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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
6
7
8Exim version 4.90
9-----------------
10
11JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
12 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
13 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
14 pairs of long lines into single ones.
15
16PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
17 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
18
19JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
20 This permits better logging.
21
22JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
23 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
24 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
25 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
26 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
27 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
28
29JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
30 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
31 "exiwhat" output.
32
33PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
34 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
35 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
36
37JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
38 than 255 are no longer allowed.
39
40JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
41 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
42 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
43 client, there is no benefit for these.
44 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
45 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
46 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
47 is used (3.2.4 +).
48
49PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
50 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
51
52JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
53 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
54 erroneously found still-pending ones.
55
56JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
57 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
58
59JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
60 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
61 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
62 signature and again for transmission.
63
64JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
65 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
66 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
67
68JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
69 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
70 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
71 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
72 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
73 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
74 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
75
76JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
77 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
78 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
79 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
80
81PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
82 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
83 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
84 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
85 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
86 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
87 processing options.
88
89JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
90 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
91 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
92 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
93 connections.
94
95PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
96 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
97 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
98 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
99 versions.
100
101JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
102 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
103 inaccessible.
104
105JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
106 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
107 banner-time rejection.
108
109
110Exim version 4.89
111-----------------
112
113JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
114 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
115
116JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
117
118PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
119 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
120
121JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
122 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
123
124JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
125 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
126 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
127 before acknowledging the chunk.
128
129PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
130 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
131 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
132
133JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
134 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
135 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
136 should.
137
138JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
139 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
140 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
141
142JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
143 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
144
145JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
146 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
147 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
148 body hash calculated value.
149
150JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
151 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
152 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
153
154JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
155
156JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
157 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
158
159JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
160 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
161 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
162
163JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
164 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
165 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
166 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
167 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
168 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
169
170JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
171 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
172 past that check, despite the cost.
173
174JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
175 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
176 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
177
178PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
179 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
180 TLS library to consume.
181
182PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
183
184PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
185
186JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
187 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
188 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
189 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
190 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
191 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
192 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
193
194PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
195
196PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
197
198PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
199 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
200 should be warning-free.
201
202JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
203
204HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
205 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
206
207HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
208 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
209 general solution here.
210
211PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
212 already-broken messages in the queue.
213
214JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
215
216JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
217
218
219Exim version 4.88
220-----------------
221
222JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
223 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
224
225JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
226 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
227 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
228
229JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
230 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
231 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
232 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
233 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
234 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
235 if one fails this test.
236 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
237 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
238
239JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
240 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
241
242JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
243 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
244
245JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
246 in rewrites and routers.
247
248JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
249 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
250
251JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
252 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
253
254JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
255
256JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
257 certificate).
258
259JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
260 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
261 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
262 connection after a verify cache hit.
263 Do not update it with the verify result either.
264
265JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
266 when routing results in more than one destination address.
267
268JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
269 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
270 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
271 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
272 when the cutthrough connection is made).
273
274JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
275 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
276
277JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
278 Previously they were not counted.
279
280JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
281 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
282 that needed the lookup.
283
284JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
285 distinguished as "(=".
286
287JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
288 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
289
290JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
291
292JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
293 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
294
295JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
296 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
297
298JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
299 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
300 compatible.
301
302JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
303 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
304 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
305 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
306
307JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
308
309JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
310 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
311 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
312
313JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
314 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
315 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
316 be lost.
317
318JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
319 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
320 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
321 itself :(
322
323JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
324 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
325 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
326
327JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
328 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
329 options.
330
331JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
332
333PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
334 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
335
336PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
337 are not in the system include path.
338
339JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
340 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
341 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
342 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
343
344JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
345 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
346 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
347
348JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
349
350HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
351 an incoming connection.
352
353HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
354 to rspamd.
355
356HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
357 fallback to "prime256v1".
358
359JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
360 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
361
362
363Exim version 4.87
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365
366JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
367 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
368 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
369 client dropping the TLS connection.
370
371TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
372 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
373
374TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
375 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
376 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
377 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
378 outgoing I= field.
379
380JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
381 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
382 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
383 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
384 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
385 check on the next write.
386
387HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
388 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
389 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
390 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
391 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
392
393JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
394 mime_regex ACL conditions.
395
396JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
397 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
398 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
399
400JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
401 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
402 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
403 an authenticate fail is not an error.
404
405HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
406 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
407
408JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
409 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
410
411JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
412 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
413 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
414 distinct.
415
416JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
417
418JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
419
420JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
421
422JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
423 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
424
425JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
426 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
427
428JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
429
430JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
431 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
432
433JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
434
435JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
436 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
437
438JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
439
440JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
441 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
442 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
443 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
444 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
445 they will retry in-clear.
446 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
447 at installation time.
448
449HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
450 with the $config_file variable.
451
452JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
453 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
454 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
455 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
456 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
457
458GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
459 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
460 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
461 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
462 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
463
464JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
465
466JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
467 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
468 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
469 list order is no longer honoured.
470
471JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
472 for DKIM processing.
473
474JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
475 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
476
477JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
478 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
479 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
480 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
481
482JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
483 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
484
485JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
486 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
487
488JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
489 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
490
491JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
492
493JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
494 cached by the daemon.
495
496JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
497 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
498
499JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
500 keys are given for lookup.
501
502JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
503 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
504 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
505 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
506
507JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
508 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
509 server-side so match that on older versions.
510
511JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
512 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
513 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
514
515JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
516 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
517
518JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
519 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
520 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
521 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
522 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
523 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
524 initial truncated version.
525
526JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
527
528JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
529
530JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
531 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
532
533JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
534
535HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
536
537JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
538 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
539 induced overflows.
540
541JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
542 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
543 stage.
544
545JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
546 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
547
548JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
549 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
550 former class.
551
552JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
553 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
554 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
555
556JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
557 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
558 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
559 extraction. Accept either.
560
561
562Exim version 4.86
563-----------------
564
565JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
566 expanded.
567
568JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
569
570JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
571 it.
572
573JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
574 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
575 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
576 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
577
578JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
579 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
580 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
581
582JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
583 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
584 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
585 TLS connections
586
587JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
588 sites use this now.
589
590JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
591 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
592 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
593 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
594 have a dsn_lasthop option.
595
596JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
597 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
598 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
599
600JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
601
602JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
603 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
604
605JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
606 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
607
608JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
609 /defer_ok option.
610
611JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
612 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
613
614JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
615 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
616 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
617
618JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
619 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
620 specify a port-range.
621
622JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
623 timeout value per server.
624
625JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
626 now have the list separator specified.
627
628JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
629 option values.
630
631JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
632 under OpenSSL.
633
634JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
635
636JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
637 rather than the verbs used.
638
639JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
640 from 255 to 1024 chars.
641
642JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
643
644HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
645 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
646
647JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
648 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
649
650HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
651 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
652
653JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
654
655JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
656
657JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
658 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
659 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
660 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
661
662JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
663
664JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
665 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
666
667JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
668 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
669
670JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
671
672JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
673
674JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
675
676JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
677 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
678
679JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
680 added for tls authenticator.
681
682HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
683
684
685Exim version 4.85
686-----------------
687
688TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
689 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
690 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
691 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
692 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
693 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
694 the script parsing/test process like normal.
695
696TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
697 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
698 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
699 function when detected.
700
701JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
702 cause callback expansion.
703
704TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
705 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
706 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
707 instead of bool when processing it.
708
709JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
710 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
711
712JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
713
714JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
715
716TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
717
718TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
719 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
720
721JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
722 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
723 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
724 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
725 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
726 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
727
728JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
729 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
730 exceeded it.
731
732JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
733 version 3.3.6 or later.
734
735JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
736 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
737 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
738 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
739 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
740 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
741 option is defined.
742
743TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
744 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
745
746JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
747 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
748 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
749 matches.
750
751JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
752 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
753 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
754
755JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
756 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
757
758JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
759 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
760 syntax errors.
761
762JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
763
764JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
765 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
766
767TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
768 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
769 tarball.
770
771JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
772
773JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
774 Bug 1561.
775
776JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
777 output list separator was used.
778
779
780Exim version 4.84
781-----------------
782TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
783 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
784 return.
785
786JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
787 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
788
789JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
790
791TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
792 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
793
794
795Exim version 4.83
796-----------------
797
798TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
799
800 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
801 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
802 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
803 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
804 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
805 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
806
807TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
808 utilities have not been installed.
809
810JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
811 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
812
813TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
814 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
815
816TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
817 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
818 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
819 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
820
821JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
822
823TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
824 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
825
826PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
827 not dns_use_dnssec.
828
829JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
830
831TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
832 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
833 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
834
835TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
836 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
837 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
838 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
839 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
840 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
841
842JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
843
844JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
845 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
846
847JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
848 failed delivery.
849
850JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
851
852JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
853
854JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
855 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
856
857JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
858 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
859
860TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
861
862JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
863
864JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
865 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
866
867 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
868 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
869 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
870
871TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
872 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
873 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
874 analysis.
875
876JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
877
878JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
879 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
880 lookup).
881
882TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
883 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
884 Schlichting.
885
886JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
887 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
888
889TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
890 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
891
892JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
893
894TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
895 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
896 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
897
898JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
899 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
900
901JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
902 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
903 hosts_request_ocsp.
904
905JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
906 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
907 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
908
909JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
910
911TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
912 Christian Aistleitner.
913
914JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
915
916TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
917 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
918
919JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
920 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
921
922JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
923 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
924
925TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
926 support and error reporting did not work properly.
927
928TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
929 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
930
931TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
932 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
933 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
934
935JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
936
937PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
938 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
939 Jasper Wallace.
940
941JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
942
943TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
944 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
945 CVE-2014-2972
946
947
948Exim version 4.82
949-----------------
950
951PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
952
953PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
954 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
955
956PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
957 by GnuTLS.
958
959PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
960 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
961 routines.
962
963PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
964
965PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
966 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
967 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
968 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
969 using channel bindings instead).
970
971PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
972 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
973 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
974 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
975 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
976 Bugzilla 1117.
977
978TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
979
980TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
981
982TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
983 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
984
985TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
986 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
987 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
988
989TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
990
991TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
992
993TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
994 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
995
996JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
997
998JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
999
1000PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1001
1002NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1003 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1004
1005JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1006
1007PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1008 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1009 function.
1010
1011PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1012 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1013
1014JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1015 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1016 "acl = name arg..."
1017
1018JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1019
1020JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1021
1022JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1023 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1024
1025JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1026 Bugzilla 884.
1027
1028JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1029 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1030
1031JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1032 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1033
1034PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1035 CVE-2012-5671
1036 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1037
1038JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1039 authenticators.
1040
1041JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1042 for control.
1043
1044PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1045
1046PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1047 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1048 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1049 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1050
1051TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1052
1053 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1054 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1055 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1056 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1057 the retry rules.
1058
1059 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1060 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1061 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1062
1063 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1064 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1065 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1066 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1067
1068 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1069 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1070 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1071 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1072 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1073 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1074 delivery, as in LMTP.
1075
1076 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1077 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1078
1079TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1080
1081 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1082
1083 Resent-From: f
1084
1085 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1086 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1087 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1088 username as equal to the username.
1089
1090 This change corrects that bug.
1091
1092GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1093 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1094 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1095
1096TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1097
1098PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1099 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1100 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1101 NULL dereference and crash.
1102
1103JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1104
1105PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1106 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1107 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1108
1109SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1110
1111JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1112 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1113 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1114 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1115 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1116 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1117 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1118 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1119 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1120 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1121 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1122
1123PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1124 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1125
1126PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1127 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1128 Bugzilla 880.
1129
1130PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1131 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1132 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1133 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1134 an empty string is now equivalent.
1135
1136PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1137 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1138 not performing validation itself.
1139
1140PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1141 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1142
1143JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1144 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1145
1146TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1147
1148PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1149 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1150 other false fix of the same issue.
1151 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1152 Bugzilla 1363.
1153
1154PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1155 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1156
1157PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1158 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1159 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1160
1161PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1162 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1163 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1164
1165TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1166
1167JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1168
1169TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1170 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1171
1172TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1173 Alexander Miroch.
1174
1175TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1176 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1177 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1178 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1179 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1180
1181TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1182 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1183
1184TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1185 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1186 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1187
1188TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1189 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1190 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1191 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1192
1193TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1194
1195TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1196 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1197 from multiple comments on this bug.
1198
1199TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1200
1201TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1202 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1203 interaction.
1204
1205TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1206 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1207
1208TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1209 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1210
1211
1212Exim version 4.80.1
1213-------------------
1214
1215PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1216 CVE-2012-5671
1217 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1218
1219
1220Exim version 4.80
1221-----------------
1222
1223PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1224 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1225 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1226
1227NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1228
1229NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1230 improved.
1231
1232NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1233
1234PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1235
1236PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1237
1238PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1239 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1240
1241PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1242 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1243
1244PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1245 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1246
1247PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1248 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1249 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
1250
1251PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1252
1253PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1254 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1255
1256PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1257
1258PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
1259
1260PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1261 non-compliant senders.
1262 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1263
1264NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
1265 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
1266 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1267
1268PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1269 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1270 in spool file corruption.
1271
1272PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1273 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1274 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1275 "Got SSL error 2".
1276
1277TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1278 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1279 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1280
1281JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1282 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1283
1284JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1285
1286PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1287 diagnostics.
1288 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1289
1290PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
1291 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1292 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1293
1294PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1295 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
1296 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1297 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
1298
1299PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1300 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1301
1302PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1303 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1304 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1305 resolver implementation change.
1306
1307PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1308 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1309
1310PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1311
1312PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1313
1314PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1315 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1316
1317PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1318 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1319
1320JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1321 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1322
1323PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1324 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1325 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1326 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1327 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1328
1329PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1330
1331PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1332 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1333 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1334
1335JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1336
1337PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1338 read-only, out of scope).
1339 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1340
1341PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1342 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1343 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1344 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1345
1346PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1347
1348PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1349 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1350 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1351 real issues in debug logging.
1352
1353PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1354 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1355
1356PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1357 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1358 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1359
1360PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1361 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1362 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1363 problems.
1364
1365PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1366 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1367
1368PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1369 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1370 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1371 needs to override this, it can.
1372
1373PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1374 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1375 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1376
1377PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1378 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1379 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1380 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1381
1382PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1383
1384
1385Exim version 4.77
1386-----------------
1387
1388PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1389 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1390
1391TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1392
1393TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1394 whitespace trailer
1395
1396TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1397 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1398
1399TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1400 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1401 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1402
1403 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1404 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1405 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1406 not safe for signals.
1407
1408 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1409 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1410 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1411 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1412 exiwhat.
1413
1414TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1415
1416 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1417 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1418 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1419 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1420 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1421
1422 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1423 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1424 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1425 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1426 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1427 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1428
1429 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1430 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1431 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1432 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1433
1434 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1435 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1436 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1437 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1438
1439 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1440 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1441 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1442 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1443 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1444 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1445 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1446 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1447 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1448
1449 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1450 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1451 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1452 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1453
1454 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1455 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1456 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1457 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1458 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1459 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1460 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1461 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1462 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1463 details in the main documentation.
1464
1465TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1466
1467TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1468
1469TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1470 repository when doing development or release builds.
1471
1472PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1473 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
1474
1475PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1476 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1477 Bugzilla 97.
1478
1479PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1480
1481PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
1482 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1483
1484PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1485 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1486
1487PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
1488 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1489
1490PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1491 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
1492
1493PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1494 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1495
1496PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1497 Bugzilla 1156.
1498 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1499 Bugzilla 1095.
1500
1501PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
1502 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1503 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1504
1505PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1506
1507PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
1508
1509PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1510 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1511
1512
1513Exim version 4.76
1514-----------------
1515
1516PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1517
1518PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1519 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1520
1521PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1522
1523PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1524
1525PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1526 Bugzilla 1098.
1527
1528PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1529 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
1530
1531TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1532 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1533
1534PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1535 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1536
1537PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1538 Bugzilla 1104.
1539
1540TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
1541 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1542
1543TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1544 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1545 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1546 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1547
1548PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1549 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
1550
1551
1552Exim version 4.75
1553-----------------
1554
1555NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
1556 Bugzilla 1073
1557
1558TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1559 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1560 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1561
1562TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1563 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1564
1565PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1566 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1567 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1568
1569PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1570 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1571
1572PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1573 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1574
1575NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1576 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1577
1578NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1579 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1580
1581PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1582 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
1583
1584NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1585 Fixes bug 943.
1586
1587PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1588 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1589
1590PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1591 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1592
1593PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1594 SQL string expansion failure details.
1595 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1596
1597PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1598 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1599
1600PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1601 extern declarations in function scope.
1602 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1603
1604PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1605 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1606 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1607 a kernel bug).
1608
1609PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1610 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1611
1612PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1613 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1614
1615PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1616 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1617
1618PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1619 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1620
1621NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1622 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1623 Dennis Davis.
1624
1625PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
1626
1627PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1628
1629NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1630 Patch by Simon Arlott
1631
1632TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1633 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1634
1635
1636Exim version 4.74
1637-----------------
1638
1639TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1640 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1641
1642TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1643 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1644
1645TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1646
1647DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1648 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1649 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1650
1651PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1652 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1653 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1654
1655PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1656 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1657 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1658 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1659
1660PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1661 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1662 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1663 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1664
1665PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1666 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1667 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1668 arbitrary files.
1669
1670PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1671 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1672
1673PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1674 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1675 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1676 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1677 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1678
1679
1680Exim version 4.73
1681-----------------
1682
1683PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1684 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1685 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1686
1687PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1688 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1689
1690JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1691
1692PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1693
1694PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1695
1696PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
1697
1698PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1699
1700PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
1701 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1702 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
1703 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1704
1705PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1706 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1707 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
1708 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1709 more caution in buffer sizes.
1710
1711PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1712
1713PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1714
1715PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1716
1717PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1718
1719PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1720
1721PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1722
1723PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1724
1725PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
1726 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1727 ignore trailing whitespace.
1728
1729JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1730
1731JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1732 "exim" to be used
1733
1734PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1735 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1736
1737PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1738 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1739 Notification from John Horne.
1740
1741PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1742 compatible.
1743
1744PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1745 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1746 it normally works.
1747
1748DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1749 access.
1750
1751DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1752 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1753 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1754
1755DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1756 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1757 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1758 configuration file.
1759
1760DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1761 option (effectively making it always true).
1762
1763DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1764 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1765
1766DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1767 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1768
1769PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1770 run-time user, instead of root.
1771
1772PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
1773 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1774
1775DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1776 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1777 arguments.
1778
1779DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1780 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1781 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1782
1783DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1784
1785NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1786
1787
1788Exim version 4.72
1789-----------------
1790
1791JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1792 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1793 typos
1794
1795JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1796 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1797 (Finput)
1798
1799NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1800 Patch from Alain Williams
1801
1802NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1803
1804NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1805 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1806
1807NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1808 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1809
1810NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1811
1812JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1813
1814NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
1815 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
1816
1817TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1818
1819TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1820
1821MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1822 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1823 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1824
1825NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1826 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
1827
1828NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
1829 Patch by Simon Arlott
1830
1831PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
1832 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
1833
1834
1835Exim version 4.71
1836-----------------
1837
1838TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
1839
1840NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1841
1842NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1843
1844NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1845
1846NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1847
1848
1849Exim version 4.70
1850-----------------
1851
1852TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
1853 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
1854
1855TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1856 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
1857 Hirsch).
1858
1859TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1860 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
1861 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
1862
1863TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1864 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1865
1866NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1867 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1868 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1869 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1870
1871NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1872 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
1873 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
1874
1875TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1876
1877TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1878
1879NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
1880 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
1881
1882NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
1883
1884TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1885 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1886 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1887 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1888
1889NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
1890 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
1891
1892TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
1893
1894NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
1895
1896NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
1897 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
1898
1899TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1900 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
1901
1902TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1903 that they are available at delivery time.
1904
1905TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1906
1907TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1908 incoming_port log selectors.
1909
1910TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1911 setting expands to an empty string.
1912
1913NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
1914 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1915
1916NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
1917 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
1918
1919NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
1920 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
1921
1922NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1923 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
1924
1925NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1926 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
1927
1928NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
1929 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1930
1931NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1932
1933NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
1934 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1935
1936NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
1937 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
1938
1939TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1940
1941NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
1942 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
1943
1944NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1945
1946NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
1947
1948NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1949 lsearch.
1950
1951NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1952 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1953
1954NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1955 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1956
1957NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1958 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1959
1960NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1961 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1962
1963NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1964 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1965
1966NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1967 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1968
1969NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1970 plus update to original patch.
1971
1972NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
1973
1974NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1975 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
1976
1977NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
1978
1979NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
1980
1981NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
1982
1983NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
1984
1985NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
1986 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
1987
1988NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1989 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
1990
1991NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
1992 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
1993
1994NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1995 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
1996
1997NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
1998
1999NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2000
2001NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2002
2003NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2004
2005
2006Exim version 4.69
2007-----------------
2008
2009TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2010 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2011 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2012
2013 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2014 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2015 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2016 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2017 build errors in sieve.c.
2018
2019NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2020 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2021 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2022
2023SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2024
2025NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2026
2027NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2028
2029NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2030
2031
2032Exim version 4.68
2033-----------------
2034
2035PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2036
2037PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2038 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2039 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2040 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2041 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2042 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2043 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2044 for iplsearch lookups.
2045
2046 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2047 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2048 previously such lookups could never work.
2049
2050 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2051 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2052 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2053
2054TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2055 version.
2056
2057MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2058 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2059 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2060 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2061 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2062 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2063
2064TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2065 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2066
2067MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2068 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2069 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2070 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2071 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2072 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2073
2074PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2075 local_scan API.
2076
2077PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2078
2079PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2080 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2081 encrypted.
2082
2083PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2084 by clients under certain conditions.
2085
2086PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2087 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2088
2089PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2090
2091PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2092 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2093
2094PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2095
2096PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2097
2098PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2099
2100PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2101 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2102
2103PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2104
2105PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2106 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2107
2108PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2109
2110PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2111
2112PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2113 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2114 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2115 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2116
2117PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2118 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2119 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2120
2121PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2122 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2123
2124PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2125
2126PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2127
2128PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2129
2130PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2131 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2132 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2133
2134
2135Exim version 4.67
2136-----------------
2137
2138MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2139 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2140 Jan Srzednicki.
2141
2142PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2143 issue a MAIL command.
2144
2145PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2146
2147 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2148
2149 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2150 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2151 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2152 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2153 item. This has been fixed.
2154
2155PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2156 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2157
2158PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2159 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2160
2161PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2162 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2163 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2164
2165SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2166
2167PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2168 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2169 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2170 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2171 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2172
2173MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2174 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2175 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2176
2177PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2178 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2179 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2180 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2181
2182PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2183
2184PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2185
2186PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2187 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2188 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2189 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2190 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2191
2192PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2193
2194PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2195 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2196 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2197 values).
2198
2199PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2200
2201PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2202
2203PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2204
2205PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2206
2207PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2208
2209PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2210 no_callout_flush is set.
2211
2212PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2213 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2214 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2215 fixed.
2216
2217PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2218
2219PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2220 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2221 other ACL rejections are.
2222
2223PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2224 with slight modification.
2225
2226PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2227 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2228
2229PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2230 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2231 connection.
2232
2233PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2234 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2235
2236SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2237
2238PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2239 expansion side effects.
2240
2241PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2242 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2243 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2244 be the same.
2245
2246MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2247 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2248 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2249
2250PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2251 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2252 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2253 were accidentally chopped off.
2254
2255PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2256 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2257 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2258 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2259 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2260 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2261 pipelining has not been advertised.
2262
2263PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2264
2265PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2266 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2267 This has been fixed.
2268
2269PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2270 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2271 reported on Solaris.
2272
2273PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2274 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2275 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2276 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2277 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2278 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2279 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2280
2281PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2282 cpus.
2283
2284PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2285
2286PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2287
2288PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2289 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
2290 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2291 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2292 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2293 criteria to be more general.
2294
2295PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2296 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2297 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2298 host_all_ignored option.
2299
2300PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2301 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2302 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2303 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2304 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2305 is what is supposed to happen).
2306
2307PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2308 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2309 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2310 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2311 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2312 uses the Exim user.
2313
2314PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2315 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2316 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2317 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2318 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2319 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2320 users.
2321
2322PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2323
2324SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2325 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2326 (Jez Hancock).
2327 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2328 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2329
2330SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2331
2332PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2333
2334PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2335 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2336 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2337 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2338 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2339 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2340 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2341 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2342 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2343 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2344 least in a lot of common cases.
2345
2346PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2347 advertised in response to EHLO.
2348
2349
2350Exim version 4.66
2351-----------------
2352
2353PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2354 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2355
2356 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2357 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2358
2359 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2360 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2361 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2362
2363 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2364 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2365 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2366 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2367 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2368
2369
2370Exim version 4.65
2371-----------------
2372
2373TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2374 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2375 versions. (#438)
2376
2377MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2378 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2379 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2380
2381PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2382 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2383 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2384 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2385 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2386 rather than extend the field.
2387
2388
2389Exim version 4.64
2390-----------------
2391
2392TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2393 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2394 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2395 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2396 these files.
2397
2398TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2399 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2400 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2401
2402TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2403 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2404 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2405
2406TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2407 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2408 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2409 in the field name.
2410
2411PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2412 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2413 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2414 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2415 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2416 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2417 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2418 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2419 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2420 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2421 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2422
2423PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2424 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2425
2426PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2427 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2428 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2429 ignores EPIPE as well.
2430
2431PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2432 (quoted-printable decoding).
2433
2434PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
2435 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
2436
2437PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2438
2439PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2440
2441PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2442
2443PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
2444 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
2445
2446JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2447 in 4.64-PH/09.
2448
2449JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2450 miscellaneous code fixes
2451
2452PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2453 rejections.
2454
2455PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2456 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2457 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2458 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2459 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2460 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2461 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2462 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
2463
2464PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
2465 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
2466 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2467 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2468 function.
2469 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2470 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2471 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2472 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2473 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2474 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2475 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2476 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2477 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2478
2479PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2480 decoding.
2481
2482PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2483 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2484 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2485 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2486 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2487 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2488 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2489 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2490
2491PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2492 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2493 list.
2494
2495PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2496 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2497 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2498 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2499 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2500 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2501 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2502 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2503 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2504 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2505 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2506 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2507 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2508
2509PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2510 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2511 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2512 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2513 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2514 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2515 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2516
2517PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2518 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2519 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2520 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2521 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2522 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2523 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2524 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2525 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2526 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2527
2528PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2529 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2530 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2531 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2532 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2533
2534PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2535 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2536 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2537 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2538 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2539 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2540 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2541
2542PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2543 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2544 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2545 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2546 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2547 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2548 been verified.
2549
2550PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
2551 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2552 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2553 and authorization.)
2554
2555PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2556 if any retry times were supplied.
2557
2558PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2559 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2560 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2561
2562PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2563
2564PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2565
2566PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2567 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2568 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2569 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
2570 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2571 before) are ignored.
2572
2573PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2574 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2575
2576PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2577 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2578 committing the later change.]
2579
2580PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2581 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2582 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2583 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2584 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2585 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2586 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2587 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2588 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2589
2590 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2591 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2592 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2593 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2594 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2595 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2596 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2597 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2598 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2599
2600 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2601 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2602 hammering the server.
2603
2604PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2605 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2606
2607PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2608
2609PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2610 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2611 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2612
2613PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2614 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2615 one case where this was not true.
2616
2617PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2618 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2619 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2620 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2621 fails.
2622
2623PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2624 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2625 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2626 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2627 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2628 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2629 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2630 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2631 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2632 smtp transport.
2633
2634PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2635 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2636 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2637 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2638
2639PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2640 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2641
2642PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2643 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2644 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2645
2646PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2647
2648PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2649
2650PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2651
2652PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2653 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2654 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2655 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2656
2657PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2658 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2659
2660PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2661 be meaningful with "accept".
2662
2663SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2664 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2665
2666SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2667 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2668 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2669
2670SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2671 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2672 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2673 there is data to show.
2674 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2675
2676SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2677 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2678 as well as the number of messages.
2679
2680SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2681 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2682 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2683
2684SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2685 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2686 have a flag are now skipped.
2687
2688SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2689 Added the -emptyok flag.
2690
2691SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2692 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2693
2694JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2695 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2696 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2697
2698JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2699 match 4.64-PH/13
2700
2701JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2702 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2703
2704JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2705
2706JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2707 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2708
2709PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2710
2711PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2712 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2713 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2714 contravention of the specifications.
2715
2716PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2717 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2718 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
2719
2720PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2721 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2722 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2723
2724PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2725
2726MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2727 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2728 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2729 some point in the past.
2730
2731PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2732 transport during callout processing was broken.
2733
2734PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2735 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2736
2737PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2738 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2739
2740PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2741 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2742
2743PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2744
2745
2746Exim version 4.63
2747-----------------
2748
2749SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2750 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2751
2752SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2753 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2754 there is data to show.
2755 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2756
2757SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2758 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2759
2760TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2761 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
2762
2763TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2764 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
2765
2766TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2767 submissions from trusted users.
2768
2769TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2770 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2771
2772TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2773 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2774 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2775 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2776 there is now a framework to start from.
2777
2778PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2779 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2780 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2781
2782PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2783
2784PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2785
2786PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2787
2788PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2789 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2790 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2791
2792PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2793 libradius.
2794
2795PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2796 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2797 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2798
2799PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2800 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2801 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2802 its arguments.
2803
2804PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2805 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2806 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2807 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2808 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2809
2810PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2811 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2812
2813PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2814
2815PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2816 operations in malware.c.
2817
2818PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2819 signatures.
2820
2821PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2822 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2823 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2824 all.
2825
2826PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2827 statements to "add_header".
2828
2829PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2830 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2831
2832PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2833 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2834 latter.
2835
2836PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
2837 so that it is now:
2838
2839 ${if or { \
2840 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2841 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2842 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
2843 }{no}{yes}}
2844
2845 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2846 don't think Precedence: ever was.
2847
2848PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2849 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2850
2851PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2852 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2853 any possible encoding problems.
2854
2855PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2856 but not after initializing Perl.
2857
2858PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2859 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2860 apparently, which is not desirable.
2861
2862PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2863 queries.
2864
2865JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2866 --not options
2867
2868JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2869
2870PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2871 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2872 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2873 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2874
2875PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2876 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2877 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2878
2879PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2880 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2881 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2882 0.12.
2883
2884PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2885 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2886 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2887 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2888 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2889
2890
2891Exim version 4.62
2892-----------------
2893
2894TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2895 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2896
2897PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2898 patch).
2899
2900PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2901 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2902 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2903 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2904 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2905 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2906 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2907 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2908 451 error is used.
2909
2910PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2911
2912PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2913 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2914 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2915
2916PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2917 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2918 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2919 odd errors.
2920
2921PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2922 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2923
2924PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2925 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2926 option (which defaults to 0600).
2927
2928PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2929
2930PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2931 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2932 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2933 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2934 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2935 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2936 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2937
2938PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2939
2940
2941Exim version 4.61
2942-----------------
2943
2944PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2945 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2946 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2947 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2948 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2949 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2950 addresses as local.
2951
2952PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2953 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2954
2955PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2956
2957PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2958 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2959 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2960 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2961 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2962 grumble.
2963
2964PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2965 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2966
2967PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2968 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2969 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2970 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2971 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2972
2973PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2974 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2975 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2976 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2977
2978PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2979 be the same on different OS.
2980
2981PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2982 testing.
2983
2984JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2985 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2986
2987JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2988 in 4.61-PH/06
2989
2990PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2991 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2992 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2993 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2994 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2995 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2996 bounce message.
2997
2998PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2999 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3000 when Exim was called.
3001
3002PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3003 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3004
3005PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3006 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3007 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3008 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3009
3010PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3011 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3012 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3013 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3014 changes:
3015
3016 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3017 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3018 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3019
3020 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3021 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3022 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3023
3024PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3025 feature).
3026
3027PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3028 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3029 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3030 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3031 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3032 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3033 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3034 values from the SRV records were lost.
3035
3036PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3037 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3038 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3039
3040PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3041 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3042 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3043
3044PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3045 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3046 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3047 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3048 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3049 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3050 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3051 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3052 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3053 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3054
3055PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3056 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3057 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3058
3059PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3060 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3061
3062PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3063 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3064 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3065 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3066 is given.
3067
3068PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3069 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3070 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3071
3072PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3073 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3074 PH/23 above applies.
3075
3076PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3077 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3078 (for which there is an explicit test).
3079
3080PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3081
3082PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3083 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3084 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3085 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3086 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3087
3088PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3089 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3090 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3091 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3092
3093PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3094 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3095 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3096
3097PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3098
3099PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3100
3101PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3102 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3103 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3104
3105PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3106 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3107 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3108 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3109 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3110
3111PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3112 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3113 the message gets confusing).
3114
3115PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3116 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3117 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3118 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3119
3120PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3121 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3122 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3123 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3124 same order.
3125
3126PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3127 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3128 the different processes.
3129
3130PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3131
3132PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3133
3134JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3135 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3136
3137JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3138 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3139
3140JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3141 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3142 messages matching specified criteria.
3143
3144PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3145
3146PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3147 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3148
3149PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3150 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3151 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3152 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3153 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3154 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3155 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3156 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3157 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3158 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3159
3160PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3161 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3162 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3163
3164PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3165
3166PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3167 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3168 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3169 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3170 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3171 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3172 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3173 the variable.
3174
3175PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3176 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3177
3178PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3179
3180PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3181
3182PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3183
3184PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3185 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3186 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3187 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3188 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3189 size of the count of files.
3190
3191PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3192
3193PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3194 used in LMTP mode:
3195
3196 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3197 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3198 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3199 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3200
3201 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3202 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3203 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3204
3205PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3206 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3207 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3208 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3209 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3210
3211PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3212 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3213
3214PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3215 will now be deprecated.
3216
3217PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3218
3219JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3220 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3221 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3222
3223JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3224 with very large, slow to parse queues
3225
3226JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3227
3228JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3229
3230PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3231 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3232 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3233 SMTP output lines.
3234
3235PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3236 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3237 Sieve code now uses this.
3238
3239PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3240 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3241
3242PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3243 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3244
3245PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3246
3247PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3248 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3249 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3250 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3251 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3252
3253PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3254 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3255 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3256 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3257
3258PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3259
3260PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3261
3262PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3263 is preferred over IPv4.
3264
3265PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3266 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3267 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3268 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3269 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3270 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3271 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3272
3273PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3274 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3275 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3276
3277PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3278
3279PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3280 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3281 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3282 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3283 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3284 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3285 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3286 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3287 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3288 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3289 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3290
3291PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3292 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3293 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3294
3295
3296Exim version 4.60
3297-----------------
3298
3299PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3300
3301 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3302 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3303
3304 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3305 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3306 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3307
3308PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3309
3310 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3311 not a single digit.
3312
3313 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3314 string.
3315
3316 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3317 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3318 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3319 silly things.
3320
3321 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3322 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3323
3324 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3325 inside the third argument.
3326
3327PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3328 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3329 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3330
3331PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3332 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3333
3334PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3335 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3336
3337 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3338
3339 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3340 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3341 this:
3342
3343 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3344
3345PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3346 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3347 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3348 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3349 identical. For example:
3350
3351 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3352
3353 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3354 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3355 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3356
3357PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3358 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3359 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3360 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3361
3362PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3363 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3364 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3365 message.
3366
3367PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3368
3369 o fixes some comments
3370 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3371 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3372 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3373 and documents the missing references header update
3374
3375 and most important:
3376
3377 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3378 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
3379 result)
3380
3381PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3382 Electronic Mail") by including:
3383
3384 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3385
3386 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3387 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
3388 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3389 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3390 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3391
3392 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3393
3394 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3395
3396 The auto-replied keyword:
3397
3398 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3399 message by an automatic process,
3400
3401 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3402
3403 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3404 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3405
3406 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3407 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3408 other messages.
3409
3410PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3411 to the default Received: header definition.
3412
3413PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3414
3415PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3416 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3417 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3418
3419PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3420 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3421 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3422
3423PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3424 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3425 and treats the condition as false.
3426
3427PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3428
3429PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3430 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3431 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3432 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3433 not changing the active code.
3434
3435 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3436 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3437
3438 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3439 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3440
3441PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3442 (Bugzilla #53).
3443
3444PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3445 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3446 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3447 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3448 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3449 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3450 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3451 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3452 the text comparison.
3453
3454PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3455 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3456 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3457 The same fix has been applied.
3458
3459
3460Exim version 4.54
3461-----------------
3462
3463PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3464 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3465 It now does.
3466
3467PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3468 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3469
3470PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3471
3472PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3473 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3474 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3475 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3476 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3477
3478TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3479 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3480 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3481 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3482 or /domain=).
3483
3484PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3485 testing suite.
3486
3487
3488
3489Exim version 4.53
3490-----------------
3491
3492TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3493 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3494
3495PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3496
3497PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3498
3499PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3500 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3501 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3502
3503PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3504 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3505 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3506
3507PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3508 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3509 operating systems.
3510
3511PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3512 ${stat: expansion item.
3513
3514PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3515 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3516
3517PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3518 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3519 file for comments.
3520
3521PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3522
3523PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3524 setting.
3525
3526PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3527 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3528
3529TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3530
3531PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3532 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3533 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3534 the end of the subprocess.
3535
3536PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3537 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3538 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3539 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3540 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3541
3542JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3543
3544TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3545
3546PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3547 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3548
3549PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3550
3551PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3552
3553PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3554 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3555 HP-UX compiler.
3556
3557PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3558
3559PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3560 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3561 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3562
3563PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3564 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3565
3566PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3567 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3568
3569PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3570 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3571
3572 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3573 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3574
3575 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3576 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3577 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3578 contributed by a Radius user.
3579
3580PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3581 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3582
3583TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3584 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3585
3586PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3587 available.
3588
3589PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3590 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3591 received.
3592
3593PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3594 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3595 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3596 header lines when this was not necessary.
3597
3598PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3599
3600PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3601 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3602 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3603 exists".
3604
3605PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3606 -bV or -d is used.
3607
3608PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3609 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
3610 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3611 return code was incorrect.
3612
3613PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3614
3615PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3616
3617TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3618
3619PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3620
3621PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3622 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3623 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3624 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3625 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3626 settings.
3627
3628PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3629
3630PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3631 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3632 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3633 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3634 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3635 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3636 which is clearly wrong.
3637
3638PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3639
3640PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3641 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3642 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3643 subsequently added.
3644
3645PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3646 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3647
3648PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3649
3650PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3651 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3652
3653PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3654 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3655
3656PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3657 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3658
3659PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3660 recipients, not senders.
3661
3662TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3663 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3664
3665PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3666
3667PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3668
3669PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3670 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3671 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3672 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3673
3674TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3675
3676TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3677 clock is set back in time.
3678
3679TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3680 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3681
3682TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3683 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3684
3685PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3686 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3687 (see PH/47 above).
3688
3689TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3690 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3691 header rewrites.
3692
3693PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3694 type ("H").
3695
3696PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3697
3698TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3699 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3700 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3701
3702TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3703 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3704 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3705 helo verification defer as a failure.
3706
3707PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3708 actual error message.
3709
3710
3711Exim version 4.52
3712-----------------
3713
3714TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3715
3716PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3717 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3718 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3719 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3720
3721TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3722
3723PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3724 can still be requested.
3725
3726PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3727 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3728 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3729 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3730
3731TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3732 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3733 circumstances, but probably never did.
3734
3735PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3736 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3737 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3738 in the header line.
3739
3740TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3741
3742TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3743 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
3744
3745TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3746
3747TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3748
3749PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3750 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3751 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3752 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
3753 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3754 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
3755
3756PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3757 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3758 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3759 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3760 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3761 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3762
3763TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3764 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3765
3766PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3767 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3768
3769SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3770 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3771
3772SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
3773
3774SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3775
3776SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3777
3778SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3779
3780SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3781
3782SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3783
3784TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3785
3786TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3787 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3788 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3789
3790TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3791 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3792 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3793 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3794
3795PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3796 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3797 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3798
3799PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3800 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3801 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3802 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3803
3804PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3805 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3806 to be made).
3807
3808PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3809 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3810 should work with maildirs and everything.
3811
3812TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3813 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3814
3815TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3816 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3817
3818PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3819 function for BDB 4.3.
3820
3821PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3822
3823PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3824 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3825 involved.
3826
3827PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3828 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3829 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
3830 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3831 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3832 formatting function string_vformat().
3833
3834PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3835 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3836 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3837 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3838 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3839 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3840 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3841 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3842
3843TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3844 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3845 details.
3846
3847PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3848 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3849
3850PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3851 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3852 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3853 test. It is now used for both.
3854
3855PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3856 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3857 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3858 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3859 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3860 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3861
3862PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3863 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3864 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3865 string_vformat().
3866
3867PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3868 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3869 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
3870
3871PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3872 experimental DomainKeys support:
3873
3874 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3875 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3876 the control was given.
3877
3878 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3879
3880PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3881
3882PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3883
3884PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3885 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3886 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3887 db.h files).
3888
3889PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
3890 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3891 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3892 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3893 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3894 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3895 course.
3896
3897PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3898 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3899 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3900 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3901 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3902 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3903
3904PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3905 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3906 do -d+all out of habit.
3907
3908PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3909 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3910 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3911
3912PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3913 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3914 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3915 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3916 record types that Exim uses.
3917
3918PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3919 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3920 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3921 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3922 non-existent file that was broken.
3923
3924TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3925 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3926
3927TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3928 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3929 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3930
3931TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3932
3933PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3934 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3935 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3936 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3937 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3938 same time.
3939
3940SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3941 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3942 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3943 at a slight CPU cost.
3944
3945SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3946 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3947
3948SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3949 by Marc Sherman.
3950
3951SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3952
3953PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3954 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3955
3956
3957Exim version 4.51
3958-----------------
3959
3960TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3961 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3962
3963TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
3964
3965TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3966
3967PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3968 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3969
3970PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3971 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3972 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3973 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3974 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3975 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3976 file.
3977
3978PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3979 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3980 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3981 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3982 these two options.
3983
3984PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3985 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3986 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3987 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3988 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3989 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3990 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
3991 address.
3992
3993PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3994 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3995
3996PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3997 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3998 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3999 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4000 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4001 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4002
4003PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4004 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4005 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4006 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4007
4008PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4009 Finch).
4010
4011PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4012 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4013
4014PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4015 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4016 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4017 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4018 message.
4019
4020PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4021
4022PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4023 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4024
4025PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4026 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4027 to what was transported.)
4028
4029TF/01 Added $received_time.
4030
4031PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4032 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4033 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4034 spamd_address settings.
4035
4036PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4037 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4038 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4039 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4040 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4041
4042PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4043
4044PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4045 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4046 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4047 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4048 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4049
4050PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4051 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4052
4053PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4054 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4055 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4056 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4057 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4058 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4059 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4060 for failure.
4061
4062PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4063 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4064 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4065 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4066 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4067 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4068 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4069 "input=".
4070
4071PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4072
4073PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4074 driver and ACL definitions.
4075
4076PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4077 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4078
4079PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4080 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4081 understands it better than I do:
4082
4083 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4084 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4085
4086 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4087 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4088 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4089 => three warnings about OTP not working
4090 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4091
4092 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4093 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4094 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4095 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4096 for each call.)
4097 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4098 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4099
4100 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4101 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4102 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4103
4104PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4105 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4106 specified.
4107
4108PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4109 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4110 "Linux".
4111
4112PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4113 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4114 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4115
4116 warn !verify = sender
4117 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4118
4119 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4120 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4121
4122PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4123
4124 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4125 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4126
4127 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4128 nomenclature these days.)
4129
4130PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4131 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4132
4133PH/30 In these circumstances:
4134 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4135 . First host does not offer TLS;
4136 . First host accepts first address;
4137 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4138 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4139 . Second host accepts second address.
4140 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4141 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4142 address.
4143
4144PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4145 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4146 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4147 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4148 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4149
4150PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4151 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4152
4153PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4154 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4155
4156PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4157 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4158 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4159
4160PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4161 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4162 overlooked.
4163
4164PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4165
4166PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4167 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4168 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4169 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4170 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4171 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4172 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4173
4174 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4175 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4176 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4177 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4178 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4179
4180 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4181 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4182 routed further.
4183
4184PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4185 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4186 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4187 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4188 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4189 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4190
4191PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4192
4193PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4194 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4195 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4196 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4197 printable escape sequences.
4198
4199PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4200 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4201 body only.
4202
4203PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4204 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4205 are as follows:
4206
4207 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4208 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4209 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4210 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4211 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4212
4213 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4214 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4215 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4216
4217PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4218
4219PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4220 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4221 play with."
4222
4223PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4224 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4225 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4226 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4227 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4228 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4229 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4230 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4231 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4232 the log output.
4233
4234PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4235 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4236 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4237 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4238 "make".
4239
4240
4241A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4242----------------------------------------
4243
4244Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4245changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4246needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4247in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4248that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4249release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4250from 4.43.
4251
4252I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
42534.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4254those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4255historical information.
4256
4257
4258Exim version 4.50
4259-----------------
4260
4261 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4262
4263 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
4264 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
4265
4266 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4267 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4268 place.
4269
4270 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4271 filter fails to execute.
4272
4273 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4274 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4275 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4276 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4277 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4278
4279 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4280
4281 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4282 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4283 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4284 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4285
4286 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4287 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4288 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4289 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4290 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4291
4292 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4293
429410. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4295
429611. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4297 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4298 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4299 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4300
430112. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4302 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4303 sender verification.
4304
430513. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4306 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4307
430814. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4309
431015. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4311 connection timeout.
4312
431316. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4314 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4315
431617. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4317 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4318
431918. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4320 information about exactly what failed.
4321
432219. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4323
432420. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4325 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4326 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4327
432821. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4329 It is now set to "smtps".
4330
433122. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4332 ignore_target_hosts.
4333
433423. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4335 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4336 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4337 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4338 "[x.x.x.x]".
4339
434024. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4341 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4342 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4343
434425. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4345 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4346 wake it up if nothing else does.
4347
434826. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4349 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4350 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4351 end up negative.
4352
435327. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4354 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4355
435628. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4357
435829. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4359 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4360 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4361 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4362 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4363 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4364 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4365 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4366
436730. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4368 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4369 than one IP address.
4370
437131. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4372 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4373 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4374 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4375
437632. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4377 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4378 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4379 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4380 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4381 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4382
438333. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4384 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4385 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4386 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4387
438834. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4389 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4390 respected.
4391
439235. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4393 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4394 $sender_host_address.
4395
439636. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4397 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4398 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4399 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4400 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4401 very small.
4402
440337. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4404
4405 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4406 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4407
4408 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4409 just the host names, not the priorities.
4410
4411 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4412 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4413 controlled by a keyword.
4414
4415 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
4416 multiple records are returned.
4417
441838. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4419 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4420 domain.
4421
442239. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4423
442440. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4425 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4426
442741. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4428 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4429 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4430
443142. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4432
443343. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4434
443544. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4436
443745. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4438 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4439 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4440 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4441 because the tests only now provoked it.
4442
444346. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4444 (this can affect the format of dates).
4445
444647. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4447 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4448 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4449 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4450
445148. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4452
445349. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4454 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4455 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4456 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4457
445850. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4459 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4460 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4461
446251. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4463 autoreply.
4464
446552. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4466 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4467 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4468 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4469 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4470 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4471 is going on).
4472
447353. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4474 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4475 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4476 the line.
4477
447854. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4479 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4480 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4481
4482 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4483 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4484 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4485 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4486 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4487 so I produce this patch..."
4488
4489 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4490 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4491 is not defined.
4492
449355. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4494 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4495 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4496 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4497 CAN-2005-0021
4498
449956. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4500
450157. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4502 long debug lines gets shown.
4503
450458. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4505 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4506
450759. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4508
4509 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4510 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4511 of $primary_hostname.
4512
451360. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4514 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4515 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4516 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4517 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4518 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4519 by change 4.50/55 above.
4520
4521 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4522 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4523 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4524 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4525 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4526 running as the user.
4527 CAN-2005-0021
4528
452961. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4530 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4531 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4532 CAN-2005-0022
4533
453462. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4535 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4536
453763. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4538 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4539 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4540 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4541 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4542
454364. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4544 This has been fixed.
4545
454665. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4547 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4548 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4549 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4550 the caching.)
4551
455266. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4553
455467. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4555 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4556 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4557 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4558
455968. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4560 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4561
456269. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4563 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4564 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4565
456670. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4567 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4568 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4569 message there.
4570
457171. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4572 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4573 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4574
457572. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4576 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4577 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4578 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4579
458073. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4581 during host lookups.
4582
458374. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4584 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4585
4586 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4587
458875. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4589 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4590 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4591 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4592 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4593 background.
4594
459576. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4596 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4597
459877. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4599 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4600 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4601
460278. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4603
460479. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4605 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4606 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4607 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4608 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4609 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4610 process earlier.
4611
461280. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4613 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4614 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4615 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4616 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4617
461881. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4619 tables).
4620
462182. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4622
462383. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4624 "vacation" handling.
4625
462684. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4627 OS variants using glibc.
4628
462985. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4630
4631
4632----------------------------------------------------
4633See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4634----------------------------------------------------
4635
4636
4637Exim version 4.44
4638-----------------
4639
4640 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4641 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4642 transport
4643
4644 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4645 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4646 place.
4647
4648 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4649 filter fails to execute.
4650
4651 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4652 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4653 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4654 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4655 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4656
4657 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4658 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4659 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4660 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4661
4662 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4663 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4664 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4665 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4666 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4667
4668 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4669
4670 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4671 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4672 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4673 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4674
4675 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4676 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4677 sender verification.
4678
467910. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4680 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4681
468211. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4683 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4684
468512. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4686 ignore_target_hosts.
4687
468813. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4689 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4690 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4691 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4692 "[x.x.x.x]".
4693
469414. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4695 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4696 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4697
469815. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4699 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4700 wake it up if nothing else does.
4701
470216. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4703 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4704 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4705 end up negative.
4706
470717. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4708 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4709
471018. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
4711
471219. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4713 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4714 empty pattern.
4715
471620. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4717 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4718 one IP address.
4719
472021. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4721 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4722 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4723 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4724 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4725 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4726
472722. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4728 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4729 respected.
4730
473123. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4732 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4733 $sender_host_address.
4734
473524. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4736
473725. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4738 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4739 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4740
474126. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
4742 As per change 25.
4743
474427. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4745 (this can affect the format of dates).
4746
474728. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4748 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4749 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4750 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4751
475229. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4753 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4754 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4755
475630. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4757 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4758 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4759 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4760
476131. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4762 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4763 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4764
476531. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4766 autoreply.
4767
476832. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4769 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4770 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4771 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4772 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4773 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4774 is going on).
4775
477633. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4777 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4778 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4779 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4780 CAN-2005-0021
4781
478234. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4783 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4784 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4785 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4786 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4787 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4788 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4789
4790 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4791 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4792 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4793 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4794 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4795 running as the user.
4796 CAN-2005-0021
4797
479835. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4799 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4800 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4801 CAN-2005-0022
4802
480336. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4804 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4805 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4806 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4807 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4808
480937. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4810 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4811 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4812 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4813 the caching.)
4814
481538. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4816 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4817 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4818 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4819 because the tests only now provoked it.
4820
4821
4822Exim version 4.43
4823-----------------
4824
4825 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4826 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4827 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4828 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4829 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4830 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4831 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4832
4833 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4834 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4835 the delivery.
4836
4837 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4838
4839 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4840
4841 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4842 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4843 to local_scan().
4844
4845 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4846 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4847 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4848 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4849 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4850
4851 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4852 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4853
4854 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4855
4856 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4857
485810. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4859 header_sender only.
4860
486111. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4862 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4863
486412. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4865 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4866 affecting debugging statements).
4867
486813. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4869
487014. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4871 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4872 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4873 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4874 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4875 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4876 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4877 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4878 after the received time, and all would be well.
4879
488015. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4881 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4882 condition in an expansion string.
4883
488416. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4885
488617. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4887 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4888 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4889 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4890 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4891 job under whatever limits there are.
4892
489318. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4894
489519. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4896 space).
4897
489820. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4899 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4900 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4901 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4902 return path is set.
4903
490421. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4905 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4906 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4907 binary data in such strings.
4908
490922. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4910
491123. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4912 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4913 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4914 failure, which is pointless.
4915
491624. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4917
491825. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4919
492026. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4921 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4922 Sender: header lines.
4923
492427. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4925 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4926 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4927
492828. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4929 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4930 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4931 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4932 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4933 happens.
4934
493529. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4936 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4937 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4938 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4939 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4940
494130. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4942 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4943 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4944 1024.
4945
494631. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4947 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4948
494932. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4950 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4951
495233. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4953
495432. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4955
495633. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4957
495834. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4959 syntax error.
4960
496135. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4962
496336. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4964
496537. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4966 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4967 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4968 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4969
497038. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4971 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4972
4973
4974Exim version 4.42
4975-----------------
4976
4977 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4978 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4979 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4980 it was not quoted.
4981 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4982 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4983 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4984 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4985 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4986 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4987
4988 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4989 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4990 verification failure".
4991
4992 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4993 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4994 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4995 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4996
4997 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4998 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4999 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5000 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5001 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5002 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5003 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5004 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5005 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5006 treated as a timeout.
5007
5008 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5009 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5010 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5011 not set for Exim filters).
5012
5013 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5014 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5015 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5016
5017 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5018
5019 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5020 try to make them clearer.
5021
5022 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5023 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5024
5025 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5026
5027 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5028
502910. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5030 only the Cygwin environment.
5031
503211. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5033 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5034 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5035 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5036 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5037
503812. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5039 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5040 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5041 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5042 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5043 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5044 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5045
504613. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5047 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5048
504914. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5050
5051 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5052 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5053 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5054
5055 To: susanne@some.where
5056
5057 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5058 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5059 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5060 of addresses in From: header lines).
5061
5062 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5063 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5064 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5065
5066 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5067 treated as non-personal.
5068
5069 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5070 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5071
507215. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5073
507416. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5075
507617. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5077 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5078 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5079
508018. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5081 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5082
508319. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5084 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5085 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5086 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5087 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5088 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5089
509020. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5091 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5092 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5093 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5094 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5095 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5096 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5097 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5098
5099 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5100
510121. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5102 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5103
510422. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5105 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5106 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5107
510823. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5109 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5110
511124. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5112 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5113 rather than long int.
5114
511525. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5116
511726. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5118
5119
5120Exim version 4.41
5121-----------------
5122
5123 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5124 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5125 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5126 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5127 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5128 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5129
5130
5131Exim version 4.40
5132-----------------
5133
5134 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5135 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5136
5137 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5138 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5139 socklen_t is defined.
5140
5141 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5142 always exist.
5143
5144 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5145 configured.
5146
5147 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5148 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5149 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5150 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5151 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5152
5153 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5154 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5155 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5156 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5157
5158 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5159 of flapping under certain conditions.
5160
5161 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5162 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5163 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5164
5165 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5166
516710. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5168
516911. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5170 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5171 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5172 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5173
517412. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5175 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5176 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5177 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5178 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5179 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5180 preserved with the message after it was received.
5181
518213. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5183 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5184 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5185 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5186 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5187 test suite worked just fine.
5188
518914. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5190 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5191 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5192
519315. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5194 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5195 string.
5196
519716. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5198 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5199 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5200 does not fully solve it.
5201
520217. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5203 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5204 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5205 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5206 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5207
520818. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5209 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5210 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5211
521219. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5213 string, for example:
5214
5215 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5216
5217 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5218 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5219 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5220 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5221 the routers could not see them.
5222
522320. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5224 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5225
522621. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5227 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5228 output).
5229
523022. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5231 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5232 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5233 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5234 that needed quoting.
5235
523623. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5237 was not being matched caselessly.
5238
523924. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5240 backslashes.
5241
524225. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5243 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5244 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5245 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5246 when use_sender is false.
5247
524826. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5249
525027. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5251
525228. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5253
525429. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5255 the configuration file.
5256
525730. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5258 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5259
526031. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5261
526232. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5263 bytes in the message body.
5264
526533. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5266 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5267 delivery.
5268
526934. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5270
527135. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5272
527336. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5274 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5275 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5276 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5277 another IP address.
5278
5279
5280Exim version 4.34
5281-----------------
5282
5283 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5284 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5285
5286 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5287 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5288 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5289 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5290 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5291
5292 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5293 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5294
5295 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5296 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5297 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5298
5299 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5300 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5301 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5302
5303 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5304 for routers.
5305
5306 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5307 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5308 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5309 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5310 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5311 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5312 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5313
5314
5315Exim version 4.33
5316-----------------
5317
5318 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5319 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5320 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5321 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5322 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5323 default (and expected) setting.
5324
5325 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5326 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5327 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5328 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5329
5330 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5331 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5332
5333 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5334 in domain lists.
5335
5336 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5337 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5338 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5339 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5340 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5341 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5342
5343 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5344 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5345 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5346
5347 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5348 part (NOT match_host).
5349
5350 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5351
5352 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5353 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5354 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5355 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5356 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5357 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5358 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5359 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5360 the same named file.
5361
536210. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5363 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5364 when Exim is built.
5365
536611. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5367 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5368 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5369 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5370 a host name.
5371
537212. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5373 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5374 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5375
537613. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5377
537814. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5379
538015. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5381
538216. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5383 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5384
538517. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5386 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5387 before starting the TLS session.
5388
538918. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5390
539119. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5392 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5393
539420. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5395 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5396 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5397 colon in the middle).
5398
5399
5400Exim version 4.32
5401-----------------
5402
5403 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5404 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5405 multiple configurations are in use.
5406
5407 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5408 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5409 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5410 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5411 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5412 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5413
5414 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5415 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5416
5417 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5418 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5419 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5420
5421 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5422 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5423 occurs.
5424
5425 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5426 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5427
5428 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5429
5430 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5431 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5432
5433 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5434
5435 -prval:sval
5436
5437 is equivalent to
5438
5439 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5440
5441 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5442 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5443 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5444 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5445 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5446
544710. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5448 Exim's behaviour:
5449
5450 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5451 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5452 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5453 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5454 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5455 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5456
5457 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5458 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5459 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5460 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5461 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5462 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5463 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5464 string.
5465
5466 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5467 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5468 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5469 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5470 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5471
547211. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5473
547412. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5475 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5476 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5477
547813. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5479
548014. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5481 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5482 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5483 information.
5484
548515. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5486 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5487
548816. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5489 Three changes have been made:
5490
5491 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5492 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5493 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5494 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5495 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5496
5497 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5498 been restored.
5499
5500 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5501 the modified behaviour.
5502
5503
5504Exim version 4.31
5505-----------------
5506
5507 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5508 Larry Rosenman.
5509
5510 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5511 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5512
5513 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5514 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5515 try to track down a specific problem.
5516
5517 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5518 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5519 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5520
5521 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5522 warning.
5523
5524 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5525 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5526 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5527 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5528 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5529 some earlier ones do not.
5530
5531 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5532
5533 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5534 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5535 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5536 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5537 address literals are enabled, of course).
5538
5539 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5540
554110. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5542 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5543 by a command such as
5544
5545 exim -f "" ...
5546
5547 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5548
554911. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5550
555112. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5552 remained set. It is now erased.
5553
555413. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5555 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5556
555714. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5558 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5559 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5560 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5561 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5562 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5563 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5564 appropriate error code.
5565
556615. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5567 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5568 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5569 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5570 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5571 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5572
557316. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5574 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5575 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5576
557717. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5578 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5579 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5580 terminate the header.
5581
558218. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5583 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5584 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5585
558619. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5587 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5588 (4.30/29). In particular:
5589
5590 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5591 imposed.
5592
5593 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5594 to write a maildirsize file.
5595
5596 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5597 the transport, the new value overrides.
5598
5599 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5600 count.
5601
560220. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5603 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5604 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5605 space or a tab.
5606
560721. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5608 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5609 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5610 the fallback hosts.
5611
561222. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5613 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5614 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5615
561623. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5617 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5618 using a union.
5619
562024. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5621 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5622 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5623
562425. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5625
562626. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5627
562827. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5629
563028. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5631 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5632 become corrupted.
5633
563429. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5635 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5636 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5637 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5638 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5639 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5640 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5641 too great.
5642
564330. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5644 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5645 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5646 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5647 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5648 incorrectly.
5649
565031. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5651 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5652 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5653 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5654 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5655 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5656 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5657 cached value only when the same options are set.
5658
565932. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5660
566133. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5662 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5663 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5664 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5665 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5666
566734: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5668 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5669 it is clearly obsolete.
5670
567135. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5672 transport.
5673
567436. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5675 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5676 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5677 times.
5678
567937. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5680 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5681 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5682 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5683 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5684
568538. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5686 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5687 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5688 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5689
569039. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5691
5692 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5693
5694 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5695 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5696 2^31.
5697
569840. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5699 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5700 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5701 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5702 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5703 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5704 $localpart_data.
5705
570641. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5707 with the -f command-line option.
5708
570942. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5710 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5711 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5712 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5713 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5714 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5715
571643. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5717 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5718 line.
5719
572044. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5721 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5722 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5723 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5724 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5725 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5726 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5727 buffer is too small.
5728
572945. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5730 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5731
573246. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5733 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5734 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5735 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5736 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5737 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5738 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5739 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5740 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5741
574247. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5743 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5744 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5745
574648. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5747 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5748 ACL").
5749
575049. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5751 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5752 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5753 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5754 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5755
575650. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5757 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5758 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5759 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5760 is set.
5761
576251. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5763
576452. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5765
576653. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5767 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5768
576954. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5770 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5771 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5772
577355. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5774 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5775 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5776 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5777 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5778
577956. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5780 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5781 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5782 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5783 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5784 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5785 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5786
578757. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5788 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5789 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5790 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5791 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5792 the test of how many are available.
5793
579458. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5795 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5796 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5797 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5798 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5799 new message is started.
5800
580159. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5802 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5803
580460. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5805 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5806
580761. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5808 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5809 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5810 is no long logged.
5811
581262. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5813 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5814 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5815 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5816 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5817 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5818 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5819
582063. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5821 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5822 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5823 interpreted as octal.
5824
582564. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5826 setting.
5827
582865. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5829 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5830 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5831 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5832 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5833 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5834
583566. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5836 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5837 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5838 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5839
5840 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5841 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5842 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5843 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5844
5845 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5846 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5847 is a bug fix.
5848
5849 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5850 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5851
585267. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5853
585468. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5855 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5856 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5857 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5858
585969. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5860 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5861 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5862 supplied", which is not helpful.
5863
586470. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5865 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5866 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5867
586871. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5869 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5870 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5871 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5872 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5873 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5874 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5875 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5876
587772. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5878 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5879 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5880 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5881 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5882
588373. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5884 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5885 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5886 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5887 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
5888 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5889
589074. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5891 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5892 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5893
589475. Added write_rejectlog option.
5895
589676. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5897 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5898 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5899 variables.
5900
590177. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5902
590378. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5904 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5905 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5906 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5907 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5908 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5909 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5910 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5911
591279. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5913 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5914 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5915 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5916 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5917
591880. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5919 Haardt.
5920
592181. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5922 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5923 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5924 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5925 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5926 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5927 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5928 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5929 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5930
5931
5932Exim version 4.30
5933-----------------
5934
5935 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5936 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5937 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5938
5939 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5940 fixed.
5941
5942 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5943 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5944 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5945
5946 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5947 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5948 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5949 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5950 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5951 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
5952
5953 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5954 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5955 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5956 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5957 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5958 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5959 the Exim test suite.
5960
5961 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5962 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5963 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5964 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5965
5966 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5967 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5968 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5969 specify it in this variable.
5970
5971 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5972 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5973 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5974 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5975
5976 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5977 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5978 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5979 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5980
5981 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5982 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5983 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5984 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5985 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5986
5987 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5988
598910. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5990 they are logged.
5991
599211. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5993 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5994 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5995 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5996 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5997
599812. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5999 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6000
600113. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6002 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6003 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6004 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6005 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6006
600714. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6008 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6009
601015. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6011 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6012 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6013
601416. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6015 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6016
601717. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6018 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6019
602018. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6021 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6022 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6023
602419. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6025 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6026
602720. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6028 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6029 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6030 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6031
603221. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6033
603422. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6035 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6036 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6037 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6038
603923. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6040
604124. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6042 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6043
604425. Added .include_if_exists.
6045
604626. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6047 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6048 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6049 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6050 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6051 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6052
605327. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6054
605528. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6056 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6057 this.
6058
605929. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6060
606130. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6062 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6063
6064 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6065 550 Sender verify failed
6066
6067 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6068 the final line of the response.
6069
607031. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6071 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6072 all other user lookups.
6073
607432. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6075 delivery time.
6076
607733. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6078 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6079 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6080 result into an int without checking.
6081
608234. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6083 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6084 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6085
608635. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6087 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6088 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6089 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6090
609136. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6092 correctly.
6093
609437. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6095 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6096
609738. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6098 to the empty sender.
6099
610039. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6101 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6102 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6103 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6104 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6105 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6106 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6107 panic log.
6108
610940. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6110 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6111 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6112 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6113 used.
6114
611541. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6116 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6117
611842. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6119 timestamps.
6120
612143. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6122 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6123
612444. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6125
612645. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6127 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6128 logs.
6129
613046. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6131 as soon as it is encountered.
6132
613347. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6134
613548. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6136 rewritten to "<>".
6137
613849. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6139 recognizes a tab character.
6140
614150. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6142 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6143 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6144 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6145
614651. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6147
614852. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6149 crash.
6150
615153. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6152
615354. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6154
615555. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6156 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6157 2822.
6158
615956. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6160 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6161 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6162 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6163 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6164
616557. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6166 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6167
616858. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6169 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6170 list (.included file names were always shown).
6171
617259. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6173 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6174 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6175 root at that time.
6176
617760. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6178 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6179
618061. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6181
618262. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6183
618463. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6185
618664. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6187 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6188 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6189 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6190 failures to open the logs.
6191
619265. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6193 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6194 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6195 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6196 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6197 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6198 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6199
6200
6201Exim version 4.24
6202-----------------
6203
6204 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6205 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6206 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6207 change 4.23/1.
6208
6209 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6210 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6211 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6212
6213 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6214 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6215 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6216
6217 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6218 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6219 causing some misleading effects.
6220
6221 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6222 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6223 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6224
6225 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6226 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6227 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6228 queue-runner function directly.
6229
6230
6231Exim version 4.23
6232-----------------
6233
6234 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6235 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6236
6237 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6238 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6239 was always written to the default place.
6240
6241 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6242 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6243 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6244
6245 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6246
6247 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6248
6249 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6250 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6251 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6252
6253 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6254 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6255 must start.
6256
6257 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6258 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6259 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6260
6261 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6262 command line option is disabled.
6263
6264 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6265 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6266
6267 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6268
6269 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6270
6271 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6272 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6273
627410. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6275
627611. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6277 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6278 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6279 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6280 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6281 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6282
628312. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6284 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6285 timeout.
6286
628713. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6288 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6289
629014. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6291 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6292
629315. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6294 received was valid base64.
6295
629616. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6297 name of the variable that was being set.
6298
629917. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6300
630118. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6302 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6303 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6304 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6305 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6306 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6307
630819. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6309
631020. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6311 nor realm was specified.
6312
631321. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6314 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6315 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6316 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6317
631822. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6319 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6320 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6321
632223. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6323 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6324 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6325
632624. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6327 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6328 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6329 some systems use these upper case variants.
6330
633125. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6332 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6333 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6334 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6335
633626. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6337
633827. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6339 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6340
634128. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6342 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6343 expansion variable.
6344
634529. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6346
634730. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6348 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6349 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6350 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6351
635231. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6353 using it.
6354
635532. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6356 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6357 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6358
635933. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6360 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6361
636234. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6363 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6364 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6365 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6366
636735. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6368 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6369 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6370
637136. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6372
637337. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6374 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6375 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6376 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6377 aborted.
6378
637938. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6380 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6381 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6382
638339. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6384
638540. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6386 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6387
638841. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6389 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6390
639142. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6392 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6393 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6394 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6395 when emails are that large.
6396
6397
6398
6399Exim version 4.22
6400-----------------
6401
6402 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6403 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6404
6405 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6406 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6407 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6408
6409 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6410 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6411 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6412
6413 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6414 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6415 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6416 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6417 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6418
6419 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6420 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6421 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6422 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6423 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6424 ever.
6425
6426 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6427 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6428 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6429 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6430 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6431 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6432 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6433 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6434 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6435 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6436 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6437 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6438 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6439 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6440
6441 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6442 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6443 parameterised it.
6444
6445 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6446 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6447 error should be diagnosed.
6448
6449 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6450 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6451 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6452 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6453 appeared instead of "NULL".
6454
645510. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6456 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6457 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6458 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6459 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6460 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6461 proceeds).
6462
6463 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6464 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6465 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6466
6467
6468Exim version 4.21
6469-----------------
6470
6471 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6472 or receiver verification errors.
6473
6474 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6475 name.
6476
6477 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6478 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6479 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6480 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6481
6482 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6483 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6484 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6485 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6486 shouldn't happen again.
6487
6488 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6489 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6490 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6491
6492 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6493 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6494
6495 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6496
6497 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6498 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6499
6500 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6501 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6502 RFC.
6503
650410. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6505 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6506 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6507
650811. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6509 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6510 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6511 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6512
651312. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6514 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6515 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6516 to define what should happen).
6517
651813. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6519 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6520 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6521
652214. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6523
652415. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6525
652616. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6527 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6528
652917. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
6530 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6531 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6532 structure in all cases.
6533
6534 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6535 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6536 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6537 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6538
653918. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6540 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6541 domain name.
6542
654319. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6544 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6545
654620. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6547 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6548
654921. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6550 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6551 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6552
655322. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6554 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6555 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6556
655723. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6558 the book and for uniformity.
6559
656024. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6561
656225. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6563 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6564 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6565 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6566 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6567 non-existent command as the problem.
6568
656926. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6570 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6571 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6572
657327. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6574
657528. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6576 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6577 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6578
657929. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6580 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6581 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6582 timestamps using strftime().
6583
658430. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6585 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6586
658732. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6588 transport-time rewrites.
6589
659033. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6591 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6592 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6593 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6594
659534. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6596 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6597
659835. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6599 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6600 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6601 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6602 comma and a space.
6603
660436. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6605 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6606 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6607 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6608 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6609 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6610 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6611
661237. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6613 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6614 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6615 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6616 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6617
661838. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6619 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6620 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6621 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6622 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6623 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6624 remaining text gets split now.
6625
662639. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6627 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6628 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6629 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6630
663140. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6632 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6633 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6634 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6635 $return_path.
6636
663741. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6638 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6639 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6640 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6641 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6642 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6643 passed through if needed.
6644
664542. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6646 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6647 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6648 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6649 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6650 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6651
665243. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6653 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6654 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6655 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6656 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6657
665844. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6659 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6660 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6661 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6662 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6663
666445. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6665 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6666 noticed.
6667
666846. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6669 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6670 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6671 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6672 mayhem of various kinds.
6673
667447. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6675 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6676 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6677 the right test for positive values.
6678
667948. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6680 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6681 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6682 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6683 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6684 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6685 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6686 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6687 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6688 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6689 envelope.
6690
669149. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6692 module.
6693
669450. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6695 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6696 forbidding it.
6697
669851. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6699 the existing equality matching.
6700
670152. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6702 dealing with inode numbers.
6703
670453. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6705 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6706 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6707
670854. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6709 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6710 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6711 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6712 local_scan().
6713
671455. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6715 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6716 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6717 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6718 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6719 relay addresses has also been removed.
6720
672156. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6722
672357. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6724 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6725 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6726
672758. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6728 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6729 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6730 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6731 processing applies to CR:
6732
6733 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6734 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6735
6736 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6737 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6738 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6739 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6740
674159. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6742 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6743 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6744
674560. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6746 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6747 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6748 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6749 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6750 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6751 arisen.
6752
675361. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6754 program routers.
6755
675662. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6757 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6758 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6759 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6760 adds:
6761
6762 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6763
6764 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6765
6766 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6767
676863. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6769 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6770 not considered personal.
6771
677264. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6773
677465. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6775
677666. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6777
677867. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6779 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6780 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6781 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6782 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6783 header lines, and spool format errors.
6784
678568. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6786 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6787 for more flexibility.
6788
678969. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6790 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6791 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6792
679370. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6794 Sabourenkov.
6795
679671. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6797 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6798 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6799 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6800 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6801 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6802 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6803 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6804 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6805
680672. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6807 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6808 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6809 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6810 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6811 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6812 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6813
681473. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6815 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6816 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6817
681874. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6819 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6820 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6821 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6822 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6823 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6824 instead of killing the process with assert().
6825
682675. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6827 than Unicode encoding.
6828
682976. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6830 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6831 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6832 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6833
683477. Added process_log_path.
6835
683678. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6837 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6838
683979. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6840 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6841
684280. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6843 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6844 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6845
684681. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6847 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6848 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6849 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6850 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6851 were applied:
6852
6853 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6854 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6855 as invalid.
6856
685782. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6858 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6859 they will be used during message reception.
6860
6861
6862Exim version 4.20
6863-----------------
6864
6865The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6866
6867****