Local_scan: bump the ABI major version number
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1This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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6Exim version 4.93
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9JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
10 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
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fc243e94 12JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
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13 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
14 its own TCP segment.
15
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16JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
17 each verb.
18
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19JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
20
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21JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
22
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23JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
24 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
25
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26JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
27 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
28 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
29 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
30 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
31 suitably configured).
32
c05bdbd6 33JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
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34 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
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36JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
37 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
38 crash could result.
39
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40JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
41 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
42
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43JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
44 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
45 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
46 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
47 to this system.
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49JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
50 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
51 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
52
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53JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
54 output.
55
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56JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
57 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
58
3c55eef2 59JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
00c0dd4e 60 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
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61 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
62 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
63 input).
64
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65HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
66 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
67 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
68 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
69 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
70
7d8d08c4 71HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
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72 shared (NFS) environment.
73
7d8d08c4 74HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
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75 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
76 affected.
77
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78JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
79 on some platforms for bit 31.
80
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81JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
82 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
83 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
84 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
85 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
86 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
87 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
88 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
89
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90JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
91
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92JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
93 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
94
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95JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
96 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
97 facility.
98
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99JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
100 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
101 documentation.
102
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103JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
104 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
105 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
106 not do so.
107
59c0959a 108JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
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109 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
110 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
111
112JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
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113 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
114 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
115 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
116 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
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118JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
119 reject under TFO.
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efad2f41 121JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
4e48d56c 122 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
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123 be requested on all coneections.
124
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125JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
126 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
127
6ee11061 128PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
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130JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
131 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
132 one for these; the option was ignored.
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134JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
135 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
136 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
137 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
138
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139JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
140 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
141 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
142 standards.
143
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144JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
145 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
146 error ignored was made.
147
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148JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
149
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150JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
151 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
152 values, to catch one form of exploit.
153
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154JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
155 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
156 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
157
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158JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
159 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
160 causing a segfault.
161
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162JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
163 them in our smtp response.
164
9c6881f8 165JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
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166 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
167 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
168 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
169 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
170
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171JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
172 link count into consideration.
173
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174HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
175 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
176
177JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
178 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
179 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
180 surprise.
181
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182HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
183
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184JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
185
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186JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
187
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188JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
189 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
190 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
191 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
192
ab0e957b 193HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
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195JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
196 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
197 active.
198
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199JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
200 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
201 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
202
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203JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
204 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
205 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
206
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207JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
208 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
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209 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
210 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
211 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
212 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
213 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
214 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
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220JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
221 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
222
223JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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224 non-signal-safe functions being used.
225
226JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
227 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
228 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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230JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
231 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
232 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
233
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234JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
235 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
236 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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237 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
238 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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239 messed with.
240
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241PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
242 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
243
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244JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
245 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
246 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
247 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
248 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
249 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
250 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
251
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252JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
253 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
254
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255JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
256 legitimate.
257
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258JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
259 Previously this would segfault.
260
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261JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
262 segfault.
263
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264JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
265 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
266 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
267 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
268 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
269 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
270
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271JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
272
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273JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
274 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
275 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
276 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
277
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278JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
279
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280JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
281 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
282 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
283 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
284
5054c4fd 285JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
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286
287JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
5054c4fd 288
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289JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
290 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
291 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
292
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293JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
294 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
295 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
296
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297PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
298
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299JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
300 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
301 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
302 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
303
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304PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
305 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
306 promised '?' replacement.
307
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308PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
309
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310JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
311 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
312 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
313 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
314 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
315
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316JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
317 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
318 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
319
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320JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
321 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
322 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
323
7ea1237c 324JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 325 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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326 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
327
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328JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
329 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
330 hope that is portable enough.
331
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332JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
333 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
334 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
335 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
336
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337JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
338 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
339 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
340
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341JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
342 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
343 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
344 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
345
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346JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
347 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
348
75c121f0 349JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 350 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
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351 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
352 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
353
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354JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
355 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
356 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
357
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358JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
359 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
360 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
361 the previous G, M, k.
362
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363JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
364 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
365 it was unset.
366
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367JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
368 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
369 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
370 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
371
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372JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
373 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
374
de6f74f2 375JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
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376 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
377 off past the nul-terimation.
378
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379JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
380 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
381 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
382 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
383 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
384
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aaf3e414 386
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387JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
388 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
389 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
390 actually does fail.
391
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392AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
393 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
394
395JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
396 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
397 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
518b70e9 398
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399JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
400 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
401 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
402
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403JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
404 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
405
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c39c8870 410GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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411 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
412 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
413 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
414 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
415 be defined in redis_servers.
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417GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
418 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
419
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420JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
421 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
422 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
423 extant use locations.
424
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425JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
426 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
427
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428JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
429 Previously only the last row was returned.
430
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431JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
432 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
433 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
434 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
435 input.
436
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437JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
438 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
439 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
440 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
441 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
442 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
443 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
444 Main pool for expansions.
445 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
446 active in the testsuite.
447 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
448
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449JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
450 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
451 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
452 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
453 round-robin DNS.
454
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455JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
456 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
457 failure response.
458
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459JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
460 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
461 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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462
463JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
464 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
465 ClamAV interface method is removed.
c11d665d 466
ba0e37b1
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467JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
468 rows affected is given instead).
469
96508de1
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470JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
471 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
472
06fdb9f7
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473JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
474 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
475 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
476 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
477 for all multi-message initiating connections.
478
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479JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
480 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
481 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
482
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483JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
484 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
485 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
486 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
487 separate.
488
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489JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
490 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
491 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
492 fake-reject.
493
cf3cd306
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494HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
495
744976d4
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496JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
497 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
498
aab9a843 499PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 500 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 501 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 502
83d2a861
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503JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
504 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
505 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
506 and send a quit.
507
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508JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
509 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
510
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511JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
512 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
513 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
514
c0635b6d
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515JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
516 for the build is renamed.
517
b808677c
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518JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
519 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
520 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
521
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522JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
523 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
524 result replacing the original.
525
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526JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
527 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
528 and the resources needed to be freed.
529
15ae19f9
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530JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
531
e6532c4a
JH
532JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
533 was not propagated.
534
2556b3c6
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535JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
536 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
537 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
538 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
539
fc8cd529
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540JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
541 length value. Previously this would segfault.
542
71bb51e0
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543HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
544 newer versions of the scanner.
545
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546JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
547 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
548 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
549 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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550 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
551 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
552 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
e04bfa34 553
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554JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
555 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
556 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
557 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
558 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
559 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
560 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
561 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
562 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
563 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
564
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565JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
566 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
567
b3b37076
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568JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
569
830832c9
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570HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
571 allows proper process termination in container environments.
572
f64e8b5f
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573JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
574 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
575
8f0776b5
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576JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
577 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
578 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
579
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580JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
581 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
582 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 583 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 584
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585JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
586 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
587 would be spooled.
588
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589PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
590 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
591
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592HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
593 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
594 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
595 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
596 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
ad93c40f 597
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598JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
599 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
600 lines.
601
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602JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
603 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
604
ddd16464
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605PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
606 suffix list.
607
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608JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
609 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
610 "bare" representation.
611
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612JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
613 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
614 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
615 corrupted the output.
616
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620
621JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
622 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
623 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
624 pairs of long lines into single ones.
625
856d1e16
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626PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
627 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
628
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629JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
630 This permits better logging.
631
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632JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
633 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
634 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
635 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
636 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 637 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 638
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639JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
640 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
641 "exiwhat" output.
642
98913c8e
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643PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
644 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
645 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
646
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647JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
648 than 255 are no longer allowed.
649
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650JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
651 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
652 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
653 client, there is no benefit for these.
654 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
655 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
656 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
657 is used (3.2.4 +).
658
6e411084
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659PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
660 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
661
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662JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
663 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
664 erroneously found still-pending ones.
665
4e910c01
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666JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
667 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
668
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669JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
670 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
671 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
672 signature and again for transmission.
673
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674JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
675 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 676 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 677
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678JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
679 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
680 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
681 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
682 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
683 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
684 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
685
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686JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
687 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
688 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 689 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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691PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
692 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
693 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
694 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
695 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
696 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
697 processing options.
698
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699JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
700 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
701 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
702 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
703 connections.
925ac8e4 704
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705PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
706 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
707 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
708 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
709 versions.
710
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711JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
712 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
713 inaccessible.
714
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715JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
716 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
717 banner-time rejection.
718
a843a57e
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719JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
720 callout/hold.
721
8e041ae0
PP
722PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
723 is the name of a transport.
833c70bc
PP
724 Fixes bug 2140.
725
35a04365
HSHR
726HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
727
4226691b
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728JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
729 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
730
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731JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
732 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
733 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
734 during compilation.
735
0a6c178c
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736JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
737 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
738 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 739 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 740
fae8970d
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741JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
742 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
743 initial verify call returned a defer.
744
ad1a76fe 745JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
14de8063
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746 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
747
ad1a76fe
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748JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
749 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
750
135e9496
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751JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
752 if present. Previously it was ignored.
753
f2ed27cf
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754JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
755 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
756
7eb0e5d2
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757JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
758 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
759 extensible.
760
4f9f4be4
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761PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
762 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
763
dc4de9cc
PP
764PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
765 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
766 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
767
ea18931d
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768JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
769 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
770 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
771 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
772
0768462d 773HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
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774 and confused the parent.
775
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776JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
777 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
778
9e0ed81f
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779JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
780 for log purposes.
781
2540f2f8
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782JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
783 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
784 out-of-order delivery.
785
e5ab0ba9
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786JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
787 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
788 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
789 error for the HELO.
790
e99a3a6c
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791JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
792 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
793 desynchronisation.
794
18067c75
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795JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
796 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
797 one run was done. Bug 2189.
798
72934ba7
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799JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
800 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
801 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
802 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
803 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
804 message is still "Temporary local problem".
805
625667b6
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806JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
807 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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808 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
809
810HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
811 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
812 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
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814JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
815 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
816 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
817 though a different problem.
818
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9427e879 823JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 824 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 825
7b283890
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826JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
827
4c57a40e
PP
828PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
829 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
830
5d036699
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831JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
832 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
833
f4630439
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834JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
835 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
836 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
837 before acknowledging the chunk.
838
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839PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
840 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
841 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
842
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843JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
844 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
845 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
846 should.
847
848JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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849 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
850 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 851
bd8fbe36 852JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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853 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
854
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855JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
856 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
857 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
858 body hash calculated value.
859
eea19017
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860JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
861 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
862 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
863
44e6651b
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864JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
865
866JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
867 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
868
869JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
870 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
871 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
872
873JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
874 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
875 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
876 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
877 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
878 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
879
880JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
881 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
882 past that check, despite the cost.
883
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884JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
885 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
886 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
887
f700ea4d
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888PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
889 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
890 TLS library to consume.
891
da88acae
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892PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
893
f6ef9370
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894PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
895
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896JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
897 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
898 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
899 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
900 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
901 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
902 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
903
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904PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
905
906PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
907
908PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
909 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
910 should be warning-free.
911
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912JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
913
914HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
915 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
916
d953610f
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917HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
918 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
919 general solution here.
920
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921PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
922 already-broken messages in the queue.
923
4bb432cb
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924JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
925
3b1a84c8
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926JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
927
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932JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
933 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 934
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935JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
936 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
937 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
938
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939JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
940 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
941 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
942 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
943 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
944 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
945 if one fails this test.
946 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
947 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
948
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949JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
950 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
951
23bb6982 952JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 953 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 954
0bd1b1ed 955JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 956 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 957
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958JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
959 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
960
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961JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
962 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
963
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964JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
965
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966JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
967 certificate).
968
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969JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
970 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
971 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
972 connection after a verify cache hit.
973 Do not update it with the verify result either.
974
975JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
976 when routing results in more than one destination address.
977
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978JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
979 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
980 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
981 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
982 when the cutthrough connection is made).
983
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984JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
985 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
986
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987JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
988 Previously they were not counted.
989
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990JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
991 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
992 that needed the lookup.
993
4c04137d 994JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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995 distinguished as "(=".
996
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997JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
998 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
999
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1000JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1001
1002JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1003 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 1004
4c04137d 1005JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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1006 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1007
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1008JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1009 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1010 compatible.
1011
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1012JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1013 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1014 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1015 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1016
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1017JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1018
f59aaaaa 1019JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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1020 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1021 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 1022
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1023JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1024 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1025 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1026 be lost.
1027
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1028JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1029 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1030 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1031 itself :(
1032
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1033JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1034 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1035 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1036
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1037JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1038 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1039 options.
1040
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1041JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1042
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1043PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1044 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1045
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1046PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1047 are not in the system include path.
1048
ad7fc6eb 1049JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 1050 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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1051 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1052 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 1053
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1054JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1055 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1056 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1057
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1058JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1059
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1060HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1061 an incoming connection.
1062
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1063HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1064 to rspamd.
1065
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1066HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1067 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 1068
87cb4a16 1069JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 1070 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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1071
1072
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1076JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1077 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1078 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1079 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 1080
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1081TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1082 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1083
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1084TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1085 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1086 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1087 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1088 outgoing I= field.
1089
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1090JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1091 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1092 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1093 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1094 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1095 check on the next write.
1096
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1097HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1098 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1099 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1100 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1101 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1102
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1103JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1104 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1105
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1106JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1107 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1108 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1109
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1110JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1111 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1112 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1113 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1114
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1115HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1116 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1117
4c04137d 1118JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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1119 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1120
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1121JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1122 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1123 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1124 distinct.
1125
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1126JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1127
1128JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1129
ec0eb1a3
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1130JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1131
41e93589
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1132JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1133 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1134
98b98887 1135JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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1136 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1137
98b98887
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1138JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1139
858e91c2
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1140JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1141 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1142
1143JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1144
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1145JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1146 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1147
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1148JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1149
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1150JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1151 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 1152 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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1153 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1154 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1155 they will retry in-clear.
1156 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1157 at installation time.
1158
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1159HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1160 with the $config_file variable.
1161
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1162JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1163 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1164 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1165 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 1166 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 1167
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1168GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1169 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1170 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1171 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1172 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1173
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1174JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1175
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1176JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1177 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1178 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1179 list order is no longer honoured.
1180
4c04137d 1181JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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1182 for DKIM processing.
1183
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1184JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1185 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 1186
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1187JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1188 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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1189 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1190 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 1191
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1192JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1193 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1194
2d8d625b
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1195JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1196 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1197
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1198JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1199 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1200
f2f2c91b
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1201JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1202
ce325893
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1203JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1204 cached by the daemon.
1205
de78e2d5
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1206JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1207 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1208
379ba7d0
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1209JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1210 keys are given for lookup.
1211
f444c2c7
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1212JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1213 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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1214 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1215 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 1216
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1217JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1218 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1219 server-side so match that on older versions.
1220
07c73177 1221JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 1222 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 1223 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 1224
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1225JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1226 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1227
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1228JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1229 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1230 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 1231 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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1232 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1233 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1234 initial truncated version.
1235
ab9152ff 1236JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 1237
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1238JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1239
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1240JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1241 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1242
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1243JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1244
bc3c7bb7 1245HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 1246
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1247JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1248 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1249 induced overflows.
1250
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1251JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1252 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1253 stage.
1254
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1255JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1256 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1257
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1258JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1259 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1260 former class.
1261
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1262JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1263 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1264 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1265
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1266JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1267 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1268 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1269 extraction. Accept either.
1270
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1275JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1276 expanded.
1277
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1278JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1279
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1280JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1281 it.
1282
01a4a5c5 1283JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1284 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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1285 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1286 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1287
cb1d7830 1288JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1289 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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1290 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1291
610ff438 1292JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1293 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1294 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1295 TLS connections
610ff438 1296
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1297JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1298 sites use this now.
1299
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1300JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1301 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1302 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1303 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1304 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1305
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1306JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1307 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1308 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1309
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1310JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1311
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1312JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1313 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1314
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1315JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1316 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1317
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1318JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1319 /defer_ok option.
1320
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1321JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1322 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1323
fd4d8871 1324JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1325 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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1326 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1327
1328JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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1329 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1330 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1331
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1332JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1333 timeout value per server.
1334
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1335JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1336 now have the list separator specified.
1337
8a512ed5 1338JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1339 option values.
8a512ed5 1340
82c0c8ea 1341JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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1342 under OpenSSL.
1343
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1344JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1345
82c0c8ea
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1346JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1347 rather than the verbs used.
1348
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1349JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1350 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1351
6c9ed72e
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1352JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1353
cfab9d68 1354HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1355 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1356
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1357JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1358 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1359
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1360HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1361 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1362
4c04137d 1363JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1364
d2a2c69b
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1365JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1366
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1367JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1368 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1369 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1370 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1371
1f12df4d
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1372JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1373
1f155f8e
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1374JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1375 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1376
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1377JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1378 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1379
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1380JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1381
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1382JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1383
7137ca4b
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1384JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1385
dcb1095c
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1386JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1387 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1388
2f460950
JH
1389JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1390 added for tls authenticator.
1391
2f680c0c
HSHR
1392HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1393
9c695f6d 1394
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1395Exim version 4.85
1396-----------------
4c57a40e 1397
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1398TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1399 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1400 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1401 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1402 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1403 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1404 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1405
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1406TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1407 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1408 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1409 function when detected.
1410
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1411JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1412 cause callback expansion.
1413
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1414TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1415 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1416 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1417 instead of bool when processing it.
1418
0f06b4f2 1419JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1420 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1421
be36e572
JH
1422JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1423
ac4ef9bd
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1424JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1425
0eb51736
TL
1426TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1427
c713ca4b
TL
1428TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1429 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1430
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1431JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1432 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1433 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1434 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1435 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1436 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1437
8bc732e8
JH
1438JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1439 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1440 exceeded it.
1441
a7fec7a7
JH
1442JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1443 version 3.3.6 or later.
1444
4c04137d 1445JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
774ef2d7
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1446 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1447 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1448 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1449 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1450 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1451 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1452
eca4debb
TL
1453TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1454 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1455
8d692470
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1456JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1457 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1458 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1459 matches.
1460
e9477a08
JH
1461JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1462 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1463 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1464
ad4c5ff9
JH
1465JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1466 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
JH
1467
1468JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1469 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1470 syntax errors.
1471
3394b36a 1472JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
JH
1473
1474JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1475 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1476
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1477TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1478 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1479 tarball.
1480
ad4c5ff9
JH
1481JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1482
4c04137d 1483JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
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1484 Bug 1561.
1485
1486JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1487 output list separator was used.
1488
8bc732e8 1489
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1490Exim version 4.84
1491-----------------
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1492TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1493 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1494 return.
1f0ebb98 1495
a612424f 1496JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1497 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
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1498
1499JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1500
1501TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1502 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1503
1f0ebb98 1504
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1506-----------------
1507
1508TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1509
1510 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1511 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1512 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1513 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1514 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1515 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1516
7245734e
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1517TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1518 utilities have not been installed.
1519
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1520JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1521 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1522
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1523TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1524 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1525
a3c86431
TL
1526TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1527 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1528 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1529 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1530
aa26e137
JH
1531JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1532
5a1b8443
WB
1533TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1534 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1535
72c9e342
PP
1536PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1537 not dns_use_dnssec.
1538
76f44207
WB
1539JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1540
770747fd
MFM
1541TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1542 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1543 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1544
8ddef691 1545TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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TL
1546 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1547 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1548 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1549 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1550 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1551
b9c2e32f
AR
1552JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1553
e45a1c37
JH
1554JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1555 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1556
67d81c10
JH
1557JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1558 failed delivery.
1559
b1f8e4f8
JH
1560JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1561
511a6c14 1562JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1563
1564JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1565 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1566
51c7471d
JH
1567JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1568 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1569
3695be34
TL
1570TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1571
1e06383a
TL
1572JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1573
76146973
JH
1574JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1575 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1576
1577 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1578 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1579 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1580
8c8b8274
TL
1581TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1582 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1583 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1584 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1585
35aba663
JH
1586JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1587
8c51eead 1588JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1589 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1590 lookup).
8c51eead 1591
deae092e
HS
1592TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1593 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1594 Schlichting.
35aba663 1595
fd3b6a4a 1596JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1597 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1598
8d91c6dc
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1599TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1600 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1601
2b4a568d
JH
1602JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1603
d2af03f4
HS
1604TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1605 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1606 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1607
9d1c15ef
JH
1608JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1609 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1610
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1611JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1612 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
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1613 hosts_request_ocsp.
1614
ed3bba5f 1615JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1616 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1617 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1618
8ccd00b1
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1619JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1620
8ded8589
TL
1621TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1622 Christian Aistleitner.
1623
f2de3a33
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1624JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1625
6eb02f88
TL
1626TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1627 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1628
00bff6f6
JH
1629JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1630 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1631
071c51f7
JH
1632JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1633 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1634
a6d4c44e
TF
1635TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1636 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1637
3ae173e7
ACK
1638TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1639 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1640
c13d09b8
TL
1641TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1642 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1643 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1644
0df4ab80
JH
1645JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1646
66be95e0
PP
1647PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1648 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1649 Jasper Wallace.
1650
1bd0d12b
JH
1651JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1652
0de7239e
TL
1653TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1654 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1655 CVE-2014-2972
1656
fd3b6a4a 1657
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1660
1661PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1662
12f69989
PP
1663PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1664 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1665
54c90be1
PP
1666PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1667 by GnuTLS.
1668
1f4a55da
PP
1669PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1670 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1671 routines.
1672
13363eba 1673PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1674
66645890 1675PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1676 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1677 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1678 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1679 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1680
a3fb9793 1681PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1682 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1683 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1684 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1685 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1686 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1687
d27f98fe 1688TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1689
6822b909
TL
1690TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1691
e7568d51
TL
1692TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1693 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1694
ae0e32ee 1695TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1696 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1697 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1698
1699TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1700
e2658fff
TL
1701TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1702
83712b39
TL
1703TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1704 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1705
976b7e9f
JH
1706JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1707
be4a1376
JH
1708JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1709
ec4b68e5
PP
1710PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1711
d7148a07
NM
1712NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1713 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1714
585121e2 1715JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1716
2519e60d
TL
1717PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1718 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1719 function.
a5f239e4 1720
13d08c90
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1721PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1722 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1723
bef3ea7f
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1724JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1725 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1726 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1727
846726c5
JH
1728JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1729
3a796370
JH
1730JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1731
ea722490 1732JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1733 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1734
b1b05573
JH
1735JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1736 Bugzilla 884.
1737
362145b5
JH
1738JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1739 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1740
3c0a92dc
JH
1741JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1742 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1743
6d7c6175
PP
1744PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1745 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1746 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1747
6f123593
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1748JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1749 authenticators.
1750
c8e2fc1e
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1751JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1752 for control.
1753
005ac57f
PP
1754PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1755
3f1df0e3
PP
1756PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1757 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1758 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1759 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1760
67bd1ab3
TF
1761TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1762
1763 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1764 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1765 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1766 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1767 the retry rules.
1768
1769 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1770 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1771 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1772
1773 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1774 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1775 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1776 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1777
1ddeb334
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1778 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1779 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1780 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1781 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1782 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1783 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1784 delivery, as in LMTP.
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1785
1786 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1787 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1788
326cdc37
TF
1789TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1790
1791 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1792
1793 Resent-From: f
1794
1795 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1796 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1797 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1798 username as equal to the username.
1799
1800 This change corrects that bug.
1801
f62514b3
GF
1802GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1803 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1804 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1805
eb505532
TF
1806TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1807
14c7b357
PP
1808PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1809 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1810 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1811 NULL dereference and crash.
1812
94eaf700
PP
1813JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1814
6f5a440a
PP
1815PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1816 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1817 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1818
514ee161
SC
1819SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1820
fd98a5c6
JH
1821JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1822 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1823 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1824 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1825 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1826 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1827 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1828 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
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1829 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1830 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1831 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1832
035c7f1e
PP
1833PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1834 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1835
ff284120
PP
1836PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1837 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1838 Bugzilla 880.
1839
26e72755
PP
1840PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1841 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1842 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1843 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1844 an empty string is now equivalent.
1845
0fbd9bff
PP
1846PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1847 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1848 not performing validation itself.
1849
700d22f3
PP
1850PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1851 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1852
fcc8e047
JH
1853JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1854 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1855
4c04137d 1856TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1857
8c020188
PP
1858PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1859 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1860 other false fix of the same issue.
1861 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1862 Bugzilla 1363.
1863
d13cdd30
PP
1864PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1865 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1866
e2fbf4a2
PP
1867PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1868 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1869 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1870
f4c1088b
PP
1871PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1872 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1873 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1874
c5c2182f
PP
1875TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1876
73431ca9
JH
1877JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1878
2d07a215
TL
1879TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1880 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1881
a30a8861
TL
1882TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1883 Alexander Miroch.
1884
33382dd9
TL
1885TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1886 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1887 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1888 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1889 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1890
046172e6
TL
1891TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1892 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1893
581d7bee 1894TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1895 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1896 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1897
1898TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1899 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1900 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1901 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1902
237b2cf2
TL
1903TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1904
9fc5a352
TL
1905TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1906 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1907 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1908
b10e4ec2
TL
1909TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1910
e2cebd74
TL
1911TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1912 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1913 interaction.
1914
1915TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1916 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1917
2519e60d
TL
1918TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1919 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1920
e78e6ecf 1921
4263f395
PP
1922Exim version 4.80.1
1923-------------------
1924
1925PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1926 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1927 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1928
ea722490 1929
b1770b6e 1930Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1931-----------------
1932
1933PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1934 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1935 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1936
23c7e742
NM
1937NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1938
b322aac8
NM
1939NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1940 improved.
1941
4a891427
NM
1942NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1943
c1e794ba 1944PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1945
97753960
PP
1946PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1947
1948PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1949 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1950
df6303fa
PP
1951PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1952 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1953
7e6a8985
PP
1954PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1955 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1956
f1e05cc7 1957PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1958 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1959 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1960
4c287009
PP
1961PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1962
b98bb9ac
PP
1963PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1964 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1965
4a6a987a
PP
1966PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1967
c45dd180 1968PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1969
7db8d074
PP
1970PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1971 non-compliant senders.
1972 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1973
eae0036b 1974NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1975 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1976 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1977
dec5017e
PP
1978PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1979 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1980 in spool file corruption.
1981
c80c5570
PP
1982PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1983 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1984 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1985 "Got SSL error 2".
1986
076b11e2
PP
1987TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1988 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1989 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1990
5407bfff
JH
1991JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1992 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1993
9e45c72b
PP
1994JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1995
e74376d8
PP
1996PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1997 diagnostics.
1998 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1999
4c04137d 2000PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
2001 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2002 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2003
7be682ca
PP
2004PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2005 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
2006 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2007 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 2008
ef840681
PP
2009PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2010 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2011
5bfb4cdf
PP
2012PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2013 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2014 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2015 resolver implementation change.
2016
c6e95d22
PP
2017PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2018 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2019
9cbad13b
PP
2020PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2021
9ee44efb
PP
2022PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2023
6a6084f8
PP
2024PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2025 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2026
12dd53c7
PP
2027PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2028 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2029
9e45c72b 2030JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
2031 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2032
17c76198
PP
2033PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2034 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2035 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2036 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 2037 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 2038
53947857 2039PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 2040
eae0036b 2041PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
2042 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2043 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 2044
9e45c72b 2045JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 2046
7390e768
PP
2047PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2048 read-only, out of scope).
2049 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2050
08488c86
PP
2051PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2052 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2053 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2054 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2055
6475bd82
PP
2056PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2057
81f91683
PP
2058PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2059 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2060 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2061 real issues in debug logging.
2062
5779e6aa
PP
2063PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2064 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2065
3375e053
PP
2066PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2067 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2068 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2069
2070PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2071 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
2072 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2073 problems.
3375e053 2074
9d26b8c0
PP
2075PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2076 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2077
57eb9e91 2078PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
2079 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2080 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2081 needs to override this, it can.
2082
16880d1a
PP
2083PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2084 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2085 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2086
a799883d
PP
2087PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2088 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2089 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2090 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2091
3ecab157 2092PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 2093
0599f9cf 2094
867fcbf5
PP
2095Exim version 4.77
2096-----------------
2097
2098PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2099 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2100
f1a29782
TF
2101TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2102
ab42bd23
TK
2103TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2104 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 2105
0ca0cf52
TF
2106TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2107 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2108
921b12ca
TF
2109TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2110 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2111 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2112
2113 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2114 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2115 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2116 not safe for signals.
2117
2118 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2119 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2120 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2121 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2122 exiwhat.
2123
c99ce5c9
TF
2124TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2125
2126 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2127 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2128 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2129 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 2130 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
2131
2132 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2133 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2134 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2135 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2136 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2137 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2138
2139 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2140 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2141 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2142 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2143
2144 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2145 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2146 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2147 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2148
2149 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2150 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2151 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2152 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2153 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2154 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2155 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2156 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2157 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2158
2159 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2160 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2161 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2162 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2163
2164 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2165 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2166 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2167 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2168 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2169 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2170 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2171 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2172 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2173 details in the main documentation.
2174
3634fc25
TF
2175TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2176
792e8a19
TF
2177TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2178
5901f0ab
TF
2179TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2180 repository when doing development or release builds.
2181
7f2a2a43
PP
2182PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2183 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 2184
061b7ebd
PP
2185PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2186 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2187 Bugzilla 97.
2188
e12f8c32
PP
2189PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2190
9e949f00 2191PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
2192 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2193
2194PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2195 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 2196
555ae6af 2197PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
2198 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2199
2200PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2201 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 2202
6f7fe114
PP
2203PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2204 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2205
c566dd90
PP
2206PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2207 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
2208 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2209 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 2210
d6cc7c78 2211PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
2212 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2213 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2214
0d0e4455
PP
2215PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2216
3399bb60 2217PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
2218
2219PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2220 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2221
0ca0cf52 2222
10906672
PP
2223Exim version 4.76
2224-----------------
2225
2226PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2227
754a0503
PP
2228PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2229 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2230
c0c7b2da
PP
2231PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2232
e97d1f08
PP
2233PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2234
084c1d8c
PP
2235PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2236 Bugzilla 1098.
2237
4e7ee012
PP
2238PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2239 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 2240
c8d52a00
PP
2241TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2242 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2243
54e7ce4a
PP
2244PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2245 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2246
5ee6f336
PP
2247PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2248 Bugzilla 1104.
2249
c8d52a00 2250TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
2251 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2252
2253TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2254 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2255 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2256 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2257
2258PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2259 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2260
10906672 2261
aa097c4c
NM
2262Exim version 4.75
2263-----------------
2264
4c04137d 2265NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2266 Bugzilla 1073
2267
7f3d9eff
TF
2268TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2269 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2270 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2271
159f52d2
TF
2272TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2273 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2274
0cc9542a
PP
2275PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2276 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2277 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2278
f7274286
PP
2279PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2280 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2281
7b797365
PP
2282PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2283 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2284
caacae52
NM
2285NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2286 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2287
09dcaba9
NM
2288NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2289 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2290
bc19a55b
PP
2291PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2292 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2293
bd4c9759
NM
2294NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2295 Fixes bug 943.
2296
b72aab72
PP
2297PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2298 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2299
2fe76745
PP
2300PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2301 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2302
76aa570c
PP
2303PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2304 SQL string expansion failure details.
2305 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2306
f1e5fef5
PP
2307PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2308 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2309
4d805ee9
PP
2310PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2311 extern declarations in function scope.
2312 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2313
cd59ab18
PP
2314PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2315 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2316 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2317 a kernel bug).
2318
332f5cf3
PP
2319PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2320 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2321
29cfeb94
PP
2322PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2323 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2324
660242ad
PP
2325PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2326 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2327
bc4bc4c5
PP
2328PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2329 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2330
2e64baa9
NM
2331NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2332 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2333 Dennis Davis.
2334
4c04137d 2335PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2336
6bac1a9a
PP
2337PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2338
552193f0
NM
2339NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2340 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2341
1b587e48
TF
2342TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2343 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2344
aa097c4c 2345
8c07b69f
TF
2346Exim version 4.74
2347-----------------
2348
2349TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2350 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2351
c0ea85ab
TF
2352TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2353 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2354
0761d44e
TF
2355TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2356
0a349494
PP
2357DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2358 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2359 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2360
2361PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2362 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2363 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2364
fea24b2e
PP
2365PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2366 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2367 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2368 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2369
6545de78
PP
2370PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2371 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2372 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2373 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2374
1670ef10
PP
2375PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2376 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2377 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2378 arbitrary files.
2379
c0886197
PP
2380PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2381 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2382
b7487bce
PP
2383PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2384 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2385 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2386 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2387 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2388
8c07b69f 2389
97fd1e48 2390Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2391-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2392
2393PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2394 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2395 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2396
6901c596
PP
2397PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2398 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2399
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2400JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2401
77bb000f
PP
2402PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2403
a29e5231
PP
2404PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2405
ec5a0394 2406PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2407
55c75993
PP
2408PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2409
453a6645 2410PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2411 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2412 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2413 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2414
8544e77a
PP
2415PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2416 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2417 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2418 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2419 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2420
83e029d5
PP
2421PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2422
ed7f7860
PP
2423PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2424
7d9f747b
PP
2425PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2426
4b2241d2
PP
2427PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2428
10385c15
PP
2429PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2430
dbc4b90d
PP
2431PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2432
532be449
PP
2433PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2434
6a8de854 2435PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2436 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2437 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2438
5dc43717
JJ
2439JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2440
2441JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2442 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2443
3346ab01
PP
2444PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2445 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2446
491fab4c
PP
2447PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2448 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2449 Notification from John Horne.
2450
13eb9497
PP
2451PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2452 compatible.
2453
2454PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2455 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2456 it normally works.
2457
7f36d675
DW
2458DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2459 access.
2460
c1d94452
DW
2461DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2462 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2463 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2464
e2f5dc15
DW
2465DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2466 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2467 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2468 configuration file.
2469
cd25e41d
DW
2470DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2471 option (effectively making it always true).
2472
261dc43e
DW
2473DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2474 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2475
fa32850b
DW
2476DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2477 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2478
79d4bc3d
PP
2479PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2480 run-time user, instead of root.
2481
43236f35 2482PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2483 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2484
fb08281f
DW
2485DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2486 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2487 arguments.
3346ab01 2488
74935b98
DW
2489DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2490 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2491 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2492
90b6341f
DW
2493DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2494
57730b52
ML
2495NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2496
66581d1e 2497
465e92cf
JJ
2498Exim version 4.72
2499-----------------
2500
453a6645
PP
2501JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2502 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2503 typos
465e92cf 2504
453a6645
PP
2505JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2506 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2507 (Finput)
edae0343 2508
9bd3e22c
NM
2509NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2510 Patch from Alain Williams
2511
bb576ff7
NM
2512NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2513
5a1a5845
NM
2514NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2515 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2516
981a9fad
NM
2517NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2518 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2519
7fc497ee
NM
2520NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2521
1a41defa
JJ
2522JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2523
a466095c 2524NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2525 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2526
94a6bd0b
NM
2527TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2528
2529TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2530
2531MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2532 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2533 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2534
c1b141a8
NM
2535NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2536 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2537
b26eacf1 2538NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2539 Patch by Simon Arlott
2540
179c5980 2541PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2542 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2543
9bd3e22c 2544
7c6d71af
NM
2545Exim version 4.71
2546-----------------
2547
7d9f747b 2548TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2549
f013fb92
NM
2550NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2551
0eb8eedd
NM
2552NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2553
663ee6d9
NM
2554NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2555
177ebd9b
NM
2556NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2557
7c6d71af 2558
210f147e
NM
2559Exim version 4.70
2560-----------------
2561
cdd3bb85 2562TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2563 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2564
2565TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2566 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2567 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2568
2569TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2570 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2571 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2572
2573TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2574 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2575
210f147e
NM
2576NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2577 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2578 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2579 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2580
deafd5b3
NM
2581NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2582 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2583 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2584
089793a4
TF
2585TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2586
5f16ca82
TF
2587TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2588
dae9d94e 2589NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2590 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2591
7d9f747b 2592NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2593
06864c44
TF
2594TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2595 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2596 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2597 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2598
65a7d8c3 2599NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2600 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2601
23510047 2602TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2603
7d9f747b 2604NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2605
7d8eec3a 2606NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2607 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2608
89dec7b6
TF
2609TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2610 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2611
a99de90c
TF
2612TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2613 that they are available at delivery time.
2614
e2803e40
TF
2615TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2616
7199e1ee
TF
2617TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2618 incoming_port log selectors.
2619
e276e04b
TF
2620TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2621 setting expands to an empty string.
2622
ce552449 2623NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2624 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2625
e765a0f1 2626NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2627 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2628
4f054c63 2629NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2630 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2631
7d9f747b
PP
2632NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2633 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2634
7d9f747b
PP
2635NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2636 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2637
b52bc06e 2638NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2639 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2640
447de4b0
NM
2641NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2642
4c69d561 2643NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2644 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2645
d5c39246 2646NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2647 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2648
0b23848a
TK
2649TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2650
8f3414a1 2651NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2652 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2653
fb6f955d
NM
2654NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2655
2656NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2657
7d9f747b
PP
2658NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2659 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2660
7d9f747b
PP
2661NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2662 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2663
7d9f747b
PP
2664NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2665 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2666
7d9f747b
PP
2667NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2668 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2669
7d9f747b
PP
2670NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2671 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2672
7d9f747b
PP
2673NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2674 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2675
7d9f747b
PP
2676NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2677 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2678
7d9f747b 2679NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2680 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2681
7d9f747b 2682NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2683
7d9f747b
PP
2684NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2685 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2686
7d9f747b 2687NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2688
7d9f747b 2689NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2690
7d9f747b 2691NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2692
7d9f747b 2693NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2694
17792b53 2695NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2696 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2697
7d9f747b
PP
2698NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2699 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2700
91576cec 2701NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2702 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2703
7d9f747b
PP
2704NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2705 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2706
7d9f747b 2707NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2708
7d9f747b 2709NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2710
7d9f747b 2711NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2712
7d9f747b 2713NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2714
deafd5b3 2715
47db1125
NM
2716Exim version 4.69
2717-----------------
2718
4b3504d0
TK
2719TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2720 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2721 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2722
2723 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2724 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2725 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2726 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2727 build errors in sieve.c.
2728
81ea09ca
NM
2729NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2730 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2731 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2732
f13cddcb
SC
2733SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2734
7d9f747b 2735NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2736
7d9f747b 2737NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2738
7d9f747b 2739NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2740
2741
eb4c0de6
PH
2742Exim version 4.68
2743-----------------
2744
2745PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2746
6a3bceb1
PH
2747PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2748 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2749 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2750 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2751 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2752 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2753 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2754 for iplsearch lookups.
2755
2756 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2757 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2758 previously such lookups could never work.
2759
4c04137d 2760 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2761 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2762 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2763
2e30fa9d
TK
2764TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2765 version.
2766
0806a9c5
MH
2767MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2768 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2769 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2770 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2771 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2772 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2773
ae276964
TK
2774TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2775 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2776
0f2cbd1b
MH
2777MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2778 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2779 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2780 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2781 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2782 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2783
2b85bce7
PH
2784PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2785 local_scan API.
2786
93655c46
PH
2787PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2788
6c512171
PH
2789PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2790 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2791 encrypted.
2792
2793PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2794 by clients under certain conditions.
2795
aa6dc513
PH
2796PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2797 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2798
a96603a0
PH
2799PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2800
8f240103
PH
2801PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2802 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2803
2804PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2805
d677b2f2
PH
2806PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2807
d52120f2
PH
2808PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2809
64f2600a
PH
2810PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2811 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2812
8669f003
PH
2813PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2814
a4dc33a8
PH
2815PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2816 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2817
d6a60c0f
PH
2818PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2819
8f128379
PH
2820PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2821
8932dffe
PH
2822PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2823 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2824 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2825 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2826
ddea74fa 2827PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2828 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2829 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2830
ddea74fa 2831PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2832 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2833
ddea74fa
PH
2834PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2835
ce9f225c
PH
2836PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2837
19897d52
PH
2838PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2839
bc64a74d
PH
2840PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2841 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2842 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2843
eb4c0de6 2844
b4ed4da0
PH
2845Exim version 4.67
2846-----------------
2847
22ad45c9
MH
2848MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2849 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2850 Jan Srzednicki.
2851
b4ed4da0
PH
2852PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2853 issue a MAIL command.
2854
431b7361
PH
2855PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2856
2857 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2858
2859 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2860 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2861 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2862 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2863 item. This has been fixed.
2864
2865PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2866 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2867
83da1223
PH
2868PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2869 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2870
54fc8428
PH
2871PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2872 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2873 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2874
34c5e8dd
SC
2875SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2876
bbe15da8
PH
2877PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2878 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2879 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2880 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2881 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2882
0e8a9471
MH
2883MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2884 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2885 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2886
f0872424
PH
2887PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2888 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2889 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2890 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2891
b01dd148
PH
2892PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2893
6bf342e1
PH
2894PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2895
273f34d0
PH
2896PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2897 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2898 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2899 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2900 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2901
cf8b11a5
PH
2902PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2903
41c7c167
PH
2904PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2905 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2906 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2907 values).
2908
9c57cbc0
PH
2909PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2910
f3f065bb
PH
2911PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2912
047bdd8c
PH
2913PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2914
0ce9abe6
PH
2915PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2916
0e22dfd1
PH
2917PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2918
4c590bd1
PH
2919PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2920 no_callout_flush is set.
2921
09945f1e
PH
2922PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2923 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2924 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2925 fixed.
2926
c51b8e75
PH
2927PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2928
e28326d8 2929PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2930 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2931 other ACL rejections are.
2932
75b1493f
PH
2933PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2934 with slight modification.
2935
7c5214ec
PH
2936PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2937 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2938
4311097e
PH
2939PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2940 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2941 connection.
2942
29f89cad
PH
2943PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2944 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2945
5e687460
SC
2946SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2947
c3611384
PH
2948PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2949 expansion side effects.
2950
5a11a7b4
PH
2951PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2952 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2953 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2954 be the same.
2955
0e20aff9
MH
2956MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2957 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2958 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2959
ca86f471
PH
2960PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2961 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2962 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2963 were accidentally chopped off.
2964
a14e5636
PH
2965PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2966 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2967 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2968 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2969 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2970 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2971 pipelining has not been advertised.
2972
ec95d1a6
PH
2973PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2974
42855d71
PH
2975PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2976 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2977 This has been fixed.
2978
57c2c631
PH
2979PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2980 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2981 reported on Solaris.
2982
58c01c94
PH
2983PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2984 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2985 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2986 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2987 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2988 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2989 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2990
dee5a20a
PH
2991PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2992 cpus.
2993
d2ee6114
PH
2994PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2995
b2d5182b
PH
2996PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2997
79749a79
PH
2998PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2999 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
3000 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3001 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3002 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3003 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 3004
c456d9bb
PH
3005PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3006 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3007 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3008 host_all_ignored option.
3009
cd9868ec
PH
3010PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3011 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3012 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3013 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3014 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3015 is what is supposed to happen).
3016
ebeaf996
PH
3017PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3018 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3019 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3020 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3021 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3022 uses the Exim user.
3023
2679d413
PH
3024PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3025 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3026 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3027 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3028 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3029 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3030 users.
3031
84024b72
PH
3032PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3033
8005d38e
SC
3034SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3035 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3036 (Jez Hancock).
3037 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3038 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3039
3298c6c6
SC
3040SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3041
a43a27c5
PH
3042PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3043
58eb016e 3044PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
3045 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3046 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3047 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3048 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3049 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3050 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3051 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 3052 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
3053 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3054 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 3055
b43a74ea
PH
3056PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3057 advertised in response to EHLO.
3058
b4ed4da0 3059
5dd1517f
PH
3060Exim version 4.66
3061-----------------
3062
3063PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3064 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3065
3066 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3067 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3068
3069 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3070 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3071 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3072
3073 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3074 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3075 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3076 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3077 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3078
3079
93cfa765
TK
3080Exim version 4.65
3081-----------------
3082
3083TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3084 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3085 versions. (#438)
3086
d6066548
MH
3087MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3088 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3089 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3090
4362ff0d
PH
3091PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3092 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3093 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3094 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3095 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3096 rather than extend the field.
3097
93cfa765 3098
944e9e9c
TF
3099Exim version 4.64
3100-----------------
aa41d2de 3101
21d74bd9
TK
3102TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3103 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3104 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3105 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3106 these files.
3107
3108TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3109 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3110 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3111
3112TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3113 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3114 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
3115
3116TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3117 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3118 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3119 in the field name.
3120
2b1c6e3a
PH
3121PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3122 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3123 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3124 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3125 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3126 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3127 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3128 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3129 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3130 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3131 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3132
1f872c80
PH
3133PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3134 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
3135
3136PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3137 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3138 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3139 ignores EPIPE as well.
3140
d203e649
PH
3141PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3142 (quoted-printable decoding).
3143
cc2ed8f7 3144PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 3145 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 3146
ddfcd446
PH
3147PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3148
d45b1de8
PH
3149PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3150
3151PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3152
38a0a95f 3153PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 3154 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 3155
a2405d83
JJ
3156JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3157 in 4.64-PH/09.
3158
3159JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3160 miscellaneous code fixes
3161
6ea85e9a
PH
3162PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3163 rejections.
3164
26da7e20
PH
3165PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3166 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3167 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3168 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3169 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3170 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3171 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3172 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 3173
14aa5a05 3174PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 3175 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
3176 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3177 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3178 function.
3179 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3180 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3181 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3182 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3183 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3184 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3185 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3186 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3187 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3188
ff75a1f7
PH
3189PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3190 decoding.
3191
e6f6568e
PH
3192PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3193 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3194 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3195 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3196 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3197 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3198 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3199 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3200
d6f6e0dc
PH
3201PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3202 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3203 list.
3204
322050c2
PH
3205PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3206 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3207 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3208 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3209 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3210 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3211 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3212 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3213 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3214 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3215 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3216 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3217 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3218
08955dd3
PH
3219PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3220 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3221 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3222 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3223 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3224 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3225 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3226
1eccaa59
PH
3227PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3228 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3229 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3230 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3231 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3232 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3233 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3234 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3235 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3236 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3237
602e59e5
PH
3238PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3239 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3240 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3241 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3242 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3243
411ef850
PH
3244PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3245 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3246 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3247 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3248 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3249 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3250 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3251
7befa435
PH
3252PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3253 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3254 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3255 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3256 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3257 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3258 been verified.
3259
48da4259 3260PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3261 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3262 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3263 and authorization.)
3264
48da4259
PH
3265PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3266 if any retry times were supplied.
3267
d1d5595c
PH
3268PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3269 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3270 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3271
0ef732d9
PH
3272PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3273
328895cc
PH
3274PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3275
fd700877
PH
3276PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3277 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3278 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3279 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3280 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3281 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3282
8dce1a6f
PH
3283PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3284 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3285
17af4a17
PH
3286PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3287 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3288 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3289
3290PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3291 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3292 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3293 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3294 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3295 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3296 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3297 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3298 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3299
3300 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3301 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3302 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3303 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3304 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3305 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3306 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3307 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3308 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3309
3310 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3311 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3312 hammering the server.
3313
c1114884
PH
3314PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3315 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3316
7a0743eb
PH
3317PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3318
0d85fa3f
PH
3319PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3320 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3321 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3322
1bf43b78
PH
3323PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3324 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3325 one case where this was not true.
3326
520de300
PH
3327PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3328 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3329 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3330 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3331 fails.
3332
48c7f9e2
PH
3333PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3334 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3335 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3336 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3337 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3338 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3339 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3340 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3341 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3342 smtp transport.
3343
99ea1c86
PH
3344PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3345 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3346 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3347 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3348
a2042e78
PH
3349PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3350 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3351
4fbcfc2e
PH
3352PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3353 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3354 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3355
aa41d2de
PH
3356PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3357
af561417
PH
3358PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3359
3cc66b45
PH
3360PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3361
194cc0e4
PH
3362PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3363 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3364 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3365 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3366
a401ddaa
PH
3367PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3368 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3369
4e88a19f
PH
3370PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3371 be meaningful with "accept".
3372
d7d7b289
SC
3373SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3374 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3375
3376SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3377 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3378 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3379
3380SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3381 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3382 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3383 there is data to show.
3384 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3385
3386SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3387 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3388 as well as the number of messages.
3389
3390SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3391 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3392 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3393
3394SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3395 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3396 have a flag are now skipped.
3397
3398SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3399 Added the -emptyok flag.
3400
3401SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3402 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3403
0ea2a468
JJ
3404JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3405 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3406 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3407
3408JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3409 match 4.64-PH/13
3410
3411JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3412 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3413
3414JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3415
3416JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3417 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3418
8a10f5a4
PH
3419PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3420
30e18802
PH
3421PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3422 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3423 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3424 contravention of the specifications.
3425
55728a4f
PH
3426PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3427 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3428 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3429
d7837193
PH
3430PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3431 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3432 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3433
87054a31
PH
3434PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3435
ea2c01d2
MH
3436MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3437 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3438 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3439 some point in the past.
3440
e4fa6968
PH
3441PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3442 transport during callout processing was broken.
3443
56f5d9bd
PH
3444PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3445 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3446
922e1c28
PH
3447PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3448 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3449
21eb6e72
PH
3450PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3451 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3452
a0540757
PH
3453PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3454
944e9e9c 3455
478be7b0
SC
3456Exim version 4.63
3457-----------------
3458
3459SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3460 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3461
3462SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3463 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3464 there is data to show.
3465 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3466
3467SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3468 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3469
2b965a65
TF
3470TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3471 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3472
45b91596
PH
3473TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3474 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3475
c59f5781
TF
3476TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3477 submissions from trusted users.
3478
90fc3069
TF
3479TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3480 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3481
6083aca0
TF
3482TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3483 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3484 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3485 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3486 there is now a framework to start from.
3487
765b530f
PH
3488PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3489 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3490 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3491
4e167a8c
PH
3492PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3493
4608d683
PH
3494PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3495
b8dc3e4a
PH
3496PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3497
5418e93b
PH
3498PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3499 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3500 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3501
b4a9bda2
PH
3502PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3503 libradius.
3504
45b91596
PH
3505PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3506 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3507 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3508
5547e2c5
PH
3509PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3510 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3511 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3512 its arguments.
3513
dbcef0ea
PH
3514PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3515 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3516 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3517 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3518 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3519
25257489
PH
3520PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3521 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3522
c816d124
PH
3523PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3524
a9ccd69a
PH
3525PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3526 operations in malware.c.
3527
75fa1910
PH
3528PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3529 signatures.
3530
a7d7aa58
PH
3531PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3532 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3533 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3534 all.
3535
42119b09
PH
3536PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3537 statements to "add_header".
3538
41609df5
PH
3539PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3540 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3541
a5bd321b
PH
3542PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3543 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3544 latter.
3545
e85a7ad5 3546PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3547 so that it is now:
3548
e85a7ad5
PH
3549 ${if or { \
3550 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3551 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3552 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3553 }{no}{yes}}
3554
e85a7ad5
PH
3555 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3556 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3557
d8fe1c03
PH
3558PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3559 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3560
16282d2b
PH
3561PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3562 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3563 any possible encoding problems.
3564
35d40a98
PH
3565PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3566 but not after initializing Perl.
3567
034d99ab
PH
3568PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3569 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3570 apparently, which is not desirable.
3571
6ec97b1b
PH
3572PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3573 queries.
3574
e22ca4ac
JJ
3575JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3576 --not options
3577
3578JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3579
33d73e3b
PH
3580PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3581 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3582 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3583 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3584
9ecb03f3
PH
3585PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3586 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3587 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3588
084efe8d
PH
3589PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3590 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3591 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3592 0.12.
3593
366fc9f0
PH
3594PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3595 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3596 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3597 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3598 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3599
c59f5781 3600
c887c79e
TF
3601Exim version 4.62
3602-----------------
3603
3604TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3605 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3606
1cce3af8
PH
3607PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3608 patch).
3609
afb3eaaf
PH
3610PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3611 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3612 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3613 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3614 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3615 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3616 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3617 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3618 451 error is used.
3619
e173618b
PH
3620PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3621
dd16e114
PH
3622PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3623 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3624 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3625
f7fd3850
PH
3626PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3627 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3628 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3629 odd errors.
3630
d87df92c
PH
3631PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3632 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3633
7e9f683d
PH
3634PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3635 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3636 option (which defaults to 0600).
3637
bfad5236
PH
3638PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3639
01c490df
PH
3640PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3641 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3642 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3643 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3644 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3645 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3646 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3647
d6629cdc
PH
3648PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3649
1cce3af8 3650
214e2000
PH
3651Exim version 4.61
3652-----------------
3653
3654PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3655 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3656 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3657 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3658 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3659 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3660 addresses as local.
3661
f9daeae0
PH
3662PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3663 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3664
7e66e54d
PH
3665PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3666
c8ea1597
PH
3667PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3668 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3669 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3670 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3671 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3672 grumble.
3673
911f6fde
PH
3674PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3675 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3676
47ca6d6c
PH
3677PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3678 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3679 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3680 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3681 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3682
ed0e9820
PH
3683PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3684 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3685 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3686 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3687
eff37e47
PH
3688PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3689 be the same on different OS.
3690
1921d2ea
PH
3691PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3692 testing.
3693
b3f69ca8
JJ
3694JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3695 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3696
3697JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3698 in 4.61-PH/06
3699
424a1c63
PH
3700PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3701 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3702 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3703 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3704 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3705 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3706 bounce message.
3707
7a100415
PH
3708PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3709 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3710 when Exim was called.
3711
19b9dc85
PH
3712PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3713 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3714
309bd837
PH
3715PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3716 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3717 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3718 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3719
59e82a2a
PH
3720PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3721 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3722 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3723 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3724 changes:
3725
3726 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3727 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3728 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3729
3730 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3731 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3732 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3733
9edc04ce
PH
3734PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3735 feature).
3736
1349e1e5
PH
3737PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3738 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3739 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3740 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3741 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3742 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3743 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3744 values from the SRV records were lost.
3745
ea49d0e1
PH
3746PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3747 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3748 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3749
064a94c9
PH
3750PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3751 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3752 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3753
727071f8
PH
3754PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3755 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3756 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3757 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3758 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3759 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3760 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3761 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3762 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3763 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3764
f78eb7c6
PH
3765PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3766 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3767 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3768
21c28500
PH
3769PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3770 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3771
3772PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3773 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3774 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3775 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3776 is given.
3777
1688f43b
PH
3778PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3779 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3780 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3781
3782PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3783 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3784 PH/23 above applies.
3785
9675b384
PH
3786PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3787 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3788 (for which there is an explicit test).
3789
6a3f1455
PH
3790PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3791
dac79d3e
PH
3792PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3793 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3794 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3795 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3796 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3797
5977a0b3
PH
3798PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3799 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3800 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3801 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3802
c91535f3
PH
3803PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3804 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3805 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3806
0d46a8c8
PH
3807PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3808
278c6e6c
PH
3809PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3810
2cbb4081
PH
3811PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3812 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3813 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3814
3eef829e
PH
3815PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3816 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3817 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3818 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3819 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3820
1ab95fa6
PH
3821PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3822 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3823 the message gets confusing).
3824
230205fc
PH
3825PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3826 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3827 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3828 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3829
75e0e026
PH
3830PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3831 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3832 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3833 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3834 same order.
3835
3836PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3837 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3838 the different processes.
3839
145396a6
PH
3840PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3841
3cd34f13
PH
3842PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3843
11121d3d
JJ
3844JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3845 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3846
3847JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3848 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3849
3850JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3851 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3852 messages matching specified criteria.
3853
8def5aaf
PH
3854PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3855
929ba01c
PH
3856PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3857 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3858
2632889e
PH
3859PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3860 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3861 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3862 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3863 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3864 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3865 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3866 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3867 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3868 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3869
944a9c55
PH
3870PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3871 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3872 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3873
4a23603b
PH
3874PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3875
4730f942
PH
3876PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3877 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3878 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3879 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3880 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3881 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3882 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3883 the variable.
3884
30dba1e6
PH
3885PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3886 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3887
382afc6b
PH
3888PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3889
a86229cf
PH
3890PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3891
50c99ba6
PH
3892PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3893
d35e429d
PH
3894PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3895 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3896 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3897 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3898 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3899 size of the count of files.
3900
f90d018c
PH
3901PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3902
75def545
PH
3903PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3904 used in LMTP mode:
3905
3906 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3907 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3908 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3909 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3910
3911 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3912 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3913 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3914
3915PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3916 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3917 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3918 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3919 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3920
c46782ef
PH
3921PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3922 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3923
71fafd95
PH
3924PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3925 will now be deprecated.
3926
2c5db4fd
PH
3927PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3928
9cf6b11a
JJ
3929JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3930 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3931 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3932
3933JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3934 with very large, slow to parse queues
3935
3936JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3937
3938JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3939
898d150f
PH
3940PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3941 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3942 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3943 SMTP output lines.
3944
46218253
PH
3945PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3946 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3947 Sieve code now uses this.
3948
e97957bc
PH
3949PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3950 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3951
81e509d7
PH
3952PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3953 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3954
3d240ff7
PH
3955PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3956
b37c4101
PH
3957PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3958 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3959 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3960 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3961 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3962
79378e0f
PH
3963PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3964 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3965 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3966 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3967
e49c7bb4
PH
3968PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3969
d114ec46
PH
3970PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3971
f3d7df6c
PH
3972PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3973 is preferred over IPv4.
3974
715ab376
PH
3975PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3976 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3977 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3978 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3979 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3980 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3981 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3982
6b31b150
PH
3983PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3984 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3985 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3986
3987PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3988
d515a917
PH
3989PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3990 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3991 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3992 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3993 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3994 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3995 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3996 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3997 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3998 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3999 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4000
9b8fadde
PH
4001PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4002 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4003 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4004
214e2000 4005
5de37277
PH
4006Exim version 4.60
4007-----------------
4008
cc38ddbf
PH
4009PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4010
4011 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4012 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4013
4014 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4015 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4016 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 4017
72fdd6ae
PH
4018PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4019
4020 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4021 not a single digit.
4022
4023 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4024 string.
4025
4026 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4027 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4028 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4029 silly things.
4030
4031 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4032 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4033
4034 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4035 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 4036
cb741023
PH
4037PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4038 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4039 "/bin:/usr/bin".
4040
f174f16e
PH
4041PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4042 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 4043
c25242d7
PH
4044PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4045 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4046
4047 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4048
4049 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4050 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4051 this:
4052
4053 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4054
82c19f95
PH
4055PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4056 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4057 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4058 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4059 identical. For example:
4060
4061 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4062
4063 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4064 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4065 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4066
d7ffbc12
PH
4067PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4068 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4069 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4070 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4071
9f526266
PH
4072PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4073 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4074 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4075 message.
4076
87fcc8b9
PH
4077PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4078
4079 o fixes some comments
4080 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4081 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4082 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4083 and documents the missing references header update
4084
4085 and most important:
4086
4087 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 4088 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
4089 result)
4090
456682f5
PH
4091PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4092 Electronic Mail") by including:
4093
4094 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4095
4096 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 4097 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
4098 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4099 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4100 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4101
4102 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4103
4104 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4105
4106 The auto-replied keyword:
4107
4108 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4109 message by an automatic process,
4110
4111 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4112
4113 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4114 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4115
4116 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4117 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4118 other messages.
4119
3e46c1aa
PH
4120PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4121 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 4122
49826d12
PH
4123PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4124
eba0c039
PH
4125PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4126 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4127 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4128
a0d6ba8a
PH
4129PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4130 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4131 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4132
f0917727
PH
4133PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4134 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4135 and treats the condition as false.
4136
096fee00
PH
4137PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4138
024bd3c2
PH
4139PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4140 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4141 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4142 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4143 not changing the active code.
4144
4145 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4146 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4147
4148 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4149 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4150
df199fec
PH
4151PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4152 (Bugzilla #53).
4153
d27f1df3
PH
4154PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4155 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4156 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4157 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4158 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4159 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4160 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4161 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4162 the text comparison.
4163
96776534
PH
4164PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4165 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4166 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4167 The same fix has been applied.
4168
5de37277 4169
9a799bc0
PH
4170Exim version 4.54
4171-----------------
4172
4173PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4174 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4175 It now does.
4176
99a4b039
PH
4177PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4178 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4179
4180PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4181
4b233853
PH
4182PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4183 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4184 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4185 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4186 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4187
8857ccfd
PH
4188TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4189 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4190 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4191 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4192 or /domain=).
4193
433a2980
PH
4194PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4195 testing suite.
4196
3e46c1aa 4197
9a799bc0 4198
e3a311ba
TK
4199Exim version 4.53
4200-----------------
4201
4202TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4203 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4204
13b685f9
PH
4205PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4206
395ff96d
PH
4207PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4208
5b68f6e4
PH
4209PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4210 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4211 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4212
1ab52c69
PH
4213PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4214 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4215 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4216
b07e6aa3
PH
4217PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4218 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4219 operating systems.
4220
254e032f
PH
4221PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4222 ${stat: expansion item.
4223
3af76a81
PH
4224PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4225 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4226
2548ba04
PH
4227PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4228 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4229 file for comments.
4230
b6c6011d
PH
4231PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4232
cf39cf57
PH
4233PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4234 setting.
4235
f1513293
PH
4236PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4237 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4238
727549a4
PH
4239TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4240
af46795e
PH
4241PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4242 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4243 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4244 the end of the subprocess.
4245
d7b47fd0
PH
4246PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4247 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4248 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4249 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4250 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4251
ee744174
JJ
4252JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4253
b582ab87
PH
4254TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4255
41a13e0a
PH
4256PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4257 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4258
f625cc5a
PH
4259PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4260
4261PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4262
21f7af35
PH
4263PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4264 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4265 HP-UX compiler.
4266
31480e42
PH
4267PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4268
2d280592
PH
4269PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4270 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4271 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4272
7cd1141b
PH
4273PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4274 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4275
4276PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4277 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4278
750af86e
PH
4279PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4280 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4281
4282 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4283 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4284
4285 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4286 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4287 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4288 contributed by a Radius user.
4289
4290PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4291 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4292
4304270b
TK
4293TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4294 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4295
750af86e
PH
4296PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4297 available.
4298
64ffc24f
PH
4299PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4300 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4301 received.
4302
5dd9625b
PH
4303PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4304 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4305 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4306 header lines when this was not necessary.
4307
5591031b
PH
4308PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4309
ba18e66a
PH
4310PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4311 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4312 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4313 exists".
4314
9cec981f
PH
4315PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4316 -bV or -d is used.
4317
aa2b5c79
PH
4318PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4319 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4320 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4321 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4322
48a53b7f
PH
4323PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4324
1c59d63b
PH
4325PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4326
671012da
TK
4327TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4328
1509d3a8
PH
4329PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4330
4331PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4332 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4333 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4334 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4335 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4336 settings.
4337
4338PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4339
2fe1a124
PH
4340PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4341 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4342 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4343 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4344 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4345 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4346 which is clearly wrong.
4347
8800895a
PH
4348PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4349
ccfdb010
PH
4350PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4351 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4352 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4353 subsequently added.
4354
1130bfb0
PH
4355PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4356 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4357
ebcb507f
PH
4358PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4359
c35e155c
PH
4360PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4361 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4362
95d1f782
PH
4363PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4364 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4365
fd6de02e
PH
4366PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4367 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4368
58de37c5
PH
4369PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4370 recipients, not senders.
4371
261cf466
TF
4372TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4373 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4374
3ee512ff
PH
4375PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4376
e08c430f
PH
4377PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4378
bef5a11f
PH
4379PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4380 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4381 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4382 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4383
7546de58
TF
4384TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4385
e5d5a95f
TF
4386TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4387 clock is set back in time.
4388
2e88a017
TF
4389TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4390 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4391
a5f65aa4
TF
4392TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4393 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4394
e7726cbf
PH
4395PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4396 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4397 (see PH/47 above).
4398
a7fdad5b
TF
4399TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4400 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4401 header rewrites.
4402
6af56900
PH
4403PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4404 type ("H").
4405
0925ede6
PH
4406PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4407
66afa403
TF
4408TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4409 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4410 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4411
0154e85a
TF
4412TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4413 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4414 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4415 helo verification defer as a failure.
4416
16f12c76
PH
4417PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4418 actual error message.
4419
bbe902f0 4420
e5a9dba6
PH
4421Exim version 4.52
4422-----------------
4423
4424TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4425
22c3b60b
PH
4426PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4427 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4428 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4429 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4430
06a9b4b5
PH
4431TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4432
c1ac6996
PH
4433PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4434 can still be requested.
4435
9c7a242c
PH
4436PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4437 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4438 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4439 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4440
87ba3f5f
PH
4441TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4442 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4443 circumstances, but probably never did.
4444
4445PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4446 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4447 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4448 in the header line.
4449
29aba418
TF
4450TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4451
fe0dab11
TF
4452TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4453 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4454
11d337a4
TK
4455TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4456
4457TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4458
415c8f3b
PH
4459PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4460 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4461 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4462 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4463 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4464 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4465
958541e9
PH
4466PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4467 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4468 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4469 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4470 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4471 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4472
c206415f
TK
4473TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4474 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4475
2a4be8f9
PH
4476PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4477 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4478
1cba11c5
SC
4479SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4480 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4481
4c04137d 4482SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4483
4484SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4485
4486SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4487
4488SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4489
4490SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4491
4492SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4493
1005d00e
TK
4494TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4495
4496TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4497 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4498 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4499
4500TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4501 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4502 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4503 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4504
9b4768fa
PH
4505PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4506 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4507 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4508
4509PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4510 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4511 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4512 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4513
0d7eb84a
PH
4514PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4515 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4516 to be made).
4517
4518PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4519 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4520 should work with maildirs and everything.
4521
40727bee
TK
4522TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4523 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4524
554d2369
TF
4525TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4526 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4527
1f922db1
PH
4528PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4529 function for BDB 4.3.
4530
ef213c3b
PH
4531PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4532
8ac170f3
PH
4533PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4534 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4535 involved.
4536
b1c749bb
PH
4537PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4538 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4539 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4540 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4541 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4542 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4543
4aac9b49
PH
4544PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4545 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4546 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4547 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4548 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4549 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4550 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4551 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4552
294520c8
TK
4553TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4554 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4555 details.
4556
5bd022fe
PH
4557PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4558 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4559
90e9ce59
PH
4560PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4561 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4562 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4563 test. It is now used for both.
4564
5ea81592
PH
4565PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4566 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4567 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4568 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4569 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4570 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4571
c6c2dc1d
PH
4572PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4573 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4574 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4575 string_vformat().
4576
fffffe4c
PH
4577PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4578 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4579 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4580
9a26b6b2
PH
4581PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4582 experimental DomainKeys support:
4583
4584 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4585 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4586 the control was given.
4587
4588 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4589
4aee0225
PH
4590PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4591
32d668a5
PH
4592PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4593
8187c3f3
PH
4594PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4595 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4596 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4597 db.h files).
4598
ff790e47 4599PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4600 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4601 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4602 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4603 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4604 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4605 course.
ff790e47 4606
5417f6d1
PH
4607PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4608 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4609 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4610 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4611 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4612 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4613
59cf8544
PH
4614PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4615 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4616 do -d+all out of habit.
4617
e7ad8a65
PH
4618PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4619 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4620 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4621
ade42478
PH
4622PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4623 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4624 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4625 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4626 record types that Exim uses.
4627
182ad5cf
PH
4628PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4629 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4630 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4631 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4632 non-existent file that was broken.
4633
b0d9fc80
TK
4634TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4635 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4636
4637TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4638 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4639 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4640
4641TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4642
47c7a64a
PH
4643PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4644 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4645 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4646 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4647 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4648 same time.
4649
a388bce4
SC
4650SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4651 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4652 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4653 at a slight CPU cost.
4654
4655SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4656 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4657
4658SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4659 by Marc Sherman.
4660
0793e4ed
SC
4661SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4662
c58b88df
PH
4663PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4664 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4665
e7ad8a65 4666
7982096b
PH
4667Exim version 4.51
4668-----------------
4669
1a46a8c5
PH
4670TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4671 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4672
2f079f46 4673TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4674
4675TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4676
4677PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4678 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4679
4680PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4681 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4682 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4683 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4684 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4685 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4686 file.
4687
4688PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4689 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4690 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4691 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4692 these two options.
4693
4694PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4695 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4696 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4697 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4698 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4699 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4700 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4701 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4702
4703PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4704 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4705
4706PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4707 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4708 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4709 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4710 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4711 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4712
4713PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4714 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4715 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4716 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4717
4718PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4719 Finch).
4720
4721PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4722 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4723
49c2d5ea
PH
4724PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4725 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4726 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4727 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4728 message.
49c2d5ea 4729
bf759a8b
PH
4730PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4731
83364d30
PH
4732PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4733 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4734
7999bbd7
PH
4735PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4736 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4737 to what was transported.)
4738
7dbf77c9
PH
4739TF/01 Added $received_time.
4740
74e0617f
PH
4741PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4742 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4743 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4744 spamd_address settings.
4745
2f079f46
PH
4746PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4747 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4748 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4749 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4750 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4751
8c841523
PH
4752PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4753
7766a4f0
PH
4754PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4755 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4756 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4757 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4758 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4759
8b417f2c
PH
4760PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4761 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4762
901f42cb
PH
4763PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4764 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4765 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4766 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4767 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4768 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4769 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4770 for failure.
4771
f9b9210e
PH
4772PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4773 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4774 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4775 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4776 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4777 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4778 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4779 "input=".
4780
54cdb463
PH
4781PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4782
cf00dad6
PH
4783PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4784 driver and ACL definitions.
4785
acb1b346
PH
4786PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4787 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4788
c5ddb310
PH
4789PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4790 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4791 understands it better than I do:
4792
4793 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4794 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4795
4796 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4797 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4798 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4799 => three warnings about OTP not working
4800 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4801
4802 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4803 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4804 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4805 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4806 for each call.)
4807 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4808 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4809
4810 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4811 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4812 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4813
31619da6
PH
4814PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4815 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4816 specified.
4817
bebaf0fc
PH
4818PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4819 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4820 "Linux".
4821
475fe28a
PH
4822PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4823 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4824 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4825
4826 warn !verify = sender
4827 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4828
4829 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4830 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4831
7e8bec7a
PH
4832PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4833
4834 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4835 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4836
4837 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4838 nomenclature these days.)
4839
e4a89c47
PH
4840PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4841 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4842
5ca2a9a1
PH
4843PH/30 In these circumstances:
4844 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4845 . First host does not offer TLS;
4846 . First host accepts first address;
4847 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4848 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4849 . Second host accepts second address.
4850 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4851 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4852 address.
7e8bec7a 4853
c688b954
PH
4854PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4855 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4856 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4857 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4858 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4859
fed77020
PH
4860PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4861 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4862
7fe1560f
PH
4863PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4864 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4865
ebb6e6d5
PH
4866PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4867 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4868 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4869
9c4e8f60
PH
4870PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4871 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4872 overlooked.
4873
4874PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4875
d7174846
PH
4876PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4877 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4878 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4879 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4880 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4881 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4882 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4883
4884 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4885 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4886 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4887 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4888 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4889
4890 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4891 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4892 routed further.
4893
cfe75fc3
PH
4894PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4895 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4896 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4897 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4898 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4899 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4900
be22d70e
PH
4901PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4902
0612b098
PH
4903PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4904 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4905 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4906 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4907 printable escape sequences.
4908
2e0c1448
PH
4909PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4910 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4911 body only.
4912
447d236c
PH
4913PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4914 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4915 are as follows:
4916
4917 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4918 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4919 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4920 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4921 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4922
4923 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4924 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4925 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4926
d20976dc
PH
4927PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4928
f656d135
PH
4929PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4930 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4931 play with."
4932
2e2a30b4
PH
4933PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4934 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4935 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4936 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4937 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4938 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4939 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4940 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4941 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4942 the log output.
4943
9176e9f0
PH
4944PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4945 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4946 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4947 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4948 "make".
4949
7982096b 4950
bbe902f0
PH
4951A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4952----------------------------------------
4953
4954Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4955changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4956needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4957in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4958that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4959release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4960from 4.43.
4961
4962I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
49634.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4964those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4965historical information.
4966
4967
f7b63901 4968Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4969-----------------
4970
5fe762f6
PH
4971 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4972
139059f6 4973 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4974 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4975
7086e875
PH
4976 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4977 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4978 place.
4979
35af9f61
PH
4980 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4981 filter fails to execute.
4982
b668c215
PH
4983 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4984 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4985 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4986 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4987 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4988
a494b1e1
PH
4989 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4990
4991 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4992 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4993 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4994 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4995
c5fcb476
PH
4996 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4997 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4998 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4999 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5000 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5001
69358f02
PH
5002 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5003
5be20824
PH
500410. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5005
eb2c0248
PH
500611. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5007 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5008 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5009 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5010
2a3eea10
PH
501112. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5012 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5013 sender verification.
5014
501513. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5016 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5017
23c7ff99
PH
501814. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5019
4deaf07d
PH
502015. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5021 connection timeout.
5022
926e1192
PH
502316. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5024 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5025
650edc6f
PH
502617. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5027 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5028
2c7db3f5
PH
502918. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5030 information about exactly what failed.
5031
3d235903
PH
503219. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5033
7c7ad977
PH
503420. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5035 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5036 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5037
981756db
PH
503821. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5039 It is now set to "smtps".
5040
d4eb88df
PH
504122. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5042 ignore_target_hosts.
5043
504423. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5045 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5046 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5047 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5048 "[x.x.x.x]".
5049
7d468ab8
PH
505024. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5051 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5052 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5053
505425. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5055 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5056 wake it up if nothing else does.
5057
62c0818f
PH
505826. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5059 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5060 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5061 end up negative.
5062
26034054
PH
506327. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5064 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5065
af66f652
PH
506628. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5067
90af77f4
PH
506829. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5069 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5070 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5071 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5072 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5073 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5074 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5075 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5076
d8ef3577
PH
507730. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5078 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5079 than one IP address.
5080
5cb8cbc6
PH
508131. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5082 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5083 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5084 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5085
14702f5b
PH
508632. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5087 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5088 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5089 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5090 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5091 1024 to 2048 bytes.
5092
063b1e99
PH
509333. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5094 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5095 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5096 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5097
652e1b65
PH
509834. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5099 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5100 respected.
5101
6f0c9a4f
PH
510235. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5103 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5104 $sender_host_address.
5105
33397d19
PH
510636. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5107 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5108 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5109 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5110 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5111 very small.
5112
7bb56e1f
PH
511337. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5114
5115 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5116 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5117
ea3bc19b
PH
5118 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5119 just the host names, not the priorities.
5120
5121 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
5122 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5123 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 5124
ea3bc19b 5125 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 5126 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 5127
0bcb2a0e
PH
512838. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5129 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5130 domain.
5131
2ac0e484
PH
513239. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5133
4e1fde53
PH
513440. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5135 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5136
de365ded
PH
513741. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5138 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5139 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5140
f05da2e8
PH
514142. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5142
d6453af2
PH
514343. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5144
f7b63901
PH
514544. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5146
514745. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5148 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5149 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5150 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5151 because the tests only now provoked it.
5152
a444213a
PH
515346. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5154 (this can affect the format of dates).
5155
0ec020ea
PH
515647. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5157 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5158 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5159 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5160
b1206957
PH
516148. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5162
516349. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5164 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5165 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5166 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5167
26dd5a95
PH
516850. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5169 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5170 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5171
343b2385
PH
517251. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5173 autoreply.
5174
1c5466b9
PH
517552. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5176 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5177 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5178 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5179 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5180 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5181 is going on).
5182
55ee9ee3
PH
518353. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5184 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5185 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5186 the line.
5187
d38f8232
PH
518854. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5189 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5190 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5191
5192 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5193 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5194 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5195 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5196 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5197 so I produce this patch..."
5198
3295e65b
PH
5199 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5200 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5201 is not defined.
5202
7102e136
PH
520355. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5204 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
5205 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5206 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 5207 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 5208
3ca0ba97
PH
520956. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5210
c2bcbe20
PH
521157. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5212 long debug lines gets shown.
5213
18ce445d
PH
521458. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5215 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5216
1f5b4c3d
PH
521759. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5218
5219 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5220 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5221 of $primary_hostname.
5222
b975ba52
PH
522360. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5224 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5225 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5226 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
5227 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5228 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5229 by change 4.50/55 above.
5230
5231 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5232 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5233 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5234 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5235 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5236 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 5237 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
5238
523961. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5240 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5241 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 5242 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 5243
17ffcae7
PH
524462. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5245 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5246
d95f9fdb
PH
524763. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5248 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5249 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5250 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5251 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5252
86b8287f
PH
525364. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5254 This has been fixed.
5255
60dc5e56
PH
525665. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5257 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5258 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5259 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5260 the caching.)
5261
533244af
PH
526266. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5263
a5a28604
PH
526467. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5265 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5266 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5267 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5268
7e634d24
PH
526968. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5270 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5271
3e11c26b
PH
527269. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5273 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5274 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5275
6729cf78
PH
527670. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5277 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5278 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5279 message there.
5280
00f00ca5
PH
528171. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5282 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5283 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5284
c9bdd01c
PH
528572. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5286 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5287 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5288 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5289
d43194df
PH
529073. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5291 during host lookups.
5292
fe5b5d0b
PH
529374. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5294 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5295
5296 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5297
76a2d7ba
PH
529875. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5299 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5300 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5301 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5302 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5303 background.
5304
530576. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5306 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5307
04f7d5b9
PH
530877. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5309 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5310 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5311
bc60667e
PH
531278. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5313
bb6e88ff
PH
531479. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5315 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5316 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5317 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5318 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5319 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5320 process earlier.
5321
1e70f85b
PH
532280. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5323 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5324 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5325 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5326 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5327
532881. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5329 tables).
5330
4e01f9d6
PH
533182. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5332
1ee1cef2
PH
533383. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5334 "vacation" handling.
5335
6e2b4ccc
PH
533684. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5337 OS variants using glibc.
5338
8e669ac1
PH
533985. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5340
495ae4b0 5341
bbe902f0
PH
5342----------------------------------------------------
5343See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5344----------------------------------------------------
5345
5346
5347Exim version 4.44
5348-----------------
5349
5350 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5351 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5352 transport
5353
5354 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5355 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5356 place.
5357
5358 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5359 filter fails to execute.
5360
5361 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5362 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5363 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5364 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5365 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5366
5367 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5368 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5369 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5370 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5371
5372 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5373 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5374 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5375 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5376 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5377
5378 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5379
5380 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5381 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5382 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5383 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5384
5385 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5386 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5387 sender verification.
5388
538910. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5390 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5391
539211. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5393 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5394
539512. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5396 ignore_target_hosts.
5397
539813. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5399 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5400 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5401 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5402 "[x.x.x.x]".
5403
540414. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5405 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5406 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5407
540815. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5409 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5410 wake it up if nothing else does.
5411
541216. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5413 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5414 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5415 end up negative.
5416
541717. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5418 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5419
ea3a6f44 542018. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5421
542219. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5423 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5424 empty pattern.
5425
542620. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5427 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5428 one IP address.
5429
ea3a6f44
NM
543021. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5431 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5432 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5433 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5434 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5435 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5436
ea3a6f44
NM
543722. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5438 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5439 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5440
544123. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5442 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5443 $sender_host_address.
5444
544524. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5446
ea3a6f44
NM
544725. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5448 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5449 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5450
545126. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5452 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5453
ea3a6f44
NM
545427. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5455 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5456
ea3a6f44
NM
545728. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5458 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5459 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5460 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5461
546229. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5463 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5464 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5465
ea3a6f44
NM
546630. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5467 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5468 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5469 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5470
ea3a6f44
NM
547131. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5472 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5473 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5474
ea3a6f44
NM
547531. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5476 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5477
ea3a6f44
NM
547832. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5479 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5480 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5481 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5482 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5483 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5484 is going on).
bbe902f0 5485
ea3a6f44
NM
548633. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5487 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5488 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5489 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5490 CAN-2005-0021
5491
ea3a6f44
NM
549234. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5493 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5494 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5495 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5496 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5497 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5498 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5499
5500 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5501 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5502 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5503 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5504 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5505 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5506 CAN-2005-0021
5507
ea3a6f44
NM
550835. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5509 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5510 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5511 CAN-2005-0022
5512
ea3a6f44
NM
551336. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5514 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5515 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5516 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5517 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5518
ea3a6f44
NM
551937. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5520 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5521 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5522 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5523 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5524
ea3a6f44
NM
552538. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5526 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5527 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5528 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5529 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5530
5531
495ae4b0
PH
5532Exim version 4.43
5533-----------------
5534
5535 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5536 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5537 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5538 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5539 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5540 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5541 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5542
5543 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5544 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5545 the delivery.
5546
5547 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5548
5549 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5550
5551 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5552 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5553 to local_scan().
5554
5555 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5556 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5557 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5558 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5559 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5560
5561 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5562 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5563
5564 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5565
5566 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5567
556810. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5569 header_sender only.
5570
557111. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5572 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5573
557412. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5575 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5576 affecting debugging statements).
5577
557813. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5579
558014. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5581 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5582 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5583 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5584 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5585 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5586 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5587 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5588 after the received time, and all would be well.
5589
559015. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5591 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5592 condition in an expansion string.
5593
559416. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5595
559617. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5597 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5598 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5599 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5600 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5601 job under whatever limits there are.
5602
560318. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5604
560519. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5606 space).
5607
560820. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5609 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5610 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5611 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5612 return path is set.
5613
561421. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5615 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5616 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5617 binary data in such strings.
5618
561922. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5620
562123. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5622 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5623 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5624 failure, which is pointless.
5625
562624. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5627
562825. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5629
563026. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5631 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5632 Sender: header lines.
5633
563427. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5635 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5636 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5637
563828. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5639 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5640 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5641 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5642 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5643 happens.
5644
564529. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5646 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5647 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5648 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5649 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5650
565130. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5652 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5653 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5654 1024.
5655
565631. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5657 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5658
565932. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5660 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5661
566233. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5663
566432. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5665
566633. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5667
566834. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5669 syntax error.
5670
567135. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5672
567336. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5674
567537. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5676 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5677 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5678 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5679
568038. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5681 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5682
5683
5684Exim version 4.42
5685-----------------
5686
5687 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5688 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5689 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5690 it was not quoted.
5691 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5692 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5693 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5694 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5695 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5696 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5697
5698 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5699 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5700 verification failure".
5701
5702 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5703 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5704 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5705 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5706
5707 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5708 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5709 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5710 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5711 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5712 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5713 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5714 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5715 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5716 treated as a timeout.
5717
5718 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5719 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5720 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5721 not set for Exim filters).
5722
5723 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5724 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5725 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5726
5727 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5728
5729 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5730 try to make them clearer.
5731
5732 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5733 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5734
5735 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5736
5737 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5738
573910. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5740 only the Cygwin environment.
5741
574211. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5743 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5744 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5745 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5746 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5747
574812. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5749 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5750 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5751 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5752 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5753 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5754 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5755
575613. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5757 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5758
575914. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5760
5761 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5762 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5763 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5764
5765 To: susanne@some.where
5766
5767 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5768 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5769 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5770 of addresses in From: header lines).
5771
5772 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5773 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5774 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5775
5776 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5777 treated as non-personal.
5778
5779 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5780 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5781
578215. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5783
578416. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5785
578617. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5787 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5788 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5789
579018. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5791 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5792
579319. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5794 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5795 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5796 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5797 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5798 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5799
580020. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5801 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5802 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5803 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5804 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5805 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5806 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5807 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5808
5809 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5810
581121. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5812 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5813
581422. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5815 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5816 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5817
581823. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5819 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5820
582124. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5822 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5823 rather than long int.
5824
582525. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5826
582726. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5828
5829
5830Exim version 4.41
5831-----------------
5832
5833 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5834 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5835 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5836 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5837 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5838 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5839
5840
5841Exim version 4.40
5842-----------------
5843
5844 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5845 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5846
5847 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5848 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5849 socklen_t is defined.
5850
5851 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5852 always exist.
5853
5854 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5855 configured.
5856
5857 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5858 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5859 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5860 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5861 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5862
5863 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5864 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5865 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5866 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5867
5868 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5869 of flapping under certain conditions.
5870
5871 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5872 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5873 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5874
5875 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5876
587710. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5878
587911. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5880 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5881 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5882 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5883
588412. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5885 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5886 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5887 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5888 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5889 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5890 preserved with the message after it was received.
5891
589213. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5893 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5894 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5895 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5896 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5897 test suite worked just fine.
5898
589914. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5900 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5901 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5902
590315. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5904 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5905 string.
5906
590716. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5908 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5909 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5910 does not fully solve it.
5911
591217. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5913 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5914 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5915 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5916 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5917
591818. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5919 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5920 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5921
592219. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5923 string, for example:
5924
5925 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5926
5927 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5928 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5929 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5930 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5931 the routers could not see them.
5932
593320. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5934 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5935
593621. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5937 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5938 output).
5939
594022. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5941 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5942 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5943 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5944 that needed quoting.
5945
594623. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5947 was not being matched caselessly.
5948
594924. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5950 backslashes.
5951
595225. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5953 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5954 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5955 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5956 when use_sender is false.
5957
595826. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5959
596027. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5961
596228. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5963
596429. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5965 the configuration file.
5966
596730. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5968 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5969
597031. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5971
597232. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5973 bytes in the message body.
5974
597533. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5976 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5977 delivery.
5978
597934. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5980
598135. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5982
598336. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5984 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5985 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5986 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5987 another IP address.
5988
5989
5990Exim version 4.34
5991-----------------
5992
5993 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5994 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5995
5996 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5997 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5998 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5999 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6000 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6001
6002 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6003 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6004
6005 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6006 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6007 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6008
6009 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6010 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6011 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6012
6013 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6014 for routers.
6015
6016 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6017 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6018 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6019 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6020 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6021 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6022 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6023
6024
6025Exim version 4.33
6026-----------------
6027
6028 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6029 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6030 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6031 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6032 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6033 default (and expected) setting.
6034
6035 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6036 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6037 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6038 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6039
6040 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6041 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6042
6043 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6044 in domain lists.
6045
6046 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6047 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6048 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6049 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6050 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6051 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6052
6053 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6054 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6055 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6056
6057 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6058 part (NOT match_host).
6059
6060 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6061
6062 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6063 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6064 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6065 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6066 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6067 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6068 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6069 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6070 the same named file.
6071
607210. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6073 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6074 when Exim is built.
6075
607611. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6077 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6078 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6079 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6080 a host name.
6081
608212. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6083 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6084 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6085
608613. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6087
608814. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6089
609015. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6091
609216. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6093 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6094
609517. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6096 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6097 before starting the TLS session.
6098
609918. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6100
610119. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6102 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6103
610420. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6105 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6106 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6107 colon in the middle).
6108
6109
6110Exim version 4.32
6111-----------------
6112
6113 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6114 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6115 multiple configurations are in use.
6116
6117 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6118 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6119 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6120 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6121 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6122 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6123
6124 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6125 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6126
6127 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6128 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6129 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6130
6131 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6132 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6133 occurs.
6134
6135 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6136 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6137
6138 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6139
6140 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6141 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6142
6143 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6144
6145 -prval:sval
6146
6147 is equivalent to
6148
6149 -oMr rval -oMs sval
6150
6151 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6152 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6153 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6154 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6155 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6156
615710. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6158 Exim's behaviour:
6159
6160 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6161 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6162 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6163 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6164 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6165 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6166
6167 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6168 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6169 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6170 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6171 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6172 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6173 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6174 string.
6175
6176 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6177 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6178 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6179 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6180 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6181
618211. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6183
618412. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6185 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6186 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6187
618813. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6189
619014. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6191 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6192 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6193 information.
6194
619515. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6196 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6197
619816. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6199 Three changes have been made:
6200
6201 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6202 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6203 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6204 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6205 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6206
6207 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6208 been restored.
6209
6210 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6211 the modified behaviour.
6212
6213
6214Exim version 4.31
6215-----------------
6216
6217 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6218 Larry Rosenman.
6219
6220 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6221 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6222
6223 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6224 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6225 try to track down a specific problem.
6226
6227 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6228 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6229 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6230
6231 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6232 warning.
6233
6234 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6235 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6236 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6237 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6238 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6239 some earlier ones do not.
6240
6241 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6242
6243 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6244 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6245 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6246 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6247 address literals are enabled, of course).
6248
6249 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6250
625110. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6252 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6253 by a command such as
6254
6255 exim -f "" ...
6256
6257 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6258
625911. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6260
626112. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6262 remained set. It is now erased.
6263
626413. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6265 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6266
626714. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6268 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6269 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6270 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6271 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6272 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6273 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6274 appropriate error code.
6275
627615. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6277 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6278 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6279 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6280 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6281 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6282
628316. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6284 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6285 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6286
628717. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6288 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6289 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6290 terminate the header.
6291
629218. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6293 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6294 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6295
629619. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6297 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6298 (4.30/29). In particular:
6299
6300 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6301 imposed.
6302
6303 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6304 to write a maildirsize file.
6305
6306 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6307 the transport, the new value overrides.
6308
6309 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6310 count.
6311
631220. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6313 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6314 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6315 space or a tab.
6316
631721. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6318 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6319 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6320 the fallback hosts.
6321
632222. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6323 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6324 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6325
632623. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6327 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6328 using a union.
6329
633024. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6331 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6332 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6333
633425. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6335
633626. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6337
633827. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6339
634028. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6341 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6342 become corrupted.
6343
634429. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6345 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6346 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6347 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6348 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6349 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6350 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6351 too great.
6352
635330. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6354 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6355 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6356 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6357 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6358 incorrectly.
6359
636031. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6361 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6362 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6363 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6364 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6365 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6366 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6367 cached value only when the same options are set.
6368
636932. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6370
637133. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6372 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6373 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6374 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6375 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6376
637734: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6378 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6379 it is clearly obsolete.
6380
638135. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6382 transport.
6383
638436. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6385 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6386 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6387 times.
6388
638937. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6390 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6391 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6392 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6393 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6394
639538. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6396 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6397 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6398 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6399
640039. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6401
6402 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6403
6404 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6405 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6406 2^31.
6407
640840. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6409 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6410 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6411 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6412 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6413 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6414 $localpart_data.
6415
641641. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6417 with the -f command-line option.
6418
641942. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6420 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6421 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6422 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6423 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6424 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6425
642643. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6427 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6428 line.
6429
643044. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6431 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6432 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6433 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6434 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6435 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6436 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6437 buffer is too small.
6438
643945. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6440 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6441
644246. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6443 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6444 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6445 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6446 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6447 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6448 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6449 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6450 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6451
645247. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6453 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6454 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6455
645648. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6457 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6458 ACL").
6459
646049. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6461 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6462 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6463 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6464 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6465
646650. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6467 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6468 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6469 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6470 is set.
6471
647251. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6473
647452. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6475
647653. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6477 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6478
647954. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6480 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6481 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6482
648355. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6484 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6485 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6486 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6487 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6488
648956. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6490 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6491 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6492 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6493 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6494 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6495 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6496
649757. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6498 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6499 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6500 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6501 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6502 the test of how many are available.
6503
650458. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6505 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6506 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6507 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6508 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6509 new message is started.
6510
651159. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6512 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6513
651460. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6515 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6516
651761. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6518 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6519 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6520 is no long logged.
6521
652262. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6523 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6524 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6525 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6526 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6527 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6528 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6529
653063. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6531 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6532 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6533 interpreted as octal.
6534
653564. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6536 setting.
6537
653865. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6539 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6540 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6541 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6542 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6543 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6544
654566. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6546 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6547 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6548 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6549
6550 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6551 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6552 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6553 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6554
6555 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6556 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6557 is a bug fix.
6558
6559 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6560 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6561
656267. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6563
656468. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6565 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6566 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6567 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6568
656969. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6570 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6571 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6572 supplied", which is not helpful.
6573
657470. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6575 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6576 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6577
657871. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6579 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6580 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6581 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6582 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6583 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6584 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6585 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6586
658772. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6588 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6589 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6590 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6591 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6592
659373. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6594 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6595 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6596 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6597 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6598 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6599
660074. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6601 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6602 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6603
660475. Added write_rejectlog option.
6605
660676. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6607 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6608 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6609 variables.
6610
661177. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6612
661378. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6614 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6615 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6616 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6617 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6618 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6619 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6620 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6621
662279. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6623 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6624 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6625 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6626 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6627
662880. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6629 Haardt.
6630
663181. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6632 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6633 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6634 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6635 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6636 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6637 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6638 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6639 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6640
6641
6642Exim version 4.30
6643-----------------
6644
6645 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6646 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6647 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6648
6649 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6650 fixed.
6651
6652 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6653 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6654 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6655
6656 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6657 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6658 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6659 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6660 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6661 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6663 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6664 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6665 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6666 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6667 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6668 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6669 the Exim test suite.
6670
6671 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6672 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6673 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6674 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6675
6676 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6677 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6678 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6679 specify it in this variable.
6680
6681 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6682 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6683 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6684 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6685
6686 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6687 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6688 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6689 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6690
6691 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6692 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6693 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6694 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6695 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6696
6697 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6698
669910. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6700 they are logged.
6701
670211. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6703 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6704 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6705 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6706 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6707
670812. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6709 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6710
671113. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6712 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6713 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6714 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6715 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6716
671714. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6718 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6719
672015. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6721 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6722 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6723
672416. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6725 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6726
672717. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6728 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6729
673018. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6731 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6732 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6733
673419. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6735 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6736
673720. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6738 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6739 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6740 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6741
674221. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6743
674422. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6745 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6746 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6747 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6748
674923. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6750
675124. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6752 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6753
675425. Added .include_if_exists.
6755
675626. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6757 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6758 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6759 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6760 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6761 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6762
676327. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6764
676528. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6766 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6767 this.
6768
676929. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6770
677130. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6772 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6773
6774 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6775 550 Sender verify failed
6776
6777 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6778 the final line of the response.
6779
678031. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6781 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6782 all other user lookups.
6783
678432. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6785 delivery time.
6786
678733. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6788 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6789 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6790 result into an int without checking.
6791
679234. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6793 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6794 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
495ae4b0
PH
6795
679635. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6797 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6798 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6799 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6800
680136. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6802 correctly.
6803
680437. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6805 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6806
680738. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6808 to the empty sender.
6809
681039. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6811 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6812 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6813 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6814 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6815 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6816 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6817 panic log.
6818
681940. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6820 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6821 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6822 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6823 used.
6824
682541. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6826 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6827
682842. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6829 timestamps.
6830
683143. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6832 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6833
683444. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6835
683645. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6837 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6838 logs.
6839
684046. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6841 as soon as it is encountered.
6842
684347. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6844
684548. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6846 rewritten to "<>".
6847
684849. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6849 recognizes a tab character.
6850
685150. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6852 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6853 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6854 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6855
685651. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6857
685852. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6859 crash.
6860
686153. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6862
686354. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6864
686555. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6866 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6867 2822.
6868
686956. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6870 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6871 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6872 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6873 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6874
687557. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6876 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6877
687858. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6879 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6880 list (.included file names were always shown).
6881
688259. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6883 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6884 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6885 root at that time.
6886
688760. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6888 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6889
689061. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6891
689262. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6893
689463. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6895
689664. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6897 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6898 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6899 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6900 failures to open the logs.
6901
690265. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6903 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6904 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6905 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6906 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6907 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6908 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6909
6910
6911Exim version 4.24
6912-----------------
6913
6914 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6915 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6916 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6917 change 4.23/1.
6918
6919 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6920 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6921 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6922
6923 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6924 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6925 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6926
6927 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6928 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6929 causing some misleading effects.
6930
6931 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6932 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6933 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6934
6935 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6936 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6937 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6938 queue-runner function directly.
6939
6940
6941Exim version 4.23
6942-----------------
6943
6944 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6945 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6946
6947 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6948 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6949 was always written to the default place.
6950
6951 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6952 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6953 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6954
6955 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6956
6957 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6958
6959 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6960 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6961 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6962
6963 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6964 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6965 must start.
6966
6967 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6968 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6969 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6970
6971 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6972 command line option is disabled.
6973
6974 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6975 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6976
6977 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6978
6979 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6980
6981 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6982 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6983
698410. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6985
698611. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6987 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6988 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6989 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6990 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6991 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6992
699312. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6994 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6995 timeout.
6996
699713. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6998 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6999
700014. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7001 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7002
700315. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7004 received was valid base64.
7005
700616. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7007 name of the variable that was being set.
7008
700917. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7010
701118. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7012 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7013 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7014 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7015 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7016 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7017
701819. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7019
702020. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7021 nor realm was specified.
7022
702321. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7024 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7025 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7026 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7027
702822. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7029 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7030 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7031
703223. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7033 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7034 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7035
703624. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7037 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7038 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7039 some systems use these upper case variants.
7040
704125. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7042 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7043 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7044 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7045
704626. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7047
704827. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7049 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7050
705128. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7052 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7053 expansion variable.
7054
705529. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7056
705730. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7058 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7059 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7060 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7061
706231. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7063 using it.
7064
706532. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7066 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7067 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7068
706933. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7070 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7071
707234. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7073 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7074 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7075 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7076
707735. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7078 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7079 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7080
708136. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7082
708337. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7084 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7085 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7086 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7087 aborted.
7088
708938. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7090 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7091 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7092
709339. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7094
709540. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7096 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7097
709841. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7099 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7100
710142. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7102 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7103 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7104 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7105 when emails are that large.
7106
7107
7108
7109Exim version 4.22
7110-----------------
7111
7112 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7113 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7114
7115 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7116 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7117 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7118
7119 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7120 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7121 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7122
7123 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7124 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7125 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7126 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7127 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7128
7129 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7130 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7131 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7132 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7133 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7134 ever.
7135
7136 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7137 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7138 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7139 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7140 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7141 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7142 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7143 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7144 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7145 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7146 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7147 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7148 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7149 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7150
7151 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7152 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7153 parameterised it.
7154
7155 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7156 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7157 error should be diagnosed.
7158
7159 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7160 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7161 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7162 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7163 appeared instead of "NULL".
7164
716510. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7166 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7167 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7168 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7169 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7170 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7171 proceeds).
7172
7173 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7174 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7175 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7176
7177
7178Exim version 4.21
7179-----------------
7180
7181 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7182 or receiver verification errors.
7183
7184 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7185 name.
7186
7187 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7188 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7189 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7190 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7191
7192 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7193 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7194 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7195 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7196 shouldn't happen again.
7197
7198 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7199 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7200 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7201
7202 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7203 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7204
7205 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7206
7207 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7208 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7209
7210 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7211 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7212 RFC.
7213
721410. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7215 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7216 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7217
721811. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7219 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7220 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7221 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7222
722312. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7224 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7225 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7226 to define what should happen).
7227
722813. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7229 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7230 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7231
723214. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7233
723415. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7235
723616. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7237 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7238
4c04137d 723917. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
7240 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7241 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7242 structure in all cases.
7243
7244 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7245 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7246 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7247 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7248
724918. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7250 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7251 domain name.
7252
725319. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7254 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7255
725620. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7257 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7258
725921. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7260 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7261 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7262
726322. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7264 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7265 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7266
726723. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7268 the book and for uniformity.
7269
727024. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7271
727225. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7273 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
PH
7274 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7275 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7276 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7277 non-existent command as the problem.
7278
727926. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7280 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7281 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7282
728327. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7284
728528. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7286 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7287 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7288
728929. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7290 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7291 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7292 timestamps using strftime().
7293
729430. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7295 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7296
729732. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7298 transport-time rewrites.
7299
730033. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7301 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7302 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7303 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7304
730534. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7306 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7307
730835. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7309 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7310 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7311 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7312 comma and a space.
7313
731436. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7315 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7316 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7317 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7318 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7319 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7320 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7321
732237. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7323 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7324 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7325 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7326 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7327
732838. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7329 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7330 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7331 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7332 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7333 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7334 remaining text gets split now.
7335
733639. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7337 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7338 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7339 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7340
734140. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7342 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7343 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7344 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7345 $return_path.
7346
734741. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7348 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7349 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7350 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7351 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7352 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7353 passed through if needed.
7354
735542. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7356 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7357 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7358 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7359 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7360 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7361
736243. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7363 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7364 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7365 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7366 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7367
736844. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7369 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7370 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7371 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7372 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7373
737445. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7375 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7376 noticed.
7377
737846. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7379 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7380 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7381 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7382 mayhem of various kinds.
7383
738447. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7385 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7386 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
PH
7387 the right test for positive values.
7388
738948. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7390 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7391 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7392 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7393 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7394 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7395 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7396 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7397 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7398 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7399 envelope.
7400
740149. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7402 module.
7403
740450. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7405 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7406 forbidding it.
7407
740851. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7409 the existing equality matching.
7410
741152. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7412 dealing with inode numbers.
7413
741453. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7415 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7416 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7417
741854. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7419 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7420 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7421 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7422 local_scan().
7423
742455. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7425 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7426 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7427 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7428 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7429 relay addresses has also been removed.
7430
743156. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7432
743357. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7434 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7435 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7436
743758. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7438 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7439 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7440 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7441 processing applies to CR:
7442
7443 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7444 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7445
7446 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7447 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7448 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7449 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7450
745159. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7452 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7453 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7454
745560. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7456 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7457 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7458 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7459 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7460 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7461 arisen.
7462
746361. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7464 program routers.
7465
746662. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7467 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7468 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7469 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7470 adds:
7471
7472 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7473
7474 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7475
7476 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7477
747863. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7479 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7480 not considered personal.
7481
748264. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7483
748465. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7485
748666. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7487
748867. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7489 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7490 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7491 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7492 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7493 header lines, and spool format errors.
7494
749568. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7496 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7497 for more flexibility.
7498
749969. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7500 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7501 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7502
750370. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7504 Sabourenkov.
7505
750671. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7507 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7508 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7509 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7510 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7511 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7512 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7513 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7514 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7515
751672. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7517 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7518 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7519 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7520 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7521 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7522 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7523
752473. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7525 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7526 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7527
752874. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7529 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7530 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7531 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7532 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7533 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7534 instead of killing the process with assert().
7535
753675. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7537 than Unicode encoding.
7538
753976. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7540 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7541 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7542 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7543
754477. Added process_log_path.
7545
754678. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7547 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7548
754979. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7550 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7551
755280. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7553 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7554 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7555
755681. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7557 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7558 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7559 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7560 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7561 were applied:
7562
7563 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7564 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7565 as invalid.
7566
756782. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7568 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7569 they will be used during message reception.
7570
7571
7572Exim version 4.20
7573-----------------
7574
7575The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7576
7577****