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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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8Exim version 4.90
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10
11JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
12 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
13 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
14 pairs of long lines into single ones.
15
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16PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
17 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
18
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19JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
20 This permits better logging.
21
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22JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
23 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
24 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
25 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
26 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 27 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 28
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29JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
30 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
31 "exiwhat" output.
32
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33PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
34 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
35 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
36
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37JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
38 than 255 are no longer allowed.
39
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40JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
41 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
42 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
43 client, there is no benefit for these.
44 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
45 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
46 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
47 is used (3.2.4 +).
48
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49PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
50 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
51
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52JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
53 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
54 erroneously found still-pending ones.
55
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56JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
57 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
58
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59JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
60 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
61 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
62 signature and again for transmission.
63
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64JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
65 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 66 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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68JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
69 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
70 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
71 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
72 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
73 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
74 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
75
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76JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
77 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
78 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 79 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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81PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
82 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
83 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
84 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
85 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
86 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
87 processing options.
88
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89JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
90 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
91 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
92 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
93 connections.
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95PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
96 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
97 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
98 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
99 versions.
100
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4c57a40e 104
9427e879 105JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 106 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 107
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108JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
109
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110PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
111 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
112
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113JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
114 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
115
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116JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
117 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
118 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
119 before acknowledging the chunk.
120
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121PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
122 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
123 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
124
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125JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
126 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
127 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
128 should.
129
130JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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131 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
132 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 133
bd8fbe36 134JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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135 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
136
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137JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
138 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
139 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
140 body hash calculated value.
141
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142JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
143 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
144 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
145
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146JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
147
148JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
149 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
150
151JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
152 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
153 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
154
155JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
156 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
157 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
158 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
159 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
160 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
161
162JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
163 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
164 past that check, despite the cost.
165
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166JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
167 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
168 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
169
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170PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
171 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
172 TLS library to consume.
173
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174PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
175
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176PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
177
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178JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
179 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
180 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
181 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
182 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
183 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
184 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
185
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186PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
187
188PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
189
190PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
191 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
192 should be warning-free.
193
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194JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
195
196HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
197 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
198
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199HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
200 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
201 general solution here.
202
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203PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
204 already-broken messages in the queue.
205
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206JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
207
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208JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
209
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211Exim version 4.88
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214JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
215 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 216
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217JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
218 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
219 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
220
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221JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
222 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
223 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
224 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
225 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
226 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
227 if one fails this test.
228 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
229 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
230
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231JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
232 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
233
23bb6982 234JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 235 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 236
0bd1b1ed 237JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 238 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 239
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240JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
241 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
242
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243JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
244 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
245
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246JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
247
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248JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
249 certificate).
250
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251JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
252 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
253 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
254 connection after a verify cache hit.
255 Do not update it with the verify result either.
256
257JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
258 when routing results in more than one destination address.
259
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260JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
261 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
262 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
263 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
264 when the cutthrough connection is made).
265
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266JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
267 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
268
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269JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
270 Previously they were not counted.
271
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272JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
273 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
274 that needed the lookup.
275
4c04137d 276JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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277 distinguished as "(=".
278
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279JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
280 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
281
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282JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
283
284JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
285 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 286
4c04137d 287JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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288 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
289
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290JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
291 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
292 compatible.
293
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294JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
295 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
296 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
297 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
298
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299JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
300
f59aaaaa 301JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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302 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
303 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 304
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305JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
306 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
307 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
308 be lost.
309
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310JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
311 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
312 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
313 itself :(
314
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315JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
316 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
317 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
318
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319JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
320 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
321 options.
322
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323JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
324
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325PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
326 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
327
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328PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
329 are not in the system include path.
330
ad7fc6eb 331JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 332 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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333 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
334 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 335
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336JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
337 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
338 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
339
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340JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
341
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342HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
343 an incoming connection.
344
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345HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
346 to rspamd.
347
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348HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
349 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 350
87cb4a16 351JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 352 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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354
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355Exim version 4.87
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358JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
359 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
360 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
361 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 362
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363TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
364 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
365
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366TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
367 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
368 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
369 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
370 outgoing I= field.
371
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372JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
373 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
374 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
375 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
376 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
377 check on the next write.
378
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379HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
380 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
381 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
382 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
383 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
384
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385JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
386 mime_regex ACL conditions.
387
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388JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
389 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
390 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
391
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392JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
393 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
394 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
395 an authenticate fail is not an error.
396
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397HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
398 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
399
4c04137d 400JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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401 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
402
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403JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
404 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
405 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
406 distinct.
407
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408JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
409
410JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
411
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412JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
413
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414JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
415 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
416
98b98887 417JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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418 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
419
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420JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
421
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422JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
423 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
424
425JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
426
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427JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
428 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
429
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430JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
431
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432JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
433 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 434 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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435 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
436 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
437 they will retry in-clear.
438 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
439 at installation time.
440
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441HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
442 with the $config_file variable.
443
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444JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
445 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
446 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
447 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 448 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 449
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450GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
451 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
452 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
453 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
454 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
455
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456JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
457
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458JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
459 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
460 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
461 list order is no longer honoured.
462
4c04137d 463JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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464 for DKIM processing.
465
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466JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
467 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 468
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469JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
470 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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471 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
472 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 473
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474JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
475 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
476
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477JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
478 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
479
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480JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
481 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
482
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483JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
484
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485JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
486 cached by the daemon.
487
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488JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
489 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
490
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491JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
492 keys are given for lookup.
493
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494JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
495 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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496 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
497 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 498
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499JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
500 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
501 server-side so match that on older versions.
502
07c73177 503JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 504 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 505 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 506
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507JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
508 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
509
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510JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
511 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
512 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 513 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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514 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
515 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
516 initial truncated version.
517
ab9152ff 518JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 519
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520JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
521
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522JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
523 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
524
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525JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
526
bc3c7bb7 527HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 528
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529JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
530 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
531 induced overflows.
532
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533JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
534 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
535 stage.
536
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537JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
538 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
539
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540JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
541 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
542 former class.
543
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544JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
545 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
546 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
547
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548JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
549 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
550 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
551 extraction. Accept either.
552
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557JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
558 expanded.
559
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560JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
561
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562JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
563 it.
564
01a4a5c5 565JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 566 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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567 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
568 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
569
cb1d7830 570JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 571 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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572 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
573
610ff438 574JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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575 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
576 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
577 TLS connections
610ff438 578
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579JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
580 sites use this now.
581
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582JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
583 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
584 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
585 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
586 have a dsn_lasthop option.
587
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588JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
589 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 590 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 591
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592JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
593
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594JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
595 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
596
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597JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
598 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
599
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600JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
601 /defer_ok option.
602
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603JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
604 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
605
fd4d8871 606JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 607 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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608 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
609
610JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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611 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
612 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 613
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614JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
615 timeout value per server.
616
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617JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
618 now have the list separator specified.
619
8a512ed5 620JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 621 option values.
8a512ed5 622
82c0c8ea 623JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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624 under OpenSSL.
625
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626JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
627
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628JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
629 rather than the verbs used.
630
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631JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
632 from 255 to 1024 chars.
633
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634JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
635
cfab9d68 636HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 637 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 638
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639JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
640 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
641
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642HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
643 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
644
4c04137d 645JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 646
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647JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
648
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649JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
650 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 651 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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652 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
653
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654JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
655
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656JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
657 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
658
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659JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
660 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
661
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662JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
663
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664JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
665
7137ca4b
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666JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
667
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668JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
669 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
670
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671JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
672 added for tls authenticator.
673
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674HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
675
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680TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
681 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
682 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
683 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
684 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
685 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
686 the script parsing/test process like normal.
687
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688TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
689 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
690 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
691 function when detected.
692
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693JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
694 cause callback expansion.
695
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696TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
697 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
698 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
699 instead of bool when processing it.
700
0f06b4f2 701JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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702 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
703
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704JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
705
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706JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
707
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708TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
709
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710TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
711 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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713JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
714 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
715 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
716 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 717 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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718 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
719
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720JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
721 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
722 exceeded it.
723
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724JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
725 version 3.3.6 or later.
726
4c04137d 727JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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728 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
729 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 730 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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731 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
732 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
733 option is defined.
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735TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
736 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
737
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738JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
739 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
740 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
741 matches.
742
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743JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
744 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
745 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
746
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747JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
748 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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749
750JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
751 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
752 syntax errors.
753
3394b36a 754JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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755
756JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
757 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
758
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759TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
760 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
761 tarball.
762
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763JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
764
4c04137d 765JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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766 Bug 1561.
767
768JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
769 output list separator was used.
770
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774TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
775 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
776 return.
1f0ebb98 777
a612424f 778JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 779 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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781JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
782
783TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 784 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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789
790TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
791
792 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
793 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
794 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
795 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
796 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
797 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
798
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799TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
800 utilities have not been installed.
801
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802JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
803 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
804
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805TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
806 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
807
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808TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
809 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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810 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
811 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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813JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
814
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815TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
816 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
817
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818PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
819 not dns_use_dnssec.
820
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821JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
822
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823TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
824 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
825 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
826
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828 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
829 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
830 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
831 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 832 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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834JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
835
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836JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
837 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
838
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839JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
840 failed delivery.
841
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842JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
843
511a6c14 844JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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845
846JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
847 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 848
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849JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
850 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
851
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852TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
853
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854JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
855
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856JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
857 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
858
859 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
860 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
861 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
862
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863TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
864 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
865 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
866 analysis.
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868JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
869
8c51eead 870JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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871 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
872 lookup).
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874TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
875 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
876 Schlichting.
35aba663 877
fd3b6a4a 878JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 879 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
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881TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
882 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
883
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884JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
885
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886TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
887 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
888 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
889
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890JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
891 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
892
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893JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
894 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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895 hosts_request_ocsp.
896
ed3bba5f 897JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 898 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 899 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
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901JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
902
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903TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
904 Christian Aistleitner.
905
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906JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
907
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908TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
909 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
910
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911JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
912 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
913
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914JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
915 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
916
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917TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
918 support and error reporting did not work properly.
919
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920TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
921 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
922
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923TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
924 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
925 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
926
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927JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
928
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929PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
930 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
931 Jasper Wallace.
932
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933JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
934
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935TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
936 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
937 CVE-2014-2972
938
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943PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
944
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945PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
946 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
947
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948PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
949 by GnuTLS.
950
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951PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
952 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
953 routines.
954
13363eba 955PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 956
66645890 957PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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PP
958 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
959 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
960 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
961 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 962
a3fb9793 963PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
964 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
965 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
966 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 967 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 968 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 969
d27f98fe 970TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 971
6822b909
TL
972TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
973
e7568d51
TL
974TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
975 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
976
ae0e32ee 977TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 978 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 979 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
980
981TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 982
e2658fff
TL
983TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
984
83712b39
TL
985TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
986 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
987
976b7e9f
JH
988JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
989
be4a1376
JH
990JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
991
ec4b68e5
PP
992PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
993
d7148a07
NM
994NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
995 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 996
585121e2 997JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 998
2519e60d
TL
999PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1000 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1001 function.
a5f239e4 1002
13d08c90
PP
1003PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1004 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1005
bef3ea7f
JH
1006JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1007 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1008 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1009
846726c5
JH
1010JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1011
3a796370
JH
1012JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1013
ea722490 1014JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1015 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1016
b1b05573
JH
1017JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1018 Bugzilla 884.
1019
362145b5
JH
1020JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1021 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1022
3c0a92dc
JH
1023JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1024 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1025
6d7c6175
PP
1026PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1027 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1028 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1029
6f123593
JH
1030JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1031 authenticators.
1032
c8e2fc1e
JH
1033JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1034 for control.
1035
005ac57f
PP
1036PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1037
3f1df0e3
PP
1038PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1039 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1040 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1041 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1042
67bd1ab3
TF
1043TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1044
1045 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1046 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1047 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1048 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1049 the retry rules.
1050
1051 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1052 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1053 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1054
1055 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1056 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1057 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1058 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1059
1ddeb334
TF
1060 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1061 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1062 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1063 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1064 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1065 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1066 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1067
1068 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1069 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1070
326cdc37
TF
1071TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1072
1073 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1074
1075 Resent-From: f
1076
1077 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1078 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1079 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1080 username as equal to the username.
1081
1082 This change corrects that bug.
1083
f62514b3
GF
1084GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1085 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1086 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1087
eb505532
TF
1088TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1089
14c7b357
PP
1090PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1091 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1092 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1093 NULL dereference and crash.
1094
94eaf700
PP
1095JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1096
6f5a440a
PP
1097PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1098 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1099 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1100
514ee161
SC
1101SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1102
fd98a5c6
JH
1103JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1104 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1105 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1106 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1107 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1108 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1109 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1110 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1111 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1112 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1113 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1114
035c7f1e
PP
1115PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1116 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1117
ff284120
PP
1118PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1119 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1120 Bugzilla 880.
1121
26e72755
PP
1122PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1123 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1124 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1125 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1126 an empty string is now equivalent.
1127
0fbd9bff
PP
1128PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1129 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1130 not performing validation itself.
1131
700d22f3
PP
1132PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1133 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1134
fcc8e047
JH
1135JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1136 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1137
4c04137d 1138TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1139
8c020188
PP
1140PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1141 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1142 other false fix of the same issue.
1143 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1144 Bugzilla 1363.
1145
d13cdd30
PP
1146PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1147 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1148
e2fbf4a2
PP
1149PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1150 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1151 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1152
f4c1088b
PP
1153PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1154 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1155 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1156
c5c2182f
PP
1157TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1158
73431ca9
JH
1159JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1160
2d07a215
TL
1161TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1162 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1163
a30a8861
TL
1164TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1165 Alexander Miroch.
1166
33382dd9
TL
1167TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1168 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1169 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1170 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1171 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1172
046172e6
TL
1173TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1174 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1175
581d7bee 1176TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1177 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1178 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1179
1180TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1181 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1182 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1183 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1184
237b2cf2
TL
1185TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1186
9fc5a352
TL
1187TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1188 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1189 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1190
b10e4ec2
TL
1191TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1192
e2cebd74
TL
1193TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1194 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1195 interaction.
1196
1197TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1198 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1199
2519e60d
TL
1200TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1201 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1202
e78e6ecf 1203
4263f395
PP
1204Exim version 4.80.1
1205-------------------
1206
1207PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1208 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1209 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1210
ea722490 1211
b1770b6e 1212Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1213-----------------
1214
1215PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1216 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1217 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1218
23c7e742
NM
1219NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1220
b322aac8
NM
1221NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1222 improved.
1223
4a891427
NM
1224NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1225
c1e794ba 1226PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1227
97753960
PP
1228PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1229
1230PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1231 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1232
df6303fa
PP
1233PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1234 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1235
7e6a8985
PP
1236PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1237 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1238
f1e05cc7 1239PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1240 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1241 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1242
4c287009
PP
1243PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1244
b98bb9ac
PP
1245PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1246 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1247
4a6a987a
PP
1248PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1249
c45dd180 1250PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1251
7db8d074
PP
1252PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1253 non-compliant senders.
1254 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1255
eae0036b 1256NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1257 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1258 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1259
dec5017e
PP
1260PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1261 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1262 in spool file corruption.
1263
c80c5570
PP
1264PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1265 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1266 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1267 "Got SSL error 2".
1268
076b11e2
PP
1269TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1270 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1271 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1272
5407bfff
JH
1273JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1274 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1275
9e45c72b
PP
1276JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1277
e74376d8
PP
1278PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1279 diagnostics.
1280 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1281
4c04137d 1282PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1283 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1284 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1285
7be682ca
PP
1286PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1287 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1288 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1289 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1290
ef840681
PP
1291PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1292 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1293
5bfb4cdf
PP
1294PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1295 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1296 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1297 resolver implementation change.
1298
c6e95d22
PP
1299PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1300 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1301
9cbad13b
PP
1302PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1303
9ee44efb
PP
1304PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1305
6a6084f8
PP
1306PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1307 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1308
12dd53c7
PP
1309PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1310 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1311
9e45c72b 1312JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1313 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1314
17c76198
PP
1315PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1316 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1317 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1318 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1319 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1320
53947857 1321PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1322
eae0036b 1323PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1324 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1325 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1326
9e45c72b 1327JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1328
7390e768
PP
1329PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1330 read-only, out of scope).
1331 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1332
08488c86
PP
1333PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1334 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1335 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1336 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1337
6475bd82
PP
1338PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1339
81f91683
PP
1340PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1341 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1342 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1343 real issues in debug logging.
1344
5779e6aa
PP
1345PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1346 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1347
3375e053
PP
1348PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1349 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1350 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1351
1352PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1353 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1354 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1355 problems.
3375e053 1356
9d26b8c0
PP
1357PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1358 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1359
57eb9e91 1360PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1361 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1362 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1363 needs to override this, it can.
1364
16880d1a
PP
1365PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1366 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1367 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1368
a799883d
PP
1369PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1370 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1371 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1372 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1373
3ecab157 1374PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1375
0599f9cf 1376
867fcbf5
PP
1377Exim version 4.77
1378-----------------
1379
1380PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1381 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1382
f1a29782
TF
1383TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1384
ab42bd23
TK
1385TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1386 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1387
0ca0cf52
TF
1388TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1389 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1390
921b12ca
TF
1391TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1392 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1393 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1394
1395 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1396 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1397 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1398 not safe for signals.
1399
1400 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1401 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1402 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1403 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1404 exiwhat.
1405
c99ce5c9
TF
1406TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1407
1408 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1409 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1410 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1411 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1412 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1413
1414 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1415 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1416 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1417 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1418 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1419 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1420
1421 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1422 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1423 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1424 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1425
1426 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1427 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1428 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1429 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1430
1431 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1432 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1433 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1434 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1435 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1436 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1437 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1438 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1439 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1440
1441 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1442 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1443 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1444 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1445
1446 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1447 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1448 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1449 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1450 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1451 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1452 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1453 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1454 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1455 details in the main documentation.
1456
3634fc25
TF
1457TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1458
792e8a19
TF
1459TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1460
5901f0ab
TF
1461TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1462 repository when doing development or release builds.
1463
7f2a2a43
PP
1464PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1465 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1466
061b7ebd
PP
1467PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1468 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1469 Bugzilla 97.
1470
e12f8c32
PP
1471PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1472
9e949f00 1473PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1474 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1475
1476PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1477 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1478
555ae6af 1479PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1480 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1481
1482PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1483 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1484
6f7fe114
PP
1485PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1486 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1487
c566dd90
PP
1488PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1489 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1490 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1491 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1492
d6cc7c78 1493PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1494 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1495 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1496
0d0e4455
PP
1497PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1498
3399bb60 1499PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1500
1501PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1502 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1503
0ca0cf52 1504
10906672
PP
1505Exim version 4.76
1506-----------------
1507
1508PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1509
754a0503
PP
1510PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1511 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1512
c0c7b2da
PP
1513PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1514
e97d1f08
PP
1515PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1516
084c1d8c
PP
1517PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1518 Bugzilla 1098.
1519
4e7ee012
PP
1520PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1521 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1522
c8d52a00
PP
1523TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1524 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1525
54e7ce4a
PP
1526PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1527 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1528
5ee6f336
PP
1529PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1530 Bugzilla 1104.
1531
c8d52a00 1532TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1533 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1534
1535TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1536 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1537 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1538 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1539
1540PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1541 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1542
10906672 1543
aa097c4c
NM
1544Exim version 4.75
1545-----------------
1546
4c04137d 1547NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1548 Bugzilla 1073
1549
7f3d9eff
TF
1550TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1551 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1552 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1553
159f52d2
TF
1554TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1555 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1556
0cc9542a
PP
1557PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1558 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1559 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1560
f7274286
PP
1561PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1562 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1563
7b797365
PP
1564PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1565 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1566
caacae52
NM
1567NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1568 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1569
09dcaba9
NM
1570NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1571 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1572
bc19a55b
PP
1573PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1574 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1575
bd4c9759
NM
1576NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1577 Fixes bug 943.
1578
b72aab72
PP
1579PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1580 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1581
2fe76745
PP
1582PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1583 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1584
76aa570c
PP
1585PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1586 SQL string expansion failure details.
1587 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1588
f1e5fef5
PP
1589PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1590 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1591
4d805ee9
PP
1592PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1593 extern declarations in function scope.
1594 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1595
cd59ab18
PP
1596PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1597 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1598 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1599 a kernel bug).
1600
332f5cf3
PP
1601PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1602 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1603
29cfeb94
PP
1604PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1605 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1606
660242ad
PP
1607PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1608 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1609
bc4bc4c5
PP
1610PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1611 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1612
2e64baa9
NM
1613NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1614 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1615 Dennis Davis.
1616
4c04137d 1617PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1618
6bac1a9a
PP
1619PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1620
552193f0
NM
1621NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1622 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1623
1b587e48
TF
1624TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1625 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1626
aa097c4c 1627
8c07b69f
TF
1628Exim version 4.74
1629-----------------
1630
1631TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1632 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1633
c0ea85ab
TF
1634TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1635 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1636
0761d44e
TF
1637TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1638
0a349494
PP
1639DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1640 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1641 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1642
1643PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1644 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1645 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1646
fea24b2e
PP
1647PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1648 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1649 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1650 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1651
6545de78
PP
1652PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1653 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1654 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1655 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1656
1670ef10
PP
1657PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1658 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1659 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1660 arbitrary files.
1661
c0886197
PP
1662PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1663 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1664
b7487bce
PP
1665PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1666 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1667 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1668 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1669 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1670
8c07b69f 1671
97fd1e48 1672Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1673-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1674
1675PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1676 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1677 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1678
6901c596
PP
1679PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1680 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1681
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1682JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1683
77bb000f
PP
1684PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1685
a29e5231
PP
1686PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1687
ec5a0394 1688PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1689
55c75993
PP
1690PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1691
453a6645 1692PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1693 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1694 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1695 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1696
8544e77a
PP
1697PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1698 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1699 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1700 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1701 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1702
83e029d5
PP
1703PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1704
ed7f7860
PP
1705PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1706
7d9f747b
PP
1707PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1708
4b2241d2
PP
1709PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1710
10385c15
PP
1711PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1712
dbc4b90d
PP
1713PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1714
532be449
PP
1715PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1716
6a8de854 1717PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1718 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1719 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1720
5dc43717
JJ
1721JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1722
1723JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1724 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1725
3346ab01
PP
1726PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1727 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1728
491fab4c
PP
1729PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1730 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1731 Notification from John Horne.
1732
13eb9497
PP
1733PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1734 compatible.
1735
1736PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1737 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1738 it normally works.
1739
7f36d675
DW
1740DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1741 access.
1742
c1d94452
DW
1743DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1744 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1745 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1746
e2f5dc15
DW
1747DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1748 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1749 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1750 configuration file.
1751
cd25e41d
DW
1752DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1753 option (effectively making it always true).
1754
261dc43e
DW
1755DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1756 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1757
fa32850b
DW
1758DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1759 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1760
79d4bc3d
PP
1761PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1762 run-time user, instead of root.
1763
43236f35 1764PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1765 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1766
fb08281f
DW
1767DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1768 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1769 arguments.
3346ab01 1770
74935b98
DW
1771DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1772 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1773 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1774
90b6341f
DW
1775DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1776
57730b52
ML
1777NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1778
66581d1e 1779
465e92cf
JJ
1780Exim version 4.72
1781-----------------
1782
453a6645
PP
1783JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1784 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1785 typos
465e92cf 1786
453a6645
PP
1787JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1788 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1789 (Finput)
edae0343 1790
9bd3e22c
NM
1791NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1792 Patch from Alain Williams
1793
bb576ff7
NM
1794NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1795
5a1a5845
NM
1796NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1797 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1798
981a9fad
NM
1799NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1800 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1801
7fc497ee
NM
1802NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1803
1a41defa
JJ
1804JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1805
a466095c 1806NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1807 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1808
94a6bd0b
NM
1809TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1810
1811TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1812
1813MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1814 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1815 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1816
c1b141a8
NM
1817NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1818 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1819
b26eacf1 1820NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1821 Patch by Simon Arlott
1822
179c5980 1823PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1824 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1825
9bd3e22c 1826
7c6d71af
NM
1827Exim version 4.71
1828-----------------
1829
7d9f747b 1830TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1831
f013fb92
NM
1832NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1833
0eb8eedd
NM
1834NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1835
663ee6d9
NM
1836NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1837
177ebd9b
NM
1838NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1839
7c6d71af 1840
210f147e
NM
1841Exim version 4.70
1842-----------------
1843
cdd3bb85 1844TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1845 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1846
1847TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1848 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1849 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1850
1851TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1852 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1853 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1854
1855TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1856 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1857
210f147e
NM
1858NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1859 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1860 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1861 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1862
deafd5b3
NM
1863NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1864 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1865 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1866
089793a4
TF
1867TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1868
5f16ca82
TF
1869TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1870
dae9d94e 1871NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1872 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1873
7d9f747b 1874NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1875
06864c44
TF
1876TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1877 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1878 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1879 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1880
65a7d8c3 1881NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1882 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1883
23510047 1884TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1885
7d9f747b 1886NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1887
7d8eec3a 1888NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1889 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1890
89dec7b6
TF
1891TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1892 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1893
a99de90c
TF
1894TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1895 that they are available at delivery time.
1896
e2803e40
TF
1897TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1898
7199e1ee
TF
1899TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1900 incoming_port log selectors.
1901
e276e04b
TF
1902TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1903 setting expands to an empty string.
1904
ce552449 1905NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1906 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1907
e765a0f1 1908NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1909 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1910
4f054c63 1911NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1912 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1913
7d9f747b
PP
1914NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1915 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1916
7d9f747b
PP
1917NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1918 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1919
b52bc06e 1920NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1921 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1922
447de4b0
NM
1923NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1924
4c69d561 1925NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1926 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1927
d5c39246 1928NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1929 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1930
0b23848a
TK
1931TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1932
8f3414a1 1933NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1934 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1935
fb6f955d
NM
1936NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1937
1938NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1939
7d9f747b
PP
1940NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1941 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1942
7d9f747b
PP
1943NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1944 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1945
7d9f747b
PP
1946NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1947 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1948
7d9f747b
PP
1949NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1950 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1951
7d9f747b
PP
1952NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1953 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1954
7d9f747b
PP
1955NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1956 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1957
7d9f747b
PP
1958NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1959 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1960
7d9f747b 1961NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1962 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1963
7d9f747b 1964NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1965
7d9f747b
PP
1966NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1967 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1968
7d9f747b 1969NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1970
7d9f747b 1971NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1972
7d9f747b 1973NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1974
7d9f747b 1975NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1976
17792b53 1977NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1978 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1979
7d9f747b
PP
1980NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1981 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1982
91576cec 1983NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1984 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1985
7d9f747b
PP
1986NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1987 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1988
7d9f747b 1989NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1990
7d9f747b 1991NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1992
7d9f747b 1993NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1994
7d9f747b 1995NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1996
deafd5b3 1997
47db1125
NM
1998Exim version 4.69
1999-----------------
2000
4b3504d0
TK
2001TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2002 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2003 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2004
2005 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2006 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2007 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2008 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2009 build errors in sieve.c.
2010
81ea09ca
NM
2011NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2012 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2013 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2014
f13cddcb
SC
2015SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2016
7d9f747b 2017NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2018
7d9f747b 2019NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2020
7d9f747b 2021NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2022
2023
eb4c0de6
PH
2024Exim version 4.68
2025-----------------
2026
2027PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2028
6a3bceb1
PH
2029PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2030 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2031 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2032 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2033 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2034 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2035 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2036 for iplsearch lookups.
2037
2038 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2039 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2040 previously such lookups could never work.
2041
4c04137d 2042 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2043 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2044 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2045
2e30fa9d
TK
2046TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2047 version.
2048
0806a9c5
MH
2049MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2050 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2051 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2052 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2053 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2054 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2055
ae276964
TK
2056TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2057 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2058
0f2cbd1b
MH
2059MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2060 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2061 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2062 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2063 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2064 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2065
2b85bce7
PH
2066PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2067 local_scan API.
2068
93655c46
PH
2069PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2070
6c512171
PH
2071PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2072 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2073 encrypted.
2074
2075PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2076 by clients under certain conditions.
2077
aa6dc513
PH
2078PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2079 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2080
a96603a0
PH
2081PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2082
8f240103
PH
2083PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2084 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2085
2086PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2087
d677b2f2
PH
2088PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2089
d52120f2
PH
2090PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2091
64f2600a
PH
2092PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2093 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2094
8669f003
PH
2095PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2096
a4dc33a8
PH
2097PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2098 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2099
d6a60c0f
PH
2100PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2101
8f128379
PH
2102PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2103
8932dffe
PH
2104PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2105 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2106 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2107 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2108
ddea74fa 2109PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2110 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2111 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2112
ddea74fa 2113PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2114 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2115
ddea74fa
PH
2116PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2117
ce9f225c
PH
2118PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2119
19897d52
PH
2120PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2121
bc64a74d
PH
2122PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2123 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2124 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2125
eb4c0de6 2126
b4ed4da0
PH
2127Exim version 4.67
2128-----------------
2129
22ad45c9
MH
2130MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2131 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2132 Jan Srzednicki.
2133
b4ed4da0
PH
2134PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2135 issue a MAIL command.
2136
431b7361
PH
2137PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2138
2139 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2140
2141 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2142 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2143 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2144 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2145 item. This has been fixed.
2146
2147PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2148 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2149
83da1223
PH
2150PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2151 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2152
54fc8428
PH
2153PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2154 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2155 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2156
34c5e8dd
SC
2157SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2158
bbe15da8
PH
2159PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2160 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2161 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2162 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2163 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2164
0e8a9471
MH
2165MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2166 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2167 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2168
f0872424
PH
2169PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2170 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2171 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2172 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2173
b01dd148
PH
2174PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2175
6bf342e1
PH
2176PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2177
273f34d0
PH
2178PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2179 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2180 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2181 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2182 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2183
cf8b11a5
PH
2184PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2185
41c7c167
PH
2186PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2187 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2188 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2189 values).
2190
9c57cbc0
PH
2191PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2192
f3f065bb
PH
2193PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2194
047bdd8c
PH
2195PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2196
0ce9abe6
PH
2197PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2198
0e22dfd1
PH
2199PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2200
4c590bd1
PH
2201PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2202 no_callout_flush is set.
2203
09945f1e
PH
2204PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2205 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2206 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2207 fixed.
2208
c51b8e75
PH
2209PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2210
e28326d8 2211PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2212 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2213 other ACL rejections are.
2214
75b1493f
PH
2215PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2216 with slight modification.
2217
7c5214ec
PH
2218PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2219 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2220
4311097e
PH
2221PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2222 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2223 connection.
2224
29f89cad
PH
2225PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2226 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2227
5e687460
SC
2228SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2229
c3611384
PH
2230PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2231 expansion side effects.
2232
5a11a7b4
PH
2233PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2234 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2235 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2236 be the same.
2237
0e20aff9
MH
2238MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2239 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2240 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2241
ca86f471
PH
2242PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2243 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2244 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2245 were accidentally chopped off.
2246
a14e5636
PH
2247PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2248 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2249 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2250 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2251 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2252 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2253 pipelining has not been advertised.
2254
ec95d1a6
PH
2255PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2256
42855d71
PH
2257PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2258 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2259 This has been fixed.
2260
57c2c631
PH
2261PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2262 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2263 reported on Solaris.
2264
58c01c94
PH
2265PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2266 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2267 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2268 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2269 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2270 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2271 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2272
dee5a20a
PH
2273PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2274 cpus.
2275
d2ee6114
PH
2276PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2277
b2d5182b
PH
2278PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2279
79749a79
PH
2280PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2281 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2282 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2283 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2284 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2285 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2286
c456d9bb
PH
2287PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2288 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2289 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2290 host_all_ignored option.
2291
cd9868ec
PH
2292PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2293 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2294 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2295 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2296 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2297 is what is supposed to happen).
2298
ebeaf996
PH
2299PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2300 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2301 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2302 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2303 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2304 uses the Exim user.
2305
2679d413
PH
2306PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2307 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2308 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2309 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2310 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2311 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2312 users.
2313
84024b72
PH
2314PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2315
8005d38e
SC
2316SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2317 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2318 (Jez Hancock).
2319 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2320 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2321
3298c6c6
SC
2322SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2323
a43a27c5
PH
2324PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2325
58eb016e 2326PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2327 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2328 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2329 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2330 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2331 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2332 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2333 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2334 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2335 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2336 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2337
b43a74ea
PH
2338PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2339 advertised in response to EHLO.
2340
b4ed4da0 2341
5dd1517f
PH
2342Exim version 4.66
2343-----------------
2344
2345PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2346 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2347
2348 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2349 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2350
2351 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2352 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2353 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2354
2355 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2356 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2357 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2358 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2359 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2360
2361
93cfa765
TK
2362Exim version 4.65
2363-----------------
2364
2365TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2366 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2367 versions. (#438)
2368
d6066548
MH
2369MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2370 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2371 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2372
4362ff0d
PH
2373PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2374 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2375 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2376 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2377 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2378 rather than extend the field.
2379
93cfa765 2380
944e9e9c
TF
2381Exim version 4.64
2382-----------------
aa41d2de 2383
21d74bd9
TK
2384TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2385 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2386 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2387 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2388 these files.
2389
2390TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2391 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2392 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2393
2394TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2395 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2396 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2397
2398TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2399 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2400 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2401 in the field name.
2402
2b1c6e3a
PH
2403PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2404 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2405 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2406 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2407 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2408 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2409 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2410 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2411 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2412 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2413 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2414
1f872c80
PH
2415PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2416 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2417
2418PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2419 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2420 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2421 ignores EPIPE as well.
2422
d203e649
PH
2423PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2424 (quoted-printable decoding).
2425
cc2ed8f7 2426PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2427 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2428
ddfcd446
PH
2429PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2430
d45b1de8
PH
2431PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2432
2433PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2434
38a0a95f 2435PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2436 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2437
a2405d83
JJ
2438JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2439 in 4.64-PH/09.
2440
2441JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2442 miscellaneous code fixes
2443
6ea85e9a
PH
2444PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2445 rejections.
2446
26da7e20
PH
2447PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2448 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2449 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2450 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2451 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2452 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2453 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2454 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2455
14aa5a05 2456PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2457 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2458 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2459 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2460 function.
2461 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2462 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2463 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2464 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2465 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2466 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2467 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2468 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2469 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2470
ff75a1f7
PH
2471PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2472 decoding.
2473
e6f6568e
PH
2474PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2475 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2476 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2477 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2478 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2479 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2480 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2481 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2482
d6f6e0dc
PH
2483PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2484 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2485 list.
2486
322050c2
PH
2487PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2488 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2489 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2490 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2491 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2492 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2493 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2494 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2495 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2496 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2497 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2498 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2499 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2500
08955dd3
PH
2501PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2502 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2503 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2504 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2505 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2506 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2507 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2508
1eccaa59
PH
2509PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2510 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2511 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2512 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2513 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2514 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2515 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2516 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2517 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2518 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2519
602e59e5
PH
2520PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2521 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2522 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2523 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2524 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2525
411ef850
PH
2526PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2527 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2528 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2529 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2530 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2531 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2532 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2533
7befa435
PH
2534PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2535 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2536 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2537 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2538 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2539 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2540 been verified.
2541
48da4259 2542PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2543 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2544 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2545 and authorization.)
2546
48da4259
PH
2547PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2548 if any retry times were supplied.
2549
d1d5595c
PH
2550PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2551 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2552 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2553
0ef732d9
PH
2554PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2555
328895cc
PH
2556PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2557
fd700877
PH
2558PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2559 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2560 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2561 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2562 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2563 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2564
8dce1a6f
PH
2565PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2566 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2567
17af4a17
PH
2568PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2569 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2570 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2571
2572PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2573 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2574 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2575 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2576 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2577 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2578 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2579 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2580 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2581
2582 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2583 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2584 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2585 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2586 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2587 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2588 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2589 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2590 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2591
2592 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2593 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2594 hammering the server.
2595
c1114884
PH
2596PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2597 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2598
7a0743eb
PH
2599PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2600
0d85fa3f
PH
2601PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2602 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2603 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2604
1bf43b78
PH
2605PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2606 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2607 one case where this was not true.
2608
520de300
PH
2609PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2610 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2611 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2612 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2613 fails.
2614
48c7f9e2
PH
2615PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2616 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2617 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2618 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2619 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2620 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2621 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2622 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2623 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2624 smtp transport.
2625
99ea1c86
PH
2626PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2627 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2628 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2629 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2630
a2042e78
PH
2631PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2632 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2633
4fbcfc2e
PH
2634PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2635 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2636 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2637
aa41d2de
PH
2638PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2639
af561417
PH
2640PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2641
3cc66b45
PH
2642PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2643
194cc0e4
PH
2644PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2645 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2646 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2647 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2648
a401ddaa
PH
2649PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2650 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2651
4e88a19f
PH
2652PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2653 be meaningful with "accept".
2654
d7d7b289
SC
2655SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2656 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2657
2658SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2659 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2660 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2661
2662SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2663 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2664 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2665 there is data to show.
2666 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2667
2668SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2669 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2670 as well as the number of messages.
2671
2672SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2673 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2674 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2675
2676SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2677 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2678 have a flag are now skipped.
2679
2680SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2681 Added the -emptyok flag.
2682
2683SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2684 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2685
0ea2a468
JJ
2686JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2687 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2688 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2689
2690JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2691 match 4.64-PH/13
2692
2693JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2694 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2695
2696JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2697
2698JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2699 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2700
8a10f5a4
PH
2701PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2702
30e18802
PH
2703PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2704 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2705 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2706 contravention of the specifications.
2707
55728a4f
PH
2708PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2709 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2710 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2711
d7837193
PH
2712PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2713 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2714 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2715
87054a31
PH
2716PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2717
ea2c01d2
MH
2718MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2719 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2720 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2721 some point in the past.
2722
e4fa6968
PH
2723PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2724 transport during callout processing was broken.
2725
56f5d9bd
PH
2726PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2727 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2728
922e1c28
PH
2729PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2730 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2731
21eb6e72
PH
2732PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2733 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2734
a0540757
PH
2735PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2736
944e9e9c 2737
478be7b0
SC
2738Exim version 4.63
2739-----------------
2740
2741SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2742 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2743
2744SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2745 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2746 there is data to show.
2747 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2748
2749SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2750 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2751
2b965a65
TF
2752TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2753 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2754
45b91596
PH
2755TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2756 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2757
c59f5781
TF
2758TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2759 submissions from trusted users.
2760
90fc3069
TF
2761TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2762 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2763
6083aca0
TF
2764TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2765 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2766 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2767 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2768 there is now a framework to start from.
2769
765b530f
PH
2770PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2771 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2772 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2773
4e167a8c
PH
2774PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2775
4608d683
PH
2776PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2777
b8dc3e4a
PH
2778PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2779
5418e93b
PH
2780PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2781 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2782 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2783
b4a9bda2
PH
2784PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2785 libradius.
2786
45b91596
PH
2787PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2788 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2789 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2790
5547e2c5
PH
2791PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2792 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2793 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2794 its arguments.
2795
dbcef0ea
PH
2796PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2797 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2798 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2799 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2800 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2801
25257489
PH
2802PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2803 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2804
c816d124
PH
2805PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2806
a9ccd69a
PH
2807PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2808 operations in malware.c.
2809
75fa1910
PH
2810PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2811 signatures.
2812
a7d7aa58
PH
2813PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2814 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2815 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2816 all.
2817
42119b09
PH
2818PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2819 statements to "add_header".
2820
41609df5
PH
2821PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2822 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2823
a5bd321b
PH
2824PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2825 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2826 latter.
2827
e85a7ad5 2828PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2829 so that it is now:
2830
e85a7ad5
PH
2831 ${if or { \
2832 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2833 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2834 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2835 }{no}{yes}}
2836
e85a7ad5
PH
2837 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2838 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2839
d8fe1c03
PH
2840PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2841 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2842
16282d2b
PH
2843PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2844 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2845 any possible encoding problems.
2846
35d40a98
PH
2847PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2848 but not after initializing Perl.
2849
034d99ab
PH
2850PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2851 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2852 apparently, which is not desirable.
2853
6ec97b1b
PH
2854PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2855 queries.
2856
e22ca4ac
JJ
2857JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2858 --not options
2859
2860JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2861
33d73e3b
PH
2862PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2863 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2864 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2865 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2866
9ecb03f3
PH
2867PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2868 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2869 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2870
084efe8d
PH
2871PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2872 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2873 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2874 0.12.
2875
366fc9f0
PH
2876PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2877 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2878 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2879 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2880 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2881
c59f5781 2882
c887c79e
TF
2883Exim version 4.62
2884-----------------
2885
2886TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2887 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2888
1cce3af8
PH
2889PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2890 patch).
2891
afb3eaaf
PH
2892PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2893 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2894 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2895 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2896 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2897 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2898 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2899 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2900 451 error is used.
2901
e173618b
PH
2902PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2903
dd16e114
PH
2904PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2905 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2906 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2907
f7fd3850
PH
2908PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2909 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2910 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2911 odd errors.
2912
d87df92c
PH
2913PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2914 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2915
7e9f683d
PH
2916PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2917 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2918 option (which defaults to 0600).
2919
bfad5236
PH
2920PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2921
01c490df
PH
2922PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2923 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2924 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2925 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2926 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2927 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2928 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2929
d6629cdc
PH
2930PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2931
1cce3af8 2932
214e2000
PH
2933Exim version 4.61
2934-----------------
2935
2936PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2937 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2938 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2939 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2940 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2941 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2942 addresses as local.
2943
f9daeae0
PH
2944PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2945 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2946
7e66e54d
PH
2947PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2948
c8ea1597
PH
2949PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2950 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2951 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2952 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2953 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2954 grumble.
2955
911f6fde
PH
2956PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2957 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2958
47ca6d6c
PH
2959PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2960 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2961 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2962 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2963 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2964
ed0e9820
PH
2965PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2966 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2967 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2968 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2969
eff37e47
PH
2970PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2971 be the same on different OS.
2972
1921d2ea
PH
2973PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2974 testing.
2975
b3f69ca8
JJ
2976JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2977 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2978
2979JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2980 in 4.61-PH/06
2981
424a1c63
PH
2982PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2983 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2984 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2985 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2986 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2987 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2988 bounce message.
2989
7a100415
PH
2990PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2991 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2992 when Exim was called.
2993
19b9dc85
PH
2994PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2995 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2996
309bd837
PH
2997PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2998 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2999 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3000 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3001
59e82a2a
PH
3002PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3003 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3004 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3005 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3006 changes:
3007
3008 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3009 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3010 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3011
3012 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3013 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3014 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3015
9edc04ce
PH
3016PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3017 feature).
3018
1349e1e5
PH
3019PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3020 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3021 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3022 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3023 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3024 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3025 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3026 values from the SRV records were lost.
3027
ea49d0e1
PH
3028PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3029 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3030 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3031
064a94c9
PH
3032PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3033 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3034 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3035
727071f8
PH
3036PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3037 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3038 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3039 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3040 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3041 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3042 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3043 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3044 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3045 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3046
f78eb7c6
PH
3047PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3048 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3049 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3050
21c28500
PH
3051PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3052 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3053
3054PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3055 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3056 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3057 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3058 is given.
3059
1688f43b
PH
3060PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3061 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3062 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3063
3064PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3065 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3066 PH/23 above applies.
3067
9675b384
PH
3068PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3069 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3070 (for which there is an explicit test).
3071
6a3f1455
PH
3072PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3073
dac79d3e
PH
3074PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3075 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3076 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3077 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3078 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3079
5977a0b3
PH
3080PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3081 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3082 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3083 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3084
c91535f3
PH
3085PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3086 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3087 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3088
0d46a8c8
PH
3089PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3090
278c6e6c
PH
3091PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3092
2cbb4081
PH
3093PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3094 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3095 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3096
3eef829e
PH
3097PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3098 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3099 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3100 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3101 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3102
1ab95fa6
PH
3103PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3104 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3105 the message gets confusing).
3106
230205fc
PH
3107PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3108 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3109 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3110 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3111
75e0e026
PH
3112PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3113 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3114 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3115 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3116 same order.
3117
3118PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3119 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3120 the different processes.
3121
145396a6
PH
3122PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3123
3cd34f13
PH
3124PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3125
11121d3d
JJ
3126JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3127 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3128
3129JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3130 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3131
3132JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3133 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3134 messages matching specified criteria.
3135
8def5aaf
PH
3136PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3137
929ba01c
PH
3138PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3139 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3140
2632889e
PH
3141PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3142 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3143 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3144 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3145 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3146 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3147 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3148 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3149 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3150 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3151
944a9c55
PH
3152PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3153 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3154 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3155
4a23603b
PH
3156PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3157
4730f942
PH
3158PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3159 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3160 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3161 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3162 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3163 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3164 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3165 the variable.
3166
30dba1e6
PH
3167PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3168 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3169
382afc6b
PH
3170PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3171
a86229cf
PH
3172PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3173
50c99ba6
PH
3174PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3175
d35e429d
PH
3176PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3177 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3178 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3179 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3180 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3181 size of the count of files.
3182
f90d018c
PH
3183PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3184
75def545
PH
3185PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3186 used in LMTP mode:
3187
3188 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3189 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3190 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3191 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3192
3193 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3194 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3195 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3196
3197PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3198 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3199 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3200 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3201 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3202
c46782ef
PH
3203PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3204 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3205
71fafd95
PH
3206PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3207 will now be deprecated.
3208
2c5db4fd
PH
3209PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3210
9cf6b11a
JJ
3211JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3212 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3213 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3214
3215JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3216 with very large, slow to parse queues
3217
3218JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3219
3220JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3221
898d150f
PH
3222PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3223 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3224 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3225 SMTP output lines.
3226
46218253
PH
3227PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3228 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3229 Sieve code now uses this.
3230
e97957bc
PH
3231PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3232 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3233
81e509d7
PH
3234PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3235 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3236
3d240ff7
PH
3237PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3238
b37c4101
PH
3239PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3240 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3241 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3242 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3243 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3244
79378e0f
PH
3245PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3246 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3247 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3248 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3249
e49c7bb4
PH
3250PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3251
d114ec46
PH
3252PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3253
f3d7df6c
PH
3254PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3255 is preferred over IPv4.
3256
715ab376
PH
3257PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3258 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3259 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3260 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3261 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3262 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3263 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3264
6b31b150
PH
3265PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3266 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3267 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3268
3269PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3270
d515a917
PH
3271PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3272 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3273 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3274 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3275 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3276 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3277 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3278 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3279 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3280 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3281 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3282
9b8fadde
PH
3283PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3284 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3285 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3286
214e2000 3287
5de37277
PH
3288Exim version 4.60
3289-----------------
3290
cc38ddbf
PH
3291PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3292
3293 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3294 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3295
3296 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3297 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3298 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3299
72fdd6ae
PH
3300PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3301
3302 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3303 not a single digit.
3304
3305 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3306 string.
3307
3308 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3309 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3310 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3311 silly things.
3312
3313 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3314 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3315
3316 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3317 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3318
cb741023
PH
3319PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3320 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3321 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3322
f174f16e
PH
3323PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3324 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3325
c25242d7
PH
3326PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3327 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3328
3329 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3330
3331 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3332 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3333 this:
3334
3335 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3336
82c19f95
PH
3337PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3338 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3339 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3340 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3341 identical. For example:
3342
3343 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3344
3345 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3346 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3347 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3348
d7ffbc12
PH
3349PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3350 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3351 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3352 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3353
9f526266
PH
3354PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3355 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3356 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3357 message.
3358
87fcc8b9
PH
3359PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3360
3361 o fixes some comments
3362 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3363 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3364 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3365 and documents the missing references header update
3366
3367 and most important:
3368
3369 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3370 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3371 result)
3372
456682f5
PH
3373PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3374 Electronic Mail") by including:
3375
3376 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3377
3378 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3379 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3380 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3381 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3382 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3383
3384 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3385
3386 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3387
3388 The auto-replied keyword:
3389
3390 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3391 message by an automatic process,
3392
3393 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3394
3395 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3396 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3397
3398 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3399 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3400 other messages.
3401
3e46c1aa
PH
3402PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3403 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3404
49826d12
PH
3405PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3406
eba0c039
PH
3407PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3408 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3409 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3410
a0d6ba8a
PH
3411PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3412 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3413 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3414
f0917727
PH
3415PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3416 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3417 and treats the condition as false.
3418
096fee00
PH
3419PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3420
024bd3c2
PH
3421PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3422 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3423 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3424 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3425 not changing the active code.
3426
3427 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3428 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3429
3430 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3431 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3432
df199fec
PH
3433PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3434 (Bugzilla #53).
3435
d27f1df3
PH
3436PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3437 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3438 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3439 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3440 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3441 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3442 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3443 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3444 the text comparison.
3445
96776534
PH
3446PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3447 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3448 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3449 The same fix has been applied.
3450
5de37277 3451
9a799bc0
PH
3452Exim version 4.54
3453-----------------
3454
3455PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3456 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3457 It now does.
3458
99a4b039
PH
3459PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3460 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3461
3462PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3463
4b233853
PH
3464PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3465 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3466 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3467 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3468 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3469
8857ccfd
PH
3470TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3471 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3472 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3473 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3474 or /domain=).
3475
433a2980
PH
3476PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3477 testing suite.
3478
3e46c1aa 3479
9a799bc0 3480
e3a311ba
TK
3481Exim version 4.53
3482-----------------
3483
3484TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3485 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3486
13b685f9
PH
3487PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3488
395ff96d
PH
3489PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3490
5b68f6e4
PH
3491PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3492 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3493 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3494
1ab52c69
PH
3495PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3496 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3497 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3498
b07e6aa3
PH
3499PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3500 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3501 operating systems.
3502
254e032f
PH
3503PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3504 ${stat: expansion item.
3505
3af76a81
PH
3506PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3507 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3508
2548ba04
PH
3509PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3510 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3511 file for comments.
3512
b6c6011d
PH
3513PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3514
cf39cf57
PH
3515PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3516 setting.
3517
f1513293
PH
3518PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3519 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3520
727549a4
PH
3521TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3522
af46795e
PH
3523PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3524 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3525 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3526 the end of the subprocess.
3527
d7b47fd0
PH
3528PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3529 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3530 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3531 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3532 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3533
ee744174
JJ
3534JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3535
b582ab87
PH
3536TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3537
41a13e0a
PH
3538PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3539 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3540
f625cc5a
PH
3541PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3542
3543PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3544
21f7af35
PH
3545PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3546 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3547 HP-UX compiler.
3548
31480e42
PH
3549PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3550
2d280592
PH
3551PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3552 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3553 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3554
7cd1141b
PH
3555PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3556 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3557
3558PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3559 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3560
750af86e
PH
3561PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3562 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3563
3564 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3565 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3566
3567 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3568 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3569 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3570 contributed by a Radius user.
3571
3572PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3573 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3574
4304270b
TK
3575TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3576 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3577
750af86e
PH
3578PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3579 available.
3580
64ffc24f
PH
3581PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3582 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3583 received.
3584
5dd9625b
PH
3585PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3586 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3587 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3588 header lines when this was not necessary.
3589
5591031b
PH
3590PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3591
ba18e66a
PH
3592PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3593 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3594 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3595 exists".
3596
9cec981f
PH
3597PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3598 -bV or -d is used.
3599
aa2b5c79
PH
3600PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3601 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3602 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3603 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3604
48a53b7f
PH
3605PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3606
1c59d63b
PH
3607PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3608
671012da
TK
3609TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3610
1509d3a8
PH
3611PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3612
3613PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3614 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3615 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3616 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3617 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3618 settings.
3619
3620PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3621
2fe1a124
PH
3622PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3623 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3624 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3625 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3626 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3627 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3628 which is clearly wrong.
3629
8800895a
PH
3630PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3631
ccfdb010
PH
3632PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3633 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3634 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3635 subsequently added.
3636
1130bfb0
PH
3637PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3638 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3639
ebcb507f
PH
3640PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3641
c35e155c
PH
3642PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3643 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3644
95d1f782
PH
3645PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3646 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3647
fd6de02e
PH
3648PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3649 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3650
58de37c5
PH
3651PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3652 recipients, not senders.
3653
261cf466
TF
3654TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3655 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3656
3ee512ff
PH
3657PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3658
e08c430f
PH
3659PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3660
bef5a11f
PH
3661PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3662 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3663 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3664 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3665
7546de58
TF
3666TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3667
e5d5a95f
TF
3668TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3669 clock is set back in time.
3670
2e88a017
TF
3671TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3672 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3673
a5f65aa4
TF
3674TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3675 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3676
e7726cbf
PH
3677PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3678 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3679 (see PH/47 above).
3680
a7fdad5b
TF
3681TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3682 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3683 header rewrites.
3684
6af56900
PH
3685PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3686 type ("H").
3687
0925ede6
PH
3688PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3689
66afa403
TF
3690TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3691 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3692 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3693
0154e85a
TF
3694TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3695 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3696 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3697 helo verification defer as a failure.
3698
16f12c76
PH
3699PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3700 actual error message.
3701
bbe902f0 3702
e5a9dba6
PH
3703Exim version 4.52
3704-----------------
3705
3706TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3707
22c3b60b
PH
3708PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3709 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3710 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3711 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3712
06a9b4b5
PH
3713TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3714
c1ac6996
PH
3715PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3716 can still be requested.
3717
9c7a242c
PH
3718PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3719 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3720 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3721 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3722
87ba3f5f
PH
3723TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3724 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3725 circumstances, but probably never did.
3726
3727PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3728 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3729 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3730 in the header line.
3731
29aba418
TF
3732TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3733
fe0dab11
TF
3734TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3735 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3736
11d337a4
TK
3737TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3738
3739TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3740
415c8f3b
PH
3741PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3742 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3743 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3744 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3745 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3746 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3747
958541e9
PH
3748PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3749 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3750 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3751 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3752 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3753 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3754
c206415f
TK
3755TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3756 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3757
2a4be8f9
PH
3758PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3759 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3760
1cba11c5
SC
3761SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3762 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3763
4c04137d 3764SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3765
3766SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3767
3768SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3769
3770SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3771
3772SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3773
3774SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3775
1005d00e
TK
3776TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3777
3778TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3779 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3780 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3781
3782TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3783 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3784 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3785 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3786
9b4768fa
PH
3787PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3788 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3789 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3790
3791PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3792 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3793 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3794 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3795
0d7eb84a
PH
3796PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3797 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3798 to be made).
3799
3800PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3801 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3802 should work with maildirs and everything.
3803
40727bee
TK
3804TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3805 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3806
554d2369
TF
3807TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3808 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3809
1f922db1
PH
3810PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3811 function for BDB 4.3.
3812
ef213c3b
PH
3813PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3814
8ac170f3
PH
3815PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3816 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3817 involved.
3818
b1c749bb
PH
3819PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3820 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3821 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3822 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3823 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3824 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3825
4aac9b49
PH
3826PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3827 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3828 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3829 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3830 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3831 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3832 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3833 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3834
294520c8
TK
3835TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3836 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3837 details.
3838
5bd022fe
PH
3839PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3840 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3841
90e9ce59
PH
3842PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3843 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3844 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3845 test. It is now used for both.
3846
5ea81592
PH
3847PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3848 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3849 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3850 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3851 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3852 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3853
c6c2dc1d
PH
3854PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3855 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3856 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3857 string_vformat().
3858
fffffe4c
PH
3859PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3860 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3861 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3862
9a26b6b2
PH
3863PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3864 experimental DomainKeys support:
3865
3866 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3867 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3868 the control was given.
3869
3870 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3871
4aee0225
PH
3872PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3873
32d668a5
PH
3874PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3875
8187c3f3
PH
3876PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3877 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3878 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3879 db.h files).
3880
ff790e47 3881PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3882 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3883 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3884 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3885 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3886 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3887 course.
ff790e47 3888
5417f6d1
PH
3889PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3890 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3891 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3892 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3893 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3894 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3895
59cf8544
PH
3896PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3897 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3898 do -d+all out of habit.
3899
e7ad8a65
PH
3900PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3901 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3902 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3903
ade42478
PH
3904PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3905 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3906 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3907 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3908 record types that Exim uses.
3909
182ad5cf
PH
3910PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3911 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3912 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3913 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3914 non-existent file that was broken.
3915
b0d9fc80
TK
3916TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3917 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3918
3919TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3920 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3921 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3922
3923TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3924
47c7a64a
PH
3925PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3926 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3927 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3928 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3929 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3930 same time.
3931
a388bce4
SC
3932SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3933 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3934 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3935 at a slight CPU cost.
3936
3937SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3938 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3939
3940SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3941 by Marc Sherman.
3942
0793e4ed
SC
3943SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3944
c58b88df
PH
3945PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3946 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3947
e7ad8a65 3948
7982096b
PH
3949Exim version 4.51
3950-----------------
3951
1a46a8c5
PH
3952TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3953 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3954
2f079f46 3955TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3956
3957TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3958
3959PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3960 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3961
3962PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3963 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3964 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3965 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3966 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3967 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3968 file.
3969
3970PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3971 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3972 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3973 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3974 these two options.
3975
3976PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3977 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3978 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3979 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3980 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3981 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3982 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3983 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3984
3985PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3986 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3987
3988PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3989 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3990 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3991 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3992 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3993 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3994
3995PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3996 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3997 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3998 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3999
4000PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4001 Finch).
4002
4003PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4004 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4005
49c2d5ea
PH
4006PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4007 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4008 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4009 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4010 message.
49c2d5ea 4011
bf759a8b
PH
4012PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4013
83364d30
PH
4014PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4015 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4016
7999bbd7
PH
4017PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4018 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4019 to what was transported.)
4020
7dbf77c9
PH
4021TF/01 Added $received_time.
4022
74e0617f
PH
4023PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4024 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4025 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4026 spamd_address settings.
4027
2f079f46
PH
4028PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4029 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4030 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4031 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4032 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4033
8c841523
PH
4034PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4035
7766a4f0
PH
4036PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4037 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4038 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4039 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4040 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4041
8b417f2c
PH
4042PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4043 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4044
901f42cb
PH
4045PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4046 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4047 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4048 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4049 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4050 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4051 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4052 for failure.
4053
f9b9210e
PH
4054PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4055 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4056 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4057 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4058 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4059 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4060 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4061 "input=".
4062
54cdb463
PH
4063PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4064
cf00dad6
PH
4065PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4066 driver and ACL definitions.
4067
acb1b346
PH
4068PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4069 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4070
c5ddb310
PH
4071PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4072 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4073 understands it better than I do:
4074
4075 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4076 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4077
4078 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4079 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4080 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4081 => three warnings about OTP not working
4082 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4083
4084 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4085 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4086 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4087 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4088 for each call.)
4089 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4090 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4091
4092 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4093 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4094 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4095
31619da6
PH
4096PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4097 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4098 specified.
4099
bebaf0fc
PH
4100PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4101 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4102 "Linux".
4103
475fe28a
PH
4104PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4105 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4106 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4107
4108 warn !verify = sender
4109 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4110
4111 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4112 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4113
7e8bec7a
PH
4114PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4115
4116 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4117 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4118
4119 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4120 nomenclature these days.)
4121
e4a89c47
PH
4122PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4123 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4124
5ca2a9a1
PH
4125PH/30 In these circumstances:
4126 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4127 . First host does not offer TLS;
4128 . First host accepts first address;
4129 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4130 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4131 . Second host accepts second address.
4132 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4133 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4134 address.
7e8bec7a 4135
c688b954
PH
4136PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4137 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4138 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4139 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4140 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4141
fed77020
PH
4142PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4143 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4144
7fe1560f
PH
4145PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4146 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4147
ebb6e6d5
PH
4148PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4149 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4150 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4151
9c4e8f60
PH
4152PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4153 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4154 overlooked.
4155
4156PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4157
d7174846
PH
4158PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4159 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4160 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4161 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4162 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4163 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4164 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4165
4166 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4167 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4168 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4169 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4170 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4171
4172 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4173 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4174 routed further.
4175
cfe75fc3
PH
4176PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4177 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4178 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4179 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4180 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4181 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4182
be22d70e
PH
4183PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4184
0612b098
PH
4185PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4186 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4187 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4188 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4189 printable escape sequences.
4190
2e0c1448
PH
4191PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4192 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4193 body only.
4194
447d236c
PH
4195PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4196 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4197 are as follows:
4198
4199 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4200 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4201 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4202 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4203 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4204
4205 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4206 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4207 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4208
d20976dc
PH
4209PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4210
f656d135
PH
4211PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4212 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4213 play with."
4214
2e2a30b4
PH
4215PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4216 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4217 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4218 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4219 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4220 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4221 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4222 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4223 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4224 the log output.
4225
9176e9f0
PH
4226PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4227 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4228 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4229 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4230 "make".
4231
7982096b 4232
bbe902f0
PH
4233A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4234----------------------------------------
4235
4236Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4237changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4238needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4239in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4240that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4241release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4242from 4.43.
4243
4244I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
42454.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4246those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4247historical information.
4248
4249
f7b63901 4250Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4251-----------------
4252
5fe762f6
PH
4253 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4254
139059f6 4255 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4256 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4257
7086e875
PH
4258 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4259 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4260 place.
4261
35af9f61
PH
4262 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4263 filter fails to execute.
4264
b668c215
PH
4265 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4266 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4267 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4268 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4269 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4270
a494b1e1
PH
4271 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4272
4273 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4274 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4275 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4276 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4277
c5fcb476
PH
4278 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4279 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4280 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4281 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4282 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4283
69358f02
PH
4284 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4285
5be20824
PH
428610. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4287
eb2c0248
PH
428811. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4289 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4290 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4291 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4292
2a3eea10
PH
429312. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4294 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4295 sender verification.
4296
429713. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4298 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4299
23c7ff99
PH
430014. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4301
4deaf07d
PH
430215. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4303 connection timeout.
4304
926e1192
PH
430516. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4306 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4307
650edc6f
PH
430817. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4309 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4310
2c7db3f5
PH
431118. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4312 information about exactly what failed.
4313
3d235903
PH
431419. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4315
7c7ad977
PH
431620. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4317 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4318 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4319
981756db
PH
432021. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4321 It is now set to "smtps".
4322
d4eb88df
PH
432322. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4324 ignore_target_hosts.
4325
432623. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4327 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4328 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4329 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4330 "[x.x.x.x]".
4331
7d468ab8
PH
433224. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4333 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4334 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4335
433625. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4337 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4338 wake it up if nothing else does.
4339
62c0818f
PH
434026. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4341 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4342 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4343 end up negative.
4344
26034054
PH
434527. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4346 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4347
af66f652
PH
434828. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4349
90af77f4
PH
435029. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4351 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4352 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4353 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4354 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4355 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4356 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4357 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4358
d8ef3577
PH
435930. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4360 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4361 than one IP address.
4362
5cb8cbc6
PH
436331. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4364 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4365 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4366 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4367
14702f5b
PH
436832. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4369 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4370 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4371 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4372 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4373 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4374
063b1e99
PH
437533. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4376 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4377 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4378 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4379
652e1b65
PH
438034. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4381 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4382 respected.
4383
6f0c9a4f
PH
438435. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4385 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4386 $sender_host_address.
4387
33397d19
PH
438836. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4389 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4390 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4391 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4392 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4393 very small.
4394
7bb56e1f
PH
439537. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4396
4397 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4398 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4399
ea3bc19b
PH
4400 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4401 just the host names, not the priorities.
4402
4403 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4404 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4405 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4406
ea3bc19b 4407 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4408 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4409
0bcb2a0e
PH
441038. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4411 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4412 domain.
4413
2ac0e484
PH
441439. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4415
4e1fde53
PH
441640. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4417 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4418
de365ded
PH
441941. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4420 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4421 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4422
f05da2e8
PH
442342. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4424
d6453af2
PH
442543. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4426
f7b63901
PH
442744. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4428
442945. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4430 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4431 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4432 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4433 because the tests only now provoked it.
4434
a444213a
PH
443546. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4436 (this can affect the format of dates).
4437
0ec020ea
PH
443847. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4439 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4440 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4441 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4442
b1206957
PH
444348. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4444
444549. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4446 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4447 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4448 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4449
26dd5a95
PH
445050. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4451 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4452 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4453
343b2385
PH
445451. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4455 autoreply.
4456
1c5466b9
PH
445752. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4458 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4459 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4460 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4461 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4462 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4463 is going on).
4464
55ee9ee3
PH
446553. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4466 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4467 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4468 the line.
4469
d38f8232
PH
447054. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4471 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4472 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4473
4474 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4475 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4476 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4477 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4478 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4479 so I produce this patch..."
4480
3295e65b
PH
4481 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4482 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4483 is not defined.
4484
7102e136
PH
448555. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4486 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4487 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4488 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4489 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4490
3ca0ba97
PH
449156. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4492
c2bcbe20
PH
449357. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4494 long debug lines gets shown.
4495
18ce445d
PH
449658. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4497 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4498
1f5b4c3d
PH
449959. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4500
4501 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4502 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4503 of $primary_hostname.
4504
b975ba52
PH
450560. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4506 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4507 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4508 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4509 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4510 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4511 by change 4.50/55 above.
4512
4513 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4514 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4515 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4516 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4517 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4518 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4519 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4520
452161. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4522 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4523 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4524 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4525
17ffcae7
PH
452662. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4527 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4528
d95f9fdb
PH
452963. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4530 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4531 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4532 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4533 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4534
86b8287f
PH
453564. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4536 This has been fixed.
4537
60dc5e56
PH
453865. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4539 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4540 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4541 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4542 the caching.)
4543
533244af
PH
454466. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4545
a5a28604
PH
454667. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4547 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4548 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4549 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4550
7e634d24
PH
455168. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4552 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4553
3e11c26b
PH
455469. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4555 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4556 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4557
6729cf78
PH
455870. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4559 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4560 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4561 message there.
4562
00f00ca5
PH
456371. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4564 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4565 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4566
c9bdd01c
PH
456772. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4568 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4569 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4570 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4571
d43194df
PH
457273. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4573 during host lookups.
4574
fe5b5d0b
PH
457574. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4576 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4577
4578 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4579
76a2d7ba
PH
458075. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4581 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4582 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4583 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4584 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4585 background.
4586
458776. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4588 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4589
04f7d5b9
PH
459077. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4591 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4592 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4593
bc60667e
PH
459478. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4595
bb6e88ff
PH
459679. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4597 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4598 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4599 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4600 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4601 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4602 process earlier.
4603
1e70f85b
PH
460480. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4605 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4606 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4607 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4608 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4609
461081. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4611 tables).
4612
4e01f9d6
PH
461382. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4614
1ee1cef2
PH
461583. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4616 "vacation" handling.
4617
6e2b4ccc
PH
461884. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4619 OS variants using glibc.
4620
8e669ac1
PH
462185. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4622
495ae4b0 4623
bbe902f0
PH
4624----------------------------------------------------
4625See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4626----------------------------------------------------
4627
4628
4629Exim version 4.44
4630-----------------
4631
4632 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4633 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4634 transport
4635
4636 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4637 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4638 place.
4639
4640 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4641 filter fails to execute.
4642
4643 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4644 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4645 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4646 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4647 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4648
4649 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4650 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4651 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4652 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4653
4654 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4655 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4656 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4657 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4658 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4659
4660 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4661
4662 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4663 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4664 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4665 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4666
4667 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4668 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4669 sender verification.
4670
467110. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4672 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4673
467411. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4675 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4676
467712. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4678 ignore_target_hosts.
4679
468013. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4681 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4682 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4683 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4684 "[x.x.x.x]".
4685
468614. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4687 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4688 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4689
469015. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4691 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4692 wake it up if nothing else does.
4693
469416. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4695 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4696 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4697 end up negative.
4698
469917. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4700 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4701
ea3a6f44 470218. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4703
470419. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4705 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4706 empty pattern.
4707
470820. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4709 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4710 one IP address.
4711
ea3a6f44
NM
471221. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4713 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4714 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4715 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4716 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4717 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4718
ea3a6f44
NM
471922. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4720 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4721 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4722
472323. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4724 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4725 $sender_host_address.
4726
472724. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4728
ea3a6f44
NM
472925. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4730 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4731 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4732
473326. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4734 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4735
ea3a6f44
NM
473627. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4737 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4738
ea3a6f44
NM
473928. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4740 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4741 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4742 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4743
474429. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4745 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4746 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4747
ea3a6f44
NM
474830. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4749 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4750 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4751 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4752
ea3a6f44
NM
475331. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4754 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4755 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4756
ea3a6f44
NM
475731. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4758 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4759
ea3a6f44
NM
476032. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4761 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4762 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4763 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4764 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4765 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4766 is going on).
bbe902f0 4767
ea3a6f44
NM
476833. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4769 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4770 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4771 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4772 CAN-2005-0021
4773
ea3a6f44
NM
477434. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4775 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4776 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4777 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4778 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4779 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4780 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4781
4782 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4783 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4784 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4785 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4786 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4787 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4788 CAN-2005-0021
4789
ea3a6f44
NM
479035. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4791 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4792 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4793 CAN-2005-0022
4794
ea3a6f44
NM
479536. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4796 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4797 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4798 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4799 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4800
ea3a6f44
NM
480137. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4802 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4803 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4804 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4805 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4806
ea3a6f44
NM
480738. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4808 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4809 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4810 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4811 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4812
4813
495ae4b0
PH
4814Exim version 4.43
4815-----------------
4816
4817 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4818 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4819 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4820 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4821 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4822 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4823 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4824
4825 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4826 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4827 the delivery.
4828
4829 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4830
4831 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4832
4833 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4834 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4835 to local_scan().
4836
4837 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4838 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4839 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4840 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4841 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4842
4843 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4844 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4845
4846 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4847
4848 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4849
485010. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4851 header_sender only.
4852
485311. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4854 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4855
485612. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4857 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4858 affecting debugging statements).
4859
486013. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4861
486214. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4863 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4864 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4865 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4866 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4867 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4868 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4869 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4870 after the received time, and all would be well.
4871
487215. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4873 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4874 condition in an expansion string.
4875
487616. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4877
487817. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4879 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4880 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4881 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4882 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4883 job under whatever limits there are.
4884
488518. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4886
488719. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4888 space).
4889
489020. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4891 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4892 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4893 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4894 return path is set.
4895
489621. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4897 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4898 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4899 binary data in such strings.
4900
490122. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4902
490323. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4904 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4905 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4906 failure, which is pointless.
4907
490824. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4909
491025. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4911
491226. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4913 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4914 Sender: header lines.
4915
491627. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4917 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4918 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4919
492028. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4921 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4922 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4923 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4924 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4925 happens.
4926
492729. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4928 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4929 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4930 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4931 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4932
493330. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4934 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4935 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4936 1024.
4937
493831. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4939 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4940
494132. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4942 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4943
494433. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4945
494632. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4947
494833. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4949
495034. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4951 syntax error.
4952
495335. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4954
495536. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4956
495737. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4958 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4959 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4960 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4961
496238. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4963 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4964
4965
4966Exim version 4.42
4967-----------------
4968
4969 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4970 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4971 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4972 it was not quoted.
4973 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4974 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4975 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4976 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4977 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4978 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4979
4980 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4981 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4982 verification failure".
4983
4984 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4985 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4986 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4987 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4988
4989 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4990 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4991 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4992 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4993 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4994 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4995 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4996 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4997 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4998 treated as a timeout.
4999
5000 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5001 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5002 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5003 not set for Exim filters).
5004
5005 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5006 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5007 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5008
5009 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5010
5011 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5012 try to make them clearer.
5013
5014 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5015 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5016
5017 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5018
5019 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5020
502110. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5022 only the Cygwin environment.
5023
502411. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5025 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5026 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5027 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5028 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5029
503012. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5031 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5032 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5033 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5034 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5035 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5036 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5037
503813. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5039 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5040
504114. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5042
5043 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5044 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5045 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5046
5047 To: susanne@some.where
5048
5049 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5050 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5051 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5052 of addresses in From: header lines).
5053
5054 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5055 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5056 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5057
5058 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5059 treated as non-personal.
5060
5061 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5062 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5063
506415. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5065
506616. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5067
506817. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5069 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5070 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5071
507218. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5073 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5074
507519. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5076 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5077 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5078 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5079 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5080 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5081
508220. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5083 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5084 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5085 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5086 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5087 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5088 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5089 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5090
5091 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5092
509321. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5094 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5095
509622. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5097 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5098 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5099
510023. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5101 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5102
510324. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5104 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5105 rather than long int.
5106
510725. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5108
510926. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5110
5111
5112Exim version 4.41
5113-----------------
5114
5115 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5116 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5117 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5118 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5119 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5120 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5121
5122
5123Exim version 4.40
5124-----------------
5125
5126 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5127 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5128
5129 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5130 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5131 socklen_t is defined.
5132
5133 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5134 always exist.
5135
5136 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5137 configured.
5138
5139 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5140 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5141 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5142 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5143 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5144
5145 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5146 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5147 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5148 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5149
5150 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5151 of flapping under certain conditions.
5152
5153 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5154 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5155 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5156
5157 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5158
515910. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5160
516111. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5162 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5163 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5164 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5165
516612. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5167 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5168 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5169 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5170 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5171 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5172 preserved with the message after it was received.
5173
517413. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5175 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5176 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5177 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5178 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5179 test suite worked just fine.
5180
518114. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5182 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5183 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5184
518515. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5186 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5187 string.
5188
518916. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5190 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5191 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5192 does not fully solve it.
5193
519417. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5195 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5196 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5197 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5198 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5199
520018. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5201 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5202 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5203
520419. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5205 string, for example:
5206
5207 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5208
5209 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5210 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5211 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5212 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5213 the routers could not see them.
5214
521520. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5216 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5217
521821. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5219 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5220 output).
5221
522222. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5223 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5224 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5225 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5226 that needed quoting.
5227
522823. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5229 was not being matched caselessly.
5230
523124. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5232 backslashes.
5233
523425. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5235 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5236 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5237 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5238 when use_sender is false.
5239
524026. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5241
524227. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5243
524428. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5245
524629. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5247 the configuration file.
5248
524930. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5250 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5251
525231. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5253
525432. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5255 bytes in the message body.
5256
525733. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5258 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5259 delivery.
5260
526134. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5262
526335. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5264
526536. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5266 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5267 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5268 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5269 another IP address.
5270
5271
5272Exim version 4.34
5273-----------------
5274
5275 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5276 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5277
5278 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5279 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5280 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5281 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5282 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5283
5284 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5285 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5286
5287 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5288 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5289 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5290
5291 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5292 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5293 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5294
5295 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5296 for routers.
5297
5298 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5299 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5300 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5301 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5302 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5303 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5304 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5305
5306
5307Exim version 4.33
5308-----------------
5309
5310 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5311 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5312 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5313 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5314 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5315 default (and expected) setting.
5316
5317 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5318 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5319 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5320 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5321
5322 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5323 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5324
5325 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5326 in domain lists.
5327
5328 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5329 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5330 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5331 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5332 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5333 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5334
5335 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5336 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5337 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5338
5339 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5340 part (NOT match_host).
5341
5342 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5343
5344 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5345 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5346 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5347 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5348 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5349 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5350 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5351 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5352 the same named file.
5353
535410. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5355 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5356 when Exim is built.
5357
535811. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5359 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5360 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5361 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5362 a host name.
5363
536412. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5365 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5366 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5367
536813. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5369
537014. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5371
537215. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5373
537416. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5375 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5376
537717. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5378 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5379 before starting the TLS session.
5380
538118. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5382
538319. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5384 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5385
538620. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5387 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5388 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5389 colon in the middle).
5390
5391
5392Exim version 4.32
5393-----------------
5394
5395 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5396 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5397 multiple configurations are in use.
5398
5399 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5400 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5401 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5402 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5403 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5404 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5405
5406 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5407 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5408
5409 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5410 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5411 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5412
5413 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5414 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5415 occurs.
5416
5417 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5418 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5419
5420 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5421
5422 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5423 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5424
5425 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5426
5427 -prval:sval
5428
5429 is equivalent to
5430
5431 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5432
5433 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5434 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5435 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5436 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5437 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5438
543910. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5440 Exim's behaviour:
5441
5442 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5443 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5444 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5445 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5446 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5447 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5448
5449 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5450 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5451 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5452 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5453 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5454 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5455 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5456 string.
5457
5458 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5459 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5460 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5461 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5462 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5463
546411. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5465
546612. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5467 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5468 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5469
547013. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5471
547214. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5473 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5474 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5475 information.
5476
547715. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5478 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5479
548016. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5481 Three changes have been made:
5482
5483 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5484 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5485 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5486 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5487 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5488
5489 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5490 been restored.
5491
5492 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5493 the modified behaviour.
5494
5495
5496Exim version 4.31
5497-----------------
5498
5499 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5500 Larry Rosenman.
5501
5502 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5503 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5504
5505 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5506 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5507 try to track down a specific problem.
5508
5509 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5510 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5511 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5512
5513 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5514 warning.
5515
5516 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5517 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5518 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5519 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5520 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5521 some earlier ones do not.
5522
5523 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5524
5525 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5526 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5527 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5528 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5529 address literals are enabled, of course).
5530
5531 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5532
553310. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5534 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5535 by a command such as
5536
5537 exim -f "" ...
5538
5539 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5540
554111. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5542
554312. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5544 remained set. It is now erased.
5545
554613. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5547 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5548
554914. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5550 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5551 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5552 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5553 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5554 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5555 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5556 appropriate error code.
5557
555815. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5559 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5560 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5561 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5562 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5563 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5564
556516. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5566 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5567 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5568
556917. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5570 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5571 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5572 terminate the header.
5573
557418. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5575 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5576 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5577
557819. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5579 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5580 (4.30/29). In particular:
5581
5582 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5583 imposed.
5584
5585 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5586 to write a maildirsize file.
5587
5588 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5589 the transport, the new value overrides.
5590
5591 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5592 count.
5593
559420. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5595 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5596 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5597 space or a tab.
5598
559921. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5600 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5601 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5602 the fallback hosts.
5603
560422. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5605 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5606 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5607
560823. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5609 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5610 using a union.
5611
561224. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5613 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5614 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5615
561625. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5617
561826. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5619
562027. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5621
562228. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5623 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5624 become corrupted.
5625
562629. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5627 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5628 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5629 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5630 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5631 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5632 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5633 too great.
5634
563530. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5636 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5637 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5638 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5639 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5640 incorrectly.
5641
564231. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5643 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5644 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5645 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5646 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5647 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5648 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5649 cached value only when the same options are set.
5650
565132. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5652
565333. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5654 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5655 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5656 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5657 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5658
565934: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5660 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5661 it is clearly obsolete.
5662
566335. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5664 transport.
5665
566636. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5667 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5668 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5669 times.
5670
567137. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5672 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5673 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5674 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5675 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5676
567738. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5678 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5679 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5680 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5681
568239. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5683
5684 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5685
5686 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5687 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5688 2^31.
5689
569040. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5691 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5692 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5693 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5694 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5695 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5696 $localpart_data.
5697
569841. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5699 with the -f command-line option.
5700
570142. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5702 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5703 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5704 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5705 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5706 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5707
570843. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5709 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5710 line.
5711
571244. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5713 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5714 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5715 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5716 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5717 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5718 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5719 buffer is too small.
5720
572145. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5722 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5723
572446. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5725 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5726 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5727 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5728 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5729 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5730 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5731 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5732 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5733
573447. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5735 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5736 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5737
573848. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5739 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5740 ACL").
5741
574249. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5743 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5744 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5745 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5746 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5747
574850. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5749 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5750 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5751 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5752 is set.
5753
575451. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5755
575652. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5757
575853. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5759 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5760
576154. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5762 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5763 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5764
576555. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5766 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5767 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5768 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5769 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5770
577156. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5772 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5773 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5774 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5775 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5776 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5777 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5778
577957. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5780 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5781 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5782 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5783 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5784 the test of how many are available.
5785
578658. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5787 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5788 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5789 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
495ae4b0
PH
5790 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5791 new message is started.
5792
579359. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5794 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5795
579660. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5797 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5798
579961. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5800 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5801 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5802 is no long logged.
5803
580462. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5805 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5806 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5807 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5808 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5809 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5810 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5811
581263. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5813 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5814 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5815 interpreted as octal.
5816
581764. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5818 setting.
5819
582065. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5821 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5822 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5823 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5824 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5825 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5826
582766. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5828 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5829 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5830 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5831
5832 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5833 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5834 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5835 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5836
5837 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5838 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5839 is a bug fix.
5840
5841 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5842 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5843
584467. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5845
584668. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5847 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5848 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5849 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5850
585169. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5852 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5853 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5854 supplied", which is not helpful.
5855
585670. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5857 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5858 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5859
586071. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5861 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5862 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5863 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5864 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5865 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5866 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5867 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5868
586972. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5870 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5871 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5872 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5873 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5874
587573. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5876 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5877 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5878 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 5879 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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5880 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5881
588274. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5883 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5884 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5885
588675. Added write_rejectlog option.
5887
588876. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5889 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5890 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5891 variables.
5892
589377. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5894
589578. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5896 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5897 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5898 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5899 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5900 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5901 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5902 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5903
590479. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5905 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5906 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5907 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5908 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5909
591080. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5911 Haardt.
5912
591381. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5914 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5915 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5916 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5917 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5918 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5919 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5920 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5921 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5922
5923
5924Exim version 4.30
5925-----------------
5926
5927 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5928 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5929 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5930
5931 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5932 fixed.
5933
5934 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5935 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5936 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5937
5938 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5939 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5940 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5941 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5942 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 5943 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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5945 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5946 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5947 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5948 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5949 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5950 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5951 the Exim test suite.
5952
5953 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5954 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5955 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5956 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5957
5958 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5959 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5960 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5961 specify it in this variable.
5962
5963 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5964 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5965 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5966 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5967
5968 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5969 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5970 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5971 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5972
5973 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5974 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5975 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5976 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5977 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5978
5979 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5980
598110. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5982 they are logged.
5983
598411. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5985 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5986 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5987 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5988 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5989
599012. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5991 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5992
599313. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5994 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 5995 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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5996 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5997 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5998
599914. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6000 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6001
600215. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6003 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6004 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6005
600616. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6007 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6008
600917. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6010 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6011
601218. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6013 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6014 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6015
601619. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6017 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6018
601920. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6020 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6021 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6022 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6023
602421. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6025
602622. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6027 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6028 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6029 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6030
603123. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6032
603324. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6034 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6035
603625. Added .include_if_exists.
6037
603826. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6039 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6040 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6041 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6042 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6043 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6044
604527. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6046
604728. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6048 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6049 this.
6050
605129. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6052
605330. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6054 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6055
6056 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6057 550 Sender verify failed
6058
6059 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6060 the final line of the response.
6061
606231. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6063 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6064 all other user lookups.
6065
606632. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6067 delivery time.
6068
606933. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6070 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6071 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6072 result into an int without checking.
6073
607434. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6075 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6076 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6077
607835. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6079 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6080 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6081 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6082
608336. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6084 correctly.
6085
608637. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6087 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6088
608938. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6090 to the empty sender.
6091
609239. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6093 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6094 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6095 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6096 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6097 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6098 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6099 panic log.
6100
610140. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6102 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6103 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6104 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6105 used.
6106
610741. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6108 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6109
611042. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6111 timestamps.
6112
611343. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6114 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6115
611644. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6117
611845. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6119 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6120 logs.
6121
612246. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6123 as soon as it is encountered.
6124
612547. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6126
612748. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6128 rewritten to "<>".
6129
613049. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6131 recognizes a tab character.
6132
613350. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6134 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6135 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6136 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6137
613851. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6139
614052. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6141 crash.
6142
614353. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6144
614554. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6146
614755. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6148 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6149 2822.
6150
615156. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6152 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6153 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6154 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6155 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6156
615757. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6158 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6159
616058. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6161 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6162 list (.included file names were always shown).
6163
616459. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6165 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6166 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6167 root at that time.
6168
616960. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6170 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6171
617261. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6173
617462. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6175
617663. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6177
617864. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6179 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6180 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6181 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6182 failures to open the logs.
6183
618465. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6185 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6186 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6187 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6188 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6189 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6190 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6191
6192
6193Exim version 4.24
6194-----------------
6195
6196 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6197 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6198 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6199 change 4.23/1.
6200
6201 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6202 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6203 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6204
6205 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6206 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6207 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6208
6209 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6210 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6211 causing some misleading effects.
6212
6213 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6214 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6215 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6216
6217 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6218 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6219 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6220 queue-runner function directly.
6221
6222
6223Exim version 4.23
6224-----------------
6225
6226 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6227 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6228
6229 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6230 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6231 was always written to the default place.
6232
6233 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6234 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6235 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6236
6237 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6238
6239 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6240
6241 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6242 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6243 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6244
6245 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6246 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6247 must start.
6248
6249 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6250 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6251 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6252
6253 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6254 command line option is disabled.
6255
6256 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6257 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6258
6259 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6260
6261 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6262
6263 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6264 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6265
626610. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6267
626811. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6269 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6270 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6271 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6272 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6273 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6274
627512. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6276 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6277 timeout.
6278
627913. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6280 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6281
628214. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6283 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6284
628515. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6286 received was valid base64.
6287
628816. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6289 name of the variable that was being set.
6290
629117. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6292
629318. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6294 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6295 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6296 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6297 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6298 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6299
630019. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6301
630220. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6303 nor realm was specified.
6304
630521. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6306 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6307 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6308 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6309
631022. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6311 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6312 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6313
631423. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6315 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6316 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6317
631824. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6319 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6320 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6321 some systems use these upper case variants.
6322
632325. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6324 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6325 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6326 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6327
632826. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6329
633027. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6331 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6332
633328. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6334 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6335 expansion variable.
6336
633729. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6338
633930. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6340 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6341 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6342 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6343
634431. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6345 using it.
6346
634732. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6348 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6349 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6350
635133. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6352 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6353
635434. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6355 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6356 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6357 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6358
635935. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6360 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6361 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6362
636336. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6364
636537. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6366 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6367 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6368 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6369 aborted.
6370
637138. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6372 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6373 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6374
637539. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6376
637740. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6378 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6379
638041. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6381 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6382
638342. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6384 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6385 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6386 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6387 when emails are that large.
6388
6389
6390
6391Exim version 4.22
6392-----------------
6393
6394 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6395 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6396
6397 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6398 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6399 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6400
6401 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6402 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6403 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6404
6405 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6406 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6407 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6408 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6409 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6410
6411 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6412 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6413 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6414 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6415 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6416 ever.
6417
6418 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6419 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6420 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6421 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6422 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6423 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6424 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6425 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6426 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6427 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6428 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6429 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6430 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6431 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6432
6433 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6434 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6435 parameterised it.
6436
6437 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6438 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6439 error should be diagnosed.
6440
6441 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6442 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6443 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6444 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6445 appeared instead of "NULL".
6446
644710. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6448 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6449 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6450 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6451 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6452 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6453 proceeds).
6454
6455 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6456 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6457 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6458
6459
6460Exim version 4.21
6461-----------------
6462
6463 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6464 or receiver verification errors.
6465
6466 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6467 name.
6468
6469 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6470 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6471 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6472 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6473
6474 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6475 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6476 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6477 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6478 shouldn't happen again.
6479
6480 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6481 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6482 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6483
6484 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6485 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6486
6487 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6488
6489 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6490 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6491
6492 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6493 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6494 RFC.
6495
649610. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6497 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6498 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6499
650011. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6501 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6502 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6503 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6504
650512. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6506 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6507 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6508 to define what should happen).
6509
651013. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6511 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6512 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6513
651414. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6515
651615. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6517
651816. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6519 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6520
4c04137d 652117. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6522 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6523 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6524 structure in all cases.
6525
6526 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6527 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6528 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6529 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6530
653118. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6532 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6533 domain name.
6534
653519. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6536 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6537
653820. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6539 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6540
654121. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6542 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6543 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6544
654522. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6546 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6547 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6548
654923. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6550 the book and for uniformity.
6551
655224. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6553
655425. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6555 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6556 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6557 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6558 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6559 non-existent command as the problem.
6560
656126. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6562 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6563 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6564
656527. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6566
656728. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6568 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6569 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6570
657129. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6572 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6573 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6574 timestamps using strftime().
6575
657630. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6577 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6578
657932. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6580 transport-time rewrites.
6581
658233. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6583 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6584 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6585 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6586
658734. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6588 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6589
659035. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6591 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6592 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6593 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6594 comma and a space.
6595
659636. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6597 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6598 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6599 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6600 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6601 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6602 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6603
660437. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6605 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6606 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6607 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6608 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6609
661038. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6611 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6612 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6613 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6614 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6615 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6616 remaining text gets split now.
6617
661839. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6619 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6620 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6621 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6622
662340. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6624 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6625 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6626 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6627 $return_path.
6628
662941. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6630 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6631 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6632 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6633 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6634 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6635 passed through if needed.
6636
663742. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6638 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6639 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6640 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6641 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6642 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6643
664443. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6645 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6646 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6647 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6648 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6649
665044. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6651 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6652 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6653 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6654 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6655
665645. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6657 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6658 noticed.
6659
666046. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6661 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6662 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6663 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6664 mayhem of various kinds.
6665
666647. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6667 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6668 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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6669 the right test for positive values.
6670
667148. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6672 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6673 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6674 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6675 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6676 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6677 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6678 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6679 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6680 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6681 envelope.
6682
668349. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6684 module.
6685
668650. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6687 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6688 forbidding it.
6689
669051. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6691 the existing equality matching.
6692
669352. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6694 dealing with inode numbers.
6695
669653. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6697 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6698 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6699
670054. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6701 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6702 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6703 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6704 local_scan().
6705
670655. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6707 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6708 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6709 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6710 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6711 relay addresses has also been removed.
6712
671356. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6714
671557. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6716 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6717 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6718
671958. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6720 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6721 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6722 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6723 processing applies to CR:
6724
6725 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6726 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6727
6728 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6729 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6730 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6731 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6732
673359. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6734 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6735 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6736
673760. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6738 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6739 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6740 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6741 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6742 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6743 arisen.
6744
674561. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6746 program routers.
6747
674862. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6749 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6750 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6751 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6752 adds:
6753
6754 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6755
6756 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6757
6758 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6759
676063. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6761 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6762 not considered personal.
6763
676464. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6765
676665. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6767
676866. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6769
677067. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6771 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6772 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6773 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6774 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6775 header lines, and spool format errors.
6776
677768. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6778 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6779 for more flexibility.
6780
678169. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6782 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6783 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6784
678570. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6786 Sabourenkov.
6787
678871. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6789 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6790 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6791 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6792 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6793 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6794 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6795 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6796 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6797
679872. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6799 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6800 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6801 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6802 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6803 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6804 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6805
680673. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6807 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6808 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6809
681074. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6811 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6812 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6813 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6814 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6815 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6816 instead of killing the process with assert().
6817
681875. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6819 than Unicode encoding.
6820
682176. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6822 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6823 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6824 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6825
682677. Added process_log_path.
6827
682878. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6829 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6830
683179. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6832 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6833
683480. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6835 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6836 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6837
683881. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6839 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6840 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6841 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6842 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6843 were applied:
6844
6845 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6846 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6847 as invalid.
6848
684982. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6850 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6851 they will be used during message reception.
6852
6853
6854Exim version 4.20
6855-----------------
6856
6857The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6858
6859****