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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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7Exim version 4.89
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11Exim version 4.88
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13JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
14 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
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16JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
17 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
18 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
19
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20JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
21 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
22 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
23 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
24 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
25 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
26 if one fails this test.
27 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
28 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
29
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30JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
31 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
32
23bb6982 33JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 34 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 35
0bd1b1ed 36JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 37 in rewrites and routers.
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39JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
40 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
41
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42JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
43 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
44
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45JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
46
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47JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
48 certificate).
49
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50JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
51 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
52 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
53 connection after a verify cache hit.
54 Do not update it with the verify result either.
55
56JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
57 when routing results in more than one destination address.
58
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59JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
60 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
61 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
62 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
63 when the cutthrough connection is made).
64
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65JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
66 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
67
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68JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
69 Previously they were not counted.
70
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71JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
72 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
73 that needed the lookup.
74
803628d5 75JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a norml message arrival "<="; now
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76 distinguished as "(=".
77
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78JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
79 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
80
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81JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
82
83JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
84 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 85
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86JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quaratine results,
87 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
88
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89JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
90 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
91 compatible.
92
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93JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
94 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
95 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
96 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
97
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98JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
99
f59aaaaa 100JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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101 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
102 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 103
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104JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
105 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
106 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
107 be lost.
108
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109JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
110 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
111 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
112 itself :(
113
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114JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
115 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
116 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
117
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118JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
119 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
120 options.
121
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122JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
123
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124PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
125 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
126
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127PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
128 are not in the system include path.
129
ad7fc6eb 130JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 131 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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132 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
133 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 134
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135JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
136 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
137 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
138
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139JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
140
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141HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
142 an incoming connection.
143
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144HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
145 to rspamd.
146
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147HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
148 fallback to "prime256v1".
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150JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
151 Could leak key material. Remotely explaoitable. CVE-2016-9963.
152
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156JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
157 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
158 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
159 client dropping the TLS connection.
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161TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
162 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
163
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164TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
165 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
166 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
167 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
168 outgoing I= field.
169
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170JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
171 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
172 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
173 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
174 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
175 check on the next write.
176
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177HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
178 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
179 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
180 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
181 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
182
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183JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
184 mime_regex ACL conditions.
185
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186JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
187 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
188 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
189
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190JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
191 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
192 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
193 an authenticate fail is not an error.
194
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195HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
196 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
197
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198JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
199 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
200
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201JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
202 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
203 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
204 distinct.
205
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206JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
207
208JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
209
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210JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
211
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212JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
213 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
214
98b98887 215JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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216 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
217
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218JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
219
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220JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
221 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
222
223JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
224
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225JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
226 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
227
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228JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
229
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230JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
231 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
232 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
233 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
234 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
235 they will retry in-clear.
236 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
237 at installation time.
238
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239HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
240 with the $config_file variable.
241
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242JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
243 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
244 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
245 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
246 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx reponse.
247
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248GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
249 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
250 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
251 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
252 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
253
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254JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
255
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256JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
257 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
258 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
259 list order is no longer honoured.
260
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261JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalisation
262 for DKIM processing.
263
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264JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
265 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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267JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
268 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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269 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
270 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 271
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272JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
273 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
274
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275JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
276 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
277
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278JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
279 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
280
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281JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
282
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283JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
284 cached by the daemon.
285
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286JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
287 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
288
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289JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
290 keys are given for lookup.
291
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292JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
293 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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294 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
295 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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297JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
298 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
299 server-side so match that on older versions.
300
07c73177 301JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 302 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 303 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 304
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305JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
306 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
307
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308JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
309 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
310 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 311 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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312 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
313 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
314 initial truncated version.
315
ab9152ff 316JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 317
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318JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
319
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320JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
321 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
322
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323JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
324
bc3c7bb7 325HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 326
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327JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
328 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
329 induced overflows.
330
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331JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
332 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
333 stage.
334
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335JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
336 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
337
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338JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
339 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
340 former class.
341
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342JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
343 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
344 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
345
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346JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
347 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
348 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
349 extraction. Accept either.
350
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355JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
356 expanded.
357
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358JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
359
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360JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
361 it.
362
01a4a5c5 363JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 364 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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365 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
366 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
367
cb1d7830 368JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 369 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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370 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
371
610ff438 372JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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373 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
374 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
375 TLS connections
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377JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
378 sites use this now.
379
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380JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
381 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
382 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
383 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
384 have a dsn_lasthop option.
385
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386JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
387 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 388 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 389
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390JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
391
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392JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
393 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
394
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395JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
396 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
397
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398JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
399 /defer_ok option.
400
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401JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
402 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
403
fd4d8871 404JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 405 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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406 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
407
408JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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409 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
410 specify a port-range.
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412JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
413 timeout value per server.
414
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415JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
416 now have the list separator specified.
417
8a512ed5 418JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 419 option values.
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82c0c8ea 421JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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422 under OpenSSL.
423
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424JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
425
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426JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
427 rather than the verbs used.
428
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429JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
430 from 255 to 1024 chars.
431
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432JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
433
cfab9d68 434HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 435 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 436
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437JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
438 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
439
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440HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
441 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
442
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443JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
444
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445JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
446
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447JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
448 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
449 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
450 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
451
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452JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
453
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454JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
455 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
456
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457JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
458 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
459
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460JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
461
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462JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
463
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464JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
465
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466JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
467 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
468
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469JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
470 added for tls authenticator.
471
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472HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
473
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475Exim version 4.85
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477TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
478 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
479 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
480 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
481 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
482 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
483 the script parsing/test process like normal.
484
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485TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
486 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
487 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
488 function when detected.
489
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490JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
491 cause callback expansion.
492
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493TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
494 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
495 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
496 instead of bool when processing it.
497
0f06b4f2 498JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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499 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
500
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501JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
502
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503JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
504
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505TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
506
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507TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
508 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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510JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
511 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
512 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
513 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
514 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
515 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
516
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517JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
518 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
519 exceeded it.
520
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521JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
522 version 3.3.6 or later.
523
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524JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
525 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
526 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 527 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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528 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
529 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
530 option is defined.
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532TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
533 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
534
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535JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
536 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
537 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
538 matches.
539
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540JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
541 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
542 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
543
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544JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
545 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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546
547JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
548 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
549 syntax errors.
550
3394b36a 551JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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552
553JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
554 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
555
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556TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
557 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
558 tarball.
559
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560JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
561
562JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
563 Bug 1561.
564
565JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
566 output list separator was used.
567
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571TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
572 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
573 return.
1f0ebb98 574
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575JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
576 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
577
578JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
579
580TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 581 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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586
587TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
588
589 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
590 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
591 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
592 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
593 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
594 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
595
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596TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
597 utilities have not been installed.
598
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599JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
600 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
601
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602TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
603 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
604
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605TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
606 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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607 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
608 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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610JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
611
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612TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
613 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
614
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615PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
616 not dns_use_dnssec.
617
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618JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
619
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620TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
621 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
622 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
623
8ddef691 624TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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625 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
626 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
627 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
628 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 629 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 630
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631JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
632
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633JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
634 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
635
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636JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
637 failed delivery.
638
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639JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
640
511a6c14 641JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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642
643JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
644 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 645
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646JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
647 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
648
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649TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
650
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651JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
652
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653JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
654 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
655
656 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
657 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
658 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
659
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660TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
661 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
662 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
663 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 664
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665JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
666
8c51eead 667JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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668 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
669 lookup).
8c51eead 670
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671TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
672 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
673 Schlichting.
35aba663 674
fd3b6a4a 675JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 676 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 677
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678TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
679 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
680
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681JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
682
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683TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
684 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
685 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
686
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687JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
688 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
689
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690JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
691 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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692 hosts_request_ocsp.
693
ed3bba5f 694JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 695 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 696 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
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698JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
699
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700TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
701 Christian Aistleitner.
702
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703JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
704
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705TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
706 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
707
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708JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
709 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
710
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711JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
712 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
713
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714TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
715 support and error reporting did not work properly.
716
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717TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
718 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
719
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720TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
721 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
722 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
723
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724JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
725
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726PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
727 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
728 Jasper Wallace.
729
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730JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
731
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732TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
733 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
734 CVE-2014-2972
735
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739
740PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
741
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742PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
743 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
744
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745PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
746 by GnuTLS.
747
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748PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
749 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
750 routines.
751
13363eba 752PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 753
66645890 754PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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755 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
756 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
757 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
758 using channel bindings instead).
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a3fb9793 760PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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761 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
762 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
763 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 764 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 765 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 766
d27f98fe 767TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 768
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769TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
770
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771TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
772 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
773
ae0e32ee 774TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 775 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 776 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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778TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
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780TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
781
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782TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
783 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
784
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785JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
786
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787JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
788
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789PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
790
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791NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
792 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 793
585121e2 794JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
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796PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
797 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
798 function.
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800PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
801 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
802
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803JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
804 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
805 "acl = name arg..."
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807JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
808
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809JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
810
ea722490 811JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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812 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
813
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814JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
815 Bugzilla 884.
816
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817JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
818 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
819
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820JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
821 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
822
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823PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
824 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 825 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
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827JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
828 authenticators.
829
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830JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
831 for control.
832
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833PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
834
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835PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
836 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
837 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
838 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
839
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840TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
841
842 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
843 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
844 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
845 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
846 the retry rules.
847
848 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
849 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
850 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
851
852 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
853 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
854 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
855 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
856
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857 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
858 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
859 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
860 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
861 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
862 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
863 delivery, as in LMTP.
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865 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
866 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
867
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868TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
869
870 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
871
872 Resent-From: f
873
874 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
875 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
876 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
877 username as equal to the username.
878
879 This change corrects that bug.
880
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881GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
882 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
883 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
884
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885TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
886
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887PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
888 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
889 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
890 NULL dereference and crash.
891
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892JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
893
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894PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
895 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
896 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
897
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898SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
899
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900JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
901 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
902 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
903 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
904 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
905 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
906 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
907 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
908 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
909 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
910 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
911
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912PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
913 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
914
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915PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
916 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
917 Bugzilla 880.
918
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919PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
920 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
921 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
922 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
923 an empty string is now equivalent.
924
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925PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
926 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
927 not performing validation itself.
928
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929PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
930 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
931
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932JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
933 Bugzilla 321, 823.
934
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935TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
936
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937PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
938 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
939 other false fix of the same issue.
940 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
941 Bugzilla 1363.
942
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943PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
944 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
945
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946PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
947 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
948 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
949
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950PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
951 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
952 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
953
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954TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
955
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956JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
957
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958TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
959 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
960
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961TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
962 Alexander Miroch.
963
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964TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
965 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
966 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
967 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
968 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 969
046172e6
TL
970TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
971 the src/util/ subdirectory.
972
581d7bee 973TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 974 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
975 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
976
977TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
978 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
979 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
980 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
981
237b2cf2
TL
982TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
983
9fc5a352
TL
984TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
985 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
986 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 987
b10e4ec2
TL
988TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
989
e2cebd74
TL
990TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
991 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
992 interaction.
993
994TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
995 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
996
2519e60d
TL
997TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
998 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
999
e78e6ecf 1000
4263f395
PP
1001Exim version 4.80.1
1002-------------------
1003
1004PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1005 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1006 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1007
ea722490 1008
b1770b6e 1009Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1010-----------------
1011
1012PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1013 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1014 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1015
23c7e742
NM
1016NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1017
b322aac8
NM
1018NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1019 improved.
1020
4a891427
NM
1021NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1022
c1e794ba 1023PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1024
97753960
PP
1025PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1026
1027PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1028 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1029
df6303fa
PP
1030PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1031 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1032
7e6a8985
PP
1033PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1034 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1035
f1e05cc7 1036PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1037 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1038 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1039
4c287009
PP
1040PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1041
b98bb9ac
PP
1042PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1043 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1044
4a6a987a
PP
1045PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1046
c45dd180 1047PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1048
7db8d074
PP
1049PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1050 non-compliant senders.
1051 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1052
eae0036b 1053NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1054 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1055 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1056
dec5017e
PP
1057PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1058 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1059 in spool file corruption.
1060
c80c5570
PP
1061PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1062 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1063 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1064 "Got SSL error 2".
1065
076b11e2
PP
1066TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1067 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1068 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1069
5407bfff
JH
1070JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1071 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1072
9e45c72b
PP
1073JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1074
e74376d8
PP
1075PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1076 diagnostics.
1077 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1078
da3ad30d
PP
1079PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
1080 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1081 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1082
7be682ca
PP
1083PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1084 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1085 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1086 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1087
ef840681
PP
1088PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1089 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1090
5bfb4cdf
PP
1091PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1092 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1093 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1094 resolver implementation change.
1095
c6e95d22
PP
1096PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1097 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1098
9cbad13b
PP
1099PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1100
9ee44efb
PP
1101PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1102
6a6084f8
PP
1103PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1104 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1105
12dd53c7
PP
1106PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1107 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1108
9e45c72b 1109JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1110 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1111
17c76198
PP
1112PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1113 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1114 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1115 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1116 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1117
53947857 1118PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1119
eae0036b 1120PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1121 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1122 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1123
9e45c72b 1124JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1125
7390e768
PP
1126PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1127 read-only, out of scope).
1128 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1129
08488c86
PP
1130PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1131 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1132 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1133 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1134
6475bd82
PP
1135PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1136
81f91683
PP
1137PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1138 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1139 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1140 real issues in debug logging.
1141
5779e6aa
PP
1142PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1143 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1144
3375e053
PP
1145PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1146 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1147 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1148
1149PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1150 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1151 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1152 problems.
3375e053 1153
9d26b8c0
PP
1154PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1155 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1156
57eb9e91 1157PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1158 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1159 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1160 needs to override this, it can.
1161
16880d1a
PP
1162PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1163 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1164 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1165
a799883d
PP
1166PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1167 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1168 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1169 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1170
3ecab157 1171PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1172
0599f9cf 1173
867fcbf5
PP
1174Exim version 4.77
1175-----------------
1176
1177PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1178 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1179
f1a29782
TF
1180TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1181
ab42bd23
TK
1182TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1183 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1184
0ca0cf52
TF
1185TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1186 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1187
921b12ca
TF
1188TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1189 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1190 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1191
1192 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1193 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1194 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1195 not safe for signals.
1196
1197 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1198 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1199 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1200 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1201 exiwhat.
1202
c99ce5c9
TF
1203TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1204
1205 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1206 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1207 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1208 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1209 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1210
1211 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1212 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1213 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1214 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1215 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1216 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1217
1218 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1219 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1220 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1221 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1222
1223 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1224 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1225 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1226 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1227
1228 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1229 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1230 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1231 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1232 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1233 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1234 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1235 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1236 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1237
1238 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1239 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1240 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1241 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1242
1243 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1244 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1245 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1246 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1247 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1248 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1249 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1250 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1251 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1252 details in the main documentation.
1253
3634fc25
TF
1254TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1255
792e8a19
TF
1256TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1257
5901f0ab
TF
1258TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1259 repository when doing development or release builds.
1260
7f2a2a43
PP
1261PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1262 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1263
061b7ebd
PP
1264PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1265 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1266 Bugzilla 97.
1267
e12f8c32
PP
1268PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1269
9e949f00 1270PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1271 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1272
1273PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1274 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1275
555ae6af 1276PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1277 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1278
1279PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1280 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1281
6f7fe114
PP
1282PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1283 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1284
c566dd90
PP
1285PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1286 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1287 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1288 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1289
d6cc7c78 1290PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1291 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1292 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1293
0d0e4455
PP
1294PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1295
3399bb60 1296PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1297
1298PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1299 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1300
0ca0cf52 1301
10906672
PP
1302Exim version 4.76
1303-----------------
1304
1305PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1306
754a0503
PP
1307PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1308 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1309
c0c7b2da
PP
1310PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1311
e97d1f08
PP
1312PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1313
084c1d8c
PP
1314PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1315 Bugzilla 1098.
1316
4e7ee012
PP
1317PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1318 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1319
c8d52a00
PP
1320TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1321 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1322
54e7ce4a
PP
1323PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1324 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1325
5ee6f336
PP
1326PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1327 Bugzilla 1104.
1328
c8d52a00 1329TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1330 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1331
1332TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1333 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1334 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1335 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1336
1337PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1338 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1339
10906672 1340
aa097c4c
NM
1341Exim version 4.75
1342-----------------
1343
4c9ef03a 1344NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1345 Bugzilla 1073
1346
7f3d9eff
TF
1347TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1348 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1349 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1350
159f52d2
TF
1351TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1352 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1353
0cc9542a
PP
1354PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1355 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1356 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1357
f7274286
PP
1358PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1359 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1360
7b797365
PP
1361PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1362 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1363
caacae52
NM
1364NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1365 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1366
09dcaba9
NM
1367NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1368 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1369
bc19a55b
PP
1370PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1371 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1372
bd4c9759
NM
1373NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1374 Fixes bug 943.
1375
b72aab72
PP
1376PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1377 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1378
2fe76745
PP
1379PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1380 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1381
76aa570c
PP
1382PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1383 SQL string expansion failure details.
1384 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1385
f1e5fef5
PP
1386PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1387 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1388
4d805ee9
PP
1389PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1390 extern declarations in function scope.
1391 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1392
cd59ab18
PP
1393PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1394 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1395 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1396 a kernel bug).
1397
332f5cf3
PP
1398PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1399 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1400
29cfeb94
PP
1401PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1402 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1403
660242ad
PP
1404PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1405 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1406
bc4bc4c5
PP
1407PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1408 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1409
2e64baa9
NM
1410NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1411 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1412 Dennis Davis.
1413
bddd7526
PP
1414PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1415
6bac1a9a
PP
1416PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1417
552193f0
NM
1418NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1419 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1420
1b587e48
TF
1421TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1422 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1423
aa097c4c 1424
8c07b69f
TF
1425Exim version 4.74
1426-----------------
1427
1428TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1429 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1430
c0ea85ab
TF
1431TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1432 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1433
0761d44e
TF
1434TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1435
0a349494
PP
1436DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1437 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1438 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1439
1440PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1441 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1442 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1443
fea24b2e
PP
1444PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1445 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1446 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1447 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1448
6545de78
PP
1449PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1450 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1451 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1452 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1453
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1454PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1455 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1456 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1457 arbitrary files.
1458
c0886197
PP
1459PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1460 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1461
b7487bce
PP
1462PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1463 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1464 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1465 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1466 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1467
8c07b69f 1468
97fd1e48 1469Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1470-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1471
1472PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1473 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1474 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1475
6901c596
PP
1476PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1477 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1478
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1479JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1480
77bb000f
PP
1481PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1482
a29e5231
PP
1483PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1484
ec5a0394 1485PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1486
55c75993
PP
1487PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1488
453a6645 1489PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1490 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1491 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1492 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1493
8544e77a
PP
1494PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1495 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1496 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1497 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1498 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1499
83e029d5
PP
1500PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1501
ed7f7860
PP
1502PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1503
7d9f747b
PP
1504PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1505
4b2241d2
PP
1506PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1507
10385c15
PP
1508PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1509
dbc4b90d
PP
1510PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1511
532be449
PP
1512PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1513
6a8de854 1514PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1515 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1516 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1517
5dc43717
JJ
1518JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1519
1520JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1521 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1522
3346ab01
PP
1523PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1524 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1525
491fab4c
PP
1526PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1527 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1528 Notification from John Horne.
1529
13eb9497
PP
1530PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1531 compatible.
1532
1533PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1534 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1535 it normally works.
1536
7f36d675
DW
1537DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1538 access.
1539
c1d94452
DW
1540DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1541 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1542 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1543
e2f5dc15
DW
1544DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1545 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1546 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1547 configuration file.
1548
cd25e41d
DW
1549DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1550 option (effectively making it always true).
1551
261dc43e
DW
1552DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1553 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1554
fa32850b
DW
1555DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1556 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1557
79d4bc3d
PP
1558PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1559 run-time user, instead of root.
1560
43236f35 1561PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1562 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1563
fb08281f
DW
1564DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1565 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1566 arguments.
3346ab01 1567
74935b98
DW
1568DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1569 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1570 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1571
90b6341f
DW
1572DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1573
57730b52
ML
1574NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1575
66581d1e 1576
465e92cf
JJ
1577Exim version 4.72
1578-----------------
1579
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PP
1580JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1581 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1582 typos
465e92cf 1583
453a6645
PP
1584JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1585 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1586 (Finput)
edae0343 1587
9bd3e22c
NM
1588NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1589 Patch from Alain Williams
1590
bb576ff7
NM
1591NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1592
5a1a5845
NM
1593NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1594 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1595
981a9fad
NM
1596NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1597 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1598
7fc497ee
NM
1599NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1600
1a41defa
JJ
1601JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1602
a466095c 1603NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1604 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1605
94a6bd0b
NM
1606TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1607
1608TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1609
1610MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1611 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1612 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1613
c1b141a8
NM
1614NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1615 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1616
b26eacf1 1617NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1618 Patch by Simon Arlott
1619
179c5980 1620PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1621 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1622
9bd3e22c 1623
7c6d71af
NM
1624Exim version 4.71
1625-----------------
1626
7d9f747b 1627TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1628
f013fb92
NM
1629NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1630
0eb8eedd
NM
1631NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1632
663ee6d9
NM
1633NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1634
177ebd9b
NM
1635NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1636
7c6d71af 1637
210f147e
NM
1638Exim version 4.70
1639-----------------
1640
cdd3bb85 1641TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1642 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1643
1644TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1645 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1646 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1647
1648TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1649 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1650 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1651
1652TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1653 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1654
210f147e
NM
1655NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1656 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1657 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1658 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1659
deafd5b3
NM
1660NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1661 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1662 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1663
089793a4
TF
1664TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1665
5f16ca82
TF
1666TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1667
dae9d94e 1668NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1669 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1670
7d9f747b 1671NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1672
06864c44
TF
1673TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1674 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1675 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1676 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1677
65a7d8c3 1678NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1679 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1680
23510047 1681TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1682
7d9f747b 1683NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1684
7d8eec3a 1685NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1686 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1687
89dec7b6
TF
1688TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1689 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1690
a99de90c
TF
1691TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1692 that they are available at delivery time.
1693
e2803e40
TF
1694TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1695
7199e1ee
TF
1696TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1697 incoming_port log selectors.
1698
e276e04b
TF
1699TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1700 setting expands to an empty string.
1701
ce552449 1702NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1703 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1704
e765a0f1 1705NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1706 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1707
4f054c63 1708NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1709 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1710
7d9f747b
PP
1711NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1712 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1713
7d9f747b
PP
1714NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1715 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1716
b52bc06e 1717NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1718 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1719
447de4b0
NM
1720NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1721
4c69d561 1722NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1723 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1724
d5c39246 1725NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1726 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1727
0b23848a
TK
1728TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1729
8f3414a1 1730NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1731 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1732
fb6f955d
NM
1733NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1734
1735NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1736
7d9f747b
PP
1737NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1738 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1739
7d9f747b
PP
1740NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1741 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1742
7d9f747b
PP
1743NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1744 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1745
7d9f747b
PP
1746NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1747 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1748
7d9f747b
PP
1749NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1750 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1751
7d9f747b
PP
1752NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1753 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1754
7d9f747b
PP
1755NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1756 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1757
7d9f747b 1758NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1759 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1760
7d9f747b 1761NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1762
7d9f747b
PP
1763NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1764 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1765
7d9f747b 1766NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1767
7d9f747b 1768NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1769
7d9f747b 1770NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1771
7d9f747b 1772NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1773
17792b53 1774NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1775 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1776
7d9f747b
PP
1777NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1778 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1779
91576cec 1780NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1781 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1782
7d9f747b
PP
1783NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1784 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1785
7d9f747b 1786NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1787
7d9f747b 1788NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1789
7d9f747b 1790NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1791
7d9f747b 1792NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1793
deafd5b3 1794
47db1125
NM
1795Exim version 4.69
1796-----------------
1797
4b3504d0
TK
1798TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1799 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1800 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1801
1802 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1803 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1804 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1805 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1806 build errors in sieve.c.
1807
81ea09ca
NM
1808NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1809 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1810 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1811
f13cddcb
SC
1812SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1813
7d9f747b 1814NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1815
7d9f747b 1816NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1817
7d9f747b 1818NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1819
1820
eb4c0de6
PH
1821Exim version 4.68
1822-----------------
1823
1824PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1825
6a3bceb1
PH
1826PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1827 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1828 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1829 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1830 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1831 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1832 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1833 for iplsearch lookups.
1834
1835 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1836 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1837 previously such lookups could never work.
1838
1839 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1840 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1841 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1842
2e30fa9d
TK
1843TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1844 version.
1845
0806a9c5
MH
1846MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1847 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1848 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1849 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1850 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1851 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1852
ae276964
TK
1853TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1854 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1855
0f2cbd1b
MH
1856MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1857 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1858 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1859 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1860 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1861 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1862
2b85bce7
PH
1863PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1864 local_scan API.
1865
93655c46
PH
1866PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1867
6c512171
PH
1868PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1869 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1870 encrypted.
1871
1872PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1873 by clients under certain conditions.
1874
aa6dc513
PH
1875PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1876 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1877
a96603a0
PH
1878PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1879
8f240103
PH
1880PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1881 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1882
1883PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1884
d677b2f2
PH
1885PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1886
d52120f2
PH
1887PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1888
64f2600a
PH
1889PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1890 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1891
8669f003
PH
1892PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1893
a4dc33a8
PH
1894PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1895 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1896
d6a60c0f
PH
1897PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1898
8f128379
PH
1899PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1900
8932dffe
PH
1901PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1902 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1903 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1904 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1905
ddea74fa 1906PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1907 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1908 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1909
ddea74fa 1910PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1911 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1912
ddea74fa
PH
1913PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1914
ce9f225c
PH
1915PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1916
19897d52
PH
1917PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1918
bc64a74d
PH
1919PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1920 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1921 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1922
eb4c0de6 1923
b4ed4da0
PH
1924Exim version 4.67
1925-----------------
1926
22ad45c9
MH
1927MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1928 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1929 Jan Srzednicki.
1930
b4ed4da0
PH
1931PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1932 issue a MAIL command.
1933
431b7361
PH
1934PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1935
1936 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1937
1938 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1939 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1940 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1941 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1942 item. This has been fixed.
1943
1944PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1945 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1946
83da1223
PH
1947PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1948 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1949
54fc8428
PH
1950PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1951 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1952 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1953
34c5e8dd
SC
1954SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1955
bbe15da8
PH
1956PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1957 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1958 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1959 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1960 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1961
0e8a9471
MH
1962MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1963 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1964 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1965
f0872424
PH
1966PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1967 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1968 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1969 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1970
b01dd148
PH
1971PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1972
6bf342e1
PH
1973PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1974
273f34d0
PH
1975PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1976 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1977 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1978 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1979 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1980
cf8b11a5
PH
1981PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1982
41c7c167
PH
1983PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1984 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1985 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1986 values).
1987
9c57cbc0
PH
1988PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1989
f3f065bb
PH
1990PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1991
047bdd8c
PH
1992PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1993
0ce9abe6
PH
1994PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1995
0e22dfd1
PH
1996PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1997
4c590bd1
PH
1998PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1999 no_callout_flush is set.
2000
09945f1e
PH
2001PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2002 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2003 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2004 fixed.
2005
c51b8e75
PH
2006PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2007
e28326d8
PH
2008PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2009 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2010 other ACL rejections are.
2011
75b1493f
PH
2012PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2013 with slight modification.
2014
7c5214ec
PH
2015PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2016 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2017
4311097e
PH
2018PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2019 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2020 connection.
2021
29f89cad
PH
2022PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2023 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2024
5e687460
SC
2025SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2026
c3611384
PH
2027PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2028 expansion side effects.
2029
5a11a7b4
PH
2030PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2031 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2032 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2033 be the same.
2034
0e20aff9
MH
2035MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2036 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2037 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2038
ca86f471
PH
2039PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2040 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2041 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2042 were accidentally chopped off.
2043
a14e5636
PH
2044PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2045 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2046 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2047 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2048 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2049 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2050 pipelining has not been advertised.
2051
ec95d1a6
PH
2052PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2053
42855d71
PH
2054PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2055 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2056 This has been fixed.
2057
57c2c631
PH
2058PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2059 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2060 reported on Solaris.
2061
58c01c94
PH
2062PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2063 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2064 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2065 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2066 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2067 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2068 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2069
dee5a20a
PH
2070PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2071 cpus.
2072
d2ee6114
PH
2073PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2074
b2d5182b
PH
2075PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2076
79749a79
PH
2077PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2078 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2079 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2080 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2081 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2082 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2083
c456d9bb
PH
2084PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2085 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2086 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2087 host_all_ignored option.
2088
cd9868ec
PH
2089PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2090 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2091 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2092 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2093 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2094 is what is supposed to happen).
2095
ebeaf996
PH
2096PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2097 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2098 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2099 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2100 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2101 uses the Exim user.
2102
2679d413
PH
2103PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2104 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2105 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2106 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2107 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2108 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2109 users.
2110
84024b72
PH
2111PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2112
8005d38e
SC
2113SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2114 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2115 (Jez Hancock).
2116 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2117 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2118
3298c6c6
SC
2119SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2120
a43a27c5
PH
2121PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2122
58eb016e 2123PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2124 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2125 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2126 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2127 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2128 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2129 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2130 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2131 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2132 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2133 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2134
b43a74ea
PH
2135PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2136 advertised in response to EHLO.
2137
b4ed4da0 2138
5dd1517f
PH
2139Exim version 4.66
2140-----------------
2141
2142PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2143 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2144
2145 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2146 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2147
2148 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2149 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2150 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2151
2152 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2153 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2154 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2155 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2156 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2157
2158
93cfa765
TK
2159Exim version 4.65
2160-----------------
2161
2162TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2163 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2164 versions. (#438)
2165
d6066548
MH
2166MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2167 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2168 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2169
4362ff0d
PH
2170PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2171 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2172 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2173 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2174 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2175 rather than extend the field.
2176
93cfa765 2177
944e9e9c
TF
2178Exim version 4.64
2179-----------------
aa41d2de 2180
21d74bd9
TK
2181TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2182 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2183 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2184 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2185 these files.
2186
2187TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2188 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2189 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2190
2191TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2192 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2193 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2194
2195TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2196 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2197 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2198 in the field name.
2199
2b1c6e3a
PH
2200PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2201 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2202 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2203 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2204 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2205 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2206 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2207 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2208 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2209 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2210 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2211
1f872c80
PH
2212PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2213 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2214
2215PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2216 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2217 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2218 ignores EPIPE as well.
2219
d203e649
PH
2220PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2221 (quoted-printable decoding).
2222
cc2ed8f7 2223PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2224 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2225
ddfcd446
PH
2226PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2227
d45b1de8
PH
2228PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2229
2230PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2231
38a0a95f 2232PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2233 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2234
a2405d83
JJ
2235JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2236 in 4.64-PH/09.
2237
2238JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2239 miscellaneous code fixes
2240
6ea85e9a
PH
2241PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2242 rejections.
2243
26da7e20
PH
2244PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2245 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2246 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2247 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2248 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2249 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2250 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2251 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2252
14aa5a05 2253PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2254 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2255 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2256 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2257 function.
2258 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2259 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2260 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2261 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2262 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2263 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2264 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2265 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2266 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2267
ff75a1f7
PH
2268PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2269 decoding.
2270
e6f6568e
PH
2271PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2272 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2273 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2274 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2275 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2276 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2277 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2278 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2279
d6f6e0dc
PH
2280PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2281 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2282 list.
2283
322050c2
PH
2284PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2285 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2286 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2287 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2288 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2289 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2290 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2291 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2292 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2293 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2294 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2295 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2296 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2297
08955dd3
PH
2298PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2299 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2300 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2301 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2302 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2303 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2304 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2305
1eccaa59
PH
2306PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2307 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2308 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2309 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2310 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2311 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2312 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2313 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2314 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2315 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2316
602e59e5
PH
2317PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2318 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2319 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2320 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2321 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2322
411ef850
PH
2323PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2324 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2325 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2326 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2327 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2328 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2329 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2330
7befa435
PH
2331PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2332 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2333 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2334 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2335 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2336 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2337 been verified.
2338
48da4259 2339PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2340 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2341 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2342 and authorization.)
2343
48da4259
PH
2344PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2345 if any retry times were supplied.
2346
d1d5595c
PH
2347PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2348 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2349 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2350
0ef732d9
PH
2351PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2352
328895cc
PH
2353PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2354
fd700877
PH
2355PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2356 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2357 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2358 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2359 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2360 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2361
8dce1a6f
PH
2362PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2363 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2364
17af4a17
PH
2365PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2366 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2367 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2368
2369PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2370 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2371 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2372 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2373 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2374 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2375 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2376 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2377 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2378
2379 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2380 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2381 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2382 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2383 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2384 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2385 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2386 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2387 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2388
2389 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2390 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2391 hammering the server.
2392
c1114884
PH
2393PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2394 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2395
7a0743eb
PH
2396PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2397
0d85fa3f
PH
2398PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2399 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2400 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2401
1bf43b78
PH
2402PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2403 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2404 one case where this was not true.
2405
520de300
PH
2406PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2407 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2408 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2409 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2410 fails.
2411
48c7f9e2
PH
2412PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2413 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2414 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2415 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2416 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2417 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2418 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2419 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2420 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2421 smtp transport.
2422
99ea1c86
PH
2423PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2424 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2425 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2426 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2427
a2042e78
PH
2428PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2429 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2430
4fbcfc2e
PH
2431PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2432 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2433 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2434
aa41d2de
PH
2435PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2436
af561417
PH
2437PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2438
3cc66b45
PH
2439PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2440
194cc0e4
PH
2441PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2442 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2443 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2444 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2445
a401ddaa
PH
2446PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2447 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2448
4e88a19f
PH
2449PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2450 be meaningful with "accept".
2451
d7d7b289
SC
2452SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2453 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2454
2455SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2456 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2457 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2458
2459SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2460 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2461 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2462 there is data to show.
2463 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2464
2465SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2466 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2467 as well as the number of messages.
2468
2469SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2470 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2471 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2472
2473SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2474 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2475 have a flag are now skipped.
2476
2477SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2478 Added the -emptyok flag.
2479
2480SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2481 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2482
0ea2a468
JJ
2483JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2484 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2485 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2486
2487JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2488 match 4.64-PH/13
2489
2490JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2491 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2492
2493JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2494
2495JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2496 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2497
8a10f5a4
PH
2498PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2499
30e18802
PH
2500PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2501 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2502 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2503 contravention of the specifications.
2504
55728a4f
PH
2505PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2506 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2507 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2508
d7837193
PH
2509PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2510 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2511 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2512
87054a31
PH
2513PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2514
ea2c01d2
MH
2515MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2516 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2517 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2518 some point in the past.
2519
e4fa6968
PH
2520PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2521 transport during callout processing was broken.
2522
56f5d9bd
PH
2523PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2524 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2525
922e1c28
PH
2526PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2527 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2528
21eb6e72
PH
2529PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2530 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2531
a0540757
PH
2532PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2533
944e9e9c 2534
478be7b0
SC
2535Exim version 4.63
2536-----------------
2537
2538SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2539 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2540
2541SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2542 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2543 there is data to show.
2544 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2545
2546SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2547 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2548
2b965a65
TF
2549TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2550 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2551
45b91596
PH
2552TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2553 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2554
c59f5781
TF
2555TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2556 submissions from trusted users.
2557
90fc3069
TF
2558TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2559 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2560
6083aca0
TF
2561TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2562 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2563 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2564 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2565 there is now a framework to start from.
2566
765b530f
PH
2567PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2568 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2569 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2570
4e167a8c
PH
2571PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2572
4608d683
PH
2573PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2574
b8dc3e4a
PH
2575PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2576
5418e93b
PH
2577PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2578 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2579 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2580
b4a9bda2
PH
2581PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2582 libradius.
2583
45b91596
PH
2584PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2585 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2586 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2587
5547e2c5
PH
2588PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2589 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2590 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2591 its arguments.
2592
dbcef0ea
PH
2593PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2594 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2595 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2596 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2597 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2598
25257489
PH
2599PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2600 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2601
c816d124
PH
2602PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2603
a9ccd69a
PH
2604PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2605 operations in malware.c.
2606
75fa1910
PH
2607PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2608 signatures.
2609
a7d7aa58
PH
2610PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2611 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2612 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2613 all.
2614
42119b09
PH
2615PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2616 statements to "add_header".
2617
41609df5
PH
2618PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2619 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2620
a5bd321b
PH
2621PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2622 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2623 latter.
2624
e85a7ad5 2625PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2626 so that it is now:
2627
e85a7ad5
PH
2628 ${if or { \
2629 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2630 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2631 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2632 }{no}{yes}}
2633
e85a7ad5
PH
2634 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2635 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2636
d8fe1c03
PH
2637PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2638 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2639
16282d2b
PH
2640PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2641 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2642 any possible encoding problems.
2643
35d40a98
PH
2644PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2645 but not after initializing Perl.
2646
034d99ab
PH
2647PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2648 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2649 apparently, which is not desirable.
2650
6ec97b1b
PH
2651PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2652 queries.
2653
e22ca4ac
JJ
2654JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2655 --not options
2656
2657JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2658
33d73e3b
PH
2659PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2660 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2661 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2662 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2663
9ecb03f3
PH
2664PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2665 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2666 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2667
084efe8d
PH
2668PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2669 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2670 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2671 0.12.
2672
366fc9f0
PH
2673PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2674 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2675 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2676 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2677 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2678
c59f5781 2679
c887c79e
TF
2680Exim version 4.62
2681-----------------
2682
2683TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2684 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2685
1cce3af8
PH
2686PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2687 patch).
2688
afb3eaaf
PH
2689PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2690 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2691 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2692 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2693 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2694 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2695 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2696 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2697 451 error is used.
2698
e173618b
PH
2699PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2700
dd16e114
PH
2701PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2702 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2703 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2704
f7fd3850
PH
2705PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2706 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2707 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2708 odd errors.
2709
d87df92c
PH
2710PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2711 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2712
7e9f683d
PH
2713PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2714 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2715 option (which defaults to 0600).
2716
bfad5236
PH
2717PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2718
01c490df
PH
2719PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2720 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2721 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2722 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2723 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2724 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2725 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2726
d6629cdc
PH
2727PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2728
1cce3af8 2729
214e2000
PH
2730Exim version 4.61
2731-----------------
2732
2733PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2734 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2735 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2736 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2737 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2738 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2739 addresses as local.
2740
f9daeae0
PH
2741PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2742 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2743
7e66e54d
PH
2744PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2745
c8ea1597
PH
2746PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2747 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2748 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2749 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2750 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2751 grumble.
2752
911f6fde
PH
2753PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2754 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2755
47ca6d6c
PH
2756PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2757 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2758 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2759 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2760 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2761
ed0e9820
PH
2762PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2763 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2764 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2765 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2766
eff37e47
PH
2767PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2768 be the same on different OS.
2769
1921d2ea
PH
2770PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2771 testing.
2772
b3f69ca8
JJ
2773JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2774 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2775
2776JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2777 in 4.61-PH/06
2778
424a1c63
PH
2779PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2780 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2781 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2782 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2783 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2784 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2785 bounce message.
2786
7a100415
PH
2787PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2788 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2789 when Exim was called.
2790
19b9dc85
PH
2791PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2792 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2793
309bd837
PH
2794PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2795 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2796 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2797 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2798
59e82a2a
PH
2799PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2800 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2801 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2802 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2803 changes:
2804
2805 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2806 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2807 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2808
2809 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2810 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2811 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2812
9edc04ce
PH
2813PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2814 feature).
2815
1349e1e5
PH
2816PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2817 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2818 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2819 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2820 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2821 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2822 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2823 values from the SRV records were lost.
2824
ea49d0e1
PH
2825PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2826 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2827 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2828
064a94c9
PH
2829PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2830 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2831 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2832
727071f8
PH
2833PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2834 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2835 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2836 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2837 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2838 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2839 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2840 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2841 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2842 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2843
f78eb7c6
PH
2844PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2845 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2846 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2847
21c28500
PH
2848PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2849 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2850
2851PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2852 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2853 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2854 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2855 is given.
2856
1688f43b
PH
2857PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2858 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2859 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2860
2861PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2862 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2863 PH/23 above applies.
2864
9675b384
PH
2865PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2866 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2867 (for which there is an explicit test).
2868
6a3f1455
PH
2869PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2870
dac79d3e
PH
2871PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2872 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2873 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2874 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2875 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2876
5977a0b3
PH
2877PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2878 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2879 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2880 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2881
c91535f3
PH
2882PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2883 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2884 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2885
0d46a8c8
PH
2886PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2887
278c6e6c
PH
2888PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2889
2cbb4081
PH
2890PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2891 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2892 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2893
3eef829e
PH
2894PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2895 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2896 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2897 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2898 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2899
1ab95fa6
PH
2900PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2901 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2902 the message gets confusing).
2903
230205fc
PH
2904PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2905 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2906 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2907 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2908
75e0e026
PH
2909PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2910 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2911 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2912 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2913 same order.
2914
2915PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2916 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2917 the different processes.
2918
145396a6
PH
2919PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2920
3cd34f13
PH
2921PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2922
11121d3d
JJ
2923JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2924 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2925
2926JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2927 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2928
2929JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2930 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2931 messages matching specified criteria.
2932
8def5aaf
PH
2933PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2934
929ba01c
PH
2935PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2936 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2937
2632889e
PH
2938PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2939 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2940 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2941 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2942 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2943 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2944 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2945 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2946 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2947 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2948
944a9c55
PH
2949PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2950 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2951 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2952
4a23603b
PH
2953PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2954
4730f942
PH
2955PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2956 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2957 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2958 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2959 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2960 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2961 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2962 the variable.
2963
30dba1e6
PH
2964PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2965 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2966
382afc6b
PH
2967PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2968
a86229cf
PH
2969PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2970
50c99ba6
PH
2971PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2972
d35e429d
PH
2973PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2974 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2975 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2976 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2977 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2978 size of the count of files.
2979
f90d018c
PH
2980PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2981
75def545
PH
2982PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2983 used in LMTP mode:
2984
2985 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2986 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2987 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2988 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2989
2990 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2991 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2992 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2993
2994PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2995 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2996 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2997 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2998 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2999
c46782ef
PH
3000PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3001 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3002
71fafd95
PH
3003PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3004 will now be deprecated.
3005
2c5db4fd
PH
3006PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3007
9cf6b11a
JJ
3008JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3009 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3010 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3011
3012JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3013 with very large, slow to parse queues
3014
3015JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3016
3017JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3018
898d150f
PH
3019PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3020 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3021 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3022 SMTP output lines.
3023
46218253
PH
3024PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3025 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3026 Sieve code now uses this.
3027
e97957bc
PH
3028PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3029 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3030
81e509d7
PH
3031PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3032 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3033
3d240ff7
PH
3034PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3035
b37c4101
PH
3036PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3037 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3038 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3039 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3040 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3041
79378e0f
PH
3042PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3043 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3044 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3045 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3046
e49c7bb4
PH
3047PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3048
d114ec46
PH
3049PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3050
f3d7df6c
PH
3051PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3052 is preferred over IPv4.
3053
715ab376
PH
3054PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3055 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3056 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3057 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3058 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3059 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3060 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3061
6b31b150
PH
3062PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3063 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3064 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3065
3066PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3067
d515a917
PH
3068PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3069 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3070 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3071 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3072 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3073 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3074 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3075 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3076 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3077 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3078 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3079
9b8fadde
PH
3080PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3081 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3082 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3083
214e2000 3084
5de37277
PH
3085Exim version 4.60
3086-----------------
3087
cc38ddbf
PH
3088PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3089
3090 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3091 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3092
3093 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3094 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3095 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3096
72fdd6ae
PH
3097PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3098
3099 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3100 not a single digit.
3101
3102 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3103 string.
3104
3105 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3106 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3107 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3108 silly things.
3109
3110 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3111 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3112
3113 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3114 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3115
cb741023
PH
3116PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3117 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3118 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3119
f174f16e
PH
3120PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3121 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3122
c25242d7
PH
3123PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3124 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3125
3126 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3127
3128 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3129 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3130 this:
3131
3132 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3133
82c19f95
PH
3134PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3135 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3136 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3137 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3138 identical. For example:
3139
3140 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3141
3142 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3143 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3144 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3145
d7ffbc12
PH
3146PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3147 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3148 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3149 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3150
9f526266
PH
3151PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3152 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3153 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3154 message.
3155
87fcc8b9
PH
3156PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3157
3158 o fixes some comments
3159 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3160 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3161 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3162 and documents the missing references header update
3163
3164 and most important:
3165
3166 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3167 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
3168 result)
3169
456682f5
PH
3170PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3171 Electronic Mail") by including:
3172
3173 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3174
3175 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3176 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
3177 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3178 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3179 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3180
3181 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3182
3183 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3184
3185 The auto-replied keyword:
3186
3187 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3188 message by an automatic process,
3189
3190 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3191
3192 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3193 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3194
3195 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3196 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3197 other messages.
3198
3e46c1aa
PH
3199PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3200 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3201
49826d12
PH
3202PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3203
eba0c039
PH
3204PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3205 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3206 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3207
a0d6ba8a
PH
3208PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3209 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3210 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3211
f0917727
PH
3212PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3213 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3214 and treats the condition as false.
3215
096fee00
PH
3216PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3217
024bd3c2
PH
3218PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3219 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3220 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3221 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3222 not changing the active code.
3223
3224 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3225 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3226
3227 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3228 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3229
df199fec
PH
3230PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3231 (Bugzilla #53).
3232
d27f1df3
PH
3233PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3234 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3235 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3236 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3237 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3238 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3239 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3240 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3241 the text comparison.
3242
96776534
PH
3243PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3244 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3245 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3246 The same fix has been applied.
3247
5de37277 3248
9a799bc0
PH
3249Exim version 4.54
3250-----------------
3251
3252PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3253 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3254 It now does.
3255
99a4b039
PH
3256PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3257 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3258
3259PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3260
4b233853
PH
3261PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3262 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3263 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3264 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3265 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3266
8857ccfd
PH
3267TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3268 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3269 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3270 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3271 or /domain=).
3272
433a2980
PH
3273PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3274 testing suite.
3275
3e46c1aa 3276
9a799bc0 3277
e3a311ba
TK
3278Exim version 4.53
3279-----------------
3280
3281TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3282 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3283
13b685f9
PH
3284PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3285
395ff96d
PH
3286PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3287
5b68f6e4
PH
3288PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3289 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3290 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3291
1ab52c69
PH
3292PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3293 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3294 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3295
b07e6aa3
PH
3296PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3297 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3298 operating systems.
3299
254e032f
PH
3300PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3301 ${stat: expansion item.
3302
3af76a81
PH
3303PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3304 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3305
2548ba04
PH
3306PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3307 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3308 file for comments.
3309
b6c6011d
PH
3310PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3311
cf39cf57
PH
3312PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3313 setting.
3314
f1513293
PH
3315PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3316 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3317
727549a4
PH
3318TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3319
af46795e
PH
3320PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3321 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3322 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3323 the end of the subprocess.
3324
d7b47fd0
PH
3325PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3326 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3327 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3328 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3329 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3330
ee744174
JJ
3331JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3332
b582ab87
PH
3333TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3334
41a13e0a
PH
3335PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3336 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3337
f625cc5a
PH
3338PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3339
3340PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3341
21f7af35
PH
3342PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3343 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3344 HP-UX compiler.
3345
31480e42
PH
3346PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3347
2d280592
PH
3348PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3349 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3350 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3351
7cd1141b
PH
3352PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3353 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3354
3355PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3356 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3357
750af86e
PH
3358PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3359 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3360
3361 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3362 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3363
3364 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3365 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3366 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3367 contributed by a Radius user.
3368
3369PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3370 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3371
4304270b
TK
3372TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3373 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3374
750af86e
PH
3375PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3376 available.
3377
64ffc24f
PH
3378PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3379 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3380 received.
3381
5dd9625b
PH
3382PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3383 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3384 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3385 header lines when this was not necessary.
3386
5591031b
PH
3387PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3388
ba18e66a
PH
3389PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3390 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3391 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3392 exists".
3393
9cec981f
PH
3394PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3395 -bV or -d is used.
3396
aa2b5c79
PH
3397PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3398 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3399 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3400 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3401
48a53b7f
PH
3402PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3403
1c59d63b
PH
3404PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3405
671012da
TK
3406TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3407
1509d3a8
PH
3408PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3409
3410PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3411 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3412 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3413 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3414 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3415 settings.
3416
3417PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3418
2fe1a124
PH
3419PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3420 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3421 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3422 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3423 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3424 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3425 which is clearly wrong.
3426
8800895a
PH
3427PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3428
ccfdb010
PH
3429PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3430 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3431 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3432 subsequently added.
3433
1130bfb0
PH
3434PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3435 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3436
ebcb507f
PH
3437PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3438
c35e155c
PH
3439PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3440 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3441
95d1f782
PH
3442PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3443 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3444
fd6de02e
PH
3445PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3446 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3447
58de37c5
PH
3448PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3449 recipients, not senders.
3450
261cf466
TF
3451TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3452 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3453
3ee512ff
PH
3454PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3455
e08c430f
PH
3456PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3457
bef5a11f
PH
3458PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3459 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3460 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3461 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3462
7546de58
TF
3463TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3464
e5d5a95f
TF
3465TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3466 clock is set back in time.
3467
2e88a017
TF
3468TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3469 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3470
a5f65aa4
TF
3471TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3472 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3473
e7726cbf
PH
3474PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3475 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3476 (see PH/47 above).
3477
a7fdad5b
TF
3478TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3479 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3480 header rewrites.
3481
6af56900
PH
3482PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3483 type ("H").
3484
0925ede6
PH
3485PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3486
66afa403
TF
3487TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3488 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3489 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3490
0154e85a
TF
3491TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3492 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3493 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3494 helo verification defer as a failure.
3495
16f12c76
PH
3496PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3497 actual error message.
3498
bbe902f0 3499
e5a9dba6
PH
3500Exim version 4.52
3501-----------------
3502
3503TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3504
22c3b60b
PH
3505PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3506 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3507 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3508 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3509
06a9b4b5
PH
3510TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3511
c1ac6996
PH
3512PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3513 can still be requested.
3514
9c7a242c
PH
3515PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3516 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3517 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3518 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3519
87ba3f5f
PH
3520TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3521 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3522 circumstances, but probably never did.
3523
3524PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3525 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3526 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3527 in the header line.
3528
29aba418
TF
3529TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3530
fe0dab11
TF
3531TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3532 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3533
11d337a4
TK
3534TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3535
3536TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3537
415c8f3b
PH
3538PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3539 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3540 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3541 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3542 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3543 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3544
958541e9
PH
3545PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3546 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3547 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3548 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3549 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3550 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3551
c206415f
TK
3552TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3553 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3554
2a4be8f9
PH
3555PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3556 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3557
1cba11c5
SC
3558SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3559 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3560
3561SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3562
3563SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3564
3565SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3566
3567SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3568
3569SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3570
3571SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3572
1005d00e
TK
3573TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3574
3575TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3576 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3577 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3578
3579TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3580 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3581 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3582 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3583
9b4768fa
PH
3584PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3585 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3586 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3587
3588PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3589 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3590 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3591 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3592
0d7eb84a
PH
3593PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3594 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3595 to be made).
3596
3597PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3598 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3599 should work with maildirs and everything.
3600
40727bee
TK
3601TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3602 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3603
554d2369
TF
3604TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3605 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3606
1f922db1
PH
3607PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3608 function for BDB 4.3.
3609
ef213c3b
PH
3610PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3611
8ac170f3
PH
3612PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3613 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3614 involved.
3615
b1c749bb
PH
3616PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3617 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3618 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3619 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3620 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3621 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3622
4aac9b49
PH
3623PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3624 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3625 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3626 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3627 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3628 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3629 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3630 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3631
294520c8
TK
3632TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3633 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3634 details.
3635
5bd022fe
PH
3636PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3637 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3638
90e9ce59
PH
3639PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3640 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3641 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3642 test. It is now used for both.
3643
5ea81592
PH
3644PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3645 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3646 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3647 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3648 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3649 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3650
c6c2dc1d
PH
3651PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3652 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3653 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3654 string_vformat().
3655
fffffe4c
PH
3656PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3657 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3658 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3659
9a26b6b2
PH
3660PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3661 experimental DomainKeys support:
3662
3663 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3664 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3665 the control was given.
3666
3667 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3668
4aee0225
PH
3669PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3670
32d668a5
PH
3671PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3672
8187c3f3
PH
3673PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3674 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3675 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3676 db.h files).
3677
ff790e47 3678PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3679 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3680 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3681 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3682 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3683 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3684 course.
ff790e47 3685
5417f6d1
PH
3686PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3687 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3688 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3689 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3690 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3691 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3692
59cf8544
PH
3693PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3694 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3695 do -d+all out of habit.
3696
e7ad8a65
PH
3697PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3698 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3699 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3700
ade42478
PH
3701PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3702 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3703 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3704 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3705 record types that Exim uses.
3706
182ad5cf
PH
3707PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3708 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3709 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3710 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3711 non-existent file that was broken.
3712
b0d9fc80
TK
3713TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3714 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3715
3716TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3717 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3718 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3719
3720TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3721
47c7a64a
PH
3722PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3723 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3724 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3725 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3726 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3727 same time.
3728
a388bce4
SC
3729SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3730 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3731 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3732 at a slight CPU cost.
3733
3734SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3735 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3736
3737SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3738 by Marc Sherman.
3739
0793e4ed
SC
3740SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3741
c58b88df
PH
3742PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3743 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3744
e7ad8a65 3745
7982096b
PH
3746Exim version 4.51
3747-----------------
3748
1a46a8c5
PH
3749TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3750 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3751
2f079f46 3752TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3753
3754TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3755
3756PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3757 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3758
3759PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3760 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3761 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3762 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3763 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3764 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3765 file.
3766
3767PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3768 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3769 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3770 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3771 these two options.
3772
3773PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3774 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3775 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3776 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3777 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3778 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3779 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3780 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3781
3782PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3783 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3784
3785PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3786 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3787 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3788 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3789 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3790 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3791
3792PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3793 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3794 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3795 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3796
3797PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3798 Finch).
3799
3800PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3801 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3802
49c2d5ea
PH
3803PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3804 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3805 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3806 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3807 message.
49c2d5ea 3808
bf759a8b
PH
3809PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3810
83364d30
PH
3811PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3812 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3813
7999bbd7
PH
3814PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3815 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3816 to what was transported.)
3817
7dbf77c9
PH
3818TF/01 Added $received_time.
3819
74e0617f
PH
3820PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3821 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3822 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3823 spamd_address settings.
3824
2f079f46
PH
3825PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3826 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3827 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3828 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3829 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3830
8c841523
PH
3831PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3832
7766a4f0
PH
3833PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3834 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3835 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3836 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3837 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3838
8b417f2c
PH
3839PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3840 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3841
901f42cb
PH
3842PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3843 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3844 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3845 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3846 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3847 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3848 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3849 for failure.
3850
f9b9210e
PH
3851PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3852 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3853 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3854 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3855 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3856 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3857 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3858 "input=".
3859
54cdb463
PH
3860PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3861
cf00dad6
PH
3862PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3863 driver and ACL definitions.
3864
acb1b346
PH
3865PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3866 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3867
c5ddb310
PH
3868PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3869 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3870 understands it better than I do:
3871
3872 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3873 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3874
3875 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3876 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3877 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3878 => three warnings about OTP not working
3879 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3880
3881 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3882 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3883 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3884 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3885 for each call.)
3886 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3887 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3888
3889 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3890 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3891 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3892
31619da6
PH
3893PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3894 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3895 specified.
3896
bebaf0fc
PH
3897PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3898 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3899 "Linux".
3900
475fe28a
PH
3901PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3902 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3903 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3904
3905 warn !verify = sender
3906 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3907
3908 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3909 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3910
7e8bec7a
PH
3911PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3912
3913 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3914 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3915
3916 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3917 nomenclature these days.)
3918
e4a89c47
PH
3919PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3920 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3921
5ca2a9a1
PH
3922PH/30 In these circumstances:
3923 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3924 . First host does not offer TLS;
3925 . First host accepts first address;
3926 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3927 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3928 . Second host accepts second address.
3929 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3930 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3931 address.
7e8bec7a 3932
c688b954
PH
3933PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3934 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3935 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3936 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3937 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3938
fed77020
PH
3939PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3940 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3941
7fe1560f
PH
3942PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3943 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3944
ebb6e6d5
PH
3945PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3946 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3947 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3948
9c4e8f60
PH
3949PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3950 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3951 overlooked.
3952
3953PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3954
d7174846
PH
3955PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3956 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3957 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3958 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3959 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3960 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3961 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3962
3963 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3964 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3965 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3966 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3967 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3968
3969 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3970 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3971 routed further.
3972
cfe75fc3
PH
3973PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3974 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3975 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3976 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3977 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3978 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3979
be22d70e
PH
3980PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3981
0612b098
PH
3982PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3983 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3984 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3985 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3986 printable escape sequences.
3987
2e0c1448
PH
3988PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3989 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3990 body only.
3991
447d236c
PH
3992PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3993 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3994 are as follows:
3995
3996 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3997 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3998 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3999 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4000 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4001
4002 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4003 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4004 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4005
d20976dc
PH
4006PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4007
f656d135
PH
4008PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4009 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4010 play with."
4011
2e2a30b4
PH
4012PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4013 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4014 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4015 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4016 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4017 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4018 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4019 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4020 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4021 the log output.
4022
9176e9f0
PH
4023PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4024 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4025 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4026 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4027 "make".
4028
7982096b 4029
bbe902f0
PH
4030A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4031----------------------------------------
4032
4033Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4034changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4035needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4036in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4037that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4038release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4039from 4.43.
4040
4041I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
40424.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4043those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4044historical information.
4045
4046
f7b63901 4047Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4048-----------------
4049
5fe762f6
PH
4050 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4051
139059f6 4052 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4053 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4054
7086e875
PH
4055 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4056 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4057 place.
4058
35af9f61
PH
4059 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4060 filter fails to execute.
4061
b668c215
PH
4062 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4063 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4064 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4065 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4066 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4067
a494b1e1
PH
4068 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4069
4070 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4071 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4072 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4073 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4074
c5fcb476
PH
4075 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4076 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4077 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4078 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4079 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4080
69358f02
PH
4081 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4082
5be20824
PH
408310. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4084
eb2c0248
PH
408511. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4086 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4087 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4088 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4089
2a3eea10
PH
409012. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4091 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4092 sender verification.
4093
409413. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4095 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4096
23c7ff99
PH
409714. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4098
4deaf07d
PH
409915. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4100 connection timeout.
4101
926e1192
PH
410216. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4103 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4104
650edc6f
PH
410517. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4106 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4107
2c7db3f5
PH
410818. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4109 information about exactly what failed.
4110
3d235903
PH
411119. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4112
7c7ad977
PH
411320. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4114 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4115 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4116
981756db
PH
411721. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4118 It is now set to "smtps".
4119
d4eb88df
PH
412022. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4121 ignore_target_hosts.
4122
412323. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4124 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4125 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4126 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4127 "[x.x.x.x]".
4128
7d468ab8
PH
412924. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4130 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4131 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4132
413325. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4134 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4135 wake it up if nothing else does.
4136
62c0818f
PH
413726. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4138 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4139 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4140 end up negative.
4141
26034054
PH
414227. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4143 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4144
af66f652
PH
414528. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4146
90af77f4
PH
414729. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4148 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4149 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4150 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4151 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4152 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4153 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4154 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4155
d8ef3577
PH
415630. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4157 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4158 than one IP address.
4159
5cb8cbc6
PH
416031. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4161 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4162 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4163 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4164
14702f5b
PH
416532. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4166 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4167 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4168 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4169 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4170 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4171
063b1e99
PH
417233. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4173 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4174 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4175 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4176
652e1b65
PH
417734. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4178 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4179 respected.
4180
6f0c9a4f
PH
418135. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4182 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4183 $sender_host_address.
4184
33397d19
PH
418536. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4186 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4187 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4188 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4189 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4190 very small.
4191
7bb56e1f
PH
419237. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4193
4194 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4195 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4196
ea3bc19b
PH
4197 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4198 just the host names, not the priorities.
4199
4200 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4201 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4202 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4203
ea3bc19b 4204 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4205 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4206
0bcb2a0e
PH
420738. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4208 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4209 domain.
4210
2ac0e484
PH
421139. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4212
4e1fde53
PH
421340. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4214 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4215
de365ded
PH
421641. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4217 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4218 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4219
f05da2e8
PH
422042. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4221
d6453af2
PH
422243. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4223
f7b63901
PH
422444. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4225
422645. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4227 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4228 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4229 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4230 because the tests only now provoked it.
4231
a444213a
PH
423246. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4233 (this can affect the format of dates).
4234
0ec020ea
PH
423547. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4236 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4237 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4238 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4239
b1206957
PH
424048. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4241
424249. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4243 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4244 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4245 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4246
26dd5a95
PH
424750. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4248 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4249 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4250
343b2385
PH
425151. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4252 autoreply.
4253
1c5466b9
PH
425452. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4255 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4256 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4257 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4258 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4259 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4260 is going on).
4261
55ee9ee3
PH
426253. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4263 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4264 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4265 the line.
4266
d38f8232
PH
426754. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4268 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4269 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4270
4271 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4272 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4273 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4274 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4275 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4276 so I produce this patch..."
4277
3295e65b
PH
4278 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4279 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4280 is not defined.
4281
7102e136
PH
428255. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4283 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4284 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4285 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4286 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4287
3ca0ba97
PH
428856. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4289
c2bcbe20
PH
429057. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4291 long debug lines gets shown.
4292
18ce445d
PH
429358. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4294 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4295
1f5b4c3d
PH
429659. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4297
4298 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4299 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4300 of $primary_hostname.
4301
b975ba52
PH
430260. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4303 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4304 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4305 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4306 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4307 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4308 by change 4.50/55 above.
4309
4310 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4311 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4312 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4313 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4314 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4315 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4316 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4317
431861. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4319 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4320 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4321 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4322
17ffcae7
PH
432362. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4324 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4325
d95f9fdb
PH
432663. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4327 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4328 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4329 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4330 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4331
86b8287f
PH
433264. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4333 This has been fixed.
4334
60dc5e56
PH
433565. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4336 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4337 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4338 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4339 the caching.)
4340
533244af
PH
434166. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4342
a5a28604
PH
434367. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4344 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4345 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4346 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4347
7e634d24
PH
434868. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4349 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4350
3e11c26b
PH
435169. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4352 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4353 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4354
6729cf78
PH
435570. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4356 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4357 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4358 message there.
4359
00f00ca5
PH
436071. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4361 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4362 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4363
c9bdd01c
PH
436472. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4365 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4366 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4367 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4368
d43194df
PH
436973. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4370 during host lookups.
4371
fe5b5d0b
PH
437274. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4373 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4374
4375 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4376
76a2d7ba
PH
437775. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4378 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4379 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4380 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4381 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4382 background.
4383
438476. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4385 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4386
04f7d5b9
PH
438777. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4388 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4389 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4390
bc60667e
PH
439178. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4392
bb6e88ff
PH
439379. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4394 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4395 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4396 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4397 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4398 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4399 process earlier.
4400
1e70f85b
PH
440180. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4402 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4403 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4404 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4405 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4406
440781. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4408 tables).
4409
4e01f9d6
PH
441082. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4411
1ee1cef2
PH
441283. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4413 "vacation" handling.
4414
6e2b4ccc
PH
441584. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4416 OS variants using glibc.
4417
8e669ac1
PH
441885. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4419
495ae4b0 4420
bbe902f0
PH
4421----------------------------------------------------
4422See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4423----------------------------------------------------
4424
4425
4426Exim version 4.44
4427-----------------
4428
4429 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4430 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4431 transport
4432
4433 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4434 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4435 place.
4436
4437 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4438 filter fails to execute.
4439
4440 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4441 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4442 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4443 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4444 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4445
4446 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4447 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4448 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4449 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4450
4451 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4452 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4453 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4454 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4455 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4456
4457 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4458
4459 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4460 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4461 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4462 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4463
4464 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4465 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4466 sender verification.
4467
446810. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4469 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4470
447111. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4472 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4473
447412. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4475 ignore_target_hosts.
4476
447713. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4478 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4479 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4480 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4481 "[x.x.x.x]".
4482
448314. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4484 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4485 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4486
448715. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4488 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4489 wake it up if nothing else does.
4490
449116. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4492 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4493 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4494 end up negative.
4495
449617. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4497 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4498
ea3a6f44 449918. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4500
450119. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4502 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4503 empty pattern.
4504
450520. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4506 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4507 one IP address.
4508
ea3a6f44
NM
450921. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4510 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4511 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4512 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4513 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4514 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4515
ea3a6f44
NM
451622. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4517 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4518 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4519
452023. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4521 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4522 $sender_host_address.
4523
452424. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4525
ea3a6f44
NM
452625. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4527 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4528 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4529
453026. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4531 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4532
ea3a6f44
NM
453327. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4534 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4535
ea3a6f44
NM
453628. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4537 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4538 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4539 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4540
454129. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4542 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4543 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4544
ea3a6f44
NM
454530. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4546 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4547 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4548 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4549
ea3a6f44
NM
455031. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4551 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4552 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4553
ea3a6f44
NM
455431. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4555 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4556
ea3a6f44
NM
455732. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4558 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4559 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4560 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4561 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4562 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4563 is going on).
bbe902f0 4564
ea3a6f44
NM
456533. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4566 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4567 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4568 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4569 CAN-2005-0021
4570
ea3a6f44
NM
457134. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4572 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4573 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4574 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4575 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4576 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4577 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4578
4579 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4580 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4581 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4582 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4583 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4584 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4585 CAN-2005-0021
4586
ea3a6f44
NM
458735. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4588 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4589 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4590 CAN-2005-0022
4591
ea3a6f44
NM
459236. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4593 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4594 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4595 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4596 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4597
ea3a6f44
NM
459837. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4599 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4600 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4601 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4602 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4603
ea3a6f44
NM
460438. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4605 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4606 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4607 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4608 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4609
4610
495ae4b0
PH
4611Exim version 4.43
4612-----------------
4613
4614 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4615 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4616 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4617 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4618 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4619 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4620 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4621
4622 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4623 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4624 the delivery.
4625
4626 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4627
4628 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4629
4630 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4631 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4632 to local_scan().
4633
4634 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4635 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4636 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4637 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4638 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4639
4640 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4641 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4642
4643 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4644
4645 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4646
464710. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4648 header_sender only.
4649
465011. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4651 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4652
465312. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4654 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4655 affecting debugging statements).
4656
465713. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4658
465914. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4660 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4661 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4662 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4663 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4664 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4665 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4666 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4667 after the received time, and all would be well.
4668
466915. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4670 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4671 condition in an expansion string.
4672
467316. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4674
467517. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4676 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4677 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4678 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4679 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4680 job under whatever limits there are.
4681
468218. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4683
468419. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4685 space).
4686
468720. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4688 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4689 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4690 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4691 return path is set.
4692
469321. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4694 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4695 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4696 binary data in such strings.
4697
469822. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4699
470023. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4701 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4702 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4703 failure, which is pointless.
4704
470524. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4706
470725. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4708
470926. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4710 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4711 Sender: header lines.
4712
471327. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4714 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4715 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4716
471728. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4718 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4719 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4720 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4721 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4722 happens.
4723
472429. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4725 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4726 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4727 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4728 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4729
473030. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4731 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4732 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4733 1024.
4734
473531. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4736 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4737
473832. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4739 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4740
474133. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4742
474332. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4744
474533. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4746
474734. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4748 syntax error.
4749
475035. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4751
475236. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4753
475437. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4755 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4756 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4757 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4758
475938. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4760 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4761
4762
4763Exim version 4.42
4764-----------------
4765
4766 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4767 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4768 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4769 it was not quoted.
4770 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4771 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4772 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4773 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4774 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4775 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4776
4777 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4778 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4779 verification failure".
4780
4781 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4782 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4783 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4784 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4785
4786 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4787 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4788 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4789 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4790 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4791 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4792 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4793 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4794 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4795 treated as a timeout.
4796
4797 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4798 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4799 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4800 not set for Exim filters).
4801
4802 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4803 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4804 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4805
4806 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4807
4808 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4809 try to make them clearer.
4810
4811 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4812 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4813
4814 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4815
4816 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4817
481810. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4819 only the Cygwin environment.
4820
482111. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4822 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4823 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4824 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4825 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4826
482712. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4828 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4829 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4830 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4831 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4832 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4833 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4834
483513. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4836 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4837
483814. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4839
4840 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4841 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4842 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4843
4844 To: susanne@some.where
4845
4846 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4847 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4848 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4849 of addresses in From: header lines).
4850
4851 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4852 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4853 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4854
4855 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4856 treated as non-personal.
4857
4858 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4859 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4860
486115. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4862
486316. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4864
486517. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4866 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4867 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4868
486918. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4870 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4871
487219. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4873 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4874 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4875 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4876 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4877 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4878
487920. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4880 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4881 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4882 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4883 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4884 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4885 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4886 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4887
4888 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4889
489021. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4891 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4892
489322. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4894 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4895 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4896
489723. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4898 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4899
490024. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4901 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4902 rather than long int.
4903
490425. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4905
490626. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4907
4908
4909Exim version 4.41
4910-----------------
4911
4912 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4913 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4914 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4915 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4916 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4917 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4918
4919
4920Exim version 4.40
4921-----------------
4922
4923 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4924 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4925
4926 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4927 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4928 socklen_t is defined.
4929
4930 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4931 always exist.
4932
4933 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4934 configured.
4935
4936 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4937 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4938 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4939 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4940 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4941
4942 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4943 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4944 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4945 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4946
4947 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4948 of flapping under certain conditions.
4949
4950 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4951 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4952 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4953
4954 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4955
495610. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4957
495811. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4959 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4960 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4961 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4962
496312. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4964 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4965 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4966 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4967 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4968 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4969 preserved with the message after it was received.
4970
497113. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4972 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4973 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4974 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4975 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4976 test suite worked just fine.
4977
497814. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4979 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4980 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4981
498215. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4983 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4984 string.
4985
498616. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4987 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4988 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4989 does not fully solve it.
4990
499117. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4992 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4993 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4994 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4995 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4996
499718. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4998 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4999 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5000
500119. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5002 string, for example:
5003
5004 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5005
5006 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5007 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5008 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5009 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5010 the routers could not see them.
5011
501220. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5013 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5014
501521. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5016 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5017 output).
5018
501922. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5020 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5021 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5022 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5023 that needed quoting.
5024
502523. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5026 was not being matched caselessly.
5027
502824. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5029 backslashes.
5030
503125. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5032 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5033 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5034 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5035 when use_sender is false.
5036
503726. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5038
503927. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5040
504128. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5042
504329. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5044 the configuration file.
5045
504630. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5047 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5048
504931. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5050
505132. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5052 bytes in the message body.
5053
505433. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5055 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5056 delivery.
5057
505834. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5059
506035. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5061
506236. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5063 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5064 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5065 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5066 another IP address.
5067
5068
5069Exim version 4.34
5070-----------------
5071
5072 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5073 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5074
5075 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5076 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5077 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5078 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5079 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5080
5081 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5082 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5083
5084 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5085 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5086 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5087
5088 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5089 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5090 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5091
5092 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5093 for routers.
5094
5095 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5096 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5097 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5098 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5099 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5100 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5101 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5102
5103
5104Exim version 4.33
5105-----------------
5106
5107 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5108 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5109 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5110 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5111 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5112 default (and expected) setting.
5113
5114 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5115 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5116 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5117 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5118
5119 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5120 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5121
5122 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5123 in domain lists.
5124
5125 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5126 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5127 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5128 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5129 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5130 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5131
5132 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5133 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5134 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5135
5136 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5137 part (NOT match_host).
5138
5139 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5140
5141 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5142 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5143 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5144 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5145 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5146 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5147 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5148 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5149 the same named file.
5150
515110. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5152 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5153 when Exim is built.
5154
515511. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5156 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5157 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5158 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5159 a host name.
5160
516112. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5162 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5163 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5164
516513. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5166
516714. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5168
516915. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5170
517116. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5172 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5173
517417. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5175 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5176 before starting the TLS session.
5177
517818. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5179
518019. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5181 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5182
518320. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5184 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5185 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5186 colon in the middle).
5187
5188
5189Exim version 4.32
5190-----------------
5191
5192 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5193 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5194 multiple configurations are in use.
5195
5196 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5197 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5198 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5199 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5200 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5201 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5202
5203 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5204 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5205
5206 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5207 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5208 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5209
5210 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5211 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5212 occurs.
5213
5214 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5215 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5216
5217 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5218
5219 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5220 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5221
5222 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5223
5224 -prval:sval
5225
5226 is equivalent to
5227
5228 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5229
5230 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5231 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5232 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5233 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5234 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5235
523610. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5237 Exim's behaviour:
5238
5239 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5240 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5241 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5242 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5243 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5244 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5245
5246 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5247 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5248 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5249 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5250 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5251 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5252 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5253 string.
5254
5255 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5256 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5257 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5258 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5259 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5260
526111. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5262
526312. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5264 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5265 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5266
526713. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5268
526914. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5270 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5271 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5272 information.
5273
527415. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5275 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5276
527716. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5278 Three changes have been made:
5279
5280 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5281 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5282 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5283 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5284 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5285
5286 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5287 been restored.
5288
5289 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5290 the modified behaviour.
5291
5292
5293Exim version 4.31
5294-----------------
5295
5296 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5297 Larry Rosenman.
5298
5299 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5300 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5301
5302 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5303 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5304 try to track down a specific problem.
5305
5306 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5307 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5308 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5309
5310 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5311 warning.
5312
5313 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5314 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5315 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5316 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5317 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5318 some earlier ones do not.
5319
5320 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5321
5322 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5323 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5324 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5325 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5326 address literals are enabled, of course).
5327
5328 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5329
533010. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5331 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5332 by a command such as
5333
5334 exim -f "" ...
5335
5336 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5337
533811. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5339
534012. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5341 remained set. It is now erased.
5342
534313. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5344 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5345
534614. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5347 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5348 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5349 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5350 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5351 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5352 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5353 appropriate error code.
5354
535515. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5356 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5357 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5358 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5359 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5360 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5361
536216. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5363 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5364 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5365
536617. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5367 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5368 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5369 terminate the header.
5370
537118. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5372 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5373 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5374
537519. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5376 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5377 (4.30/29). In particular:
5378
5379 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5380 imposed.
5381
5382 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5383 to write a maildirsize file.
5384
5385 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5386 the transport, the new value overrides.
5387
5388 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5389 count.
5390
539120. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5392 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5393 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5394 space or a tab.
5395
539621. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5397 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5398 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5399 the fallback hosts.
5400
540122. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5402 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5403 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5404
540523. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5406 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5407 using a union.
5408
540924. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5410 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5411 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5412
541325. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5414
541526. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5416
541727. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5418
541928. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5420 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5421 become corrupted.
5422
542329. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5424 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5425 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5426 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5427 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5428 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5429 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5430 too great.
5431
543230. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5433 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5434 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5435 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5436 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5437 incorrectly.
5438
543931. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5440 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5441 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5442 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5443 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5444 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5445 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5446 cached value only when the same options are set.
5447
544832. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5449
545033. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5451 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5452 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5453 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5454 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5455
545634: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5457 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5458 it is clearly obsolete.
5459
546035. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5461 transport.
5462
546336. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5464 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5465 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5466 times.
5467
546837. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5469 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5470 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5471 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5472 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5473
547438. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5475 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5476 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5477 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5478
547939. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5480
5481 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5482
5483 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5484 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5485 2^31.
5486
548740. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5488 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5489 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5490 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5491 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5492 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5493 $localpart_data.
5494
549541. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5496 with the -f command-line option.
5497
549842. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5499 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5500 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5501 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5502 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5503 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5504
550543. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5506 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5507 line.
5508
550944. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5510 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5511 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5512 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5513 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5514 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5515 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5516 buffer is too small.
5517
551845. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5519 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5520
552146. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5522 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5523 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5524 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5525 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5526 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5527 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5528 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5529 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5530
553147. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5532 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5533 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5534
553548. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5536 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5537 ACL").
5538
553949. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5540 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5541 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5542 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5543 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5544
554550. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5546 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5547 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5548 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5549 is set.
5550
555151. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5552
555352. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5554
555553. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5556 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5557
555854. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5559 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5560 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5561
556255. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5563 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5564 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5565 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5566 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5567
556856. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5569 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5570 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5571 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5572 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5573 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5574 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5575
557657. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5577 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5578 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5579 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5580 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5581 the test of how many are available.
5582
558358. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5584 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5585 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5586 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5587 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5588 new message is started.
5589
559059. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5591 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5592
559360. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5594 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5595
559661. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5597 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5598 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5599 is no long logged.
5600
560162. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5602 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5603 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5604 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5605 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5606 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5607 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5608
560963. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5610 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5611 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5612 interpreted as octal.
5613
561464. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5615 setting.
5616
561765. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5618 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5619 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5620 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5621 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5622 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5623
562466. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5625 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5626 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5627 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5628
5629 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5630 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5631 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5632 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5633
5634 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5635 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5636 is a bug fix.
5637
5638 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5639 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5640
564167. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5642
564368. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5644 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5645 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5646 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5647
564869. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5649 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5650 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5651 supplied", which is not helpful.
5652
565370. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5654 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5655 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5656
565771. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5658 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5659 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5660 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5661 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5662 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5663 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5664 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5665
566672. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5667 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5668 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5669 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5670 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5671
567273. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5673 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5674 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5675 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5676 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5677 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5678
567974. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5680 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5681 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5682
568375. Added write_rejectlog option.
5684
568576. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5686 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5687 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5688 variables.
5689
569077. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5691
569278. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5693 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5694 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5695 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5696 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5697 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5698 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5699 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5700
570179. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5702 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5703 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5704 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5705 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5706
570780. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5708 Haardt.
5709
571081. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5711 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5712 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5713 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5714 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5715 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5716 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5717 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5718 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5719
5720
5721Exim version 4.30
5722-----------------
5723
5724 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5725 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5726 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5727
5728 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5729 fixed.
5730
5731 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5732 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5733 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5734
5735 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5736 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5737 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5738 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5739 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5740 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5741
5742 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5743 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5744 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5745 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5746 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5747 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5748 the Exim test suite.
5749
5750 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5751 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5752 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5753 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5754
5755 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5756 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5757 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5758 specify it in this variable.
5759
5760 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5761 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5762 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5763 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5764
5765 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5766 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5767 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5768 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5769
5770 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5771 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5772 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5773 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5774 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5775
5776 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5777
577810. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5779 they are logged.
5780
578111. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5782 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5783 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5784 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5785 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5786
578712. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5788 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5789
579013. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5791 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5792 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5793 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5794 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5795
579614. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5797 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5798
579915. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5800 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5801 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5802
580316. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5804 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5805
580617. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5807 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5808
580918. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5810 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5811 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5812
581319. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5814 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5815
581620. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5817 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5818 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5819 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5820
582121. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5822
582322. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5824 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5825 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5826 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5827
582823. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5829
583024. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5831 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5832
583325. Added .include_if_exists.
5834
583526. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5836 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5837 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5838 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5839 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5840 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5841
584227. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5843
584428. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5845 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5846 this.
5847
584829. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5849
585030. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5851 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5852
5853 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5854 550 Sender verify failed
5855
5856 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5857 the final line of the response.
5858
585931. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5860 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5861 all other user lookups.
5862
586332. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5864 delivery time.
5865
586633. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5867 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5868 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5869 result into an int without checking.
5870
587134. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5872 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5873 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5874
587535. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5876 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5877 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5878 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5879
588036. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5881 correctly.
5882
588337. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5884 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5885
588638. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5887 to the empty sender.
5888
588939. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5890 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5891 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5892 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5893 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5894 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5895 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5896 panic log.
5897
589840. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5899 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5900 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5901 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5902 used.
5903
590441. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5905 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5906
590742. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5908 timestamps.
5909
591043. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5911 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5912
591344. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5914
591545. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5916 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5917 logs.
5918
591946. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5920 as soon as it is encountered.
5921
592247. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5923
592448. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5925 rewritten to "<>".
5926
592749. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5928 recognizes a tab character.
5929
593050. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5931 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5932 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5933 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5934
593551. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5936
593752. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5938 crash.
5939
594053. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5941
594254. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5943
594455. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5945 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5946 2822.
5947
594856. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5949 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5950 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5951 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5952 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5953
595457. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5955 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5956
595758. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5958 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5959 list (.included file names were always shown).
5960
596159. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5962 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5963 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5964 root at that time.
5965
596660. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5967 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5968
596961. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5970
597162. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5972
597363. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5974
597564. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5976 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5977 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5978 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5979 failures to open the logs.
5980
598165. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5982 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5983 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5984 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5985 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5986 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5987 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5988
5989
5990Exim version 4.24
5991-----------------
5992
5993 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5994 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5995 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5996 change 4.23/1.
5997
5998 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5999 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6000 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6001
6002 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6003 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6004 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6005
6006 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6007 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6008 causing some misleading effects.
6009
6010 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6011 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6012 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6013
6014 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6015 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6016 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6017 queue-runner function directly.
6018
6019
6020Exim version 4.23
6021-----------------
6022
6023 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6024 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6025
6026 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6027 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6028 was always written to the default place.
6029
6030 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6031 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6032 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6033
6034 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6035
6036 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6037
6038 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6039 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6040 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6041
6042 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6043 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6044 must start.
6045
6046 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6047 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6048 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6049
6050 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6051 command line option is disabled.
6052
6053 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6054 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6055
6056 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6057
6058 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6059
6060 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6061 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6062
606310. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6064
606511. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6066 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6067 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6068 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6069 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6070 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6071
607212. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6073 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6074 timeout.
6075
607613. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6077 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6078
607914. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6080 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6081
608215. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6083 received was valid base64.
6084
608516. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6086 name of the variable that was being set.
6087
608817. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6089
609018. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6091 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6092 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6093 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6094 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6095 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6096
609719. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6098
609920. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6100 nor realm was specified.
6101
610221. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6103 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6104 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6105 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6106
610722. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6108 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6109 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6110
611123. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6112 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6113 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6114
611524. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6116 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6117 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6118 some systems use these upper case variants.
6119
612025. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6121 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6122 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6123 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6124
612526. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6126
612727. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6128 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6129
613028. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6131 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6132 expansion variable.
6133
613429. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6135
613630. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6137 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6138 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6139 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6140
614131. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6142 using it.
6143
614432. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6145 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6146 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6147
614833. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6149 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6150
615134. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6152 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6153 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6154 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6155
615635. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6157 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6158 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6159
616036. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6161
616237. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6163 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6164 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6165 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6166 aborted.
6167
616838. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6169 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6170 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6171
617239. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6173
617440. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6175 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6176
617741. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6178 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6179
618042. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6181 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6182 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6183 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6184 when emails are that large.
6185
6186
6187
6188Exim version 4.22
6189-----------------
6190
6191 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6192 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6193
6194 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6195 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6196 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6197
6198 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6199 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6200 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6201
6202 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6203 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6204 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6205 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6206 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6207
6208 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6209 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6210 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6211 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6212 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6213 ever.
6214
6215 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6216 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6217 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6218 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6219 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6220 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6221 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6222 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6223 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6224 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6225 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6226 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6227 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6228 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6229
6230 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6231 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6232 parameterised it.
6233
6234 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6235 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6236 error should be diagnosed.
6237
6238 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6239 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6240 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6241 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6242 appeared instead of "NULL".
6243
624410. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6245 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6246 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6247 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6248 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6249 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6250 proceeds).
6251
6252 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6253 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6254 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6255
6256
6257Exim version 4.21
6258-----------------
6259
6260 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6261 or receiver verification errors.
6262
6263 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6264 name.
6265
6266 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6267 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6268 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6269 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6270
6271 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6272 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6273 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6274 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6275 shouldn't happen again.
6276
6277 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6278 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6279 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6280
6281 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6282 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6283
6284 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6285
6286 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6287 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6288
6289 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6290 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6291 RFC.
6292
629310. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6294 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6295 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6296
629711. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6298 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6299 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6300 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6301
630212. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6303 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6304 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6305 to define what should happen).
6306
630713. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6308 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6309 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6310
631114. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6312
631315. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6314
631516. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6316 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6317
631817. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6319 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6320 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6321 structure in all cases.
6322
6323 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6324 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6325 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6326 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6327
632818. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6329 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6330 domain name.
6331
633219. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6333 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6334
633520. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6336 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6337
633821. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6339 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6340 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6341
634222. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6343 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6344 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6345
634623. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6347 the book and for uniformity.
6348
634924. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6350
635125. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6352 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6353 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6354 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6355 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6356 non-existent command as the problem.
6357
635826. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6359 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6360 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6361
636227. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6363
636428. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6365 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6366 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6367
636829. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6369 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6370 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6371 timestamps using strftime().
6372
637330. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6374 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6375
637632. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6377 transport-time rewrites.
6378
637933. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6380 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6381 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6382 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6383
638434. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6385 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6386
638735. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6388 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6389 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6390 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6391 comma and a space.
6392
639336. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6394 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6395 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6396 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6397 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6398 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6399 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6400
640137. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6402 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6403 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6404 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6405 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6406
640738. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6408 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6409 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6410 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6411 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6412 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6413 remaining text gets split now.
6414
641539. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6416 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6417 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6418 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6419
642040. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6421 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6422 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6423 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6424 $return_path.
6425
642641. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6427 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6428 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6429 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6430 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6431 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6432 passed through if needed.
6433
643442. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6435 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6436 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6437 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6438 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6439 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6440
644143. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6442 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6443 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6444 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6445 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6446
644744. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6448 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6449 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6450 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6451 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6452
645345. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6454 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6455 noticed.
6456
645746. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6458 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6459 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6460 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6461 mayhem of various kinds.
6462
646347. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6464 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6465 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6466 the right test for positive values.
6467
646848. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6469 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6470 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6471 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6472 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6473 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6474 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6475 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6476 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6477 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6478 envelope.
6479
648049. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6481 module.
6482
648350. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6484 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6485 forbidding it.
6486
648751. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6488 the existing equality matching.
6489
649052. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6491 dealing with inode numbers.
6492
649353. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6494 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6495 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6496
649754. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6498 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6499 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6500 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6501 local_scan().
6502
650355. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6504 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6505 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6506 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6507 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6508 relay addresses has also been removed.
6509
651056. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6511
651257. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6513 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6514 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6515
651658. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6517 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6518 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6519 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6520 processing applies to CR:
6521
6522 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6523 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6524
6525 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6526 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6527 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6528 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6529
653059. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6531 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6532 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6533
653460. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6535 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6536 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6537 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6538 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6539 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6540 arisen.
6541
654261. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6543 program routers.
6544
654562. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6546 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6547 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6548 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6549 adds:
6550
6551 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6552
6553 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6554
6555 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6556
655763. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6558 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6559 not considered personal.
6560
656164. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6562
656365. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6564
656566. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6566
656767. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6568 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6569 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6570 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6571 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6572 header lines, and spool format errors.
6573
657468. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6575 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6576 for more flexibility.
6577
657869. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6579 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6580 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6581
658270. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6583 Sabourenkov.
6584
658571. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6586 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6587 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6588 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6589 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6590 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6591 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6592 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6593 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6594
659572. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6596 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6597 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6598 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6599 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6600 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6601 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6602
660373. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6604 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6605 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6606
660774. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6608 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6609 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6610 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6611 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6612 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6613 instead of killing the process with assert().
6614
661575. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6616 than Unicode encoding.
6617
661876. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6619 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6620 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6621 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6622
662377. Added process_log_path.
6624
662578. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6626 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6627
662879. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6629 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6630
663180. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6632 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6633 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6634
663581. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6636 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6637 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6638 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6639 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6640 were applied:
6641
6642 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6643 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6644 as invalid.
6645
664682. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6647 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6648 they will be used during message reception.
6649
6650
6651Exim version 4.20
6652-----------------
6653
6654The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6655
6656****