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1268 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1269 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1270 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1271
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1272TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1273 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1274
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1275JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1276 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1277 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1278 matches.
1279
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1280JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1281 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1282 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1283
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1284JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1285 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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1286
1287JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1288 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1289 syntax errors.
1290
3394b36a 1291JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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1292
1293JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1294 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1295
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1296TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1297 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1298 tarball.
1299
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1300JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1301
4c04137d 1302JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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1303 Bug 1561.
1304
1305JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1306 output list separator was used.
1307
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1311TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1312 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1313 return.
1f0ebb98 1314
a612424f 1315JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1316 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1317
1318JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1319
1320TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1321 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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1326
1327TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1328
1329 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1330 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1331 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1332 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1333 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1334 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1335
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1336TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1337 utilities have not been installed.
1338
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1339JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1340 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1341
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1342TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1343 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1344
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1345TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1346 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1347 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1348 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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1350JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1351
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1352TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1353 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1354
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1355PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1356 not dns_use_dnssec.
1357
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1358JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1359
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1360TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1361 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1362 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1363
8ddef691 1364TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1365 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1366 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1367 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1368 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1369 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1370
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1371JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1372
e45a1c37
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1373JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1374 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1375
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1376JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1377 failed delivery.
1378
b1f8e4f8
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1379JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1380
511a6c14 1381JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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1382
1383JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1384 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1385
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1386JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1387 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1388
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1389TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1390
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1391JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1392
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1393JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1394 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1395
1396 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1397 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1398 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1399
8c8b8274
TL
1400TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1401 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1402 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1403 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1404
35aba663
JH
1405JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1406
8c51eead 1407JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1408 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1409 lookup).
8c51eead 1410
deae092e
HS
1411TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1412 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1413 Schlichting.
35aba663 1414
fd3b6a4a 1415JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1416 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1417
8d91c6dc
LT
1418TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1419 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1420
2b4a568d
JH
1421JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1422
d2af03f4
HS
1423TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1424 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1425 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1426
9d1c15ef
JH
1427JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1428 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1429
44662487
JH
1430JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1431 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
1432 hosts_request_ocsp.
1433
ed3bba5f 1434JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1435 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1436 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1437
8ccd00b1
JH
1438JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1439
8ded8589
TL
1440TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1441 Christian Aistleitner.
1442
f2de3a33
JH
1443JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1444
6eb02f88
TL
1445TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1446 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1447
00bff6f6
JH
1448JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1449 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1450
071c51f7
JH
1451JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1452 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1453
a6d4c44e
TF
1454TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1455 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1456
3ae173e7
ACK
1457TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1458 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1459
c13d09b8
TL
1460TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1461 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1462 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1463
0df4ab80
JH
1464JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1465
66be95e0
PP
1466PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1467 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1468 Jasper Wallace.
1469
1bd0d12b
JH
1470JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1471
0de7239e
TL
1472TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1473 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1474 CVE-2014-2972
1475
fd3b6a4a 1476
2c422e6f 1477Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
1478-----------------
1479
1480PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1481
12f69989
PP
1482PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1483 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1484
54c90be1
PP
1485PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1486 by GnuTLS.
1487
1f4a55da
PP
1488PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1489 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1490 routines.
1491
13363eba 1492PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1493
66645890 1494PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1495 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1496 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1497 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1498 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1499
a3fb9793 1500PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1501 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1502 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1503 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1504 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1505 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1506
d27f98fe 1507TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1508
6822b909
TL
1509TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1510
e7568d51
TL
1511TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1512 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1513
ae0e32ee 1514TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1515 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1516 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1517
1518TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1519
e2658fff
TL
1520TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1521
83712b39
TL
1522TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1523 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1524
976b7e9f
JH
1525JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1526
be4a1376
JH
1527JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1528
ec4b68e5
PP
1529PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1530
d7148a07
NM
1531NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1532 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1533
585121e2 1534JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1535
2519e60d
TL
1536PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1537 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1538 function.
a5f239e4 1539
13d08c90
PP
1540PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1541 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1542
bef3ea7f
JH
1543JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1544 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1545 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1546
846726c5
JH
1547JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1548
3a796370
JH
1549JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1550
ea722490 1551JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1552 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1553
b1b05573
JH
1554JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1555 Bugzilla 884.
1556
362145b5
JH
1557JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1558 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1559
3c0a92dc
JH
1560JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1561 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1562
6d7c6175
PP
1563PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1564 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1565 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1566
6f123593
JH
1567JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1568 authenticators.
1569
c8e2fc1e
JH
1570JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1571 for control.
1572
005ac57f
PP
1573PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1574
3f1df0e3
PP
1575PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1576 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1577 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1578 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1579
67bd1ab3
TF
1580TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1581
1582 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1583 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1584 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1585 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1586 the retry rules.
1587
1588 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1589 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1590 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1591
1592 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1593 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1594 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1595 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1596
1ddeb334
TF
1597 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1598 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1599 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1600 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1601 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1602 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1603 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1604
1605 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1606 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1607
326cdc37
TF
1608TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1609
1610 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1611
1612 Resent-From: f
1613
1614 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1615 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1616 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1617 username as equal to the username.
1618
1619 This change corrects that bug.
1620
f62514b3
GF
1621GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1622 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1623 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1624
eb505532
TF
1625TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1626
14c7b357
PP
1627PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1628 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1629 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1630 NULL dereference and crash.
1631
94eaf700
PP
1632JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1633
6f5a440a
PP
1634PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1635 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1636 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1637
514ee161
SC
1638SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1639
fd98a5c6
JH
1640JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1641 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1642 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1643 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1644 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1645 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1646 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1647 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1648 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1649 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1650 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1651
035c7f1e
PP
1652PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1653 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1654
ff284120
PP
1655PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1656 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1657 Bugzilla 880.
1658
26e72755
PP
1659PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1660 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1661 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1662 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1663 an empty string is now equivalent.
1664
0fbd9bff
PP
1665PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1666 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1667 not performing validation itself.
1668
700d22f3
PP
1669PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1670 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1671
fcc8e047
JH
1672JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1673 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1674
4c04137d 1675TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1676
8c020188
PP
1677PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1678 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1679 other false fix of the same issue.
1680 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1681 Bugzilla 1363.
1682
d13cdd30
PP
1683PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1684 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1685
e2fbf4a2
PP
1686PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1687 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1688 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1689
f4c1088b
PP
1690PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1691 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1692 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1693
c5c2182f
PP
1694TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1695
73431ca9
JH
1696JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1697
2d07a215
TL
1698TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1699 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1700
a30a8861
TL
1701TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1702 Alexander Miroch.
1703
33382dd9
TL
1704TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1705 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1706 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1707 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1708 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1709
046172e6
TL
1710TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1711 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1712
581d7bee 1713TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1714 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1715 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1716
1717TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1718 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1719 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1720 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1721
237b2cf2
TL
1722TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1723
9fc5a352
TL
1724TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1725 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1726 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1727
b10e4ec2
TL
1728TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1729
e2cebd74
TL
1730TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1731 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1732 interaction.
1733
1734TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1735 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1736
2519e60d
TL
1737TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1738 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1739
e78e6ecf 1740
4263f395
PP
1741Exim version 4.80.1
1742-------------------
1743
1744PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1745 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1746 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1747
ea722490 1748
b1770b6e 1749Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1750-----------------
1751
1752PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1753 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1754 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1755
23c7e742
NM
1756NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1757
b322aac8
NM
1758NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1759 improved.
1760
4a891427
NM
1761NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1762
c1e794ba 1763PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1764
97753960
PP
1765PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1766
1767PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1768 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1769
df6303fa
PP
1770PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1771 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1772
7e6a8985
PP
1773PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1774 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1775
f1e05cc7 1776PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1777 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1778 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1779
4c287009
PP
1780PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1781
b98bb9ac
PP
1782PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1783 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1784
4a6a987a
PP
1785PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1786
c45dd180 1787PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1788
7db8d074
PP
1789PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1790 non-compliant senders.
1791 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1792
eae0036b 1793NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1794 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1795 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1796
dec5017e
PP
1797PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1798 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1799 in spool file corruption.
1800
c80c5570
PP
1801PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1802 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1803 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1804 "Got SSL error 2".
1805
076b11e2
PP
1806TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1807 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1808 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1809
5407bfff
JH
1810JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1811 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1812
9e45c72b
PP
1813JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1814
e74376d8
PP
1815PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1816 diagnostics.
1817 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1818
4c04137d 1819PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1820 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1821 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1822
7be682ca
PP
1823PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1824 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1825 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1826 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1827
ef840681
PP
1828PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1829 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1830
5bfb4cdf
PP
1831PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1832 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1833 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1834 resolver implementation change.
1835
c6e95d22
PP
1836PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1837 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1838
9cbad13b
PP
1839PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1840
9ee44efb
PP
1841PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1842
6a6084f8
PP
1843PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1844 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1845
12dd53c7
PP
1846PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1847 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1848
9e45c72b 1849JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1850 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1851
17c76198
PP
1852PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1853 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1854 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1855 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1856 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1857
53947857 1858PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1859
eae0036b 1860PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1861 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1862 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1863
9e45c72b 1864JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1865
7390e768
PP
1866PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1867 read-only, out of scope).
1868 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1869
08488c86
PP
1870PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1871 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1872 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1873 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1874
6475bd82
PP
1875PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1876
81f91683
PP
1877PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1878 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1879 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1880 real issues in debug logging.
1881
5779e6aa
PP
1882PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1883 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1884
3375e053
PP
1885PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1886 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1887 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1888
1889PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1890 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1891 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1892 problems.
3375e053 1893
9d26b8c0
PP
1894PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1895 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1896
57eb9e91 1897PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1898 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1899 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1900 needs to override this, it can.
1901
16880d1a
PP
1902PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1903 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1904 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1905
a799883d
PP
1906PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1907 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1908 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1909 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1910
3ecab157 1911PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1912
0599f9cf 1913
867fcbf5
PP
1914Exim version 4.77
1915-----------------
1916
1917PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1918 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1919
f1a29782
TF
1920TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1921
ab42bd23
TK
1922TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1923 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1924
0ca0cf52
TF
1925TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1926 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1927
921b12ca
TF
1928TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1929 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1930 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1931
1932 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1933 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1934 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1935 not safe for signals.
1936
1937 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1938 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1939 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1940 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1941 exiwhat.
1942
c99ce5c9
TF
1943TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1944
1945 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1946 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1947 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1948 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1949 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1950
1951 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1952 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1953 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1954 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1955 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1956 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1957
1958 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1959 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1960 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1961 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1962
1963 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1964 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1965 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1966 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1967
1968 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1969 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1970 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1971 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1972 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1973 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1974 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1975 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1976 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1977
1978 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1979 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1980 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1981 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1982
1983 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1984 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1985 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1986 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1987 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1988 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1989 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1990 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1991 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1992 details in the main documentation.
1993
3634fc25
TF
1994TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1995
792e8a19
TF
1996TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1997
5901f0ab
TF
1998TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1999 repository when doing development or release builds.
2000
7f2a2a43
PP
2001PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2002 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 2003
061b7ebd
PP
2004PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2005 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2006 Bugzilla 97.
2007
e12f8c32
PP
2008PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2009
9e949f00 2010PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
2011 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2012
2013PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2014 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 2015
555ae6af 2016PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
2017 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2018
2019PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2020 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 2021
6f7fe114
PP
2022PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2023 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2024
c566dd90
PP
2025PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2026 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
2027 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2028 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 2029
d6cc7c78 2030PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
2031 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2032 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2033
0d0e4455
PP
2034PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2035
3399bb60 2036PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
2037
2038PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2039 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2040
0ca0cf52 2041
10906672
PP
2042Exim version 4.76
2043-----------------
2044
2045PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2046
754a0503
PP
2047PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2048 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2049
c0c7b2da
PP
2050PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2051
e97d1f08
PP
2052PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2053
084c1d8c
PP
2054PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2055 Bugzilla 1098.
2056
4e7ee012
PP
2057PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2058 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 2059
c8d52a00
PP
2060TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2061 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2062
54e7ce4a
PP
2063PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2064 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2065
5ee6f336
PP
2066PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2067 Bugzilla 1104.
2068
c8d52a00 2069TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
2070 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2071
2072TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2073 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2074 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2075 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2076
2077PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2078 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2079
10906672 2080
aa097c4c
NM
2081Exim version 4.75
2082-----------------
2083
4c04137d 2084NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2085 Bugzilla 1073
2086
7f3d9eff
TF
2087TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2088 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2089 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2090
159f52d2
TF
2091TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2092 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2093
0cc9542a
PP
2094PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2095 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2096 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2097
f7274286
PP
2098PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2099 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2100
7b797365
PP
2101PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2102 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2103
caacae52
NM
2104NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2105 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2106
09dcaba9
NM
2107NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2108 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2109
bc19a55b
PP
2110PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2111 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2112
bd4c9759
NM
2113NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2114 Fixes bug 943.
2115
b72aab72
PP
2116PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2117 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2118
2fe76745
PP
2119PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2120 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2121
76aa570c
PP
2122PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2123 SQL string expansion failure details.
2124 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2125
f1e5fef5
PP
2126PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2127 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2128
4d805ee9
PP
2129PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2130 extern declarations in function scope.
2131 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2132
cd59ab18
PP
2133PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2134 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2135 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2136 a kernel bug).
2137
332f5cf3
PP
2138PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2139 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2140
29cfeb94
PP
2141PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2142 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2143
660242ad
PP
2144PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2145 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2146
bc4bc4c5
PP
2147PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2148 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2149
2e64baa9
NM
2150NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2151 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2152 Dennis Davis.
2153
4c04137d 2154PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2155
6bac1a9a
PP
2156PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2157
552193f0
NM
2158NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2159 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2160
1b587e48
TF
2161TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2162 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2163
aa097c4c 2164
8c07b69f
TF
2165Exim version 4.74
2166-----------------
2167
2168TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2169 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2170
c0ea85ab
TF
2171TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2172 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2173
0761d44e
TF
2174TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2175
0a349494
PP
2176DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2177 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2178 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2179
2180PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2181 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2182 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2183
fea24b2e
PP
2184PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2185 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2186 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2187 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2188
6545de78
PP
2189PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2190 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2191 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2192 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2193
1670ef10
PP
2194PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2195 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2196 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2197 arbitrary files.
2198
c0886197
PP
2199PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2200 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2201
b7487bce
PP
2202PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2203 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2204 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2205 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2206 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2207
8c07b69f 2208
97fd1e48 2209Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2210-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2211
2212PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2213 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2214 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2215
6901c596
PP
2216PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2217 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2218
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2219JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2220
77bb000f
PP
2221PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2222
a29e5231
PP
2223PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2224
ec5a0394 2225PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2226
55c75993
PP
2227PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2228
453a6645 2229PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2230 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2231 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2232 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2233
8544e77a
PP
2234PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2235 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2236 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2237 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2238 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2239
83e029d5
PP
2240PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2241
ed7f7860
PP
2242PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2243
7d9f747b
PP
2244PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2245
4b2241d2
PP
2246PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2247
10385c15
PP
2248PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2249
dbc4b90d
PP
2250PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2251
532be449
PP
2252PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2253
6a8de854 2254PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2255 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2256 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2257
5dc43717
JJ
2258JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2259
2260JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2261 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2262
3346ab01
PP
2263PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2264 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2265
491fab4c
PP
2266PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2267 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2268 Notification from John Horne.
2269
13eb9497
PP
2270PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2271 compatible.
2272
2273PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2274 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2275 it normally works.
2276
7f36d675
DW
2277DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2278 access.
2279
c1d94452
DW
2280DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2281 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2282 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2283
e2f5dc15
DW
2284DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2285 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2286 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2287 configuration file.
2288
cd25e41d
DW
2289DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2290 option (effectively making it always true).
2291
261dc43e
DW
2292DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2293 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2294
fa32850b
DW
2295DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2296 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2297
79d4bc3d
PP
2298PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2299 run-time user, instead of root.
2300
43236f35 2301PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2302 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2303
fb08281f
DW
2304DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2305 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2306 arguments.
3346ab01 2307
74935b98
DW
2308DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2309 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2310 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2311
90b6341f
DW
2312DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2313
57730b52
ML
2314NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2315
66581d1e 2316
465e92cf
JJ
2317Exim version 4.72
2318-----------------
2319
453a6645
PP
2320JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2321 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2322 typos
465e92cf 2323
453a6645
PP
2324JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2325 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2326 (Finput)
edae0343 2327
9bd3e22c
NM
2328NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2329 Patch from Alain Williams
2330
bb576ff7
NM
2331NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2332
5a1a5845
NM
2333NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2334 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2335
981a9fad
NM
2336NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2337 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2338
7fc497ee
NM
2339NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2340
1a41defa
JJ
2341JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2342
a466095c 2343NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2344 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2345
94a6bd0b
NM
2346TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2347
2348TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2349
2350MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2351 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2352 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2353
c1b141a8
NM
2354NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2355 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2356
b26eacf1 2357NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2358 Patch by Simon Arlott
2359
179c5980 2360PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2361 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2362
9bd3e22c 2363
7c6d71af
NM
2364Exim version 4.71
2365-----------------
2366
7d9f747b 2367TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2368
f013fb92
NM
2369NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2370
0eb8eedd
NM
2371NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2372
663ee6d9
NM
2373NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2374
177ebd9b
NM
2375NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2376
7c6d71af 2377
210f147e
NM
2378Exim version 4.70
2379-----------------
2380
cdd3bb85 2381TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2382 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2383
2384TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2385 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2386 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2387
2388TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2389 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2390 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2391
2392TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2393 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2394
210f147e
NM
2395NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2396 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2397 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2398 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2399
deafd5b3
NM
2400NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2401 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2402 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2403
089793a4
TF
2404TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2405
5f16ca82
TF
2406TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2407
dae9d94e 2408NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2409 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2410
7d9f747b 2411NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2412
06864c44
TF
2413TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2414 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2415 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2416 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2417
65a7d8c3 2418NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2419 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2420
23510047 2421TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2422
7d9f747b 2423NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2424
7d8eec3a 2425NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2426 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2427
89dec7b6
TF
2428TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2429 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2430
a99de90c
TF
2431TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2432 that they are available at delivery time.
2433
e2803e40
TF
2434TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2435
7199e1ee
TF
2436TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2437 incoming_port log selectors.
2438
e276e04b
TF
2439TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2440 setting expands to an empty string.
2441
ce552449 2442NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2443 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2444
e765a0f1 2445NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2446 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2447
4f054c63 2448NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2449 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2450
7d9f747b
PP
2451NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2452 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2453
7d9f747b
PP
2454NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2455 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2456
b52bc06e 2457NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2458 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2459
447de4b0
NM
2460NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2461
4c69d561 2462NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2463 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2464
d5c39246 2465NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2466 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2467
0b23848a
TK
2468TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2469
8f3414a1 2470NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2471 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2472
fb6f955d
NM
2473NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2474
2475NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2476
7d9f747b
PP
2477NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2478 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2479
7d9f747b
PP
2480NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2481 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2482
7d9f747b
PP
2483NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2484 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2485
7d9f747b
PP
2486NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2487 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2488
7d9f747b
PP
2489NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2490 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2491
7d9f747b
PP
2492NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2493 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2494
7d9f747b
PP
2495NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2496 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2497
7d9f747b 2498NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2499 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2500
7d9f747b 2501NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2502
7d9f747b
PP
2503NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2504 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2505
7d9f747b 2506NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2507
7d9f747b 2508NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2509
7d9f747b 2510NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2511
7d9f747b 2512NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2513
17792b53 2514NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2515 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2516
7d9f747b
PP
2517NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2518 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2519
91576cec 2520NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2521 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2522
7d9f747b
PP
2523NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2524 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2525
7d9f747b 2526NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2527
7d9f747b 2528NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2529
7d9f747b 2530NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2531
7d9f747b 2532NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2533
deafd5b3 2534
47db1125
NM
2535Exim version 4.69
2536-----------------
2537
4b3504d0
TK
2538TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2539 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2540 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2541
2542 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2543 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2544 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2545 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2546 build errors in sieve.c.
2547
81ea09ca
NM
2548NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2549 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2550 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2551
f13cddcb
SC
2552SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2553
7d9f747b 2554NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2555
7d9f747b 2556NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2557
7d9f747b 2558NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2559
2560
eb4c0de6
PH
2561Exim version 4.68
2562-----------------
2563
2564PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2565
6a3bceb1
PH
2566PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2567 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2568 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2569 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2570 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2571 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2572 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2573 for iplsearch lookups.
2574
2575 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2576 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2577 previously such lookups could never work.
2578
4c04137d 2579 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2580 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2581 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2582
2e30fa9d
TK
2583TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2584 version.
2585
0806a9c5
MH
2586MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2587 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2588 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2589 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2590 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2591 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2592
ae276964
TK
2593TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2594 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2595
0f2cbd1b
MH
2596MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2597 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2598 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2599 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2600 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2601 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2602
2b85bce7
PH
2603PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2604 local_scan API.
2605
93655c46
PH
2606PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2607
6c512171
PH
2608PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2609 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2610 encrypted.
2611
2612PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2613 by clients under certain conditions.
2614
aa6dc513
PH
2615PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2616 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2617
a96603a0
PH
2618PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2619
8f240103
PH
2620PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2621 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2622
2623PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2624
d677b2f2
PH
2625PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2626
d52120f2
PH
2627PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2628
64f2600a
PH
2629PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2630 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2631
8669f003
PH
2632PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2633
a4dc33a8
PH
2634PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2635 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2636
d6a60c0f
PH
2637PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2638
8f128379
PH
2639PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2640
8932dffe
PH
2641PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2642 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2643 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2644 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2645
ddea74fa 2646PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2647 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2648 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2649
ddea74fa 2650PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2651 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2652
ddea74fa
PH
2653PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2654
ce9f225c
PH
2655PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2656
19897d52
PH
2657PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2658
bc64a74d
PH
2659PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2660 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2661 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2662
eb4c0de6 2663
b4ed4da0
PH
2664Exim version 4.67
2665-----------------
2666
22ad45c9
MH
2667MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2668 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2669 Jan Srzednicki.
2670
b4ed4da0
PH
2671PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2672 issue a MAIL command.
2673
431b7361
PH
2674PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2675
2676 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2677
2678 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2679 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2680 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2681 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2682 item. This has been fixed.
2683
2684PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2685 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2686
83da1223
PH
2687PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2688 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2689
54fc8428
PH
2690PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2691 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2692 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2693
34c5e8dd
SC
2694SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2695
bbe15da8
PH
2696PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2697 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2698 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2699 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2700 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2701
0e8a9471
MH
2702MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2703 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2704 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2705
f0872424
PH
2706PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2707 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2708 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2709 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2710
b01dd148
PH
2711PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2712
6bf342e1
PH
2713PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2714
273f34d0
PH
2715PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2716 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2717 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2718 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2719 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2720
cf8b11a5
PH
2721PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2722
41c7c167
PH
2723PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2724 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2725 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2726 values).
2727
9c57cbc0
PH
2728PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2729
f3f065bb
PH
2730PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2731
047bdd8c
PH
2732PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2733
0ce9abe6
PH
2734PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2735
0e22dfd1
PH
2736PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2737
4c590bd1
PH
2738PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2739 no_callout_flush is set.
2740
09945f1e
PH
2741PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2742 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2743 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2744 fixed.
2745
c51b8e75
PH
2746PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2747
e28326d8 2748PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2749 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2750 other ACL rejections are.
2751
75b1493f
PH
2752PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2753 with slight modification.
2754
7c5214ec
PH
2755PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2756 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2757
4311097e
PH
2758PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2759 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2760 connection.
2761
29f89cad
PH
2762PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2763 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2764
5e687460
SC
2765SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2766
c3611384
PH
2767PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2768 expansion side effects.
2769
5a11a7b4
PH
2770PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2771 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2772 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2773 be the same.
2774
0e20aff9
MH
2775MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2776 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2777 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2778
ca86f471
PH
2779PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2780 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2781 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2782 were accidentally chopped off.
2783
a14e5636
PH
2784PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2785 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2786 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2787 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2788 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2789 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2790 pipelining has not been advertised.
2791
ec95d1a6
PH
2792PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2793
42855d71
PH
2794PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2795 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2796 This has been fixed.
2797
57c2c631
PH
2798PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2799 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2800 reported on Solaris.
2801
58c01c94
PH
2802PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2803 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2804 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2805 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2806 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2807 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2808 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2809
dee5a20a
PH
2810PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2811 cpus.
2812
d2ee6114
PH
2813PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2814
b2d5182b
PH
2815PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2816
79749a79
PH
2817PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2818 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2819 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2820 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2821 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2822 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2823
c456d9bb
PH
2824PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2825 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2826 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2827 host_all_ignored option.
2828
cd9868ec
PH
2829PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2830 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2831 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2832 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2833 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2834 is what is supposed to happen).
2835
ebeaf996
PH
2836PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2837 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2838 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2839 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2840 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2841 uses the Exim user.
2842
2679d413
PH
2843PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2844 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2845 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2846 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2847 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2848 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2849 users.
2850
84024b72
PH
2851PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2852
8005d38e
SC
2853SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2854 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2855 (Jez Hancock).
2856 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2857 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2858
3298c6c6
SC
2859SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2860
a43a27c5
PH
2861PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2862
58eb016e 2863PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2864 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2865 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2866 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2867 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2868 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2869 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2870 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2871 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2872 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2873 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2874
b43a74ea
PH
2875PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2876 advertised in response to EHLO.
2877
b4ed4da0 2878
5dd1517f
PH
2879Exim version 4.66
2880-----------------
2881
2882PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2883 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2884
2885 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2886 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2887
2888 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2889 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2890 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2891
2892 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2893 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2894 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2895 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2896 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2897
2898
93cfa765
TK
2899Exim version 4.65
2900-----------------
2901
2902TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2903 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2904 versions. (#438)
2905
d6066548
MH
2906MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2907 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2908 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2909
4362ff0d
PH
2910PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2911 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2912 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2913 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2914 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2915 rather than extend the field.
2916
93cfa765 2917
944e9e9c
TF
2918Exim version 4.64
2919-----------------
aa41d2de 2920
21d74bd9
TK
2921TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2922 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2923 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2924 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2925 these files.
2926
2927TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2928 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2929 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2930
2931TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2932 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2933 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2934
2935TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2936 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2937 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2938 in the field name.
2939
2b1c6e3a
PH
2940PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2941 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2942 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2943 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2944 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2945 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2946 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2947 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2948 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2949 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2950 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2951
1f872c80
PH
2952PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2953 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2954
2955PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2956 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2957 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2958 ignores EPIPE as well.
2959
d203e649
PH
2960PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2961 (quoted-printable decoding).
2962
cc2ed8f7 2963PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2964 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2965
ddfcd446
PH
2966PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2967
d45b1de8
PH
2968PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2969
2970PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2971
38a0a95f 2972PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2973 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2974
a2405d83
JJ
2975JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2976 in 4.64-PH/09.
2977
2978JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2979 miscellaneous code fixes
2980
6ea85e9a
PH
2981PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2982 rejections.
2983
26da7e20
PH
2984PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2985 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2986 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2987 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2988 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2989 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2990 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2991 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2992
14aa5a05 2993PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2994 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2995 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2996 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2997 function.
2998 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2999 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3000 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3001 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3002 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3003 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3004 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3005 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3006 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3007
ff75a1f7
PH
3008PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3009 decoding.
3010
e6f6568e
PH
3011PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3012 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3013 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3014 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3015 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3016 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3017 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3018 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3019
d6f6e0dc
PH
3020PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3021 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3022 list.
3023
322050c2
PH
3024PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3025 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3026 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3027 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3028 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3029 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3030 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3031 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3032 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3033 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3034 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3035 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3036 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3037
08955dd3
PH
3038PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3039 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3040 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3041 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3042 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3043 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3044 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3045
1eccaa59
PH
3046PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3047 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3048 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3049 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3050 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3051 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3052 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3053 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3054 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3055 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3056
602e59e5
PH
3057PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3058 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3059 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3060 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3061 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3062
411ef850
PH
3063PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3064 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3065 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3066 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3067 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3068 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3069 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3070
7befa435
PH
3071PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3072 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3073 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3074 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3075 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3076 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3077 been verified.
3078
48da4259 3079PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3080 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3081 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3082 and authorization.)
3083
48da4259
PH
3084PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3085 if any retry times were supplied.
3086
d1d5595c
PH
3087PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3088 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3089 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3090
0ef732d9
PH
3091PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3092
328895cc
PH
3093PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3094
fd700877
PH
3095PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3096 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3097 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3098 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3099 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3100 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3101
8dce1a6f
PH
3102PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3103 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3104
17af4a17
PH
3105PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3106 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3107 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3108
3109PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3110 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3111 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3112 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3113 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3114 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3115 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3116 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3117 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3118
3119 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3120 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3121 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3122 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3123 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3124 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3125 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3126 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3127 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3128
3129 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3130 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3131 hammering the server.
3132
c1114884
PH
3133PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3134 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3135
7a0743eb
PH
3136PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3137
0d85fa3f
PH
3138PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3139 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3140 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3141
1bf43b78
PH
3142PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3143 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3144 one case where this was not true.
3145
520de300
PH
3146PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3147 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3148 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3149 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3150 fails.
3151
48c7f9e2
PH
3152PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3153 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3154 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3155 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3156 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3157 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3158 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3159 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3160 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3161 smtp transport.
3162
99ea1c86
PH
3163PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3164 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3165 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3166 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3167
a2042e78
PH
3168PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3169 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3170
4fbcfc2e
PH
3171PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3172 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3173 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3174
aa41d2de
PH
3175PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3176
af561417
PH
3177PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3178
3cc66b45
PH
3179PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3180
194cc0e4
PH
3181PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3182 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3183 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3184 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3185
a401ddaa
PH
3186PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3187 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3188
4e88a19f
PH
3189PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3190 be meaningful with "accept".
3191
d7d7b289
SC
3192SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3193 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3194
3195SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3196 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3197 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3198
3199SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3200 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3201 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3202 there is data to show.
3203 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3204
3205SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3206 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3207 as well as the number of messages.
3208
3209SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3210 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3211 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3212
3213SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3214 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3215 have a flag are now skipped.
3216
3217SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3218 Added the -emptyok flag.
3219
3220SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3221 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3222
0ea2a468
JJ
3223JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3224 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3225 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3226
3227JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3228 match 4.64-PH/13
3229
3230JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3231 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3232
3233JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3234
3235JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3236 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3237
8a10f5a4
PH
3238PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3239
30e18802
PH
3240PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3241 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3242 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3243 contravention of the specifications.
3244
55728a4f
PH
3245PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3246 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3247 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3248
d7837193
PH
3249PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3250 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3251 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3252
87054a31
PH
3253PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3254
ea2c01d2
MH
3255MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3256 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3257 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3258 some point in the past.
3259
e4fa6968
PH
3260PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3261 transport during callout processing was broken.
3262
56f5d9bd
PH
3263PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3264 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3265
922e1c28
PH
3266PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3267 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3268
21eb6e72
PH
3269PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3270 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3271
a0540757
PH
3272PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3273
944e9e9c 3274
478be7b0
SC
3275Exim version 4.63
3276-----------------
3277
3278SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3279 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3280
3281SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3282 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3283 there is data to show.
3284 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3285
3286SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3287 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3288
2b965a65
TF
3289TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3290 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3291
45b91596
PH
3292TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3293 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3294
c59f5781
TF
3295TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3296 submissions from trusted users.
3297
90fc3069
TF
3298TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3299 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3300
6083aca0
TF
3301TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3302 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3303 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3304 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3305 there is now a framework to start from.
3306
765b530f
PH
3307PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3308 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3309 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3310
4e167a8c
PH
3311PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3312
4608d683
PH
3313PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3314
b8dc3e4a
PH
3315PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3316
5418e93b
PH
3317PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3318 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3319 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3320
b4a9bda2
PH
3321PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3322 libradius.
3323
45b91596
PH
3324PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3325 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3326 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3327
5547e2c5
PH
3328PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3329 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3330 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3331 its arguments.
3332
dbcef0ea
PH
3333PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3334 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3335 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3336 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3337 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3338
25257489
PH
3339PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3340 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3341
c816d124
PH
3342PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3343
a9ccd69a
PH
3344PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3345 operations in malware.c.
3346
75fa1910
PH
3347PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3348 signatures.
3349
a7d7aa58
PH
3350PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3351 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3352 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3353 all.
3354
42119b09
PH
3355PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3356 statements to "add_header".
3357
41609df5
PH
3358PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3359 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3360
a5bd321b
PH
3361PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3362 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3363 latter.
3364
e85a7ad5 3365PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3366 so that it is now:
3367
e85a7ad5
PH
3368 ${if or { \
3369 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3370 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3371 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3372 }{no}{yes}}
3373
e85a7ad5
PH
3374 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3375 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3376
d8fe1c03
PH
3377PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3378 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3379
16282d2b
PH
3380PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3381 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3382 any possible encoding problems.
3383
35d40a98
PH
3384PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3385 but not after initializing Perl.
3386
034d99ab
PH
3387PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3388 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3389 apparently, which is not desirable.
3390
6ec97b1b
PH
3391PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3392 queries.
3393
e22ca4ac
JJ
3394JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3395 --not options
3396
3397JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3398
33d73e3b
PH
3399PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3400 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3401 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3402 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3403
9ecb03f3
PH
3404PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3405 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3406 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3407
084efe8d
PH
3408PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3409 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3410 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3411 0.12.
3412
366fc9f0
PH
3413PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3414 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3415 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3416 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3417 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3418
c59f5781 3419
c887c79e
TF
3420Exim version 4.62
3421-----------------
3422
3423TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3424 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3425
1cce3af8
PH
3426PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3427 patch).
3428
afb3eaaf
PH
3429PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3430 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3431 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3432 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3433 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3434 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3435 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3436 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3437 451 error is used.
3438
e173618b
PH
3439PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3440
dd16e114
PH
3441PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3442 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3443 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3444
f7fd3850
PH
3445PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3446 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3447 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3448 odd errors.
3449
d87df92c
PH
3450PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3451 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3452
7e9f683d
PH
3453PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3454 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3455 option (which defaults to 0600).
3456
bfad5236
PH
3457PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3458
01c490df
PH
3459PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3460 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3461 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3462 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3463 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3464 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3465 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3466
d6629cdc
PH
3467PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3468
1cce3af8 3469
214e2000
PH
3470Exim version 4.61
3471-----------------
3472
3473PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3474 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3475 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3476 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3477 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3478 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3479 addresses as local.
3480
f9daeae0
PH
3481PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3482 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3483
7e66e54d
PH
3484PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3485
c8ea1597
PH
3486PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3487 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3488 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3489 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3490 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3491 grumble.
3492
911f6fde
PH
3493PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3494 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3495
47ca6d6c
PH
3496PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3497 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3498 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3499 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3500 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3501
ed0e9820
PH
3502PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3503 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3504 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3505 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3506
eff37e47
PH
3507PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3508 be the same on different OS.
3509
1921d2ea
PH
3510PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3511 testing.
3512
b3f69ca8
JJ
3513JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3514 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3515
3516JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3517 in 4.61-PH/06
3518
424a1c63
PH
3519PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3520 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3521 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3522 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3523 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3524 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3525 bounce message.
3526
7a100415
PH
3527PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3528 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3529 when Exim was called.
3530
19b9dc85
PH
3531PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3532 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3533
309bd837
PH
3534PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3535 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3536 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3537 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3538
59e82a2a
PH
3539PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3540 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3541 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3542 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3543 changes:
3544
3545 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3546 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3547 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3548
3549 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3550 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3551 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3552
9edc04ce
PH
3553PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3554 feature).
3555
1349e1e5
PH
3556PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3557 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3558 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3559 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3560 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3561 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3562 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3563 values from the SRV records were lost.
3564
ea49d0e1
PH
3565PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3566 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3567 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3568
064a94c9
PH
3569PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3570 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3571 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3572
727071f8
PH
3573PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3574 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3575 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3576 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3577 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3578 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3579 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3580 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3581 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3582 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3583
f78eb7c6
PH
3584PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3585 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3586 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3587
21c28500
PH
3588PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3589 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3590
3591PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3592 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3593 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3594 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3595 is given.
3596
1688f43b
PH
3597PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3598 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3599 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3600
3601PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3602 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3603 PH/23 above applies.
3604
9675b384
PH
3605PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3606 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3607 (for which there is an explicit test).
3608
6a3f1455
PH
3609PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3610
dac79d3e
PH
3611PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3612 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3613 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3614 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3615 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3616
5977a0b3
PH
3617PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3618 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3619 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3620 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3621
c91535f3
PH
3622PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3623 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3624 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3625
0d46a8c8
PH
3626PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3627
278c6e6c
PH
3628PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3629
2cbb4081
PH
3630PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3631 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3632 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3633
3eef829e
PH
3634PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3635 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3636 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3637 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3638 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3639
1ab95fa6
PH
3640PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3641 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3642 the message gets confusing).
3643
230205fc
PH
3644PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3645 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3646 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3647 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3648
75e0e026
PH
3649PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3650 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3651 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3652 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3653 same order.
3654
3655PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3656 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3657 the different processes.
3658
145396a6
PH
3659PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3660
3cd34f13
PH
3661PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3662
11121d3d
JJ
3663JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3664 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3665
3666JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3667 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3668
3669JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3670 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3671 messages matching specified criteria.
3672
8def5aaf
PH
3673PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3674
929ba01c
PH
3675PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3676 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3677
2632889e
PH
3678PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3679 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3680 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3681 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3682 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3683 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3684 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3685 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3686 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3687 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3688
944a9c55
PH
3689PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3690 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3691 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3692
4a23603b
PH
3693PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3694
4730f942
PH
3695PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3696 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3697 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3698 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3699 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3700 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3701 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3702 the variable.
3703
30dba1e6
PH
3704PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3705 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3706
382afc6b
PH
3707PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3708
a86229cf
PH
3709PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3710
50c99ba6
PH
3711PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3712
d35e429d
PH
3713PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3714 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3715 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3716 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3717 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3718 size of the count of files.
3719
f90d018c
PH
3720PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3721
75def545
PH
3722PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3723 used in LMTP mode:
3724
3725 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3726 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3727 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3728 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3729
3730 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3731 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3732 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3733
3734PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3735 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3736 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3737 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3738 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3739
c46782ef
PH
3740PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3741 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3742
71fafd95
PH
3743PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3744 will now be deprecated.
3745
2c5db4fd
PH
3746PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3747
9cf6b11a
JJ
3748JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3749 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3750 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3751
3752JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3753 with very large, slow to parse queues
3754
3755JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3756
3757JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3758
898d150f
PH
3759PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3760 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3761 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3762 SMTP output lines.
3763
46218253
PH
3764PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3765 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3766 Sieve code now uses this.
3767
e97957bc
PH
3768PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3769 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3770
81e509d7
PH
3771PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3772 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3773
3d240ff7
PH
3774PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3775
b37c4101
PH
3776PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3777 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3778 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3779 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3780 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3781
79378e0f
PH
3782PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3783 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3784 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3785 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3786
e49c7bb4
PH
3787PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3788
d114ec46
PH
3789PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3790
f3d7df6c
PH
3791PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3792 is preferred over IPv4.
3793
715ab376
PH
3794PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3795 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3796 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3797 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3798 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3799 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3800 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3801
6b31b150
PH
3802PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3803 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3804 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3805
3806PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3807
d515a917
PH
3808PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3809 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3810 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3811 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3812 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3813 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3814 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3815 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3816 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3817 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3818 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3819
9b8fadde
PH
3820PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3821 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3822 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3823
214e2000 3824
5de37277
PH
3825Exim version 4.60
3826-----------------
3827
cc38ddbf
PH
3828PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3829
3830 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3831 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3832
3833 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3834 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3835 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3836
72fdd6ae
PH
3837PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3838
3839 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3840 not a single digit.
3841
3842 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3843 string.
3844
3845 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3846 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3847 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3848 silly things.
3849
3850 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3851 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3852
3853 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3854 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3855
cb741023
PH
3856PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3857 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3858 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3859
f174f16e
PH
3860PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3861 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3862
c25242d7
PH
3863PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3864 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3865
3866 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3867
3868 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3869 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3870 this:
3871
3872 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3873
82c19f95
PH
3874PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3875 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3876 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3877 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3878 identical. For example:
3879
3880 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3881
3882 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3883 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3884 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3885
d7ffbc12
PH
3886PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3887 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3888 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3889 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3890
9f526266
PH
3891PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3892 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3893 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3894 message.
3895
87fcc8b9
PH
3896PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3897
3898 o fixes some comments
3899 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3900 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3901 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3902 and documents the missing references header update
3903
3904 and most important:
3905
3906 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3907 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3908 result)
3909
456682f5
PH
3910PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3911 Electronic Mail") by including:
3912
3913 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3914
3915 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3916 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3917 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3918 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3919 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3920
3921 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3922
3923 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3924
3925 The auto-replied keyword:
3926
3927 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3928 message by an automatic process,
3929
3930 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3931
3932 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3933 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3934
3935 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3936 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3937 other messages.
3938
3e46c1aa
PH
3939PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3940 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3941
49826d12
PH
3942PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3943
eba0c039
PH
3944PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3945 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3946 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3947
a0d6ba8a
PH
3948PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3949 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3950 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3951
f0917727
PH
3952PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3953 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3954 and treats the condition as false.
3955
096fee00
PH
3956PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3957
024bd3c2
PH
3958PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3959 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3960 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3961 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3962 not changing the active code.
3963
3964 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3965 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3966
3967 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3968 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3969
df199fec
PH
3970PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3971 (Bugzilla #53).
3972
d27f1df3
PH
3973PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3974 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3975 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3976 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3977 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3978 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3979 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3980 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3981 the text comparison.
3982
96776534
PH
3983PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3984 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3985 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3986 The same fix has been applied.
3987
5de37277 3988
9a799bc0
PH
3989Exim version 4.54
3990-----------------
3991
3992PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3993 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3994 It now does.
3995
99a4b039
PH
3996PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3997 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3998
3999PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4000
4b233853
PH
4001PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4002 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4003 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4004 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4005 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4006
8857ccfd
PH
4007TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4008 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4009 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4010 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4011 or /domain=).
4012
433a2980
PH
4013PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4014 testing suite.
4015
3e46c1aa 4016
9a799bc0 4017
e3a311ba
TK
4018Exim version 4.53
4019-----------------
4020
4021TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4022 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4023
13b685f9
PH
4024PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4025
395ff96d
PH
4026PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4027
5b68f6e4
PH
4028PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4029 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4030 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4031
1ab52c69
PH
4032PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4033 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4034 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4035
b07e6aa3
PH
4036PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4037 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4038 operating systems.
4039
254e032f
PH
4040PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4041 ${stat: expansion item.
4042
3af76a81
PH
4043PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4044 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4045
2548ba04
PH
4046PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4047 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4048 file for comments.
4049
b6c6011d
PH
4050PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4051
cf39cf57
PH
4052PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4053 setting.
4054
f1513293
PH
4055PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4056 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4057
727549a4
PH
4058TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4059
af46795e
PH
4060PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4061 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4062 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4063 the end of the subprocess.
4064
d7b47fd0
PH
4065PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4066 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4067 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4068 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4069 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4070
ee744174
JJ
4071JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4072
b582ab87
PH
4073TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4074
41a13e0a
PH
4075PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4076 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4077
f625cc5a
PH
4078PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4079
4080PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4081
21f7af35
PH
4082PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4083 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4084 HP-UX compiler.
4085
31480e42
PH
4086PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4087
2d280592
PH
4088PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4089 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4090 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4091
7cd1141b
PH
4092PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4093 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4094
4095PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4096 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4097
750af86e
PH
4098PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4099 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4100
4101 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4102 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4103
4104 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4105 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4106 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4107 contributed by a Radius user.
4108
4109PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4110 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4111
4304270b
TK
4112TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4113 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4114
750af86e
PH
4115PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4116 available.
4117
64ffc24f
PH
4118PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4119 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4120 received.
4121
5dd9625b
PH
4122PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4123 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4124 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4125 header lines when this was not necessary.
4126
5591031b
PH
4127PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4128
ba18e66a
PH
4129PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4130 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4131 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4132 exists".
4133
9cec981f
PH
4134PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4135 -bV or -d is used.
4136
aa2b5c79
PH
4137PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4138 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4139 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4140 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4141
48a53b7f
PH
4142PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4143
1c59d63b
PH
4144PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4145
671012da
TK
4146TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4147
1509d3a8
PH
4148PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4149
4150PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4151 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4152 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4153 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4154 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4155 settings.
4156
4157PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4158
2fe1a124
PH
4159PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4160 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4161 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4162 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4163 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4164 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4165 which is clearly wrong.
4166
8800895a
PH
4167PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4168
ccfdb010
PH
4169PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4170 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4171 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4172 subsequently added.
4173
1130bfb0
PH
4174PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4175 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4176
ebcb507f
PH
4177PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4178
c35e155c
PH
4179PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4180 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4181
95d1f782
PH
4182PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4183 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4184
fd6de02e
PH
4185PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4186 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4187
58de37c5
PH
4188PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4189 recipients, not senders.
4190
261cf466
TF
4191TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4192 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4193
3ee512ff
PH
4194PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4195
e08c430f
PH
4196PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4197
bef5a11f
PH
4198PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4199 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4200 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4201 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4202
7546de58
TF
4203TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4204
e5d5a95f
TF
4205TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4206 clock is set back in time.
4207
2e88a017
TF
4208TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4209 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4210
a5f65aa4
TF
4211TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4212 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4213
e7726cbf
PH
4214PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4215 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4216 (see PH/47 above).
4217
a7fdad5b
TF
4218TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4219 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4220 header rewrites.
4221
6af56900
PH
4222PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4223 type ("H").
4224
0925ede6
PH
4225PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4226
66afa403
TF
4227TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4228 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4229 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4230
0154e85a
TF
4231TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4232 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4233 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4234 helo verification defer as a failure.
4235
16f12c76
PH
4236PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4237 actual error message.
4238
bbe902f0 4239
e5a9dba6
PH
4240Exim version 4.52
4241-----------------
4242
4243TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4244
22c3b60b
PH
4245PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4246 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4247 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4248 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4249
06a9b4b5
PH
4250TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4251
c1ac6996
PH
4252PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4253 can still be requested.
4254
9c7a242c
PH
4255PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4256 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4257 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4258 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4259
87ba3f5f
PH
4260TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4261 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4262 circumstances, but probably never did.
4263
4264PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4265 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4266 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4267 in the header line.
4268
29aba418
TF
4269TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4270
fe0dab11
TF
4271TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4272 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4273
11d337a4
TK
4274TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4275
4276TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4277
415c8f3b
PH
4278PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4279 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4280 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4281 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4282 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4283 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4284
958541e9
PH
4285PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4286 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4287 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4288 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4289 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4290 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4291
c206415f
TK
4292TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4293 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4294
2a4be8f9
PH
4295PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4296 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4297
1cba11c5
SC
4298SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4299 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4300
4c04137d 4301SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4302
4303SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4304
4305SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4306
4307SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4308
4309SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4310
4311SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4312
1005d00e
TK
4313TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4314
4315TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4316 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4317 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4318
4319TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4320 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4321 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4322 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4323
9b4768fa
PH
4324PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4325 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4326 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4327
4328PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4329 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4330 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4331 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4332
0d7eb84a
PH
4333PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4334 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4335 to be made).
4336
4337PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4338 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4339 should work with maildirs and everything.
4340
40727bee
TK
4341TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4342 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4343
554d2369
TF
4344TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4345 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4346
1f922db1
PH
4347PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4348 function for BDB 4.3.
4349
ef213c3b
PH
4350PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4351
8ac170f3
PH
4352PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4353 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4354 involved.
4355
b1c749bb
PH
4356PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4357 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4358 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4359 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4360 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4361 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4362
4aac9b49
PH
4363PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4364 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4365 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4366 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4367 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4368 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4369 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4370 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4371
294520c8
TK
4372TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4373 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4374 details.
4375
5bd022fe
PH
4376PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4377 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4378
90e9ce59
PH
4379PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4380 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4381 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4382 test. It is now used for both.
4383
5ea81592
PH
4384PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4385 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4386 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4387 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4388 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4389 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4390
c6c2dc1d
PH
4391PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4392 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4393 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4394 string_vformat().
4395
fffffe4c
PH
4396PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4397 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4398 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4399
9a26b6b2
PH
4400PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4401 experimental DomainKeys support:
4402
4403 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4404 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4405 the control was given.
4406
4407 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4408
4aee0225
PH
4409PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4410
32d668a5
PH
4411PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4412
8187c3f3
PH
4413PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4414 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4415 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4416 db.h files).
4417
ff790e47 4418PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4419 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4420 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4421 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4422 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4423 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4424 course.
ff790e47 4425
5417f6d1
PH
4426PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4427 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4428 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4429 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4430 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4431 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4432
59cf8544
PH
4433PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4434 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4435 do -d+all out of habit.
4436
e7ad8a65
PH
4437PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4438 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4439 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4440
ade42478
PH
4441PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4442 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4443 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4444 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4445 record types that Exim uses.
4446
182ad5cf
PH
4447PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4448 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4449 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4450 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4451 non-existent file that was broken.
4452
b0d9fc80
TK
4453TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4454 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4455
4456TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4457 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4458 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4459
4460TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4461
47c7a64a
PH
4462PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4463 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4464 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4465 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4466 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4467 same time.
4468
a388bce4
SC
4469SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4470 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4471 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4472 at a slight CPU cost.
4473
4474SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4475 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4476
4477SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4478 by Marc Sherman.
4479
0793e4ed
SC
4480SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4481
c58b88df
PH
4482PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4483 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4484
e7ad8a65 4485
7982096b
PH
4486Exim version 4.51
4487-----------------
4488
1a46a8c5
PH
4489TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4490 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4491
2f079f46 4492TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4493
4494TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4495
4496PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4497 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4498
4499PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4500 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4501 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4502 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4503 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4504 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4505 file.
4506
4507PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4508 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4509 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4510 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4511 these two options.
4512
4513PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4514 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4515 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4516 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4517 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4518 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4519 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4520 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4521
4522PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4523 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4524
4525PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4526 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4527 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4528 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4529 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4530 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4531
4532PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4533 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4534 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4535 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4536
4537PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4538 Finch).
4539
4540PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4541 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4542
49c2d5ea
PH
4543PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4544 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4545 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4546 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4547 message.
49c2d5ea 4548
bf759a8b
PH
4549PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4550
83364d30
PH
4551PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4552 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4553
7999bbd7
PH
4554PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4555 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4556 to what was transported.)
4557
7dbf77c9
PH
4558TF/01 Added $received_time.
4559
74e0617f
PH
4560PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4561 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4562 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4563 spamd_address settings.
4564
2f079f46
PH
4565PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4566 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4567 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4568 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4569 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4570
8c841523
PH
4571PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4572
7766a4f0
PH
4573PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4574 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4575 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4576 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4577 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4578
8b417f2c
PH
4579PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4580 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4581
901f42cb
PH
4582PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4583 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4584 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4585 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4586 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4587 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4588 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4589 for failure.
4590
f9b9210e
PH
4591PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4592 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4593 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4594 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4595 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4596 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4597 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4598 "input=".
4599
54cdb463
PH
4600PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4601
cf00dad6
PH
4602PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4603 driver and ACL definitions.
4604
acb1b346
PH
4605PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4606 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4607
c5ddb310
PH
4608PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4609 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4610 understands it better than I do:
4611
4612 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4613 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4614
4615 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4616 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4617 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4618 => three warnings about OTP not working
4619 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4620
4621 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4622 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4623 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4624 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4625 for each call.)
4626 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4627 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4628
4629 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4630 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4631 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4632
31619da6
PH
4633PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4634 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4635 specified.
4636
bebaf0fc
PH
4637PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4638 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4639 "Linux".
4640
475fe28a
PH
4641PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4642 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4643 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4644
4645 warn !verify = sender
4646 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4647
4648 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4649 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4650
7e8bec7a
PH
4651PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4652
4653 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4654 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4655
4656 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4657 nomenclature these days.)
4658
e4a89c47
PH
4659PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4660 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4661
5ca2a9a1
PH
4662PH/30 In these circumstances:
4663 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4664 . First host does not offer TLS;
4665 . First host accepts first address;
4666 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4667 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4668 . Second host accepts second address.
4669 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4670 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4671 address.
7e8bec7a 4672
c688b954
PH
4673PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4674 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4675 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4676 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4677 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4678
fed77020
PH
4679PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4680 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4681
7fe1560f
PH
4682PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4683 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4684
ebb6e6d5
PH
4685PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4686 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4687 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4688
9c4e8f60
PH
4689PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4690 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4691 overlooked.
4692
4693PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4694
d7174846
PH
4695PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4696 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4697 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4698 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4699 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4700 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4701 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4702
4703 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4704 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4705 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4706 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4707 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4708
4709 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4710 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4711 routed further.
4712
cfe75fc3
PH
4713PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4714 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4715 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4716 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4717 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4718 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4719
be22d70e
PH
4720PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4721
0612b098
PH
4722PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4723 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4724 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4725 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4726 printable escape sequences.
4727
2e0c1448
PH
4728PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4729 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4730 body only.
4731
447d236c
PH
4732PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4733 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4734 are as follows:
4735
4736 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4737 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4738 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4739 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4740 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4741
4742 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4743 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4744 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4745
d20976dc
PH
4746PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4747
f656d135
PH
4748PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4749 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4750 play with."
4751
2e2a30b4
PH
4752PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4753 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4754 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4755 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4756 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4757 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4758 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4759 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4760 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4761 the log output.
4762
9176e9f0
PH
4763PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4764 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4765 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4766 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4767 "make".
4768
7982096b 4769
bbe902f0
PH
4770A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4771----------------------------------------
4772
4773Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4774changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4775needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4776in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4777that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4778release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4779from 4.43.
4780
4781I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
47824.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4783those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4784historical information.
4785
4786
f7b63901 4787Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4788-----------------
4789
5fe762f6
PH
4790 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4791
139059f6 4792 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4793 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4794
7086e875
PH
4795 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4796 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4797 place.
4798
35af9f61
PH
4799 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4800 filter fails to execute.
4801
b668c215
PH
4802 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4803 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4804 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4805 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4806 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4807
a494b1e1
PH
4808 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4809
4810 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4811 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4812 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4813 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4814
c5fcb476
PH
4815 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4816 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4817 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4818 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4819 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4820
69358f02
PH
4821 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4822
5be20824
PH
482310. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4824
eb2c0248
PH
482511. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4826 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4827 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4828 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4829
2a3eea10
PH
483012. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4831 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4832 sender verification.
4833
483413. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4835 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4836
23c7ff99
PH
483714. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4838
4deaf07d
PH
483915. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4840 connection timeout.
4841
926e1192
PH
484216. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4843 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4844
650edc6f
PH
484517. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4846 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4847
2c7db3f5
PH
484818. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4849 information about exactly what failed.
4850
3d235903
PH
485119. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4852
7c7ad977
PH
485320. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4854 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4855 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4856
981756db
PH
485721. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4858 It is now set to "smtps".
4859
d4eb88df
PH
486022. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4861 ignore_target_hosts.
4862
486323. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4864 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4865 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4866 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4867 "[x.x.x.x]".
4868
7d468ab8
PH
486924. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4870 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4871 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4872
487325. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4874 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4875 wake it up if nothing else does.
4876
62c0818f
PH
487726. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4878 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4879 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4880 end up negative.
4881
26034054
PH
488227. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4883 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4884
af66f652
PH
488528. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4886
90af77f4
PH
488729. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4888 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4889 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4890 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4891 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4892 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4893 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4894 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4895
d8ef3577
PH
489630. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4897 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4898 than one IP address.
4899
5cb8cbc6
PH
490031. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4901 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4902 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4903 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4904
14702f5b
PH
490532. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4906 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4907 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4908 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4909 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4910 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4911
063b1e99
PH
491233. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4913 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4914 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4915 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4916
652e1b65
PH
491734. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4918 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4919 respected.
4920
6f0c9a4f
PH
492135. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4922 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4923 $sender_host_address.
4924
33397d19
PH
492536. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4926 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4927 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4928 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4929 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4930 very small.
4931
7bb56e1f
PH
493237. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4933
4934 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4935 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4936
ea3bc19b
PH
4937 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4938 just the host names, not the priorities.
4939
4940 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4941 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4942 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4943
ea3bc19b 4944 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4945 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4946
0bcb2a0e
PH
494738. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4948 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4949 domain.
4950
2ac0e484
PH
495139. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4952
4e1fde53
PH
495340. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4954 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4955
de365ded
PH
495641. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4957 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4958 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4959
f05da2e8
PH
496042. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4961
d6453af2
PH
496243. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4963
f7b63901
PH
496444. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4965
496645. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4967 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4968 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4969 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4970 because the tests only now provoked it.
4971
a444213a
PH
497246. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4973 (this can affect the format of dates).
4974
0ec020ea
PH
497547. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4976 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4977 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4978 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4979
b1206957
PH
498048. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4981
498249. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4983 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4984 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4985 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4986
26dd5a95
PH
498750. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4988 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4989 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4990
343b2385
PH
499151. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4992 autoreply.
4993
1c5466b9
PH
499452. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4995 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4996 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4997 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4998 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4999 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5000 is going on).
5001
55ee9ee3
PH
500253. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5003 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5004 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5005 the line.
5006
d38f8232
PH
500754. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5008 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5009 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5010
5011 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5012 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5013 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5014 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5015 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5016 so I produce this patch..."
5017
3295e65b
PH
5018 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5019 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5020 is not defined.
5021
7102e136
PH
502255. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5023 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
5024 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5025 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 5026 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 5027
3ca0ba97
PH
502856. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5029
c2bcbe20
PH
503057. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5031 long debug lines gets shown.
5032
18ce445d
PH
503358. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5034 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5035
1f5b4c3d
PH
503659. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5037
5038 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5039 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5040 of $primary_hostname.
5041
b975ba52
PH
504260. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5043 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5044 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5045 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
5046 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5047 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5048 by change 4.50/55 above.
5049
5050 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5051 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5052 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5053 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5054 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5055 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 5056 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
5057
505861. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5059 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5060 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 5061 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 5062
17ffcae7
PH
506362. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5064 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5065
d95f9fdb
PH
506663. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5067 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5068 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5069 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5070 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5071
86b8287f
PH
507264. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5073 This has been fixed.
5074
60dc5e56
PH
507565. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5076 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5077 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5078 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5079 the caching.)
5080
533244af
PH
508166. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5082
a5a28604
PH
508367. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5084 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5085 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5086 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5087
7e634d24
PH
508868. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5089 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5090
3e11c26b
PH
509169. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5092 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5093 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5094
6729cf78
PH
509570. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5096 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5097 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5098 message there.
5099
00f00ca5
PH
510071. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5101 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5102 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5103
c9bdd01c
PH
510472. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5105 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5106 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5107 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5108
d43194df
PH
510973. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5110 during host lookups.
5111
fe5b5d0b
PH
511274. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5113 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5114
5115 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5116
76a2d7ba
PH
511775. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5118 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5119 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5120 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5121 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5122 background.
5123
512476. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5125 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5126
04f7d5b9
PH
512777. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5128 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5129 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5130
bc60667e
PH
513178. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5132
bb6e88ff
PH
513379. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5134 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5135 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5136 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5137 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5138 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5139 process earlier.
5140
1e70f85b
PH
514180. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5142 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5143 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5144 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5145 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5146
514781. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5148 tables).
5149
4e01f9d6
PH
515082. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5151
1ee1cef2
PH
515283. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5153 "vacation" handling.
5154
6e2b4ccc
PH
515584. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5156 OS variants using glibc.
5157
8e669ac1
PH
515885. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5159
495ae4b0 5160
bbe902f0
PH
5161----------------------------------------------------
5162See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5163----------------------------------------------------
5164
5165
5166Exim version 4.44
5167-----------------
5168
5169 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5170 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5171 transport
5172
5173 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5174 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5175 place.
5176
5177 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5178 filter fails to execute.
5179
5180 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5181 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5182 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5183 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5184 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5185
5186 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5187 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5188 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5189 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5190
5191 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5192 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5193 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5194 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5195 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5196
5197 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5198
5199 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5200 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5201 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5202 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5203
5204 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5205 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5206 sender verification.
5207
520810. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5209 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5210
521111. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5212 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5213
521412. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5215 ignore_target_hosts.
5216
521713. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5218 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5219 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5220 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5221 "[x.x.x.x]".
5222
522314. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5224 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5225 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5226
522715. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5228 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5229 wake it up if nothing else does.
5230
523116. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5232 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5233 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5234 end up negative.
5235
523617. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5237 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5238
ea3a6f44 523918. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5240
524119. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5242 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5243 empty pattern.
5244
524520. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5246 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5247 one IP address.
5248
ea3a6f44
NM
524921. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5250 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5251 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5252 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5253 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5254 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5255
ea3a6f44
NM
525622. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5257 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5258 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5259
526023. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5261 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5262 $sender_host_address.
5263
526424. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5265
ea3a6f44
NM
526625. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5267 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5268 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5269
527026. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5271 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5272
ea3a6f44
NM
527327. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5274 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5275
ea3a6f44
NM
527628. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5277 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5278 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5279 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5280
528129. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5282 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5283 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5284
ea3a6f44
NM
528530. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5286 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5287 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5288 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5289
ea3a6f44
NM
529031. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5291 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5292 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5293
ea3a6f44
NM
529431. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5295 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5296
ea3a6f44
NM
529732. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5298 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5299 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5300 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5301 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5302 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5303 is going on).
bbe902f0 5304
ea3a6f44
NM
530533. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5306 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5307 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5308 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5309 CAN-2005-0021
5310
ea3a6f44
NM
531134. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5312 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5313 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5314 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5315 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5316 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5317 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5318
5319 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5320 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5321 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5322 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5323 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5324 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5325 CAN-2005-0021
5326
ea3a6f44
NM
532735. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5328 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5329 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5330 CAN-2005-0022
5331
ea3a6f44
NM
533236. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5333 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5334 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5335 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5336 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5337
ea3a6f44
NM
533837. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5339 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5340 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5341 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5342 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5343
ea3a6f44
NM
534438. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5345 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5346 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5347 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5348 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5349
5350
495ae4b0
PH
5351Exim version 4.43
5352-----------------
5353
5354 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5355 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5356 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5357 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5358 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5359 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5360 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5361
5362 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5363 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5364 the delivery.
5365
5366 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5367
5368 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5369
5370 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5371 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5372 to local_scan().
5373
5374 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5375 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5376 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5377 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5378 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5379
5380 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5381 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5382
5383 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5384
5385 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5386
538710. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5388 header_sender only.
5389
539011. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5391 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5392
539312. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5394 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5395 affecting debugging statements).
5396
539713. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5398
539914. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5400 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5401 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5402 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5403 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5404 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5405 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5406 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5407 after the received time, and all would be well.
5408
540915. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5410 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5411 condition in an expansion string.
5412
541316. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5414
541517. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5416 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5417 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5418 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5419 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5420 job under whatever limits there are.
5421
542218. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5423
542419. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5425 space).
5426
542720. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5428 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5429 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5430 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5431 return path is set.
5432
543321. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5434 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5435 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5436 binary data in such strings.
5437
543822. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5439
544023. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5441 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5442 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5443 failure, which is pointless.
5444
544524. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5446
544725. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5448
544926. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5450 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5451 Sender: header lines.
5452
545327. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5454 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5455 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5456
545728. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5458 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5459 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5460 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5461 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5462 happens.
5463
546429. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5465 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5466 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5467 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5468 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5469
547030. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5471 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5472 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5473 1024.
5474
547531. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5476 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5477
547832. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5479 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5480
548133. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5482
548332. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5484
548533. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5486
548734. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5488 syntax error.
5489
549035. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5491
549236. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5493
549437. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5495 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5496 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5497 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5498
549938. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5500 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5501
5502
5503Exim version 4.42
5504-----------------
5505
5506 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5507 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5508 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5509 it was not quoted.
5510 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5511 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5512 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5513 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5514 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5515 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5516
5517 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5518 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5519 verification failure".
5520
5521 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5522 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5523 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5524 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5525
5526 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5527 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5528 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5529 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5530 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5531 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5532 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5533 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5534 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5535 treated as a timeout.
5536
5537 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5538 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5539 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5540 not set for Exim filters).
5541
5542 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5543 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5544 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5545
5546 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5547
5548 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5549 try to make them clearer.
5550
5551 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5552 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5553
5554 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5555
5556 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5557
555810. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5559 only the Cygwin environment.
5560
556111. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5562 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5563 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5564 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5565 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5566
556712. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5568 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5569 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5570 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5571 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5572 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5573 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5574
557513. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5576 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5577
557814. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5579
5580 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5581 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5582 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5583
5584 To: susanne@some.where
5585
5586 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5587 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5588 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5589 of addresses in From: header lines).
5590
5591 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5592 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5593 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5594
5595 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5596 treated as non-personal.
5597
5598 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5599 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5600
560115. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5602
560316. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5604
560517. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5606 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5607 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5608
560918. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5610 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5611
561219. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5613 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5614 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5615 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5616 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5617 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5618
561920. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5620 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5621 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5622 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5623 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5624 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5625 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5626 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5627
5628 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5629
563021. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5631 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5632
563322. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5634 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5635 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5636
563723. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5638 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5639
564024. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5641 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5642 rather than long int.
5643
564425. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5645
564626. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5647
5648
5649Exim version 4.41
5650-----------------
5651
5652 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5653 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5654 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5655 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5656 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5657 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5658
5659
5660Exim version 4.40
5661-----------------
5662
5663 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5664 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5665
5666 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5667 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5668 socklen_t is defined.
5669
5670 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5671 always exist.
5672
5673 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5674 configured.
5675
5676 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5677 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5678 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5679 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5680 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5681
5682 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5683 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5684 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5685 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5686
5687 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5688 of flapping under certain conditions.
5689
5690 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5691 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5692 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5693
5694 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5695
569610. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5697
569811. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5699 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5700 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5701 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5702
570312. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5704 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5705 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5706 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5707 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5708 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5709 preserved with the message after it was received.
5710
571113. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5712 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5713 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5714 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5715 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5716 test suite worked just fine.
5717
571814. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5719 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5720 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5721
572215. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5723 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5724 string.
5725
572616. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5727 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5728 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5729 does not fully solve it.
5730
573117. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5732 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5733 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5734 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5735 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5736
573718. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5738 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5739 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5740
574119. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5742 string, for example:
5743
5744 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5745
5746 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5747 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5748 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5749 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5750 the routers could not see them.
5751
575220. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5753 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5754
575521. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5756 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5757 output).
5758
575922. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5760 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5761 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5762 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5763 that needed quoting.
5764
576523. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5766 was not being matched caselessly.
5767
576824. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5769 backslashes.
5770
577125. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5772 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5773 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5774 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5775 when use_sender is false.
5776
577726. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5778
577927. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5780
578128. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5782
578329. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5784 the configuration file.
5785
578630. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5787 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5788
578931. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5790
579132. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5792 bytes in the message body.
5793
579433. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5795 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5796 delivery.
5797
579834. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5799
580035. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5801
580236. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5803 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5804 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5805 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5806 another IP address.
5807
5808
5809Exim version 4.34
5810-----------------
5811
5812 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5813 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5814
5815 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5816 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5817 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5818 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5819 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5820
5821 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5822 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5823
5824 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5825 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5826 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5827
5828 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5829 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5830 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5831
5832 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5833 for routers.
5834
5835 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5836 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5837 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5838 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5839 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5840 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5841 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5842
5843
5844Exim version 4.33
5845-----------------
5846
5847 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5848 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5849 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5850 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5851 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5852 default (and expected) setting.
5853
5854 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5855 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5856 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5857 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5858
5859 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5860 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5861
5862 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5863 in domain lists.
5864
5865 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5866 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5867 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5868 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5869 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5870 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5871
5872 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5873 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5874 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5875
5876 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5877 part (NOT match_host).
5878
5879 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5880
5881 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5882 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5883 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5884 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5885 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5886 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5887 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5888 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5889 the same named file.
5890
589110. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5892 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5893 when Exim is built.
5894
589511. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5896 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5897 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5898 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5899 a host name.
5900
590112. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5902 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5903 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5904
590513. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5906
590714. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5908
590915. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5910
591116. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5912 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5913
591417. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5915 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5916 before starting the TLS session.
5917
591818. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5919
592019. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5921 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5922
592320. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5924 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5925 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5926 colon in the middle).
5927
5928
5929Exim version 4.32
5930-----------------
5931
5932 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5933 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5934 multiple configurations are in use.
5935
5936 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5937 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5938 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5939 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5940 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5941 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5942
5943 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5944 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5945
5946 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5947 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5948 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5949
5950 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5951 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5952 occurs.
5953
5954 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5955 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5956
5957 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5958
5959 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5960 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5961
5962 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5963
5964 -prval:sval
5965
5966 is equivalent to
5967
5968 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5969
5970 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5971 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5972 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5973 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5974 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5975
597610. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5977 Exim's behaviour:
5978
5979 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5980 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5981 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5982 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5983 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5984 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5985
5986 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5987 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5988 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5989 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5990 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5991 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5992 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5993 string.
5994
5995 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5996 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5997 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5998 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5999 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6000
600111. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6002
600312. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6004 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6005 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6006
600713. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6008
600914. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6010 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6011 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6012 information.
6013
601415. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6015 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6016
601716. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6018 Three changes have been made:
6019
6020 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6021 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6022 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6023 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6024 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6025
6026 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6027 been restored.
6028
6029 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6030 the modified behaviour.
6031
6032
6033Exim version 4.31
6034-----------------
6035
6036 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6037 Larry Rosenman.
6038
6039 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6040 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6041
6042 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6043 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6044 try to track down a specific problem.
6045
6046 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6047 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6048 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6049
6050 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6051 warning.
6052
6053 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6054 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6055 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6056 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6057 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6058 some earlier ones do not.
6059
6060 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6061
6062 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6063 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6064 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6065 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6066 address literals are enabled, of course).
6067
6068 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6069
607010. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6071 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6072 by a command such as
6073
6074 exim -f "" ...
6075
6076 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6077
607811. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6079
608012. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6081 remained set. It is now erased.
6082
608313. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6084 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6085
608614. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6087 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6088 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6089 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6090 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6091 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6092 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6093 appropriate error code.
6094
609515. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6096 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6097 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6098 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6099 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6100 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6101
610216. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6103 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6104 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6105
610617. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6107 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6108 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6109 terminate the header.
6110
611118. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6112 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6113 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6114
611519. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6116 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6117 (4.30/29). In particular:
6118
6119 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6120 imposed.
6121
6122 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6123 to write a maildirsize file.
6124
6125 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6126 the transport, the new value overrides.
6127
6128 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6129 count.
6130
613120. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6132 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6133 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6134 space or a tab.
6135
613621. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6137 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6138 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6139 the fallback hosts.
6140
614122. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6142 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6143 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6144
614523. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6146 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6147 using a union.
6148
614924. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6150 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6151 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6152
615325. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6154
615526. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6156
615727. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6158
615928. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6160 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6161 become corrupted.
6162
616329. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6164 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6165 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6166 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6167 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6168 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6169 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6170 too great.
6171
617230. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6173 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6174 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6175 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6176 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6177 incorrectly.
6178
617931. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6180 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6181 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6182 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6183 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6184 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6185 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6186 cached value only when the same options are set.
6187
618832. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6189
619033. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6191 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6192 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6193 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6194 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6195
619634: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6197 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6198 it is clearly obsolete.
6199
620035. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6201 transport.
6202
620336. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6204 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6205 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6206 times.
6207
620837. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6209 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6210 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6211 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6212 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6213
621438. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6215 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6216 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6217 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6218
621939. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6220
6221 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6222
6223 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6224 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6225 2^31.
6226
622740. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6228 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6229 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6230 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6231 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6232 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6233 $localpart_data.
6234
623541. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6236 with the -f command-line option.
6237
623842. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6239 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6240 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6241 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6242 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6243 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6244
624543. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6246 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6247 line.
6248
624944. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6250 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6251 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6252 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6253 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6254 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6255 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6256 buffer is too small.
6257
625845. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6259 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6260
626146. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6262 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6263 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6264 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6265 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6266 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6267 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6268 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6269 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6270
627147. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6272 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6273 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6274
627548. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6276 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6277 ACL").
6278
627949. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6280 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6281 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6282 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6283 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6284
628550. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6286 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6287 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6288 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6289 is set.
6290
629151. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6292
629352. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6294
629553. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6296 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6297
629854. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6299 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6300 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6301
630255. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6303 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6304 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6305 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6306 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6307
630856. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6309 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6310 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6311 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6312 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6313 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6314 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6315
631657. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6317 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6318 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6319 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6320 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6321 the test of how many are available.
6322
632358. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6324 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6325 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6326 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6327 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6328 new message is started.
6329
633059. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6331 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6332
633360. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6334 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6335
633661. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6337 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6338 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6339 is no long logged.
6340
634162. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6342 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6343 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6344 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6345 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6346 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6347 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6348
634963. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6350 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6351 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6352 interpreted as octal.
6353
635464. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6355 setting.
6356
635765. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6358 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6359 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6360 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6361 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6362 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6363
636466. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6365 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6366 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6367 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6368
6369 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6370 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6371 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6372 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6373
6374 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6375 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6376 is a bug fix.
6377
6378 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6379 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6380
638167. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6382
638368. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6384 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6385 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6386 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6387
638869. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6389 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6390 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6391 supplied", which is not helpful.
6392
639370. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6394 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6395 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6396
639771. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6398 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6399 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6400 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6401 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6402 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6403 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6404 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6405
640672. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6407 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6408 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6409 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6410 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6411
641273. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6413 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6414 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6415 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6416 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6417 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6418
641974. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6420 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6421 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6422
642375. Added write_rejectlog option.
6424
642576. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6426 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6427 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6428 variables.
6429
643077. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6431
643278. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6433 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6434 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6435 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6436 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6437 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6438 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6439 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6440
644179. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6442 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6443 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6444 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6445 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6446
644780. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6448 Haardt.
6449
645081. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6451 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6452 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6453 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6454 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6455 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6456 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6457 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6458 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6459
6460
6461Exim version 4.30
6462-----------------
6463
6464 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6465 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6466 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6467
6468 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6469 fixed.
6470
6471 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6472 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6473 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6474
6475 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6476 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6477 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6478 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6479 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6480 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6482 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6483 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6484 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6485 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6486 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6487 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6488 the Exim test suite.
6489
6490 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6491 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6492 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6493 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6494
6495 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6496 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6497 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6498 specify it in this variable.
6499
6500 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6501 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6502 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6503 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6504
6505 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6506 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6507 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6508 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6509
6510 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6511 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6512 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6513 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6514 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6515
6516 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6517
651810. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6519 they are logged.
6520
652111. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6522 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6523 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6524 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6525 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6526
652712. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6528 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6529
653013. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6531 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6532 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6533 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6534 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6535
653614. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6537 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6538
653915. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6540 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6541 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6542
654316. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6544 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6545
654617. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6547 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6548
654918. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6550 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6551 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6552
655319. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6554 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6555
655620. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6557 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6558 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6559 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6560
656121. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6562
656322. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6564 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6565 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6566 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6567
656823. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6569
657024. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6571 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6572
657325. Added .include_if_exists.
6574
657526. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6576 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6577 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6578 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6579 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6580 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6581
658227. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6583
658428. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6585 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6586 this.
6587
658829. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6589
659030. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6591 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6592
6593 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6594 550 Sender verify failed
6595
6596 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6597 the final line of the response.
6598
659931. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6600 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6601 all other user lookups.
6602
660332. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6604 delivery time.
6605
660633. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6607 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6608 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6609 result into an int without checking.
6610
661134. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6612 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6613 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6614
661535. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6616 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6617 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6618 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6619
662036. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6621 correctly.
6622
662337. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6624 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6625
662638. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6627 to the empty sender.
6628
662939. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6630 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6631 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6632 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6633 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6634 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6635 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6636 panic log.
6637
663840. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6639 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6640 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6641 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6642 used.
6643
664441. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6645 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6646
664742. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6648 timestamps.
6649
665043. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6651 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6652
665344. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6654
665545. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6656 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6657 logs.
6658
665946. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6660 as soon as it is encountered.
6661
666247. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6663
666448. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6665 rewritten to "<>".
6666
666749. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6668 recognizes a tab character.
6669
667050. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6671 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6672 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6673 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6674
667551. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6676
667752. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6678 crash.
6679
668053. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6681
668254. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6683
668455. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6685 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6686 2822.
6687
668856. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6689 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6690 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6691 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6692 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6693
669457. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6695 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6696
669758. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6698 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6699 list (.included file names were always shown).
6700
670159. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6702 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6703 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6704 root at that time.
6705
670660. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6707 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6708
670961. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6710
671162. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6712
671363. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6714
671564. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6716 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6717 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6718 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6719 failures to open the logs.
6720
672165. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6722 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6723 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6724 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6725 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6726 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6727 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6728
6729
6730Exim version 4.24
6731-----------------
6732
6733 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6734 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6735 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6736 change 4.23/1.
6737
6738 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6739 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6740 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6741
6742 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6743 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6744 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6745
6746 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6747 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6748 causing some misleading effects.
6749
6750 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6751 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6752 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6753
6754 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6755 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6756 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6757 queue-runner function directly.
6758
6759
6760Exim version 4.23
6761-----------------
6762
6763 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6764 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6765
6766 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6767 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6768 was always written to the default place.
6769
6770 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6771 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6772 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6773
6774 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6775
6776 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6777
6778 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6779 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6780 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6781
6782 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6783 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6784 must start.
6785
6786 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6787 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6788 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6789
6790 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6791 command line option is disabled.
6792
6793 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6794 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6795
6796 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6797
6798 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6799
6800 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6801 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6802
680310. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6804
680511. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6806 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6807 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6808 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6809 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6810 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6811
681212. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6813 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6814 timeout.
6815
681613. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6817 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6818
681914. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6820 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6821
682215. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6823 received was valid base64.
6824
682516. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6826 name of the variable that was being set.
6827
682817. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6829
683018. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6831 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6832 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6833 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6834 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6835 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6836
683719. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6838
683920. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6840 nor realm was specified.
6841
684221. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6843 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6844 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6845 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6846
684722. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6848 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6849 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6850
685123. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6852 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6853 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6854
685524. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6856 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6857 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6858 some systems use these upper case variants.
6859
686025. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6861 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6862 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6863 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6864
686526. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6866
686727. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6868 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6869
687028. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6871 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6872 expansion variable.
6873
687429. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6875
687630. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6877 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6878 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6879 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6880
688131. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6882 using it.
6883
688432. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6885 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6886 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6887
688833. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6889 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6890
689134. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6892 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6893 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6894 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6895
689635. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6897 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6898 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6899
690036. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6901
690237. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6903 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6904 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6905 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6906 aborted.
6907
690838. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6909 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6910 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6911
691239. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6913
691440. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6915 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6916
691741. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6918 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6919
692042. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6921 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6922 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6923 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6924 when emails are that large.
6925
6926
6927
6928Exim version 4.22
6929-----------------
6930
6931 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6932 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6933
6934 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6935 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6936 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6937
6938 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6939 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6940 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6941
6942 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6943 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6944 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6945 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6946 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6947
6948 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6949 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6950 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6951 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6952 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6953 ever.
6954
6955 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6956 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6957 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6958 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6959 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6960 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6961 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6962 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6963 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6964 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6965 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6966 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6967 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6968 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6969
6970 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6971 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6972 parameterised it.
6973
6974 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6975 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6976 error should be diagnosed.
6977
6978 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6979 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6980 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6981 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6982 appeared instead of "NULL".
6983
698410. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6985 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6986 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6987 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6988 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6989 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6990 proceeds).
6991
6992 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6993 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6994 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6995
6996
6997Exim version 4.21
6998-----------------
6999
7000 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7001 or receiver verification errors.
7002
7003 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7004 name.
7005
7006 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7007 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7008 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7009 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7010
7011 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7012 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7013 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7014 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7015 shouldn't happen again.
7016
7017 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7018 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7019 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7020
7021 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7022 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7023
7024 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7025
7026 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7027 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7028
7029 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7030 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7031 RFC.
7032
703310. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7034 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7035 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7036
703711. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7038 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7039 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7040 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7041
704212. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7043 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7044 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7045 to define what should happen).
7046
704713. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7048 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7049 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7050
705114. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7052
705315. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7054
705516. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7056 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7057
4c04137d 705817. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
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7059 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7060 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7061 structure in all cases.
7062
7063 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7064 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7065 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7066 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7067
706818. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7069 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7070 domain name.
7071
707219. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7073 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7074
707520. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7076 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7077
707821. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7079 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7080 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7081
708222. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7083 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7084 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7085
708623. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7087 the book and for uniformity.
7088
708924. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7090
709125. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7092 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
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7093 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7094 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7095 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7096 non-existent command as the problem.
7097
709826. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7099 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7100 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7101
710227. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7103
710428. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7105 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7106 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7107
710829. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7109 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7110 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7111 timestamps using strftime().
7112
711330. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7114 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7115
711632. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7117 transport-time rewrites.
7118
711933. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7120 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7121 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7122 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7123
712434. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7125 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7126
712735. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7128 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7129 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7130 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7131 comma and a space.
7132
713336. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7134 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7135 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7136 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7137 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7138 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7139 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7140
714137. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7142 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7143 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7144 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7145 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7146
714738. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7148 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7149 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7150 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7151 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7152 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7153 remaining text gets split now.
7154
715539. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7156 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7157 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7158 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7159
716040. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7161 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7162 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7163 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7164 $return_path.
7165
716641. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7167 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7168 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7169 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7170 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7171 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7172 passed through if needed.
7173
717442. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7175 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7176 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7177 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7178 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7179 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7180
718143. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7182 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7183 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7184 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7185 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7186
718744. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7188 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7189 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7190 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7191 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7192
719345. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7194 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7195 noticed.
7196
719746. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7198 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7199 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7200 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7201 mayhem of various kinds.
7202
720347. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7204 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7205 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
PH
7206 the right test for positive values.
7207
720848. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7209 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7210 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7211 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7212 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7213 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7214 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7215 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7216 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7217 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7218 envelope.
7219
722049. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7221 module.
7222
722350. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7224 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7225 forbidding it.
7226
722751. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7228 the existing equality matching.
7229
723052. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7231 dealing with inode numbers.
7232
723353. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7234 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7235 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7236
723754. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7238 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7239 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7240 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7241 local_scan().
7242
724355. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7244 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7245 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7246 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7247 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7248 relay addresses has also been removed.
7249
725056. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7251
725257. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7253 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7254 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7255
725658. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7257 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7258 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7259 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7260 processing applies to CR:
7261
7262 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7263 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7264
7265 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7266 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7267 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7268 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7269
727059. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7271 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7272 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7273
727460. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7275 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7276 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7277 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7278 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7279 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7280 arisen.
7281
728261. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7283 program routers.
7284
728562. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7286 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7287 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7288 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7289 adds:
7290
7291 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7292
7293 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7294
7295 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7296
729763. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7298 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7299 not considered personal.
7300
730164. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7302
730365. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7304
730566. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7306
730767. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7308 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7309 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7310 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7311 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7312 header lines, and spool format errors.
7313
731468. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7315 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7316 for more flexibility.
7317
731869. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7319 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7320 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7321
732270. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7323 Sabourenkov.
7324
732571. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7326 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7327 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7328 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7329 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7330 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7331 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7332 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7333 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7334
733572. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7336 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7337 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7338 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7339 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7340 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7341 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7342
734373. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7344 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7345 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7346
734774. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7348 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7349 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7350 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7351 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7352 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7353 instead of killing the process with assert().
7354
735575. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7356 than Unicode encoding.
7357
735876. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7359 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7360 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7361 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7362
736377. Added process_log_path.
7364
736578. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7366 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7367
736879. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7369 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7370
737180. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7372 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7373 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7374
737581. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7376 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7377 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7378 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7379 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7380 were applied:
7381
7382 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7383 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7384 as invalid.
7385
738682. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7387 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7388 they will be used during message reception.
7389
7390
7391Exim version 4.20
7392-----------------
7393
7394The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7395
7396****