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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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4Exim version 4.88
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6JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
7 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8
9JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
10 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
11 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
12
13JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
14 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
15 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
16 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
17 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
18 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
19 if one fails this test.
20 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
21 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
22
23JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
24 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
25
26JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
27 selfsigned certificate for inbound TLS connections.
28
29JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
30 in rewrites and routers.
31
32JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
33 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
34
35JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
36 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
37
38JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
39
40JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
41 certificate).
42
43JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
44 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
45 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
46 connection after a verify cache hit.
47 Do not update it with the verify result either.
48
49JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
50 when routing results in more than one destination address.
51
52JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
53 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
54 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
55 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
56 when the cutthrough connection is made).
57
58JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
59 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
60
61
62Exim version 4.87
63-----------------
64JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
65 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
66 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
67 client dropping the TLS connection.
68
69TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
70 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
71
72TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
73 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
74 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
75 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
76 outgoing I= field.
77
78JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
79 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
80 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
81 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
82 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
83 check on the next write.
84
85HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
86 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
87 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
88 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
89 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
90
91JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
92 mime_regex ACL conditions.
93
94JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
95 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
96 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
97
98JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
99 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
100 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
101 an authenticate fail is not an error.
102
103HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
104 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
105
106JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
107 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
108
109JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
110 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
111 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
112 distinct.
113
114JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
115
116JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
117
118JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
119
120JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
121 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
122
123JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
124 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
125
126JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
127
128JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
129 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
130
131JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
132
133JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
134 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
135
136JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
137
138JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
139 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
140 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
141 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
142 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
143 they will retry in-clear.
144 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
145 at installation time.
146
147HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
148 with the $config_file variable.
149
150JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
151 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
152 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
153 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
154 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx reponse.
155
156GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
157 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
158 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
159 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
160 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
161
162JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
163
164JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
165 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
166 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
167 list order is no longer honoured.
168
169JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalisation
170 for DKIM processing.
171
172JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
173 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
174
175JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
176 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
177 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
178 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
179
180JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
181 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
182
183JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
184 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
185
186JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
187 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
188
189JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
190
191JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
192 cached by the daemon.
193
194JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
195 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
196
197JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
198 keys are given for lookup.
199
200JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
201 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
202 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
203 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
204
205JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
206 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
207 server-side so match that on older versions.
208
209JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
210 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
211 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
212
213JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
214 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
215
216JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
217 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
218 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
219 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
220 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
221 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
222 initial truncated version.
223
224JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
225
226JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
227
228JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
229 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
230
231JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
232
233HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
234
235JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
236 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
237 induced overflows.
238
239JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
240 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
241 stage.
242
243JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
244 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
245
246JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
247 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
248 former class.
249
250JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
251 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
252 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
253
254JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
255 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
256 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
257 extraction. Accept either.
258
259
260
261Exim version 4.86
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263JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
264 expanded.
265
266JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
267
268JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
269 it.
270
271JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
272 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
273 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
274 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
275
276JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
277 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
278 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
279
280JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
281 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
282 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
283 TLS connections
284
285JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
286 sites use this now.
287
288JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
289 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
290 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
291 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
292 have a dsn_lasthop option.
293
294JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
295 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
296 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
297
298JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
299
300JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
301 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
302
303JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
304 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
305
306JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
307 /defer_ok option.
308
309JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
310 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
311
312JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
313 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
314 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
315
316JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
317 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
318 specify a port-range.
319
320JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
321 timeout value per server.
322
323JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
324 now have the list separator specified.
325
326JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
327 option values.
328
329JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
330 under OpenSSL.
331
332JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
333
334JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
335 rather than the verbs used.
336
337JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
338 from 255 to 1024 chars.
339
340JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
341
342HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
343 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
344
345JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
346 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
347
348HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
349 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
350
351JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
352
353JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
354
355JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
356 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
357 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
358 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
359
360JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
361
362JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
363 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
364
365JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
366 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
367
368JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
369
370JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
371
372JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
373
374JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
375 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
376
377JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
378 added for tls authenticator.
379
380HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
381
382
383Exim version 4.85
384-----------------
385TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
386 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
387 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
388 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
389 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
390 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
391 the script parsing/test process like normal.
392
393TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
394 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
395 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
396 function when detected.
397
398JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
399 cause callback expansion.
400
401TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
402 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
403 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
404 instead of bool when processing it.
405
406JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
407 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
408
409JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
410
411JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
412
413TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
414
415TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
416 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
417
418JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
419 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
420 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
421 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
422 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
423 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
424
425JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
426 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
427 exceeded it.
428
429JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
430 version 3.3.6 or later.
431
432JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
433 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
434 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
435 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
436 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
437 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
438 option is defined.
439
440TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
441 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
442
443JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
444 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
445 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
446 matches.
447
448JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
449 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
450 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
451
452JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
453 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
454
455JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
456 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
457 syntax errors.
458
459JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
460
461JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
462 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
463
464TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
465 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
466 tarball.
467
468JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
469
470JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
471 Bug 1561.
472
473JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
474 output list separator was used.
475
476
477Exim version 4.84
478-----------------
479TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
480 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
481 return.
482
483JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
484 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
485
486JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
487
488TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
489 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
490
491
492Exim version 4.83
493-----------------
494
495TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
496
497 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
498 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
499 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
500 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
501 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
502 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
503
504TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
505 utilities have not been installed.
506
507JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
508 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
509
510TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
511 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
512
513TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
514 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
515 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
516 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
517
518JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
519
520TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
521 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
522
523PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
524 not dns_use_dnssec.
525
526JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
527
528TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
529 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
530 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
531
532TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
533 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
534 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
535 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
536 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
537 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
538
539JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
540
541JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
542 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
543
544JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
545 failed delivery.
546
547JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
548
549JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
550
551JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
552 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
553
554JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
555 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
556
557TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
558
559JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
560
561JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
562 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
563
564 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
565 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
566 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
567
568TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
569 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
570 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
571 analysis.
572
573JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
574
575JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
576 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
577 lookup).
578
579TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
580 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
581 Schlichting.
582
583JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
584 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
585
586TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
587 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
588
589JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
590
591TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
592 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
593 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
594
595JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
596 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
597
598JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
599 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
600 hosts_request_ocsp.
601
602JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
603 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
604 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
605
606JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
607
608TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
609 Christian Aistleitner.
610
611JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
612
613TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
614 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
615
616JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
617 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
618
619JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
620 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
621
622TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
623 support and error reporting did not work properly.
624
625TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
626 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
627
628TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
629 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
630 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
631
632JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
633
634PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
635 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
636 Jasper Wallace.
637
638JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
639
640TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
641 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
642 CVE-2014-2972
643
644
645Exim version 4.82
646-----------------
647
648PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
649
650PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
651 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
652
653PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
654 by GnuTLS.
655
656PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
657 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
658 routines.
659
660PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
661
662PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
663 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
664 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
665 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
666 using channel bindings instead).
667
668PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
669 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
670 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
671 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
672 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
673 Bugzilla 1117.
674
675TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
676
677TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
678
679TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
680 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
681
682TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
683 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
684 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
685
686TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
687
688TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
689
690TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
691 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
692
693JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
694
695JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
696
697PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
698
699NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
700 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
701
702JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
703
704PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
705 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
706 function.
707
708PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
709 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
710
711JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
712 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
713 "acl = name arg..."
714
715JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
716
717JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
718
719JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
720 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
721
722JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
723 Bugzilla 884.
724
725JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
726 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
727
728JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
729 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
730
731PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
732 CVE-2012-5671
733 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
734
735JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
736 authenticators.
737
738JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
739 for control.
740
741PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
742
743PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
744 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
745 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
746 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
747
748TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
749
750 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
751 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
752 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
753 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
754 the retry rules.
755
756 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
757 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
758 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
759
760 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
761 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
762 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
763 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
764
765 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
766 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
767 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
768 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
769 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
770 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
771 delivery, as in LMTP.
772
773 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
774 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
775
776TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
777
778 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
779
780 Resent-From: f
781
782 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
783 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
784 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
785 username as equal to the username.
786
787 This change corrects that bug.
788
789GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
790 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
791 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
792
793TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
794
795PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
796 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
797 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
798 NULL dereference and crash.
799
800JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
801
802PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
803 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
804 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
805
806SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
807
808JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
809 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
810 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
811 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
812 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
813 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
814 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
815 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
816 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
817 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
818 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
819
820PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
821 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
822
823PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
824 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
825 Bugzilla 880.
826
827PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
828 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
829 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
830 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
831 an empty string is now equivalent.
832
833PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
834 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
835 not performing validation itself.
836
837PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
838 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
839
840JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
841 Bugzilla 321, 823.
842
843TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
844
845PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
846 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
847 other false fix of the same issue.
848 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
849 Bugzilla 1363.
850
851PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
852 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
853
854PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
855 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
856 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
857
858PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
859 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
860 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
861
862TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
863
864JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
865
866TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
867 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
868
869TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
870 Alexander Miroch.
871
872TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
873 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
874 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
875 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
876 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
877
878TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
879 the src/util/ subdirectory.
880
881TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
882 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
883 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
884
885TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
886 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
887 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
888 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
889
890TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
891
892TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
893 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
894 from multiple comments on this bug.
895
896TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
897
898TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
899 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
900 interaction.
901
902TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
903 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
904
905TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
906 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
907
908
909Exim version 4.80.1
910-------------------
911
912PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
913 CVE-2012-5671
914 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
915
916
917Exim version 4.80
918-----------------
919
920PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
921 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
922 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
923
924NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
925
926NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
927 improved.
928
929NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
930
931PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
932
933PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
934
935PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
936 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
937
938PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
939 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
940
941PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
942 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
943
944PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
945 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
946 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
947
948PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
949
950PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
951 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
952
953PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
954
955PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
956
957PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
958 non-compliant senders.
959 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
960
961NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
962 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
963 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
964
965PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
966 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
967 in spool file corruption.
968
969PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
970 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
971 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
972 "Got SSL error 2".
973
974TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
975 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
976 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
977
978JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
979 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
980
981JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
982
983PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
984 diagnostics.
985 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
986
987PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
988 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
989 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
990
991PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
992 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
993 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
994 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
995
996PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
997 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
998
999PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1000 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1001 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1002 resolver implementation change.
1003
1004PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1005 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1006
1007PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1008
1009PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1010
1011PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1012 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1013
1014PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1015 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1016
1017JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1018 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1019
1020PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1021 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1022 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1023 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1024 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1025
1026PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1027
1028PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1029 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1030 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1031
1032JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1033
1034PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1035 read-only, out of scope).
1036 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1037
1038PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1039 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1040 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1041 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1042
1043PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1044
1045PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1046 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1047 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1048 real issues in debug logging.
1049
1050PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1051 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1052
1053PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1054 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1055 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1056
1057PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1058 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1059 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1060 problems.
1061
1062PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1063 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1064
1065PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1066 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1067 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1068 needs to override this, it can.
1069
1070PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1071 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1072 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1073
1074PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1075 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1076 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1077 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1078
1079PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1080
1081
1082Exim version 4.77
1083-----------------
1084
1085PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1086 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1087
1088TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1089
1090TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1091 whitespace trailer
1092
1093TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1094 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1095
1096TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1097 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1098 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1099
1100 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1101 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1102 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1103 not safe for signals.
1104
1105 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1106 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1107 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1108 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1109 exiwhat.
1110
1111TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1112
1113 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1114 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1115 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1116 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1117 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1118
1119 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1120 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1121 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1122 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1123 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1124 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1125
1126 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1127 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1128 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1129 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1130
1131 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1132 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1133 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1134 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1135
1136 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1137 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1138 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1139 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1140 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1141 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1142 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1143 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1144 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1145
1146 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1147 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1148 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1149 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1150
1151 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1152 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1153 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1154 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1155 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1156 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1157 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1158 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1159 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1160 details in the main documentation.
1161
1162TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1163
1164TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1165
1166TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1167 repository when doing development or release builds.
1168
1169PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1170 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
1171
1172PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1173 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1174 Bugzilla 97.
1175
1176PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1177
1178PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
1179 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1180
1181PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1182 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1183
1184PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
1185 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1186
1187PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1188 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
1189
1190PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1191 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1192
1193PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1194 Bugzilla 1156.
1195 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1196 Bugzilla 1095.
1197
1198PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
1199 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1200 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1201
1202PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1203
1204PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
1205
1206PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1207 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1208
1209
1210Exim version 4.76
1211-----------------
1212
1213PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1214
1215PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1216 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1217
1218PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1219
1220PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1221
1222PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1223 Bugzilla 1098.
1224
1225PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1226 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
1227
1228TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1229 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1230
1231PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1232 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1233
1234PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1235 Bugzilla 1104.
1236
1237TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
1238 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1239
1240TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1241 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1242 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1243 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1244
1245PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1246 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
1247
1248
1249Exim version 4.75
1250-----------------
1251
1252NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
1253 Bugzilla 1073
1254
1255TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1256 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1257 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1258
1259TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1260 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1261
1262PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1263 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1264 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1265
1266PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1267 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1268
1269PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1270 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1271
1272NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1273 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1274
1275NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1276 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1277
1278PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1279 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
1280
1281NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1282 Fixes bug 943.
1283
1284PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1285 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1286
1287PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1288 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1289
1290PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1291 SQL string expansion failure details.
1292 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1293
1294PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1295 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1296
1297PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1298 extern declarations in function scope.
1299 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1300
1301PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1302 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1303 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1304 a kernel bug).
1305
1306PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1307 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1308
1309PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1310 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1311
1312PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1313 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1314
1315PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1316 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1317
1318NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1319 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1320 Dennis Davis.
1321
1322PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1323
1324PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1325
1326NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1327 Patch by Simon Arlott
1328
1329TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1330 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1331
1332
1333Exim version 4.74
1334-----------------
1335
1336TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1337 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1338
1339TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1340 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1341
1342TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1343
1344DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1345 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1346 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1347
1348PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1349 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1350 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1351
1352PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1353 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1354 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1355 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1356
1357PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1358 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1359 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1360 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1361
1362PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1363 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1364 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1365 arbitrary files.
1366
1367PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1368 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1369
1370PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1371 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1372 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1373 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1374 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1375
1376
1377Exim version 4.73
1378-----------------
1379
1380PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1381 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1382 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1383
1384PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1385 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1386
1387JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1388
1389PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1390
1391PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1392
1393PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
1394
1395PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1396
1397PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
1398 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1399 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
1400 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1401
1402PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1403 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1404 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
1405 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1406 more caution in buffer sizes.
1407
1408PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1409
1410PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1411
1412PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1413
1414PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1415
1416PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1417
1418PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1419
1420PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1421
1422PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
1423 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1424 ignore trailing whitespace.
1425
1426JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1427
1428JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1429 "exim" to be used
1430
1431PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1432 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1433
1434PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1435 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1436 Notification from John Horne.
1437
1438PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1439 compatible.
1440
1441PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1442 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1443 it normally works.
1444
1445DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1446 access.
1447
1448DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1449 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1450 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1451
1452DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1453 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1454 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1455 configuration file.
1456
1457DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1458 option (effectively making it always true).
1459
1460DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1461 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1462
1463DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1464 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1465
1466PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1467 run-time user, instead of root.
1468
1469PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
1470 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1471
1472DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1473 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1474 arguments.
1475
1476DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1477 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1478 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1479
1480DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1481
1482NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1483
1484
1485Exim version 4.72
1486-----------------
1487
1488JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1489 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1490 typos
1491
1492JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1493 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1494 (Finput)
1495
1496NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1497 Patch from Alain Williams
1498
1499NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1500
1501NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1502 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1503
1504NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1505 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1506
1507NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1508
1509JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1510
1511NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
1512 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
1513
1514TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1515
1516TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1517
1518MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1519 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1520 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1521
1522NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1523 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
1524
1525NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
1526 Patch by Simon Arlott
1527
1528PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
1529 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
1530
1531
1532Exim version 4.71
1533-----------------
1534
1535TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
1536
1537NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1538
1539NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1540
1541NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1542
1543NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1544
1545
1546Exim version 4.70
1547-----------------
1548
1549TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
1550 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
1551
1552TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1553 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
1554 Hirsch).
1555
1556TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1557 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
1558 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
1559
1560TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1561 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1562
1563NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1564 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1565 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1566 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1567
1568NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1569 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
1570 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
1571
1572TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1573
1574TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1575
1576NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
1577 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
1578
1579NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
1580
1581TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1582 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1583 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1584 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1585
1586NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
1587 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
1588
1589TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
1590
1591NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
1592
1593NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
1594 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
1595
1596TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1597 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
1598
1599TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1600 that they are available at delivery time.
1601
1602TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1603
1604TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1605 incoming_port log selectors.
1606
1607TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1608 setting expands to an empty string.
1609
1610NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
1611 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1612
1613NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
1614 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
1615
1616NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
1617 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
1618
1619NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1620 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
1621
1622NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1623 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
1624
1625NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
1626 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1627
1628NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1629
1630NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
1631 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1632
1633NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
1634 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
1635
1636TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1637
1638NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
1639 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
1640
1641NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1642
1643NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
1644
1645NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1646 lsearch.
1647
1648NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1649 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1650
1651NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1652 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1653
1654NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1655 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1656
1657NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1658 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1659
1660NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1661 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1662
1663NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1664 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1665
1666NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1667 plus update to original patch.
1668
1669NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
1670
1671NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1672 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
1673
1674NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
1675
1676NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
1677
1678NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
1679
1680NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
1681
1682NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
1683 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
1684
1685NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1686 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
1687
1688NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
1689 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
1690
1691NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1692 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
1693
1694NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
1695
1696NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
1697
1698NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
1699
1700NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
1701
1702
1703Exim version 4.69
1704-----------------
1705
1706TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1707 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1708 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1709
1710 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1711 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1712 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1713 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1714 build errors in sieve.c.
1715
1716NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1717 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1718 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1719
1720SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1721
1722NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
1723
1724NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
1725
1726NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
1727
1728
1729Exim version 4.68
1730-----------------
1731
1732PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1733
1734PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1735 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1736 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1737 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1738 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1739 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1740 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1741 for iplsearch lookups.
1742
1743 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1744 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1745 previously such lookups could never work.
1746
1747 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1748 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1749 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1750
1751TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1752 version.
1753
1754MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1755 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1756 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1757 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1758 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1759 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1760
1761TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1762 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1763
1764MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1765 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1766 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1767 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1768 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1769 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1770
1771PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1772 local_scan API.
1773
1774PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1775
1776PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1777 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1778 encrypted.
1779
1780PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1781 by clients under certain conditions.
1782
1783PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1784 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1785
1786PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1787
1788PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1789 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1790
1791PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1792
1793PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1794
1795PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1796
1797PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1798 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1799
1800PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1801
1802PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1803 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1804
1805PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1806
1807PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1808
1809PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1810 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1811 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1812 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
1813
1814PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
1815 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1816 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1817
1818PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
1819 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1820
1821PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1822
1823PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1824
1825PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1826
1827PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1828 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1829 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1830
1831
1832Exim version 4.67
1833-----------------
1834
1835MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1836 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1837 Jan Srzednicki.
1838
1839PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1840 issue a MAIL command.
1841
1842PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1843
1844 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1845
1846 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1847 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1848 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1849 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1850 item. This has been fixed.
1851
1852PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1853 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1854
1855PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1856 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1857
1858PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1859 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1860 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1861
1862SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1863
1864PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1865 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1866 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1867 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1868 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1869
1870MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1871 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1872 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1873
1874PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1875 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1876 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1877 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1878
1879PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1880
1881PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1882
1883PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1884 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1885 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1886 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1887 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1888
1889PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1890
1891PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1892 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1893 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1894 values).
1895
1896PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1897
1898PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1899
1900PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1901
1902PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1903
1904PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1905
1906PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1907 no_callout_flush is set.
1908
1909PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1910 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1911 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1912 fixed.
1913
1914PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1915
1916PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1917 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1918 other ACL rejections are.
1919
1920PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1921 with slight modification.
1922
1923PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1924 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1925
1926PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1927 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1928 connection.
1929
1930PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1931 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1932
1933SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1934
1935PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1936 expansion side effects.
1937
1938PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1939 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1940 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1941 be the same.
1942
1943MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1944 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1945 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1946
1947PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1948 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1949 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1950 were accidentally chopped off.
1951
1952PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1953 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1954 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1955 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1956 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1957 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1958 pipelining has not been advertised.
1959
1960PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1961
1962PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1963 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1964 This has been fixed.
1965
1966PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1967 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1968 reported on Solaris.
1969
1970PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1971 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1972 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1973 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1974 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1975 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1976 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1977
1978PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1979 cpus.
1980
1981PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1982
1983PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1984
1985PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1986 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1987 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1988 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1989 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1990 criteria to be more general.
1991
1992PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1993 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1994 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1995 host_all_ignored option.
1996
1997PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1998 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1999 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2000 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2001 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2002 is what is supposed to happen).
2003
2004PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2005 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2006 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2007 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2008 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2009 uses the Exim user.
2010
2011PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2012 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2013 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2014 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2015 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2016 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2017 users.
2018
2019PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2020
2021SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2022 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2023 (Jez Hancock).
2024 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2025 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2026
2027SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2028
2029PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2030
2031PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2032 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2033 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2034 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2035 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2036 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2037 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2038 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2039 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2040 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2041 least in a lot of common cases.
2042
2043PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2044 advertised in response to EHLO.
2045
2046
2047Exim version 4.66
2048-----------------
2049
2050PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2051 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2052
2053 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2054 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2055
2056 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2057 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2058 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2059
2060 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2061 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2062 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2063 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2064 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2065
2066
2067Exim version 4.65
2068-----------------
2069
2070TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2071 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2072 versions. (#438)
2073
2074MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2075 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2076 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2077
2078PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2079 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2080 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2081 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2082 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2083 rather than extend the field.
2084
2085
2086Exim version 4.64
2087-----------------
2088
2089TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2090 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2091 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2092 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2093 these files.
2094
2095TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2096 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2097 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2098
2099TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2100 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2101 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2102
2103TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2104 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2105 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2106 in the field name.
2107
2108PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2109 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2110 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2111 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2112 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2113 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2114 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2115 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2116 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2117 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2118 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2119
2120PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2121 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2122
2123PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2124 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2125 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2126 ignores EPIPE as well.
2127
2128PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2129 (quoted-printable decoding).
2130
2131PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
2132 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
2133
2134PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2135
2136PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2137
2138PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2139
2140PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
2141 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
2142
2143JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2144 in 4.64-PH/09.
2145
2146JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2147 miscellaneous code fixes
2148
2149PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2150 rejections.
2151
2152PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2153 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2154 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2155 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2156 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2157 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2158 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2159 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
2160
2161PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
2162 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
2163 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2164 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2165 function.
2166 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2167 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2168 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2169 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2170 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2171 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2172 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2173 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2174 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2175
2176PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2177 decoding.
2178
2179PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2180 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2181 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2182 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2183 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2184 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2185 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2186 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2187
2188PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2189 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2190 list.
2191
2192PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2193 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2194 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2195 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2196 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2197 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2198 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2199 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2200 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2201 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2202 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2203 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2204 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2205
2206PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2207 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2208 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2209 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2210 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2211 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2212 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2213
2214PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2215 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2216 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2217 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2218 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2219 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2220 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2221 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2222 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2223 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2224
2225PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2226 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2227 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2228 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2229 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2230
2231PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2232 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2233 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2234 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2235 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2236 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2237 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2238
2239PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2240 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2241 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2242 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2243 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2244 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2245 been verified.
2246
2247PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
2248 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2249 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2250 and authorization.)
2251
2252PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2253 if any retry times were supplied.
2254
2255PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2256 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2257 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2258
2259PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2260
2261PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2262
2263PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2264 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2265 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2266 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
2267 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2268 before) are ignored.
2269
2270PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2271 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2272
2273PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2274 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2275 committing the later change.]
2276
2277PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2278 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2279 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2280 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2281 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2282 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2283 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2284 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2285 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2286
2287 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2288 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2289 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2290 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2291 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2292 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2293 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2294 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2295 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2296
2297 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2298 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2299 hammering the server.
2300
2301PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2302 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2303
2304PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2305
2306PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2307 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2308 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2309
2310PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2311 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2312 one case where this was not true.
2313
2314PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2315 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2316 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2317 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2318 fails.
2319
2320PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2321 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2322 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2323 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2324 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2325 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2326 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2327 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2328 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2329 smtp transport.
2330
2331PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2332 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2333 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2334 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2335
2336PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2337 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2338
2339PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2340 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2341 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2342
2343PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2344
2345PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2346
2347PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2348
2349PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2350 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2351 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2352 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2353
2354PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2355 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2356
2357PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2358 be meaningful with "accept".
2359
2360SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2361 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2362
2363SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2364 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2365 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2366
2367SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2368 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2369 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2370 there is data to show.
2371 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2372
2373SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2374 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2375 as well as the number of messages.
2376
2377SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2378 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2379 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2380
2381SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2382 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2383 have a flag are now skipped.
2384
2385SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2386 Added the -emptyok flag.
2387
2388SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2389 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2390
2391JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2392 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2393 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2394
2395JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2396 match 4.64-PH/13
2397
2398JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2399 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2400
2401JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2402
2403JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2404 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2405
2406PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2407
2408PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2409 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2410 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2411 contravention of the specifications.
2412
2413PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2414 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2415 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
2416
2417PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2418 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2419 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2420
2421PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2422
2423MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2424 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2425 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2426 some point in the past.
2427
2428PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2429 transport during callout processing was broken.
2430
2431PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2432 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2433
2434PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2435 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2436
2437PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2438 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2439
2440PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2441
2442
2443Exim version 4.63
2444-----------------
2445
2446SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2447 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2448
2449SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2450 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2451 there is data to show.
2452 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2453
2454SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2455 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2456
2457TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2458 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
2459
2460TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2461 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
2462
2463TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2464 submissions from trusted users.
2465
2466TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2467 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2468
2469TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2470 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2471 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2472 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2473 there is now a framework to start from.
2474
2475PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2476 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2477 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2478
2479PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2480
2481PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2482
2483PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2484
2485PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2486 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2487 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2488
2489PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2490 libradius.
2491
2492PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2493 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2494 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2495
2496PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2497 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2498 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2499 its arguments.
2500
2501PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2502 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2503 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2504 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2505 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2506
2507PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2508 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2509
2510PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2511
2512PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2513 operations in malware.c.
2514
2515PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2516 signatures.
2517
2518PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2519 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2520 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2521 all.
2522
2523PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2524 statements to "add_header".
2525
2526PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2527 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2528
2529PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2530 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2531 latter.
2532
2533PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
2534 so that it is now:
2535
2536 ${if or { \
2537 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2538 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2539 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
2540 }{no}{yes}}
2541
2542 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2543 don't think Precedence: ever was.
2544
2545PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2546 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2547
2548PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2549 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2550 any possible encoding problems.
2551
2552PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2553 but not after initializing Perl.
2554
2555PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2556 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2557 apparently, which is not desirable.
2558
2559PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2560 queries.
2561
2562JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2563 --not options
2564
2565JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2566
2567PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2568 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2569 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2570 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2571
2572PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2573 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2574 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2575
2576PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2577 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2578 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2579 0.12.
2580
2581PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2582 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2583 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2584 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2585 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2586
2587
2588Exim version 4.62
2589-----------------
2590
2591TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2592 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2593
2594PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2595 patch).
2596
2597PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2598 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2599 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2600 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2601 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2602 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2603 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2604 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2605 451 error is used.
2606
2607PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2608
2609PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2610 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2611 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2612
2613PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2614 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2615 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2616 odd errors.
2617
2618PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2619 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2620
2621PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2622 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2623 option (which defaults to 0600).
2624
2625PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2626
2627PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2628 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2629 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2630 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2631 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2632 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2633 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2634
2635PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2636
2637
2638Exim version 4.61
2639-----------------
2640
2641PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2642 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2643 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2644 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2645 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2646 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2647 addresses as local.
2648
2649PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2650 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2651
2652PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2653
2654PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2655 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2656 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2657 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2658 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2659 grumble.
2660
2661PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2662 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2663
2664PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2665 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2666 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2667 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2668 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2669
2670PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2671 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2672 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2673 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2674
2675PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2676 be the same on different OS.
2677
2678PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2679 testing.
2680
2681JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2682 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2683
2684JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2685 in 4.61-PH/06
2686
2687PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2688 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2689 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2690 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2691 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2692 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2693 bounce message.
2694
2695PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2696 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2697 when Exim was called.
2698
2699PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2700 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2701
2702PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2703 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2704 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2705 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2706
2707PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2708 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2709 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2710 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2711 changes:
2712
2713 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2714 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2715 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2716
2717 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2718 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2719 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2720
2721PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2722 feature).
2723
2724PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2725 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2726 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2727 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2728 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2729 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2730 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2731 values from the SRV records were lost.
2732
2733PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2734 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2735 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2736
2737PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2738 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2739 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2740
2741PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2742 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2743 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2744 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2745 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2746 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2747 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2748 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2749 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
2750 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
2751
2752PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2753 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2754 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2755
2756PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2757 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2758
2759PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2760 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2761 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2762 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2763 is given.
2764
2765PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2766 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2767 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2768
2769PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2770 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2771 PH/23 above applies.
2772
2773PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2774 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2775 (for which there is an explicit test).
2776
2777PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2778
2779PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2780 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2781 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2782 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2783 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
2784
2785PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2786 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2787 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2788 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2789
2790PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2791 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2792 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2793
2794PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2795
2796PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2797
2798PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2799 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2800 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2801
2802PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2803 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2804 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2805 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2806 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2807
2808PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2809 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2810 the message gets confusing).
2811
2812PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2813 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2814 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2815 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2816
2817PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2818 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2819 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2820 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2821 same order.
2822
2823PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2824 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2825 the different processes.
2826
2827PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2828
2829PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2830
2831JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2832 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2833
2834JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2835 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2836
2837JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2838 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2839 messages matching specified criteria.
2840
2841PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2842
2843PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2844 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2845
2846PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2847 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2848 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2849 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2850 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2851 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2852 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2853 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2854 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2855 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2856
2857PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2858 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2859 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2860
2861PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2862
2863PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2864 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2865 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2866 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2867 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2868 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2869 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2870 the variable.
2871
2872PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2873 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2874
2875PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2876
2877PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2878
2879PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2880
2881PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2882 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2883 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2884 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2885 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2886 size of the count of files.
2887
2888PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2889
2890PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2891 used in LMTP mode:
2892
2893 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2894 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2895 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2896 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2897
2898 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2899 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2900 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2901
2902PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2903 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2904 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2905 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2906 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2907
2908PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2909 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2910
2911PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2912 will now be deprecated.
2913
2914PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2915
2916JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2917 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2918 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2919
2920JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2921 with very large, slow to parse queues
2922
2923JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2924
2925JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2926
2927PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2928 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2929 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2930 SMTP output lines.
2931
2932PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2933 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2934 Sieve code now uses this.
2935
2936PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2937 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2938
2939PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2940 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2941
2942PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2943
2944PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2945 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2946 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2947 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2948 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2949
2950PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2951 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2952 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2953 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2954
2955PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2956
2957PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2958
2959PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2960 is preferred over IPv4.
2961
2962PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2963 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2964 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2965 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2966 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2967 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2968 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2969
2970PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2971 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2972 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2973
2974PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2975
2976PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2977 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2978 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2979 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2980 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2981 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2982 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2983 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2984 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2985 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2986 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2987
2988PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2989 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2990 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2991
2992
2993Exim version 4.60
2994-----------------
2995
2996PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2997
2998 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2999 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3000
3001 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3002 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3003 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3004
3005PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3006
3007 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3008 not a single digit.
3009
3010 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3011 string.
3012
3013 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3014 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3015 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3016 silly things.
3017
3018 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3019 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3020
3021 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3022 inside the third argument.
3023
3024PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3025 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3026 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3027
3028PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3029 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3030
3031PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3032 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3033
3034 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3035
3036 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3037 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3038 this:
3039
3040 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3041
3042PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3043 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3044 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3045 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3046 identical. For example:
3047
3048 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3049
3050 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3051 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3052 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3053
3054PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3055 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3056 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3057 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3058
3059PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3060 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3061 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3062 message.
3063
3064PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3065
3066 o fixes some comments
3067 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3068 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3069 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3070 and documents the missing references header update
3071
3072 and most important:
3073
3074 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3075 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
3076 result)
3077
3078PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3079 Electronic Mail") by including:
3080
3081 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3082
3083 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3084 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
3085 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3086 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3087 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3088
3089 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3090
3091 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3092
3093 The auto-replied keyword:
3094
3095 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3096 message by an automatic process,
3097
3098 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3099
3100 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3101 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3102
3103 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3104 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3105 other messages.
3106
3107PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3108 to the default Received: header definition.
3109
3110PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3111
3112PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3113 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3114 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3115
3116PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3117 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3118 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3119
3120PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3121 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3122 and treats the condition as false.
3123
3124PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3125
3126PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3127 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3128 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3129 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3130 not changing the active code.
3131
3132 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3133 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3134
3135 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3136 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3137
3138PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3139 (Bugzilla #53).
3140
3141PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3142 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3143 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3144 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3145 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3146 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3147 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3148 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3149 the text comparison.
3150
3151PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3152 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3153 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3154 The same fix has been applied.
3155
3156
3157Exim version 4.54
3158-----------------
3159
3160PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3161 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3162 It now does.
3163
3164PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3165 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3166
3167PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3168
3169PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3170 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3171 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3172 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3173 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3174
3175TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3176 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3177 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3178 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3179 or /domain=).
3180
3181PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3182 testing suite.
3183
3184
3185
3186Exim version 4.53
3187-----------------
3188
3189TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3190 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3191
3192PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3193
3194PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3195
3196PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3197 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3198 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3199
3200PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3201 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3202 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3203
3204PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3205 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3206 operating systems.
3207
3208PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3209 ${stat: expansion item.
3210
3211PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3212 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3213
3214PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3215 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3216 file for comments.
3217
3218PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3219
3220PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3221 setting.
3222
3223PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3224 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3225
3226TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3227
3228PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3229 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3230 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3231 the end of the subprocess.
3232
3233PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3234 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3235 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3236 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3237 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3238
3239JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3240
3241TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3242
3243PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3244 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3245
3246PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3247
3248PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3249
3250PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3251 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3252 HP-UX compiler.
3253
3254PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3255
3256PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3257 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3258 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3259
3260PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3261 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3262
3263PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3264 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3265
3266PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3267 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3268
3269 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3270 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3271
3272 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3273 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3274 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3275 contributed by a Radius user.
3276
3277PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3278 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3279
3280TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3281 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3282
3283PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3284 available.
3285
3286PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3287 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3288 received.
3289
3290PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3291 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3292 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3293 header lines when this was not necessary.
3294
3295PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3296
3297PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3298 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3299 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3300 exists".
3301
3302PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3303 -bV or -d is used.
3304
3305PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3306 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
3307 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3308 return code was incorrect.
3309
3310PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3311
3312PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3313
3314TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3315
3316PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3317
3318PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3319 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3320 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3321 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3322 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3323 settings.
3324
3325PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3326
3327PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3328 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3329 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3330 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3331 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3332 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3333 which is clearly wrong.
3334
3335PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3336
3337PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3338 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3339 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3340 subsequently added.
3341
3342PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3343 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3344
3345PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3346
3347PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3348 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3349
3350PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3351 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3352
3353PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3354 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3355
3356PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3357 recipients, not senders.
3358
3359TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3360 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3361
3362PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3363
3364PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3365
3366PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3367 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3368 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3369 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3370
3371TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3372
3373TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3374 clock is set back in time.
3375
3376TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3377 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3378
3379TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3380 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3381
3382PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3383 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3384 (see PH/47 above).
3385
3386TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3387 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3388 header rewrites.
3389
3390PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3391 type ("H").
3392
3393PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3394
3395TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3396 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3397 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3398
3399TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3400 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3401 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3402 helo verification defer as a failure.
3403
3404PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3405 actual error message.
3406
3407
3408Exim version 4.52
3409-----------------
3410
3411TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3412
3413PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3414 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3415 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3416 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3417
3418TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3419
3420PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3421 can still be requested.
3422
3423PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3424 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3425 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3426 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3427
3428TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3429 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3430 circumstances, but probably never did.
3431
3432PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3433 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3434 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3435 in the header line.
3436
3437TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3438
3439TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3440 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
3441
3442TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3443
3444TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3445
3446PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3447 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3448 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3449 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3450 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3451 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
3452
3453PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3454 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3455 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3456 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3457 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3458 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3459
3460TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3461 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3462
3463PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3464 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3465
3466SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3467 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3468
3469SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3470
3471SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3472
3473SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3474
3475SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3476
3477SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3478
3479SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3480
3481TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3482
3483TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3484 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3485 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3486
3487TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3488 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3489 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3490 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3491
3492PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3493 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3494 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3495
3496PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3497 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3498 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3499 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3500
3501PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3502 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3503 to be made).
3504
3505PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3506 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3507 should work with maildirs and everything.
3508
3509TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3510 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3511
3512TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3513 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3514
3515PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3516 function for BDB 4.3.
3517
3518PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3519
3520PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3521 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3522 involved.
3523
3524PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3525 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3526 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
3527 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3528 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3529 formatting function string_vformat().
3530
3531PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3532 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3533 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3534 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3535 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3536 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3537 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3538 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3539
3540TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3541 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3542 details.
3543
3544PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3545 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3546
3547PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3548 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3549 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3550 test. It is now used for both.
3551
3552PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3553 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3554 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3555 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3556 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3557 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3558
3559PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3560 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3561 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3562 string_vformat().
3563
3564PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3565 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3566 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
3567
3568PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3569 experimental DomainKeys support:
3570
3571 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3572 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3573 the control was given.
3574
3575 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3576
3577PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3578
3579PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3580
3581PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3582 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3583 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3584 db.h files).
3585
3586PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
3587 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3588 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3589 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3590 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3591 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3592 course.
3593
3594PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3595 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3596 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3597 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3598 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3599 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3600
3601PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3602 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3603 do -d+all out of habit.
3604
3605PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3606 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3607 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3608
3609PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3610 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3611 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3612 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3613 record types that Exim uses.
3614
3615PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3616 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3617 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3618 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3619 non-existent file that was broken.
3620
3621TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3622 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3623
3624TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3625 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3626 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3627
3628TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3629
3630PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3631 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3632 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3633 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3634 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3635 same time.
3636
3637SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3638 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3639 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3640 at a slight CPU cost.
3641
3642SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3643 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3644
3645SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3646 by Marc Sherman.
3647
3648SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3649
3650PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3651 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3652
3653
3654Exim version 4.51
3655-----------------
3656
3657TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3658 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3659
3660TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
3661
3662TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3663
3664PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3665 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3666
3667PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3668 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3669 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3670 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3671 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3672 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3673 file.
3674
3675PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3676 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3677 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3678 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3679 these two options.
3680
3681PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3682 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3683 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3684 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3685 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3686 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3687 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
3688 address.
3689
3690PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3691 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3692
3693PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3694 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3695 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3696 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3697 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3698 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3699
3700PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3701 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3702 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3703 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3704
3705PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3706 Finch).
3707
3708PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3709 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
3710
3711PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3712 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
3713 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3714 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3715 message.
3716
3717PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3718
3719PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3720 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3721
3722PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3723 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3724 to what was transported.)
3725
3726TF/01 Added $received_time.
3727
3728PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3729 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3730 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3731 spamd_address settings.
3732
3733PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3734 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3735 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3736 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3737 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3738
3739PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3740
3741PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3742 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3743 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3744 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3745 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3746
3747PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3748 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3749
3750PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3751 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3752 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3753 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3754 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3755 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3756 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3757 for failure.
3758
3759PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3760 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3761 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3762 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3763 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3764 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3765 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3766 "input=".
3767
3768PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3769
3770PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3771 driver and ACL definitions.
3772
3773PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3774 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3775
3776PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3777 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3778 understands it better than I do:
3779
3780 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3781 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3782
3783 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3784 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3785 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3786 => three warnings about OTP not working
3787 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3788
3789 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3790 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3791 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3792 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3793 for each call.)
3794 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3795 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3796
3797 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3798 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3799 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3800
3801PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3802 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3803 specified.
3804
3805PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3806 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3807 "Linux".
3808
3809PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3810 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3811 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3812
3813 warn !verify = sender
3814 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3815
3816 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3817 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3818
3819PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3820
3821 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3822 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3823
3824 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3825 nomenclature these days.)
3826
3827PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3828 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3829
3830PH/30 In these circumstances:
3831 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3832 . First host does not offer TLS;
3833 . First host accepts first address;
3834 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3835 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3836 . Second host accepts second address.
3837 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3838 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3839 address.
3840
3841PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3842 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3843 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3844 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3845 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3846
3847PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3848 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3849
3850PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3851 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
3852
3853PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3854 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3855 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3856
3857PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3858 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3859 overlooked.
3860
3861PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3862
3863PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3864 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3865 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3866 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3867 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3868 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3869 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3870
3871 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3872 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3873 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3874 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3875 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3876
3877 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3878 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3879 routed further.
3880
3881PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3882 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3883 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3884 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3885 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3886 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3887
3888PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3889
3890PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3891 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3892 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3893 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3894 printable escape sequences.
3895
3896PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3897 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3898 body only.
3899
3900PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3901 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3902 are as follows:
3903
3904 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3905 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3906 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3907 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3908 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3909
3910 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3911 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3912 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3913
3914PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3915
3916PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3917 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3918 play with."
3919
3920PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3921 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3922 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3923 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3924 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3925 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3926 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3927 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3928 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3929 the log output.
3930
3931PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3932 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3933 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3934 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3935 "make".
3936
3937
3938A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3939----------------------------------------
3940
3941Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3942changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3943needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3944in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3945that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3946release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3947from 4.43.
3948
3949I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
39504.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3951those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3952historical information.
3953
3954
3955Exim version 4.50
3956-----------------
3957
3958 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3959
3960 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3961 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3962
3963 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3964 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3965 place.
3966
3967 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3968 filter fails to execute.
3969
3970 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3971 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3972 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3973 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3974 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3975
3976 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3977
3978 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3979 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3980 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3981 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3982
3983 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3984 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3985 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3986 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3987 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3988
3989 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3990
399110. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3992
399311. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3994 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3995 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3996 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3997
399812. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3999 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4000 sender verification.
4001
400213. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4003 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4004
400514. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4006
400715. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4008 connection timeout.
4009
401016. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4011 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4012
401317. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4014 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4015
401618. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4017 information about exactly what failed.
4018
401919. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4020
402120. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4022 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4023 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4024
402521. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4026 It is now set to "smtps".
4027
402822. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4029 ignore_target_hosts.
4030
403123. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4032 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4033 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4034 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4035 "[x.x.x.x]".
4036
403724. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4038 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4039 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4040
404125. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4042 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4043 wake it up if nothing else does.
4044
404526. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4046 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4047 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4048 end up negative.
4049
405027. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4051 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4052
405328. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4054
405529. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4056 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4057 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4058 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4059 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4060 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4061 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4062 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4063
406430. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4065 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4066 than one IP address.
4067
406831. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4069 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4070 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4071 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4072
407332. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4074 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4075 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4076 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4077 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4078 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4079
408033. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4081 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4082 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4083 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4084
408534. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4086 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4087 respected.
4088
408935. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4090 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4091 $sender_host_address.
4092
409336. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4094 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4095 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4096 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4097 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4098 very small.
4099
410037. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4101
4102 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4103 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4104
4105 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4106 just the host names, not the priorities.
4107
4108 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4109 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4110 controlled by a keyword.
4111
4112 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
4113 multiple records are returned.
4114
411538. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4116 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4117 domain.
4118
411939. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4120
412140. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4122 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4123
412441. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4125 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4126 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4127
412842. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4129
413043. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4131
413244. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4133
413445. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4135 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4136 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4137 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4138 because the tests only now provoked it.
4139
414046. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4141 (this can affect the format of dates).
4142
414347. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4144 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4145 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4146 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4147
414848. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4149
415049. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4151 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4152 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4153 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4154
415550. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4156 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4157 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4158
415951. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4160 autoreply.
4161
416252. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4163 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4164 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4165 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4166 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4167 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4168 is going on).
4169
417053. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4171 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4172 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4173 the line.
4174
417554. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4176 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4177 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4178
4179 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4180 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4181 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4182 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4183 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4184 so I produce this patch..."
4185
4186 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4187 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4188 is not defined.
4189
419055. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4191 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4192 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4193 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4194 CAN-2005-0021
4195
419656. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4197
419857. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4199 long debug lines gets shown.
4200
420158. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4202 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4203
420459. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4205
4206 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4207 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4208 of $primary_hostname.
4209
421060. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4211 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4212 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4213 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4214 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4215 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4216 by change 4.50/55 above.
4217
4218 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4219 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4220 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4221 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4222 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4223 running as the user.
4224 CAN-2005-0021
4225
422661. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4227 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4228 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4229 CAN-2005-0022
4230
423162. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4232 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4233
423463. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4235 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4236 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4237 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4238 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4239
424064. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4241 This has been fixed.
4242
424365. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4244 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4245 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4246 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4247 the caching.)
4248
424966. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4250
425167. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4252 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4253 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4254 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4255
425668. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4257 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4258
425969. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4260 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4261 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4262
426370. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4264 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4265 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4266 message there.
4267
426871. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4269 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4270 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4271
427272. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4273 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4274 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4275 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4276
427773. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4278 during host lookups.
4279
428074. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4281 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4282
4283 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4284
428575. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4286 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4287 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4288 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4289 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4290 background.
4291
429276. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4293 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4294
429577. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4296 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4297 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4298
429978. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4300
430179. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4302 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4303 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4304 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4305 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4306 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4307 process earlier.
4308
430980. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4310 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4311 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4312 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4313 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4314
431581. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4316 tables).
4317
431882. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4319
432083. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4321 "vacation" handling.
4322
432384. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4324 OS variants using glibc.
4325
432685. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4327
4328
4329----------------------------------------------------
4330See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4331----------------------------------------------------
4332
4333
4334Exim version 4.44
4335-----------------
4336
4337 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4338 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4339 transport
4340
4341 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4342 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4343 place.
4344
4345 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4346 filter fails to execute.
4347
4348 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4349 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4350 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4351 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4352 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4353
4354 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4355 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4356 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4357 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4358
4359 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4360 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4361 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4362 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4363 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4364
4365 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4366
4367 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4368 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4369 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4370 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4371
4372 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4373 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4374 sender verification.
4375
437610. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4377 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4378
437911. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4380 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4381
438212. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4383 ignore_target_hosts.
4384
438513. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4386 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4387 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4388 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4389 "[x.x.x.x]".
4390
439114. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4392 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4393 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4394
439515. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4396 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4397 wake it up if nothing else does.
4398
439916. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4400 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4401 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4402 end up negative.
4403
440417. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4405 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4406
440718. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
4408
440919. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4410 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4411 empty pattern.
4412
441320. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4414 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4415 one IP address.
4416
441721. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4418 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4419 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4420 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4421 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4422 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4423
442422. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4425 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4426 respected.
4427
442823. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4429 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4430 $sender_host_address.
4431
443224. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4433
443425. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4435 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4436 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4437
443826. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
4439 As per change 25.
4440
444127. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4442 (this can affect the format of dates).
4443
444428. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4445 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4446 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4447 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4448
444929. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4450 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4451 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4452
445330. 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
445831. 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
446231. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4463 autoreply.
4464
446532. 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
447333. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4474 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4475 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4476 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4477 CAN-2005-0021
4478
447934. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4480 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4481 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4482 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4483 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4484 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4485 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4486
4487 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4488 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4489 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4490 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4491 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4492 running as the user.
4493 CAN-2005-0021
4494
449535. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4496 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4497 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4498 CAN-2005-0022
4499
450036. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4501 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4502 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4503 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4504 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4505
450637. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4507 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4508 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4509 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4510 the caching.)
4511
451238. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4513 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4514 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4515 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4516 because the tests only now provoked it.
4517
4518
4519Exim version 4.43
4520-----------------
4521
4522 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4523 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4524 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4525 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4526 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4527 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4528 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4529
4530 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4531 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4532 the delivery.
4533
4534 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4535
4536 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4537
4538 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4539 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4540 to local_scan().
4541
4542 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4543 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4544 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4545 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4546 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4547
4548 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4549 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4550
4551 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4552
4553 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4554
455510. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4556 header_sender only.
4557
455811. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4559 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4560
456112. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4562 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4563 affecting debugging statements).
4564
456513. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4566
456714. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4568 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4569 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4570 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4571 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4572 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4573 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4574 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4575 after the received time, and all would be well.
4576
457715. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4578 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4579 condition in an expansion string.
4580
458116. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4582
458317. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4584 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4585 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4586 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4587 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4588 job under whatever limits there are.
4589
459018. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4591
459219. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4593 space).
4594
459520. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4596 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4597 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4598 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4599 return path is set.
4600
460121. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4602 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4603 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4604 binary data in such strings.
4605
460622. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4607
460823. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4609 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4610 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4611 failure, which is pointless.
4612
461324. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4614
461525. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4616
461726. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4618 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4619 Sender: header lines.
4620
462127. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4622 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4623 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4624
462528. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4626 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4627 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4628 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4629 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4630 happens.
4631
463229. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4633 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4634 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4635 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4636 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4637
463830. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4639 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4640 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4641 1024.
4642
464331. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4644 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4645
464632. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4647 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4648
464933. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4650
465132. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4652
465333. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4654
465534. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4656 syntax error.
4657
465835. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4659
466036. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4661
466237. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4663 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4664 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4665 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4666
466738. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4668 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4669
4670
4671Exim version 4.42
4672-----------------
4673
4674 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4675 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4676 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4677 it was not quoted.
4678 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4679 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4680 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4681 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4682 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4683 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4684
4685 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4686 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4687 verification failure".
4688
4689 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4690 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4691 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4692 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4693
4694 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4695 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4696 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4697 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4698 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4699 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4700 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4701 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4702 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4703 treated as a timeout.
4704
4705 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4706 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4707 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4708 not set for Exim filters).
4709
4710 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4711 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4712 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4713
4714 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4715
4716 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4717 try to make them clearer.
4718
4719 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4720 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4721
4722 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4723
4724 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4725
472610. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4727 only the Cygwin environment.
4728
472911. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4730 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4731 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4732 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4733 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4734
473512. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4736 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4737 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4738 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4739 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4740 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4741 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4742
474313. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4744 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4745
474614. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4747
4748 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4749 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4750 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4751
4752 To: susanne@some.where
4753
4754 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4755 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4756 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4757 of addresses in From: header lines).
4758
4759 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4760 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4761 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4762
4763 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4764 treated as non-personal.
4765
4766 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4767 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4768
476915. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4770
477116. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4772
477317. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4774 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4775 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4776
477718. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4778 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4779
478019. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4781 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4782 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4783 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4784 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4785 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4786
478720. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4788 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4789 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4790 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4791 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4792 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4793 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4794 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4795
4796 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4797
479821. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4799 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4800
480122. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4802 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4803 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4804
480523. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4806 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4807
480824. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4809 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4810 rather than long int.
4811
481225. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4813
481426. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4815
4816
4817Exim version 4.41
4818-----------------
4819
4820 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4821 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4822 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4823 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4824 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4825 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4826
4827
4828Exim version 4.40
4829-----------------
4830
4831 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4832 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4833
4834 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4835 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4836 socklen_t is defined.
4837
4838 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4839 always exist.
4840
4841 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4842 configured.
4843
4844 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4845 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4846 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4847 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4848 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4849
4850 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4851 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4852 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4853 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4854
4855 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4856 of flapping under certain conditions.
4857
4858 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4859 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4860 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4861
4862 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4863
486410. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4865
486611. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4867 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4868 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4869 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4870
487112. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4872 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4873 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4874 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4875 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4876 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4877 preserved with the message after it was received.
4878
487913. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4880 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4881 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4882 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4883 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4884 test suite worked just fine.
4885
488614. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4887 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4888 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4889
489015. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4891 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4892 string.
4893
489416. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4895 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4896 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4897 does not fully solve it.
4898
489917. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4900 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4901 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4902 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4903 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4904
490518. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4906 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4907 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4908
490919. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4910 string, for example:
4911
4912 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4913
4914 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4915 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4916 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4917 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4918 the routers could not see them.
4919
492020. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4921 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4922
492321. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4924 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4925 output).
4926
492722. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4928 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4929 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4930 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4931 that needed quoting.
4932
493323. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4934 was not being matched caselessly.
4935
493624. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4937 backslashes.
4938
493925. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4940 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4941 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4942 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4943 when use_sender is false.
4944
494526. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4946
494727. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4948
494928. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4950
495129. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4952 the configuration file.
4953
495430. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4955 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4956
495731. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4958
495932. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4960 bytes in the message body.
4961
496233. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4963 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4964 delivery.
4965
496634. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4967
496835. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4969
497036. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4971 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4972 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4973 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4974 another IP address.
4975
4976
4977Exim version 4.34
4978-----------------
4979
4980 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4981 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4982
4983 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4984 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4985 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4986 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4987 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4988
4989 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4990 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4991
4992 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4993 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4994 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4995
4996 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4997 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4998 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4999
5000 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5001 for routers.
5002
5003 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5004 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5005 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5006 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5007 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5008 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5009 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5010
5011
5012Exim version 4.33
5013-----------------
5014
5015 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5016 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5017 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5018 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5019 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5020 default (and expected) setting.
5021
5022 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5023 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5024 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5025 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5026
5027 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5028 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5029
5030 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5031 in domain lists.
5032
5033 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5034 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5035 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5036 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5037 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5038 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5039
5040 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5041 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5042 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5043
5044 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5045 part (NOT match_host).
5046
5047 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5048
5049 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5050 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5051 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5052 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5053 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5054 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5055 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5056 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5057 the same named file.
5058
505910. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5060 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5061 when Exim is built.
5062
506311. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5064 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5065 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5066 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5067 a host name.
5068
506912. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5070 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5071 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5072
507313. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5074
507514. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5076
507715. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5078
507916. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5080 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5081
508217. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5083 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5084 before starting the TLS session.
5085
508618. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5087
508819. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5089 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5090
509120. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5092 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5093 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5094 colon in the middle).
5095
5096
5097Exim version 4.32
5098-----------------
5099
5100 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5101 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5102 multiple configurations are in use.
5103
5104 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5105 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5106 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5107 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5108 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5109 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5110
5111 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5112 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5113
5114 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5115 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5116 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5117
5118 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5119 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5120 occurs.
5121
5122 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5123 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5124
5125 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5126
5127 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5128 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5129
5130 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5131
5132 -prval:sval
5133
5134 is equivalent to
5135
5136 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5137
5138 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5139 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5140 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5141 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5142 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5143
514410. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5145 Exim's behaviour:
5146
5147 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5148 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5149 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5150 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5151 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5152 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5153
5154 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5155 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5156 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5157 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5158 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5159 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5160 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5161 string.
5162
5163 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5164 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5165 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5166 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5167 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5168
516911. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5170
517112. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5172 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5173 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5174
517513. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5176
517714. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5178 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5179 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5180 information.
5181
518215. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5183 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5184
518516. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5186 Three changes have been made:
5187
5188 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5189 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5190 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5191 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5192 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5193
5194 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5195 been restored.
5196
5197 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5198 the modified behaviour.
5199
5200
5201Exim version 4.31
5202-----------------
5203
5204 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5205 Larry Rosenman.
5206
5207 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5208 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5209
5210 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5211 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5212 try to track down a specific problem.
5213
5214 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5215 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5216 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5217
5218 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5219 warning.
5220
5221 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5222 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5223 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5224 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5225 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5226 some earlier ones do not.
5227
5228 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5229
5230 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5231 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5232 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5233 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5234 address literals are enabled, of course).
5235
5236 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5237
523810. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5239 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5240 by a command such as
5241
5242 exim -f "" ...
5243
5244 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5245
524611. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5247
524812. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5249 remained set. It is now erased.
5250
525113. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5252 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5253
525414. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5255 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5256 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5257 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5258 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5259 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5260 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5261 appropriate error code.
5262
526315. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5264 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5265 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5266 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5267 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5268 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5269
527016. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5271 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5272 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5273
527417. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5275 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5276 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5277 terminate the header.
5278
527918. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5280 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5281 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5282
528319. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5284 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5285 (4.30/29). In particular:
5286
5287 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5288 imposed.
5289
5290 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5291 to write a maildirsize file.
5292
5293 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5294 the transport, the new value overrides.
5295
5296 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5297 count.
5298
529920. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5300 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5301 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5302 space or a tab.
5303
530421. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5305 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5306 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5307 the fallback hosts.
5308
530922. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5310 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5311 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5312
531323. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5314 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5315 using a union.
5316
531724. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5318 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5319 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5320
532125. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5322
532326. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5324
532527. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5326
532728. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5328 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5329 become corrupted.
5330
533129. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5332 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5333 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5334 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5335 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5336 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5337 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5338 too great.
5339
534030. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5341 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5342 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5343 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5344 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5345 incorrectly.
5346
534731. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5348 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5349 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5350 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5351 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5352 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5353 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5354 cached value only when the same options are set.
5355
535632. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5357
535833. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5359 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5360 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5361 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5362 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5363
536434: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5365 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5366 it is clearly obsolete.
5367
536835. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5369 transport.
5370
537136. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5372 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5373 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5374 times.
5375
537637. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5377 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5378 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5379 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5380 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5381
538238. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5383 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5384 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5385 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5386
538739. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5388
5389 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5390
5391 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5392 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5393 2^31.
5394
539540. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5396 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5397 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5398 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5399 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5400 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5401 $localpart_data.
5402
540341. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5404 with the -f command-line option.
5405
540642. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5407 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5408 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5409 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5410 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5411 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5412
541343. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5414 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5415 line.
5416
541744. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5418 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5419 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5420 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5421 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5422 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5423 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5424 buffer is too small.
5425
542645. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5427 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5428
542946. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5430 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5431 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5432 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5433 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5434 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5435 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5436 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5437 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5438
543947. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5440 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5441 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5442
544348. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5444 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5445 ACL").
5446
544749. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5448 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5449 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5450 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5451 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5452
545350. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5454 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5455 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5456 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5457 is set.
5458
545951. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5460
546152. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5462
546353. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5464 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5465
546654. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5467 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5468 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5469
547055. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5471 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5472 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5473 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5474 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5475
547656. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5477 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5478 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5479 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5480 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5481 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5482 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5483
548457. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5485 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5486 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5487 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5488 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5489 the test of how many are available.
5490
549158. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5492 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5493 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5494 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5495 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5496 new message is started.
5497
549859. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5499 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5500
550160. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5502 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5503
550461. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5505 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5506 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5507 is no long logged.
5508
550962. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5510 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5511 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5512 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5513 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5514 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5515 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5516
551763. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5518 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5519 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5520 interpreted as octal.
5521
552264. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5523 setting.
5524
552565. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5526 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5527 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5528 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5529 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5530 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5531
553266. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5533 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5534 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5535 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5536
5537 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5538 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5539 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5540 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5541
5542 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5543 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5544 is a bug fix.
5545
5546 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5547 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5548
554967. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5550
555168. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5552 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5553 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5554 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5555
555669. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5557 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5558 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5559 supplied", which is not helpful.
5560
556170. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5562 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5563 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5564
556571. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5566 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5567 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5568 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5569 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5570 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5571 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5572 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5573
557472. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5575 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5576 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5577 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5578 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5579
558073. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5581 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5582 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5583 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5584 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5585 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5586
558774. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5588 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5589 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5590
559175. Added write_rejectlog option.
5592
559376. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5594 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5595 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5596 variables.
5597
559877. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5599
560078. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5601 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5602 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5603 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5604 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5605 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5606 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5607 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5608
560979. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5610 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5611 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5612 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5613 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5614
561580. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5616 Haardt.
5617
561881. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5619 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5620 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5621 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5622 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5623 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5624 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5625 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5626 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5627
5628
5629Exim version 4.30
5630-----------------
5631
5632 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5633 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5634 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5635
5636 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5637 fixed.
5638
5639 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5640 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5641 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5642
5643 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5644 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5645 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5646 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5647 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5648 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5649
5650 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5651 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5652 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5653 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5654 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5655 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5656 the Exim test suite.
5657
5658 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5659 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5660 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5661 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5662
5663 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5664 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5665 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5666 specify it in this variable.
5667
5668 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5669 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5670 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5671 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5672
5673 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5674 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5675 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5676 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5677
5678 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5679 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5680 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5681 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5682 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5683
5684 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5685
568610. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5687 they are logged.
5688
568911. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5690 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5691 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5692 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5693 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5694
569512. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5696 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5697
569813. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5699 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5700 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5701 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5702 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5703
570414. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5705 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5706
570715. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5708 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5709 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5710
571116. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5712 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5713
571417. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5715 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5716
571718. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5718 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5719 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5720
572119. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5722 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5723
572420. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5725 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5726 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5727 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5728
572921. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5730
573122. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5732 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5733 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5734 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5735
573623. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5737
573824. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5739 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5740
574125. Added .include_if_exists.
5742
574326. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5744 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5745 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5746 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5747 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5748 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5749
575027. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5751
575228. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5753 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5754 this.
5755
575629. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5757
575830. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5759 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5760
5761 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5762 550 Sender verify failed
5763
5764 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5765 the final line of the response.
5766
576731. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5768 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5769 all other user lookups.
5770
577132. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5772 delivery time.
5773
577433. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5775 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5776 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5777 result into an int without checking.
5778
577934. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5780 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5781 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5782
578335. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5784 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5785 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5786 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5787
578836. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5789 correctly.
5790
579137. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5792 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5793
579438. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5795 to the empty sender.
5796
579739. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5798 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5799 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5800 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5801 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5802 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5803 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5804 panic log.
5805
580640. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5807 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5808 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5809 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5810 used.
5811
581241. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5813 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5814
581542. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5816 timestamps.
5817
581843. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5819 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5820
582144. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5822
582345. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5824 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5825 logs.
5826
582746. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5828 as soon as it is encountered.
5829
583047. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5831
583248. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5833 rewritten to "<>".
5834
583549. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5836 recognizes a tab character.
5837
583850. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5839 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5840 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5841 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5842
584351. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5844
584552. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5846 crash.
5847
584853. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5849
585054. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5851
585255. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5853 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5854 2822.
5855
585656. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5857 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5858 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5859 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5860 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5861
586257. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5863 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5864
586558. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5866 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5867 list (.included file names were always shown).
5868
586959. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5870 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5871 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5872 root at that time.
5873
587460. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5875 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5876
587761. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5878
587962. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5880
588163. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5882
588364. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5884 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5885 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5886 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5887 failures to open the logs.
5888
588965. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5890 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5891 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5892 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5893 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5894 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5895 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5896
5897
5898Exim version 4.24
5899-----------------
5900
5901 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5902 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5903 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5904 change 4.23/1.
5905
5906 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5907 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5908 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5909
5910 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5911 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5912 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5913
5914 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5915 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5916 causing some misleading effects.
5917
5918 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5919 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5920 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5921
5922 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5923 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5924 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5925 queue-runner function directly.
5926
5927
5928Exim version 4.23
5929-----------------
5930
5931 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5932 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5933
5934 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5935 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5936 was always written to the default place.
5937
5938 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5939 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5940 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5941
5942 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5943
5944 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5945
5946 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5947 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5948 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5949
5950 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5951 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5952 must start.
5953
5954 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5955 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5956 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5957
5958 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5959 command line option is disabled.
5960
5961 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5962 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5963
5964 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5965
5966 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5967
5968 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5969 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5970
597110. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5972
597311. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5974 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5975 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5976 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5977 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5978 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5979
598012. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5981 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5982 timeout.
5983
598413. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5985 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5986
598714. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5988 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5989
599015. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5991 received was valid base64.
5992
599316. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5994 name of the variable that was being set.
5995
599617. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5997
599818. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5999 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6000 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6001 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6002 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6003 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6004
600519. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6006
600720. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6008 nor realm was specified.
6009
601021. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6011 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6012 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6013 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6014
601522. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6016 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6017 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6018
601923. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6020 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6021 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6022
602324. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6024 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6025 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6026 some systems use these upper case variants.
6027
602825. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6029 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6030 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6031 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6032
603326. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6034
603527. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6036 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6037
603828. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6039 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6040 expansion variable.
6041
604229. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6043
604430. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6045 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6046 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6047 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6048
604931. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6050 using it.
6051
605232. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6053 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6054 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6055
605633. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6057 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6058
605934. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6060 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6061 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6062 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6063
606435. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6065 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6066 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6067
606836. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6069
607037. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6071 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6072 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6073 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6074 aborted.
6075
607638. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6077 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6078 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6079
608039. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6081
608240. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6083 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6084
608541. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6086 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6087
608842. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6089 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6090 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6091 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6092 when emails are that large.
6093
6094
6095
6096Exim version 4.22
6097-----------------
6098
6099 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6100 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6101
6102 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6103 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6104 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6105
6106 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6107 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6108 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6109
6110 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6111 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6112 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6113 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6114 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6115
6116 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6117 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6118 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6119 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6120 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6121 ever.
6122
6123 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6124 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6125 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6126 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6127 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6128 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6129 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6130 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6131 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6132 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6133 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6134 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6135 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6136 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6137
6138 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6139 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6140 parameterised it.
6141
6142 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6143 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6144 error should be diagnosed.
6145
6146 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6147 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6148 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6149 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6150 appeared instead of "NULL".
6151
615210. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6153 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6154 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6155 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6156 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6157 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6158 proceeds).
6159
6160 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6161 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6162 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6163
6164
6165Exim version 4.21
6166-----------------
6167
6168 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6169 or receiver verification errors.
6170
6171 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6172 name.
6173
6174 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6175 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6176 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6177 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6178
6179 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6180 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6181 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6182 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6183 shouldn't happen again.
6184
6185 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6186 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6187 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6188
6189 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6190 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6191
6192 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6193
6194 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6195 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6196
6197 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6198 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6199 RFC.
6200
620110. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6202 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6203 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6204
620511. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6206 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6207 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6208 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6209
621012. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6211 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6212 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6213 to define what should happen).
6214
621513. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6216 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6217 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6218
621914. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6220
622115. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6222
622316. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6224 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6225
622617. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6227 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6228 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6229 structure in all cases.
6230
6231 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6232 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6233 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6234 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6235
623618. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6237 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6238 domain name.
6239
624019. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6241 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6242
624320. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6244 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6245
624621. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6247 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6248 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6249
625022. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6251 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6252 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6253
625423. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6255 the book and for uniformity.
6256
625724. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6258
625925. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6260 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6261 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6262 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6263 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6264 non-existent command as the problem.
6265
626626. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6267 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6268 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6269
627027. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6271
627228. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6273 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6274 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6275
627629. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6277 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6278 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6279 timestamps using strftime().
6280
628130. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6282 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6283
628432. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6285 transport-time rewrites.
6286
628733. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6288 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6289 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6290 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6291
629234. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6293 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6294
629535. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6296 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6297 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6298 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6299 comma and a space.
6300
630136. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6302 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6303 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6304 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6305 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6306 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6307 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6308
630937. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6310 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6311 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6312 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6313 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6314
631538. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6316 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6317 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6318 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6319 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6320 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6321 remaining text gets split now.
6322
632339. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6324 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6325 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6326 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6327
632840. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6329 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6330 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6331 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6332 $return_path.
6333
633441. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6335 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6336 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6337 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6338 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6339 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6340 passed through if needed.
6341
634242. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6343 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6344 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6345 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6346 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6347 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6348
634943. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6350 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6351 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6352 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6353 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6354
635544. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6356 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6357 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6358 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6359 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6360
636145. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6362 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6363 noticed.
6364
636546. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6366 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6367 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6368 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6369 mayhem of various kinds.
6370
637147. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6372 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6373 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6374 the right test for positive values.
6375
637648. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6377 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6378 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6379 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6380 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6381 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6382 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6383 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6384 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6385 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6386 envelope.
6387
638849. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6389 module.
6390
639150. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6392 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6393 forbidding it.
6394
639551. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6396 the existing equality matching.
6397
639852. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6399 dealing with inode numbers.
6400
640153. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6402 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6403 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6404
640554. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6406 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6407 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6408 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6409 local_scan().
6410
641155. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6412 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6413 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6414 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6415 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6416 relay addresses has also been removed.
6417
641856. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6419
642057. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6421 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6422 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6423
642458. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6425 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6426 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6427 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6428 processing applies to CR:
6429
6430 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6431 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6432
6433 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6434 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6435 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6436 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6437
643859. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6439 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6440 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6441
644260. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6443 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6444 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6445 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6446 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6447 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6448 arisen.
6449
645061. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6451 program routers.
6452
645362. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6454 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6455 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6456 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6457 adds:
6458
6459 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6460
6461 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6462
6463 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6464
646563. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6466 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6467 not considered personal.
6468
646964. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6470
647165. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6472
647366. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6474
647567. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6476 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6477 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6478 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6479 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6480 header lines, and spool format errors.
6481
648268. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6483 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6484 for more flexibility.
6485
648669. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6487 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6488 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6489
649070. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6491 Sabourenkov.
6492
649371. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6494 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6495 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6496 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6497 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6498 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6499 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6500 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6501 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6502
650372. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6504 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6505 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6506 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6507 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6508 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6509 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6510
651173. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6512 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6513 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6514
651574. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6516 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6517 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6518 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6519 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6520 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6521 instead of killing the process with assert().
6522
652375. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6524 than Unicode encoding.
6525
652676. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6527 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6528 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6529 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6530
653177. Added process_log_path.
6532
653378. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6534 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6535
653679. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6537 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6538
653980. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6540 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6541 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6542
654381. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6544 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6545 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6546 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6547 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6548 were applied:
6549
6550 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6551 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6552 as invalid.
6553
655482. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6555 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6556 they will be used during message reception.
6557
6558
6559Exim version 4.20
6560-----------------
6561
6562The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6563
6564****