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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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5Exim version 4.87
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7JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
8 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
9 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
10 client dropping the TLS connection.
11
12TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
13 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
14
15TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
16 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
17 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
18 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
19 outgoing I= field.
20
21JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
22 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
23 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
24 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
25 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
26 check on the next write.
27
28HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
29 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
30 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
31 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
32 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
33
34JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
35 mime_regex ACL conditions.
36
37JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
38 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
39 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
40
41JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
42 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
43 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
44 an authenticate fail is not an error.
45
46HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
47 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
48
49JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
50 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
51
52JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
53 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
54 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
55 distinct.
56
57JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
58
59JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
60
61JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
62
63JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
64 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
65
66JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
67 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
68
69JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
70
71JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
72 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
73
74JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
75
76JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
77 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
78
79JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
80
81JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
82 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
83 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
84 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
85 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
86 they will retry in-clear.
87 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
88 at installation time.
89
90HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
91 with the $config_file variable.
92
93JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
94 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
95 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
96 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
97 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx reponse.
98
99GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
100 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
101 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
102 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
103 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
104
105JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
106
107JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
108 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
109 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
110 list order is no longer honoured.
111
112JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalisation
113 for DKIM processing.
114
115JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
116 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
117
118JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
119 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
120 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
121 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
122
123JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
124 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
125
126JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
127 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
128
129JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
130 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
131
132JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
133
134JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
135 cached by the daemon.
136
137JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
138 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
139
140JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
141 keys are given for lookup.
142
143JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
144 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
145 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
146 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
147
148JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
149 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
150 server-side so match that on older versions.
151
152JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
153 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
154 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
155
156JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
157 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
158
159JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
160 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
161 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
162 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the nessage
163 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
164 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
165 initial truncated version.
166
167
168Exim version 4.86
169-----------------
170JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
171 expanded.
172
173JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
174
175JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
176 it.
177
178JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
179 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
180 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
181 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
182
183JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
184 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
185 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
186
187JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
188 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
189 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
190 TLS connections
191
192JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
193 sites use this now.
194
195JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
196 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
197 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
198 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
199 have a dsn_lasthop option.
200
201JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
202 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
203 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
204
205JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
206
207JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
208 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
209
210JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
211 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
212
213JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
214 /defer_ok option.
215
216JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
217 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
218
219JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
220 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
221 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
222
223JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
224 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
225 specify a port-range.
226
227JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
228 timeout value per server.
229
230JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
231 now have the list separator specified.
232
233JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
234 option values.
235
236JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
237 under OpenSSL.
238
239JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
240
241JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
242 rather than the verbs used.
243
244JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
245 from 255 to 1024 chars.
246
247JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
248
249HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
250 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
251
252JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
253 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
254
255HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
256 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
257
258JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
259
260JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
261
262JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
263 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
264 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
265 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
266
267JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
268
269JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
270 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
271
272JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
273 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
274
275JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
276
277JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
278
279JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
280
281JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
282 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
283
284JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
285 added for tls authenticator.
286
287
288Exim version 4.85
289-----------------
290TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
291 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
292 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
293 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
294 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
295 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
296 the script parsing/test process like normal.
297
298TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
299 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
300 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
301 function when detected.
302
303JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
304 cause callback expansion.
305
306TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
307 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
308 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
309 instead of bool when processing it.
310
311JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
312 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
313
314JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
315
316JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
317
318TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
319
320TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
321 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
322
323JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
324 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
325 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
326 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
327 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
328 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
329
330JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
331 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
332 exceeded it.
333
334JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
335 version 3.3.6 or later.
336
337JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
338 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
339 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
340 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
341 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
342 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
343 option is defined.
344
345TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
346 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
347
348JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
349 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
350 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
351 matches.
352
353JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
354 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
355 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
356
357JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
358 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
359
360JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
361 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
362 syntax errors.
363
364JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
365
366JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
367 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
368
369TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
370 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
371 tarball.
372
373JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
374
375JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
376 Bug 1561.
377
378JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
379 output list separator was used.
380
381
382Exim version 4.84
383-----------------
384TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
385 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
386 return.
387
388JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
389 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
390
391JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
392
393TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
394 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
395
396
397Exim version 4.83
398-----------------
399
400TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
401
402 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
403 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
404 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
405 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
406 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
407 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
408
409TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
410 utilities have not been installed.
411
412JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
413 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
414
415TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
416 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
417
418TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
419 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
420 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
421 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
422
423JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
424
425TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
426 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
427
428PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
429 not dns_use_dnssec.
430
431JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
432
433TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
434 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
435 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
436
437TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
438 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
439 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
440 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
441 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
442 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
443
444JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
445
446JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
447 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
448
449JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
450 failed delivery.
451
452JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
453
454JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
455
456JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
457 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
458
459JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
460 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
461
462TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
463
464JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
465
466JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
467 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
468
469 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
470 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
471 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
472
473TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
474 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
475 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
476 analysis.
477
478JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
479
480JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
481 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
482 lookup).
483
484TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
485 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
486 Schlichting.
487
488JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
489 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
490
491TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
492 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
493
494JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
495
496TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
497 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
498 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
499
500JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
501 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
502
503JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
504 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
505 hosts_request_ocsp.
506
507JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
508 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
509 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
510
511JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
512
513TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
514 Christian Aistleitner.
515
516JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
517
518TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
519 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
520
521JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
522 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
523
524JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
525 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
526
527TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
528 support and error reporting did not work properly.
529
530TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
531 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
532
533TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
534 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
535 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
536
537JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
538
539PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
540 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
541 Jasper Wallace.
542
543JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
544
545TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
546 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
547 CVE-2014-2972
548
549
550Exim version 4.82
551-----------------
552
553PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
554
555PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
556 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
557
558PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
559 by GnuTLS.
560
561PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
562 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
563 routines.
564
565PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
566
567PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
568 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
569 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
570 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
571 using channel bindings instead).
572
573PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
574 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
575 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
576 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
577 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
578 Bugzilla 1117.
579
580TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
581
582TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
583
584TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
585 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
586
587TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
588 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
589 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
590
591TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
592
593TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
594
595TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
596 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
597
598JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
599
600JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
601
602PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
603
604NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
605 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
606
607JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
608
609PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
610 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
611 function.
612
613PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
614 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
615
616JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
617 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
618 "acl = name arg..."
619
620JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
621
622JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
623
624JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
625 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
626
627JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
628 Bugzilla 884.
629
630JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
631 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
632
633JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
634 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
635
636PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
637 CVE-2012-5671
638 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
639
640JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
641 authenticators.
642
643JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
644 for control.
645
646PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
647
648PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
649 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
650 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
651 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
652
653TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
654
655 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
656 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
657 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
658 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
659 the retry rules.
660
661 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
662 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
663 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
664
665 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
666 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
667 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
668 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
669
670 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
671 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
672 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
673 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
674 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
675 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
676 delivery, as in LMTP.
677
678 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
679 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
680
681TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
682
683 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
684
685 Resent-From: f
686
687 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
688 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
689 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
690 username as equal to the username.
691
692 This change corrects that bug.
693
694GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
695 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
696 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
697
698TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
699
700PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
701 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
702 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
703 NULL dereference and crash.
704
705JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
706
707PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
708 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
709 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
710
711SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
712
713JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
714 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
715 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
716 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
717 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
718 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
719 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
720 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
721 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
722 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
723 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
724
725PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
726 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
727
728PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
729 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
730 Bugzilla 880.
731
732PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
733 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
734 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
735 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
736 an empty string is now equivalent.
737
738PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
739 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
740 not performing validation itself.
741
742PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
743 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
744
745JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
746 Bugzilla 321, 823.
747
748TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
749
750PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
751 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
752 other false fix of the same issue.
753 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
754 Bugzilla 1363.
755
756PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
757 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
758
759PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
760 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
761 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
762
763PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
764 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
765 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
766
767TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
768
769JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
770
771TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
772 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
773
774TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
775 Alexander Miroch.
776
777TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
778 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
779 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
780 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
781 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
782
783TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
784 the src/util/ subdirectory.
785
786TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
787 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
788 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
789
790TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
791 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
792 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
793 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
794
795TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
796
797TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
798 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
799 from multiple comments on this bug.
800
801TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
802
803TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
804 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
805 interaction.
806
807TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
808 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
809
810TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
811 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
812
813
814Exim version 4.80.1
815-------------------
816
817PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
818 CVE-2012-5671
819 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
820
821
822Exim version 4.80
823-----------------
824
825PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
826 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
827 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
828
829NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
830
831NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
832 improved.
833
834NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
835
836PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
837
838PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
839
840PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
841 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
842
843PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
844 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
845
846PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
847 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
848
849PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
850 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
851 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
852
853PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
854
855PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
856 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
857
858PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
859
860PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
861
862PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
863 non-compliant senders.
864 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
865
866NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
867 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
868 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
869
870PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
871 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
872 in spool file corruption.
873
874PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
875 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
876 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
877 "Got SSL error 2".
878
879TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
880 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
881 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
882
883JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
884 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
885
886JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
887
888PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
889 diagnostics.
890 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
891
892PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
893 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
894 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
895
896PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
897 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
898 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
899 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
900
901PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
902 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
903
904PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
905 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
906 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
907 resolver implementation change.
908
909PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
910 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
911
912PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
913
914PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
915
916PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
917 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
918
919PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
920 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
921
922JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
923 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
924
925PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
926 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
927 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
928 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
929 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
930
931PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
932
933PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
934 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
935 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
936
937JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
938
939PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
940 read-only, out of scope).
941 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
942
943PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
944 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
945 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
946 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
947
948PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
949
950PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
951 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
952 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
953 real issues in debug logging.
954
955PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
956 assignment on my part. Fixed.
957
958PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
959 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
960 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
961
962PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
963 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
964 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
965 problems.
966
967PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
968 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
969
970PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
971 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
972 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
973 needs to override this, it can.
974
975PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
976 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
977 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
978
979PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
980 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
981 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
982 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
983
984PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
985
986
987Exim version 4.77
988-----------------
989
990PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
991 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
992
993TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
994
995TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
996 whitespace trailer
997
998TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
999 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1000
1001TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1002 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1003 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1004
1005 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1006 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1007 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1008 not safe for signals.
1009
1010 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1011 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1012 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1013 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1014 exiwhat.
1015
1016TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1017
1018 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1019 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1020 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1021 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1022 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1023
1024 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1025 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1026 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1027 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1028 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1029 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1030
1031 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1032 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1033 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1034 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1035
1036 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1037 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1038 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1039 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1040
1041 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1042 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1043 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1044 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1045 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1046 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1047 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1048 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1049 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1050
1051 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1052 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1053 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1054 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1055
1056 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1057 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1058 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1059 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1060 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1061 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1062 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1063 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1064 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1065 details in the main documentation.
1066
1067TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1068
1069TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1070
1071TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1072 repository when doing development or release builds.
1073
1074PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1075 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
1076
1077PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1078 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1079 Bugzilla 97.
1080
1081PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1082
1083PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
1084 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1085
1086PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1087 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1088
1089PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
1090 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1091
1092PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1093 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
1094
1095PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1096 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1097
1098PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1099 Bugzilla 1156.
1100 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1101 Bugzilla 1095.
1102
1103PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
1104 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1105 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1106
1107PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1108
1109PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
1110
1111PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1112 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1113
1114
1115Exim version 4.76
1116-----------------
1117
1118PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1119
1120PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1121 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1122
1123PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1124
1125PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1126
1127PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1128 Bugzilla 1098.
1129
1130PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1131 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
1132
1133TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1134 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1135
1136PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1137 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1138
1139PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1140 Bugzilla 1104.
1141
1142TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
1143 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1144
1145TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1146 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1147 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1148 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1149
1150PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1151 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
1152
1153
1154Exim version 4.75
1155-----------------
1156
1157NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
1158 Bugzilla 1073
1159
1160TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1161 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1162 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1163
1164TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1165 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1166
1167PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1168 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1169 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1170
1171PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1172 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1173
1174PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1175 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1176
1177NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1178 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1179
1180NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1181 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1182
1183PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1184 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
1185
1186NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1187 Fixes bug 943.
1188
1189PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1190 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1191
1192PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1193 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1194
1195PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1196 SQL string expansion failure details.
1197 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1198
1199PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1200 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1201
1202PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1203 extern declarations in function scope.
1204 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1205
1206PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1207 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1208 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1209 a kernel bug).
1210
1211PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1212 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1213
1214PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1215 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1216
1217PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1218 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1219
1220PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1221 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1222
1223NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1224 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1225 Dennis Davis.
1226
1227PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1228
1229PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1230
1231NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1232 Patch by Simon Arlott
1233
1234TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1235 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1236
1237
1238Exim version 4.74
1239-----------------
1240
1241TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1242 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1243
1244TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1245 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1246
1247TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1248
1249DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1250 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1251 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1252
1253PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1254 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1255 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1256
1257PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1258 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1259 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1260 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1261
1262PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1263 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1264 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1265 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1266
1267PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1268 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1269 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1270 arbitrary files.
1271
1272PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1273 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1274
1275PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1276 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1277 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1278 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1279 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1280
1281
1282Exim version 4.73
1283-----------------
1284
1285PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1286 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1287 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1288
1289PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1290 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1291
1292JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1293
1294PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1295
1296PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1297
1298PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
1299
1300PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1301
1302PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
1303 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1304 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
1305 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1306
1307PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1308 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1309 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
1310 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1311 more caution in buffer sizes.
1312
1313PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1314
1315PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1316
1317PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1318
1319PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1320
1321PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1322
1323PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1324
1325PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1326
1327PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
1328 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1329 ignore trailing whitespace.
1330
1331JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1332
1333JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1334 "exim" to be used
1335
1336PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1337 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1338
1339PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1340 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1341 Notification from John Horne.
1342
1343PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1344 compatible.
1345
1346PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1347 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1348 it normally works.
1349
1350DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1351 access.
1352
1353DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1354 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1355 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1356
1357DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1358 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1359 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1360 configuration file.
1361
1362DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1363 option (effectively making it always true).
1364
1365DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1366 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1367
1368DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1369 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1370
1371PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1372 run-time user, instead of root.
1373
1374PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
1375 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1376
1377DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1378 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1379 arguments.
1380
1381DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1382 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1383 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1384
1385DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1386
1387NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1388
1389
1390Exim version 4.72
1391-----------------
1392
1393JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1394 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1395 typos
1396
1397JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1398 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1399 (Finput)
1400
1401NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1402 Patch from Alain Williams
1403
1404NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1405
1406NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1407 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1408
1409NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1410 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1411
1412NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1413
1414JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1415
1416NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
1417 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
1418
1419TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1420
1421TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1422
1423MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1424 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1425 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1426
1427NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1428 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
1429
1430NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
1431 Patch by Simon Arlott
1432
1433PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
1434 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
1435
1436
1437Exim version 4.71
1438-----------------
1439
1440TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
1441
1442NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1443
1444NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1445
1446NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1447
1448NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1449
1450
1451Exim version 4.70
1452-----------------
1453
1454TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
1455 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
1456
1457TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1458 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
1459 Hirsch).
1460
1461TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1462 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
1463 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
1464
1465TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1466 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1467
1468NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1469 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1470 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1471 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1472
1473NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1474 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
1475 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
1476
1477TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1478
1479TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1480
1481NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
1482 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
1483
1484NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
1485
1486TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1487 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1488 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1489 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1490
1491NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
1492 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
1493
1494TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
1495
1496NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
1497
1498NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
1499 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
1500
1501TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1502 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
1503
1504TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1505 that they are available at delivery time.
1506
1507TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1508
1509TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1510 incoming_port log selectors.
1511
1512TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1513 setting expands to an empty string.
1514
1515NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
1516 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1517
1518NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
1519 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
1520
1521NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
1522 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
1523
1524NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1525 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
1526
1527NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1528 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
1529
1530NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
1531 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1532
1533NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1534
1535NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
1536 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1537
1538NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
1539 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
1540
1541TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1542
1543NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
1544 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
1545
1546NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1547
1548NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
1549
1550NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1551 lsearch.
1552
1553NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1554 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1555
1556NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1557 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1558
1559NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1560 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1561
1562NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1563 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1564
1565NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1566 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1567
1568NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1569 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1570
1571NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1572 plus update to original patch.
1573
1574NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
1575
1576NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1577 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
1578
1579NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
1580
1581NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
1582
1583NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
1584
1585NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
1586
1587NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
1588 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
1589
1590NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1591 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
1592
1593NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
1594 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
1595
1596NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1597 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
1598
1599NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
1600
1601NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
1602
1603NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
1604
1605NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
1606
1607
1608Exim version 4.69
1609-----------------
1610
1611TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1612 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1613 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1614
1615 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1616 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1617 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1618 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1619 build errors in sieve.c.
1620
1621NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1622 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1623 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1624
1625SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1626
1627NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
1628
1629NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
1630
1631NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
1632
1633
1634Exim version 4.68
1635-----------------
1636
1637PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1638
1639PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1640 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1641 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1642 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1643 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1644 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1645 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1646 for iplsearch lookups.
1647
1648 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1649 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1650 previously such lookups could never work.
1651
1652 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1653 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1654 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1655
1656TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1657 version.
1658
1659MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1660 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1661 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1662 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1663 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1664 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1665
1666TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1667 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1668
1669MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1670 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1671 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1672 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1673 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1674 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1675
1676PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1677 local_scan API.
1678
1679PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1680
1681PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1682 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1683 encrypted.
1684
1685PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1686 by clients under certain conditions.
1687
1688PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1689 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1690
1691PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1692
1693PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1694 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1695
1696PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1697
1698PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1699
1700PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1701
1702PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1703 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1704
1705PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1706
1707PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1708 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1709
1710PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1711
1712PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1713
1714PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1715 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1716 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1717 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
1718
1719PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
1720 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1721 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1722
1723PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
1724 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1725
1726PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1727
1728PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1729
1730PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1731
1732PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1733 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1734 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1735
1736
1737Exim version 4.67
1738-----------------
1739
1740MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1741 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1742 Jan Srzednicki.
1743
1744PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1745 issue a MAIL command.
1746
1747PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1748
1749 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1750
1751 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1752 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1753 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1754 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1755 item. This has been fixed.
1756
1757PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1758 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1759
1760PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1761 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1762
1763PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1764 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1765 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1766
1767SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1768
1769PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1770 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1771 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1772 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1773 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1774
1775MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1776 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1777 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1778
1779PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1780 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1781 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1782 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1783
1784PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1785
1786PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1787
1788PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1789 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1790 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1791 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1792 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1793
1794PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1795
1796PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1797 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1798 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1799 values).
1800
1801PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1802
1803PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1804
1805PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1806
1807PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1808
1809PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1810
1811PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1812 no_callout_flush is set.
1813
1814PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1815 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1816 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1817 fixed.
1818
1819PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1820
1821PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1822 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1823 other ACL rejections are.
1824
1825PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1826 with slight modification.
1827
1828PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1829 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1830
1831PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1832 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1833 connection.
1834
1835PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1836 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1837
1838SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1839
1840PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1841 expansion side effects.
1842
1843PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1844 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1845 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1846 be the same.
1847
1848MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1849 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1850 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1851
1852PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1853 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1854 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1855 were accidentally chopped off.
1856
1857PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1858 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1859 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1860 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1861 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1862 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1863 pipelining has not been advertised.
1864
1865PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1866
1867PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1868 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1869 This has been fixed.
1870
1871PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1872 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1873 reported on Solaris.
1874
1875PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1876 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1877 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1878 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1879 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1880 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1881 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1882
1883PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1884 cpus.
1885
1886PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1887
1888PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1889
1890PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1891 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1892 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1893 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1894 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1895 criteria to be more general.
1896
1897PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1898 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1899 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1900 host_all_ignored option.
1901
1902PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1903 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1904 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1905 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1906 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1907 is what is supposed to happen).
1908
1909PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1910 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1911 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1912 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1913 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1914 uses the Exim user.
1915
1916PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1917 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1918 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1919 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1920 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1921 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1922 users.
1923
1924PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1925
1926SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1927 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1928 (Jez Hancock).
1929 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1930 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1931
1932SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1933
1934PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1935
1936PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
1937 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1938 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1939 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1940 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1941 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1942 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1943 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
1944 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
1945 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1946 least in a lot of common cases.
1947
1948PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1949 advertised in response to EHLO.
1950
1951
1952Exim version 4.66
1953-----------------
1954
1955PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1956 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1957
1958 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1959 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1960
1961 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1962 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1963 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1964
1965 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1966 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1967 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1968 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1969 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1970
1971
1972Exim version 4.65
1973-----------------
1974
1975TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1976 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1977 versions. (#438)
1978
1979MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1980 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1981 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1982
1983PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1984 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1985 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1986 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1987 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1988 rather than extend the field.
1989
1990
1991Exim version 4.64
1992-----------------
1993
1994TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1995 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1996 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1997 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1998 these files.
1999
2000TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2001 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2002 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2003
2004TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2005 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2006 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2007
2008TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2009 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2010 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2011 in the field name.
2012
2013PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2014 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2015 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2016 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2017 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2018 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2019 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2020 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2021 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2022 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2023 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2024
2025PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2026 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2027
2028PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2029 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2030 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2031 ignores EPIPE as well.
2032
2033PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2034 (quoted-printable decoding).
2035
2036PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
2037 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
2038
2039PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2040
2041PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2042
2043PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2044
2045PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
2046 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
2047
2048JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2049 in 4.64-PH/09.
2050
2051JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2052 miscellaneous code fixes
2053
2054PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2055 rejections.
2056
2057PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2058 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2059 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2060 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2061 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2062 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2063 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2064 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
2065
2066PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
2067 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
2068 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2069 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2070 function.
2071 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2072 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2073 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2074 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2075 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2076 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2077 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2078 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2079 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2080
2081PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2082 decoding.
2083
2084PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2085 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2086 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2087 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2088 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2089 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2090 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2091 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2092
2093PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2094 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2095 list.
2096
2097PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2098 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2099 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2100 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2101 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2102 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2103 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2104 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2105 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2106 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2107 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2108 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2109 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2110
2111PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2112 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2113 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2114 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2115 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2116 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2117 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2118
2119PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2120 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2121 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2122 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2123 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2124 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2125 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2126 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2127 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2128 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2129
2130PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2131 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2132 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2133 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2134 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2135
2136PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2137 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2138 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2139 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2140 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2141 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2142 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2143
2144PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2145 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2146 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2147 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2148 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2149 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2150 been verified.
2151
2152PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
2153 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2154 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2155 and authorization.)
2156
2157PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2158 if any retry times were supplied.
2159
2160PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2161 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2162 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2163
2164PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2165
2166PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2167
2168PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2169 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2170 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2171 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
2172 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2173 before) are ignored.
2174
2175PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2176 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2177
2178PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2179 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2180 committing the later change.]
2181
2182PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2183 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2184 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2185 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2186 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2187 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2188 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2189 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2190 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2191
2192 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2193 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2194 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2195 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2196 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2197 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2198 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2199 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2200 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2201
2202 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2203 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2204 hammering the server.
2205
2206PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2207 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2208
2209PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2210
2211PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2212 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2213 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2214
2215PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2216 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2217 one case where this was not true.
2218
2219PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2220 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2221 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2222 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2223 fails.
2224
2225PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2226 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2227 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2228 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2229 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2230 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2231 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2232 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2233 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2234 smtp transport.
2235
2236PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2237 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2238 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2239 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2240
2241PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2242 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2243
2244PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2245 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2246 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2247
2248PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2249
2250PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2251
2252PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2253
2254PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2255 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2256 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2257 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2258
2259PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2260 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2261
2262PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2263 be meaningful with "accept".
2264
2265SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2266 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2267
2268SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2269 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2270 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2271
2272SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2273 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2274 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2275 there is data to show.
2276 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2277
2278SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2279 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2280 as well as the number of messages.
2281
2282SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2283 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2284 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2285
2286SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2287 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2288 have a flag are now skipped.
2289
2290SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2291 Added the -emptyok flag.
2292
2293SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2294 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2295
2296JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2297 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2298 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2299
2300JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2301 match 4.64-PH/13
2302
2303JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2304 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2305
2306JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2307
2308JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2309 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2310
2311PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2312
2313PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2314 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2315 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2316 contravention of the specifications.
2317
2318PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2319 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2320 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
2321
2322PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2323 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2324 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2325
2326PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2327
2328MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2329 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2330 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2331 some point in the past.
2332
2333PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2334 transport during callout processing was broken.
2335
2336PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2337 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2338
2339PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2340 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2341
2342PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2343 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2344
2345PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2346
2347
2348Exim version 4.63
2349-----------------
2350
2351SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2352 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2353
2354SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2355 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2356 there is data to show.
2357 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2358
2359SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2360 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2361
2362TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2363 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
2364
2365TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2366 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
2367
2368TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2369 submissions from trusted users.
2370
2371TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2372 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2373
2374TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2375 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2376 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2377 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2378 there is now a framework to start from.
2379
2380PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2381 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2382 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2383
2384PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2385
2386PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2387
2388PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2389
2390PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2391 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2392 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2393
2394PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2395 libradius.
2396
2397PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2398 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2399 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2400
2401PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2402 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2403 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2404 its arguments.
2405
2406PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2407 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2408 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2409 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2410 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2411
2412PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2413 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2414
2415PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2416
2417PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2418 operations in malware.c.
2419
2420PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2421 signatures.
2422
2423PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2424 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2425 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2426 all.
2427
2428PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2429 statements to "add_header".
2430
2431PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2432 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2433
2434PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2435 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2436 latter.
2437
2438PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
2439 so that it is now:
2440
2441 ${if or { \
2442 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2443 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2444 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
2445 }{no}{yes}}
2446
2447 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2448 don't think Precedence: ever was.
2449
2450PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2451 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2452
2453PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2454 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2455 any possible encoding problems.
2456
2457PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2458 but not after initializing Perl.
2459
2460PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2461 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2462 apparently, which is not desirable.
2463
2464PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2465 queries.
2466
2467JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2468 --not options
2469
2470JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2471
2472PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2473 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2474 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2475 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2476
2477PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2478 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2479 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2480
2481PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2482 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2483 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2484 0.12.
2485
2486PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2487 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2488 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2489 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2490 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2491
2492
2493Exim version 4.62
2494-----------------
2495
2496TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2497 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2498
2499PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2500 patch).
2501
2502PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2503 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2504 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2505 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2506 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2507 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2508 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2509 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2510 451 error is used.
2511
2512PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2513
2514PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2515 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2516 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2517
2518PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2519 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2520 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2521 odd errors.
2522
2523PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2524 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2525
2526PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2527 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2528 option (which defaults to 0600).
2529
2530PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2531
2532PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2533 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2534 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2535 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2536 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2537 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2538 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2539
2540PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2541
2542
2543Exim version 4.61
2544-----------------
2545
2546PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2547 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2548 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2549 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2550 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2551 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2552 addresses as local.
2553
2554PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2555 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2556
2557PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2558
2559PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2560 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2561 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2562 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2563 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2564 grumble.
2565
2566PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2567 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2568
2569PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2570 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2571 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2572 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2573 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2574
2575PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2576 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2577 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2578 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2579
2580PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2581 be the same on different OS.
2582
2583PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2584 testing.
2585
2586JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2587 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2588
2589JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2590 in 4.61-PH/06
2591
2592PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2593 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2594 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2595 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2596 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2597 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2598 bounce message.
2599
2600PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2601 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2602 when Exim was called.
2603
2604PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2605 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2606
2607PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2608 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2609 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2610 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2611
2612PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2613 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2614 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2615 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2616 changes:
2617
2618 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2619 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2620 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2621
2622 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2623 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2624 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2625
2626PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2627 feature).
2628
2629PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2630 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2631 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2632 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2633 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2634 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2635 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2636 values from the SRV records were lost.
2637
2638PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2639 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2640 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2641
2642PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2643 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2644 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2645
2646PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2647 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2648 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2649 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2650 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2651 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2652 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2653 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2654 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
2655 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
2656
2657PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2658 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2659 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2660
2661PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2662 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2663
2664PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2665 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2666 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2667 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2668 is given.
2669
2670PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2671 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2672 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2673
2674PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2675 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2676 PH/23 above applies.
2677
2678PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2679 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2680 (for which there is an explicit test).
2681
2682PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2683
2684PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2685 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2686 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2687 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2688 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
2689
2690PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2691 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2692 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2693 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2694
2695PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2696 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2697 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2698
2699PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2700
2701PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2702
2703PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2704 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2705 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2706
2707PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2708 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2709 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2710 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2711 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2712
2713PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2714 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2715 the message gets confusing).
2716
2717PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2718 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2719 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2720 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2721
2722PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2723 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2724 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2725 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2726 same order.
2727
2728PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2729 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2730 the different processes.
2731
2732PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2733
2734PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2735
2736JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2737 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2738
2739JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2740 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2741
2742JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2743 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2744 messages matching specified criteria.
2745
2746PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2747
2748PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2749 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2750
2751PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2752 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2753 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2754 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2755 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2756 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2757 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2758 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2759 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2760 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2761
2762PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2763 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2764 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2765
2766PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2767
2768PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2769 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2770 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2771 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2772 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2773 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2774 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2775 the variable.
2776
2777PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2778 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2779
2780PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2781
2782PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2783
2784PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2785
2786PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2787 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2788 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2789 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2790 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2791 size of the count of files.
2792
2793PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2794
2795PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2796 used in LMTP mode:
2797
2798 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2799 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2800 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2801 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2802
2803 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2804 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2805 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2806
2807PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2808 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2809 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2810 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2811 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2812
2813PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2814 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2815
2816PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2817 will now be deprecated.
2818
2819PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2820
2821JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2822 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2823 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2824
2825JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2826 with very large, slow to parse queues
2827
2828JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2829
2830JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2831
2832PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2833 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2834 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2835 SMTP output lines.
2836
2837PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2838 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2839 Sieve code now uses this.
2840
2841PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2842 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2843
2844PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2845 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2846
2847PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2848
2849PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2850 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2851 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2852 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2853 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2854
2855PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2856 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2857 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2858 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2859
2860PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2861
2862PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2863
2864PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2865 is preferred over IPv4.
2866
2867PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2868 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2869 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2870 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2871 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2872 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2873 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2874
2875PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2876 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2877 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2878
2879PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2880
2881PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2882 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2883 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2884 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2885 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2886 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2887 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2888 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2889 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2890 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2891 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2892
2893PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2894 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2895 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2896
2897
2898Exim version 4.60
2899-----------------
2900
2901PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2902
2903 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2904 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2905
2906 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2907 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2908 statements are most likely to be submissions.
2909
2910PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2911
2912 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2913 not a single digit.
2914
2915 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2916 string.
2917
2918 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2919 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2920 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2921 silly things.
2922
2923 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2924 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2925
2926 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2927 inside the third argument.
2928
2929PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2930 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2931 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2932
2933PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2934 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
2935
2936PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2937 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2938
2939 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2940
2941 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2942 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2943 this:
2944
2945 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2946
2947PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2948 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2949 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2950 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2951 identical. For example:
2952
2953 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2954
2955 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2956 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2957 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2958
2959PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2960 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2961 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2962 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2963
2964PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2965 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2966 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2967 message.
2968
2969PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2970
2971 o fixes some comments
2972 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2973 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2974 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2975 and documents the missing references header update
2976
2977 and most important:
2978
2979 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2980 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2981 result)
2982
2983PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2984 Electronic Mail") by including:
2985
2986 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2987
2988 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2989 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2990 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2991 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2992 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2993
2994 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2995
2996 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2997
2998 The auto-replied keyword:
2999
3000 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3001 message by an automatic process,
3002
3003 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3004
3005 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3006 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3007
3008 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3009 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3010 other messages.
3011
3012PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3013 to the default Received: header definition.
3014
3015PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3016
3017PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3018 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3019 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3020
3021PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3022 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3023 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3024
3025PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3026 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3027 and treats the condition as false.
3028
3029PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3030
3031PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3032 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3033 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3034 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3035 not changing the active code.
3036
3037 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3038 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3039
3040 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3041 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3042
3043PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3044 (Bugzilla #53).
3045
3046PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3047 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3048 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3049 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3050 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3051 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3052 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3053 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3054 the text comparison.
3055
3056PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3057 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3058 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3059 The same fix has been applied.
3060
3061
3062Exim version 4.54
3063-----------------
3064
3065PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3066 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3067 It now does.
3068
3069PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3070 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3071
3072PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3073
3074PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3075 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3076 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3077 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3078 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3079
3080TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3081 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3082 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3083 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3084 or /domain=).
3085
3086PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3087 testing suite.
3088
3089
3090
3091Exim version 4.53
3092-----------------
3093
3094TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3095 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3096
3097PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3098
3099PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3100
3101PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3102 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3103 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3104
3105PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3106 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3107 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3108
3109PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3110 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3111 operating systems.
3112
3113PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3114 ${stat: expansion item.
3115
3116PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3117 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3118
3119PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3120 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3121 file for comments.
3122
3123PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3124
3125PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3126 setting.
3127
3128PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3129 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3130
3131TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3132
3133PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3134 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3135 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3136 the end of the subprocess.
3137
3138PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3139 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3140 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3141 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3142 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3143
3144JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3145
3146TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3147
3148PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3149 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3150
3151PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3152
3153PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3154
3155PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3156 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3157 HP-UX compiler.
3158
3159PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3160
3161PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3162 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3163 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3164
3165PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3166 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3167
3168PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3169 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3170
3171PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3172 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3173
3174 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3175 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3176
3177 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3178 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3179 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3180 contributed by a Radius user.
3181
3182PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3183 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3184
3185TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3186 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3187
3188PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3189 available.
3190
3191PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3192 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3193 received.
3194
3195PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3196 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3197 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3198 header lines when this was not necessary.
3199
3200PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3201
3202PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3203 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3204 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3205 exists".
3206
3207PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3208 -bV or -d is used.
3209
3210PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3211 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
3212 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3213 return code was incorrect.
3214
3215PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3216
3217PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3218
3219TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3220
3221PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3222
3223PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3224 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3225 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3226 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3227 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3228 settings.
3229
3230PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3231
3232PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3233 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3234 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3235 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3236 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3237 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3238 which is clearly wrong.
3239
3240PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3241
3242PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3243 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3244 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3245 subsequently added.
3246
3247PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3248 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3249
3250PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3251
3252PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3253 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3254
3255PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3256 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3257
3258PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3259 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3260
3261PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3262 recipients, not senders.
3263
3264TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3265 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3266
3267PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3268
3269PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3270
3271PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3272 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3273 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3274 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3275
3276TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3277
3278TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3279 clock is set back in time.
3280
3281TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3282 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3283
3284TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3285 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3286
3287PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3288 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3289 (see PH/47 above).
3290
3291TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3292 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3293 header rewrites.
3294
3295PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3296 type ("H").
3297
3298PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3299
3300TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3301 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3302 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3303
3304TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3305 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3306 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3307 helo verification defer as a failure.
3308
3309PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3310 actual error message.
3311
3312
3313Exim version 4.52
3314-----------------
3315
3316TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3317
3318PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3319 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3320 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3321 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3322
3323TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3324
3325PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3326 can still be requested.
3327
3328PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3329 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3330 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3331 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3332
3333TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3334 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3335 circumstances, but probably never did.
3336
3337PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3338 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3339 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3340 in the header line.
3341
3342TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3343
3344TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3345 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
3346
3347TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3348
3349TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3350
3351PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3352 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3353 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3354 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3355 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3356 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
3357
3358PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3359 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3360 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3361 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3362 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3363 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3364
3365TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3366 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3367
3368PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3369 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3370
3371SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3372 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3373
3374SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3375
3376SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3377
3378SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3379
3380SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3381
3382SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3383
3384SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3385
3386TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3387
3388TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3389 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3390 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3391
3392TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3393 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3394 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3395 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3396
3397PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3398 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3399 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3400
3401PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3402 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3403 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3404 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3405
3406PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3407 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3408 to be made).
3409
3410PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3411 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3412 should work with maildirs and everything.
3413
3414TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3415 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3416
3417TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3418 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3419
3420PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3421 function for BDB 4.3.
3422
3423PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3424
3425PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3426 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3427 involved.
3428
3429PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3430 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3431 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
3432 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3433 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3434 formatting function string_vformat().
3435
3436PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3437 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3438 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3439 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3440 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3441 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3442 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3443 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3444
3445TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3446 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3447 details.
3448
3449PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3450 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3451
3452PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3453 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3454 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3455 test. It is now used for both.
3456
3457PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3458 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3459 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3460 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3461 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3462 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3463
3464PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3465 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3466 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3467 string_vformat().
3468
3469PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3470 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3471 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
3472
3473PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3474 experimental DomainKeys support:
3475
3476 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3477 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3478 the control was given.
3479
3480 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3481
3482PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3483
3484PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3485
3486PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3487 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3488 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3489 db.h files).
3490
3491PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
3492 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3493 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3494 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3495 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3496 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3497 course.
3498
3499PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3500 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3501 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3502 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3503 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3504 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3505
3506PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3507 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3508 do -d+all out of habit.
3509
3510PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3511 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3512 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3513
3514PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3515 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3516 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3517 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3518 record types that Exim uses.
3519
3520PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3521 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3522 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3523 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3524 non-existent file that was broken.
3525
3526TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3527 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3528
3529TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3530 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3531 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3532
3533TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3534
3535PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3536 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3537 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3538 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3539 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3540 same time.
3541
3542SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3543 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3544 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3545 at a slight CPU cost.
3546
3547SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3548 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3549
3550SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3551 by Marc Sherman.
3552
3553SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3554
3555PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3556 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3557
3558
3559Exim version 4.51
3560-----------------
3561
3562TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3563 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3564
3565TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
3566
3567TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3568
3569PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3570 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3571
3572PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3573 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3574 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3575 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3576 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3577 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3578 file.
3579
3580PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3581 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3582 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3583 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3584 these two options.
3585
3586PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3587 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3588 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3589 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3590 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3591 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3592 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
3593 address.
3594
3595PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3596 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3597
3598PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3599 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3600 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3601 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3602 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3603 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3604
3605PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3606 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3607 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3608 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3609
3610PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3611 Finch).
3612
3613PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3614 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
3615
3616PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3617 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
3618 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3619 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3620 message.
3621
3622PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3623
3624PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3625 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3626
3627PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3628 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3629 to what was transported.)
3630
3631TF/01 Added $received_time.
3632
3633PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3634 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3635 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3636 spamd_address settings.
3637
3638PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3639 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3640 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3641 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3642 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3643
3644PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3645
3646PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3647 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3648 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3649 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3650 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3651
3652PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3653 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3654
3655PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3656 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3657 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3658 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3659 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3660 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3661 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3662 for failure.
3663
3664PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3665 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3666 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3667 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3668 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3669 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3670 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3671 "input=".
3672
3673PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3674
3675PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3676 driver and ACL definitions.
3677
3678PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3679 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3680
3681PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3682 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3683 understands it better than I do:
3684
3685 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3686 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3687
3688 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3689 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3690 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3691 => three warnings about OTP not working
3692 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3693
3694 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3695 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3696 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3697 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3698 for each call.)
3699 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3700 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3701
3702 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3703 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3704 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3705
3706PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3707 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3708 specified.
3709
3710PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3711 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3712 "Linux".
3713
3714PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3715 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3716 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3717
3718 warn !verify = sender
3719 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3720
3721 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3722 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3723
3724PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3725
3726 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3727 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3728
3729 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3730 nomenclature these days.)
3731
3732PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3733 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3734
3735PH/30 In these circumstances:
3736 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3737 . First host does not offer TLS;
3738 . First host accepts first address;
3739 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3740 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3741 . Second host accepts second address.
3742 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3743 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3744 address.
3745
3746PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3747 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3748 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3749 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3750 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3751
3752PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3753 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3754
3755PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3756 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
3757
3758PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3759 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3760 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3761
3762PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3763 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3764 overlooked.
3765
3766PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3767
3768PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3769 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3770 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3771 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3772 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3773 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3774 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3775
3776 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3777 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3778 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3779 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3780 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3781
3782 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3783 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3784 routed further.
3785
3786PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3787 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3788 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3789 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3790 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3791 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3792
3793PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3794
3795PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3796 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3797 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3798 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3799 printable escape sequences.
3800
3801PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3802 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3803 body only.
3804
3805PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3806 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3807 are as follows:
3808
3809 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3810 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3811 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3812 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3813 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3814
3815 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3816 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3817 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3818
3819PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3820
3821PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3822 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3823 play with."
3824
3825PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3826 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3827 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3828 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3829 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3830 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3831 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3832 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3833 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3834 the log output.
3835
3836PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3837 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3838 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3839 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3840 "make".
3841
3842
3843A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3844----------------------------------------
3845
3846Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3847changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3848needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3849in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3850that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3851release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3852from 4.43.
3853
3854I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
38554.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3856those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3857historical information.
3858
3859
3860Exim version 4.50
3861-----------------
3862
3863 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3864
3865 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3866 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3867
3868 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3869 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3870 place.
3871
3872 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3873 filter fails to execute.
3874
3875 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3876 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3877 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3878 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3879 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3880
3881 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3882
3883 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3884 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3885 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3886 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3887
3888 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3889 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3890 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3891 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3892 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3893
3894 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3895
389610. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3897
389811. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3899 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3900 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3901 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3902
390312. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3904 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3905 sender verification.
3906
390713. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3908 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3909
391014. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3911
391215. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3913 connection timeout.
3914
391516. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3916 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3917
391817. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3919 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3920
392118. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3922 information about exactly what failed.
3923
392419. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3925
392620. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3927 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3928 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3929
393021. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3931 It is now set to "smtps".
3932
393322. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3934 ignore_target_hosts.
3935
393623. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3937 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3938 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3939 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3940 "[x.x.x.x]".
3941
394224. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3943 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3944 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3945
394625. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3947 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3948 wake it up if nothing else does.
3949
395026. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3951 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3952 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3953 end up negative.
3954
395527. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3956 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3957
395828. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3959
396029. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3961 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3962 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3963 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3964 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3965 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3966 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3967 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3968
396930. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3970 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3971 than one IP address.
3972
397331. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3974 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3975 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3976 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3977
397832. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3979 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3980 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3981 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3982 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3983 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3984
398533. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3986 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3987 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3988 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3989
399034. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3991 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3992 respected.
3993
399435. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3995 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3996 $sender_host_address.
3997
399836. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3999 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4000 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4001 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4002 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4003 very small.
4004
400537. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4006
4007 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4008 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4009
4010 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4011 just the host names, not the priorities.
4012
4013 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4014 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4015 controlled by a keyword.
4016
4017 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
4018 multiple records are returned.
4019
402038. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4021 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4022 domain.
4023
402439. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4025
402640. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4027 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4028
402941. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4030 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4031 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4032
403342. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4034
403543. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4036
403744. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4038
403945. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4040 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4041 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4042 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4043 because the tests only now provoked it.
4044
404546. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4046 (this can affect the format of dates).
4047
404847. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4049 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4050 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4051 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4052
405348. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4054
405549. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4056 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4057 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4058 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4059
406050. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4061 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4062 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4063
406451. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4065 autoreply.
4066
406752. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4068 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4069 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4070 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4071 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4072 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4073 is going on).
4074
407553. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4076 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4077 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4078 the line.
4079
408054. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4081 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4082 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4083
4084 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4085 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4086 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4087 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4088 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4089 so I produce this patch..."
4090
4091 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4092 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4093 is not defined.
4094
409555. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4096 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4097 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4098 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4099 CAN-2005-0021
4100
410156. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4102
410357. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4104 long debug lines gets shown.
4105
410658. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4107 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4108
410959. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4110
4111 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4112 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4113 of $primary_hostname.
4114
411560. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4116 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4117 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4118 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4119 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4120 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4121 by change 4.50/55 above.
4122
4123 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4124 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4125 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4126 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4127 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4128 running as the user.
4129 CAN-2005-0021
4130
413161. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4132 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4133 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4134 CAN-2005-0022
4135
413662. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4137 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4138
413963. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4140 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4141 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4142 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4143 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4144
414564. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4146 This has been fixed.
4147
414865. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4149 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4150 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4151 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4152 the caching.)
4153
415466. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4155
415667. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4157 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4158 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4159 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4160
416168. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4162 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4163
416469. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4165 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4166 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4167
416870. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4169 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4170 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4171 message there.
4172
417371. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4174 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4175 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4176
417772. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4178 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4179 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4180 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4181
418273. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4183 during host lookups.
4184
418574. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4186 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4187
4188 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4189
419075. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4191 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4192 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4193 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4194 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4195 background.
4196
419776. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4198 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4199
420077. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4201 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4202 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4203
420478. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4205
420679. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4207 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4208 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4209 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4210 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4211 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4212 process earlier.
4213
421480. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4215 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4216 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4217 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4218 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4219
422081. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4221 tables).
4222
422382. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4224
422583. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4226 "vacation" handling.
4227
422884. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4229 OS variants using glibc.
4230
423185. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4232
4233
4234----------------------------------------------------
4235See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4236----------------------------------------------------
4237
4238
4239Exim version 4.44
4240-----------------
4241
4242 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4243 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4244 transport
4245
4246 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4247 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4248 place.
4249
4250 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4251 filter fails to execute.
4252
4253 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4254 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4255 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4256 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4257 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4258
4259 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4260 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4261 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4262 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4263
4264 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4265 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4266 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4267 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4268 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4269
4270 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4271
4272 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4273 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4274 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4275 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4276
4277 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4278 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4279 sender verification.
4280
428110. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4282 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4283
428411. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4285 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4286
428712. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4288 ignore_target_hosts.
4289
429013. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4291 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4292 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4293 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4294 "[x.x.x.x]".
4295
429614. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4297 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4298 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4299
430015. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4301 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4302 wake it up if nothing else does.
4303
430416. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4305 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4306 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4307 end up negative.
4308
430917. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4310 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4311
431218. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
4313
431419. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4315 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4316 empty pattern.
4317
431820. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4319 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4320 one IP address.
4321
432221. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4323 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4324 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4325 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4326 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4327 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4328
432922. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4330 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4331 respected.
4332
433323. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4334 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4335 $sender_host_address.
4336
433724. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4338
433925. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4340 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4341 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4342
434326. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
4344 As per change 25.
4345
434627. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4347 (this can affect the format of dates).
4348
434928. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4350 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4351 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4352 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4353
435429. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4355 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4356 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4357
435830. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4359 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4360 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4361 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4362
436331. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4364 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4365 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4366
436731. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4368 autoreply.
4369
437032. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4371 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4372 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4373 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4374 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4375 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4376 is going on).
4377
437833. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4379 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4380 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4381 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4382 CAN-2005-0021
4383
438434. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4385 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4386 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4387 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4388 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4389 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4390 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4391
4392 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4393 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4394 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4395 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4396 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4397 running as the user.
4398 CAN-2005-0021
4399
440035. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4401 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4402 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4403 CAN-2005-0022
4404
440536. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4406 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4407 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4408 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4409 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4410
441137. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4412 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4413 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4414 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4415 the caching.)
4416
441738. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4418 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4419 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4420 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4421 because the tests only now provoked it.
4422
4423
4424Exim version 4.43
4425-----------------
4426
4427 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4428 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4429 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4430 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4431 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4432 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4433 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4434
4435 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4436 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4437 the delivery.
4438
4439 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4440
4441 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4442
4443 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4444 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4445 to local_scan().
4446
4447 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4448 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4449 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4450 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4451 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4452
4453 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4454 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4455
4456 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4457
4458 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4459
446010. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4461 header_sender only.
4462
446311. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4464 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4465
446612. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4467 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4468 affecting debugging statements).
4469
447013. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4471
447214. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4473 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4474 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4475 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4476 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4477 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4478 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4479 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4480 after the received time, and all would be well.
4481
448215. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4483 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4484 condition in an expansion string.
4485
448616. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4487
448817. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4489 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4490 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4491 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4492 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4493 job under whatever limits there are.
4494
449518. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4496
449719. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4498 space).
4499
450020. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4501 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4502 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4503 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4504 return path is set.
4505
450621. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4507 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4508 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4509 binary data in such strings.
4510
451122. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4512
451323. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4514 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4515 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4516 failure, which is pointless.
4517
451824. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4519
452025. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4521
452226. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4523 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4524 Sender: header lines.
4525
452627. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4527 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4528 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4529
453028. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4531 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4532 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4533 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4534 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4535 happens.
4536
453729. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4538 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4539 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4540 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4541 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4542
454330. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4544 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4545 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4546 1024.
4547
454831. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4549 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4550
455132. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4552 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4553
455433. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4555
455632. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4557
455833. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4559
456034. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4561 syntax error.
4562
456335. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4564
456536. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4566
456737. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4568 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4569 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4570 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4571
457238. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4573 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4574
4575
4576Exim version 4.42
4577-----------------
4578
4579 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4580 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4581 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4582 it was not quoted.
4583 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4584 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4585 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4586 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4587 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4588 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4589
4590 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4591 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4592 verification failure".
4593
4594 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4595 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4596 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4597 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4598
4599 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4600 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4601 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4602 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4603 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4604 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4605 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4606 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4607 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4608 treated as a timeout.
4609
4610 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4611 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4612 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4613 not set for Exim filters).
4614
4615 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4616 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4617 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4618
4619 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4620
4621 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4622 try to make them clearer.
4623
4624 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4625 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4626
4627 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4628
4629 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4630
463110. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4632 only the Cygwin environment.
4633
463411. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4635 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4636 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4637 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4638 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4639
464012. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4641 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4642 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4643 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4644 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4645 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4646 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4647
464813. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4649 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4650
465114. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4652
4653 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4654 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4655 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4656
4657 To: susanne@some.where
4658
4659 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4660 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4661 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4662 of addresses in From: header lines).
4663
4664 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4665 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4666 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4667
4668 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4669 treated as non-personal.
4670
4671 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4672 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4673
467415. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4675
467616. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4677
467817. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4679 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4680 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4681
468218. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4683 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4684
468519. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4686 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4687 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4688 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4689 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4690 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4691
469220. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4693 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4694 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4695 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4696 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4697 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4698 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4699 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4700
4701 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4702
470321. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4704 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4705
470622. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4707 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4708 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4709
471023. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4711 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4712
471324. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4714 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4715 rather than long int.
4716
471725. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4718
471926. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4720
4721
4722Exim version 4.41
4723-----------------
4724
4725 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4726 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4727 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4728 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4729 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4730 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4731
4732
4733Exim version 4.40
4734-----------------
4735
4736 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4737 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4738
4739 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4740 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4741 socklen_t is defined.
4742
4743 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4744 always exist.
4745
4746 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4747 configured.
4748
4749 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4750 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4751 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4752 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4753 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4754
4755 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4756 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4757 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4758 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4759
4760 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4761 of flapping under certain conditions.
4762
4763 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4764 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4765 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4766
4767 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4768
476910. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4770
477111. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4772 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4773 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4774 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4775
477612. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4777 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4778 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4779 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4780 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4781 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4782 preserved with the message after it was received.
4783
478413. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4785 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4786 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4787 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4788 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4789 test suite worked just fine.
4790
479114. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4792 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4793 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4794
479515. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4796 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4797 string.
4798
479916. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4800 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4801 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4802 does not fully solve it.
4803
480417. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4805 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4806 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4807 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4808 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4809
481018. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4811 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4812 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4813
481419. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4815 string, for example:
4816
4817 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4818
4819 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4820 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4821 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4822 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4823 the routers could not see them.
4824
482520. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4826 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4827
482821. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4829 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4830 output).
4831
483222. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4833 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4834 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4835 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4836 that needed quoting.
4837
483823. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4839 was not being matched caselessly.
4840
484124. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4842 backslashes.
4843
484425. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4845 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4846 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4847 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4848 when use_sender is false.
4849
485026. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4851
485227. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4853
485428. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4855
485629. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4857 the configuration file.
4858
485930. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4860 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4861
486231. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4863
486432. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4865 bytes in the message body.
4866
486733. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4868 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4869 delivery.
4870
487134. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4872
487335. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4874
487536. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4876 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4877 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4878 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4879 another IP address.
4880
4881
4882Exim version 4.34
4883-----------------
4884
4885 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4886 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4887
4888 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4889 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4890 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4891 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4892 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4893
4894 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4895 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4896
4897 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4898 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4899 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4900
4901 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4902 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4903 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4904
4905 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4906 for routers.
4907
4908 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4909 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4910 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4911 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4912 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4913 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4914 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4915
4916
4917Exim version 4.33
4918-----------------
4919
4920 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4921 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4922 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4923 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4924 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4925 default (and expected) setting.
4926
4927 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4928 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4929 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4930 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4931
4932 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4933 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4934
4935 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4936 in domain lists.
4937
4938 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4939 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4940 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4941 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4942 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4943 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4944
4945 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4946 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4947 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4948
4949 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4950 part (NOT match_host).
4951
4952 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4953
4954 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4955 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4956 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4957 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4958 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4959 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4960 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4961 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4962 the same named file.
4963
496410. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4965 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4966 when Exim is built.
4967
496811. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4969 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4970 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4971 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4972 a host name.
4973
497412. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4975 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4976 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4977
497813. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4979
498014. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4981
498215. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4983
498416. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4985 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4986
498717. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4988 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4989 before starting the TLS session.
4990
499118. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4992
499319. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4994 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4995
499620. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4997 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4998 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4999 colon in the middle).
5000
5001
5002Exim version 4.32
5003-----------------
5004
5005 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5006 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5007 multiple configurations are in use.
5008
5009 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5010 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5011 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5012 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5013 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5014 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5015
5016 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5017 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5018
5019 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5020 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5021 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5022
5023 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5024 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5025 occurs.
5026
5027 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5028 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5029
5030 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5031
5032 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5033 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5034
5035 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5036
5037 -prval:sval
5038
5039 is equivalent to
5040
5041 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5042
5043 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5044 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5045 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5046 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5047 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5048
504910. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5050 Exim's behaviour:
5051
5052 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5053 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5054 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5055 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5056 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5057 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5058
5059 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5060 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5061 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5062 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5063 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5064 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5065 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5066 string.
5067
5068 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5069 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5070 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5071 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5072 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5073
507411. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5075
507612. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5077 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5078 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5079
508013. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5081
508214. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5083 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5084 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5085 information.
5086
508715. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5088 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5089
509016. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5091 Three changes have been made:
5092
5093 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5094 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5095 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5096 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5097 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5098
5099 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5100 been restored.
5101
5102 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5103 the modified behaviour.
5104
5105
5106Exim version 4.31
5107-----------------
5108
5109 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5110 Larry Rosenman.
5111
5112 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5113 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5114
5115 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5116 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5117 try to track down a specific problem.
5118
5119 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5120 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5121 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5122
5123 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5124 warning.
5125
5126 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5127 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5128 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5129 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5130 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5131 some earlier ones do not.
5132
5133 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5134
5135 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5136 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5137 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5138 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5139 address literals are enabled, of course).
5140
5141 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5142
514310. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5144 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5145 by a command such as
5146
5147 exim -f "" ...
5148
5149 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5150
515111. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5152
515312. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5154 remained set. It is now erased.
5155
515613. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5157 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5158
515914. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5160 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5161 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5162 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5163 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5164 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5165 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5166 appropriate error code.
5167
516815. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5169 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5170 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5171 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5172 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5173 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5174
517516. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5176 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5177 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5178
517917. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5180 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5181 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5182 terminate the header.
5183
518418. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5185 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5186 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5187
518819. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5189 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5190 (4.30/29). In particular:
5191
5192 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5193 imposed.
5194
5195 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5196 to write a maildirsize file.
5197
5198 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5199 the transport, the new value overrides.
5200
5201 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5202 count.
5203
520420. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5205 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5206 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5207 space or a tab.
5208
520921. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5210 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5211 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5212 the fallback hosts.
5213
521422. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5215 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5216 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5217
521823. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5219 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5220 using a union.
5221
522224. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5223 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5224 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5225
522625. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5227
522826. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5229
523027. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5231
523228. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5233 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5234 become corrupted.
5235
523629. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5237 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5238 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5239 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5240 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5241 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5242 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5243 too great.
5244
524530. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5246 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5247 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5248 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5249 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5250 incorrectly.
5251
525231. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5253 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5254 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5255 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5256 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5257 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5258 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5259 cached value only when the same options are set.
5260
526132. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5262
526333. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5264 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5265 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5266 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5267 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5268
526934: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5270 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5271 it is clearly obsolete.
5272
527335. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5274 transport.
5275
527636. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5277 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5278 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5279 times.
5280
528137. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5282 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5283 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5284 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5285 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5286
528738. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5288 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5289 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5290 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5291
529239. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5293
5294 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5295
5296 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5297 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5298 2^31.
5299
530040. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5301 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5302 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5303 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5304 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5305 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5306 $localpart_data.
5307
530841. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5309 with the -f command-line option.
5310
531142. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5312 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5313 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5314 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5315 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5316 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5317
531843. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5319 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5320 line.
5321
532244. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5323 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5324 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5325 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5326 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5327 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5328 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5329 buffer is too small.
5330
533145. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5332 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5333
533446. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5335 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5336 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5337 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5338 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5339 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5340 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5341 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5342 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5343
534447. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5345 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5346 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5347
534848. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5349 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5350 ACL").
5351
535249. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5353 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5354 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5355 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5356 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5357
535850. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5359 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5360 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5361 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5362 is set.
5363
536451. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5365
536652. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5367
536853. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5369 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5370
537154. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5372 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5373 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5374
537555. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5376 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5377 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5378 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5379 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5380
538156. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5382 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5383 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5384 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5385 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5386 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5387 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5388
538957. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5390 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5391 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5392 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5393 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5394 the test of how many are available.
5395
539658. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5397 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5398 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5399 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5400 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5401 new message is started.
5402
540359. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5404 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5405
540660. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5407 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5408
540961. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5410 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5411 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5412 is no long logged.
5413
541462. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5415 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5416 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5417 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5418 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5419 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5420 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5421
542263. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5423 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5424 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5425 interpreted as octal.
5426
542764. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5428 setting.
5429
543065. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5431 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5432 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5433 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5434 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5435 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5436
543766. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5438 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5439 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5440 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5441
5442 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5443 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5444 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5445 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5446
5447 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5448 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5449 is a bug fix.
5450
5451 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5452 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5453
545467. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5455
545668. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5457 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5458 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5459 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5460
546169. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5462 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5463 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5464 supplied", which is not helpful.
5465
546670. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5467 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5468 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5469
547071. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5471 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5472 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5473 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5474 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5475 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5476 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5477 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5478
547972. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5480 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5481 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5482 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5483 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5484
548573. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5486 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5487 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5488 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5489 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5490 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5491
549274. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5493 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5494 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5495
549675. Added write_rejectlog option.
5497
549876. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5499 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5500 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5501 variables.
5502
550377. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5504
550578. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5506 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5507 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5508 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5509 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5510 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5511 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5512 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5513
551479. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5515 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5516 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5517 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5518 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5519
552080. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5521 Haardt.
5522
552381. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5524 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5525 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5526 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5527 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5528 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5529 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5530 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5531 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5532
5533
5534Exim version 4.30
5535-----------------
5536
5537 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5538 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5539 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5540
5541 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5542 fixed.
5543
5544 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5545 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5546 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5547
5548 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5549 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5550 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5551 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5552 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5553 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5554
5555 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5556 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5557 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5558 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5559 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5560 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5561 the Exim test suite.
5562
5563 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5564 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5565 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5566 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5567
5568 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5569 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5570 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5571 specify it in this variable.
5572
5573 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5574 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5575 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5576 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5577
5578 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5579 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5580 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5581 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5582
5583 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5584 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5585 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5586 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5587 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5588
5589 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5590
559110. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5592 they are logged.
5593
559411. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5595 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5596 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5597 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5598 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5599
560012. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5601 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5602
560313. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5604 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5605 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5606 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5607 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5608
560914. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5610 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5611
561215. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5613 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5614 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5615
561616. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5617 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5618
561917. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5620 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5621
562218. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5623 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5624 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5625
562619. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5627 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5628
562920. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5630 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5631 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5632 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5633
563421. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5635
563622. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5637 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5638 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5639 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5640
564123. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5642
564324. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5644 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5645
564625. Added .include_if_exists.
5647
564826. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5649 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5650 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5651 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5652 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5653 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5654
565527. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5656
565728. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5658 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5659 this.
5660
566129. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5662
566330. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5664 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5665
5666 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5667 550 Sender verify failed
5668
5669 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5670 the final line of the response.
5671
567231. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5673 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5674 all other user lookups.
5675
567632. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5677 delivery time.
5678
567933. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5680 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5681 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5682 result into an int without checking.
5683
568434. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5685 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5686 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5687
568835. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5689 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5690 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5691 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5692
569336. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5694 correctly.
5695
569637. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5697 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5698
569938. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5700 to the empty sender.
5701
570239. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5703 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5704 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5705 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5706 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5707 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5708 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5709 panic log.
5710
571140. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5712 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5713 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5714 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5715 used.
5716
571741. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5718 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5719
572042. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5721 timestamps.
5722
572343. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5724 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5725
572644. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5727
572845. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5729 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5730 logs.
5731
573246. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5733 as soon as it is encountered.
5734
573547. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5736
573748. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5738 rewritten to "<>".
5739
574049. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5741 recognizes a tab character.
5742
574350. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5744 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5745 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5746 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5747
574851. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5749
575052. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5751 crash.
5752
575353. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5754
575554. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5756
575755. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5758 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5759 2822.
5760
576156. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5762 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5763 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5764 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5765 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5766
576757. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5768 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5769
577058. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5771 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5772 list (.included file names were always shown).
5773
577459. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5775 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5776 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5777 root at that time.
5778
577960. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5780 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5781
578261. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5783
578462. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5785
578663. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5787
578864. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5789 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5790 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5791 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5792 failures to open the logs.
5793
579465. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5795 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5796 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5797 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5798 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5799 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5800 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5801
5802
5803Exim version 4.24
5804-----------------
5805
5806 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5807 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5808 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5809 change 4.23/1.
5810
5811 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5812 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5813 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5814
5815 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5816 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5817 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5818
5819 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5820 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5821 causing some misleading effects.
5822
5823 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5824 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5825 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5826
5827 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5828 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5829 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5830 queue-runner function directly.
5831
5832
5833Exim version 4.23
5834-----------------
5835
5836 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5837 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5838
5839 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5840 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5841 was always written to the default place.
5842
5843 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5844 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5845 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5846
5847 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5848
5849 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5850
5851 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5852 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5853 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5854
5855 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5856 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5857 must start.
5858
5859 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5860 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5861 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5862
5863 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5864 command line option is disabled.
5865
5866 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5867 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5868
5869 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5870
5871 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5872
5873 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5874 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5875
587610. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5877
587811. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5879 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5880 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5881 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5882 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5883 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5884
588512. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5886 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5887 timeout.
5888
588913. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5890 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5891
589214. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5893 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5894
589515. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5896 received was valid base64.
5897
589816. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5899 name of the variable that was being set.
5900
590117. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5902
590318. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5904 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5905 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5906 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5907 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5908 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5909
591019. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5911
591220. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5913 nor realm was specified.
5914
591521. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5916 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5917 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5918 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5919
592022. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5921 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5922 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5923
592423. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5925 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5926 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5927
592824. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5929 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5930 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5931 some systems use these upper case variants.
5932
593325. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5934 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5935 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5936 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5937
593826. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5939
594027. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5941 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5942
594328. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5944 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5945 expansion variable.
5946
594729. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5948
594930. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5950 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5951 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5952 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5953
595431. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5955 using it.
5956
595732. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5958 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5959 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5960
596133. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5962 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5963
596434. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5965 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5966 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5967 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5968
596935. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5970 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5971 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5972
597336. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5974
597537. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5976 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5977 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5978 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5979 aborted.
5980
598138. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5982 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5983 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5984
598539. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5986
598740. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5988 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5989
599041. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5991 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5992
599342. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5994 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5995 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5996 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5997 when emails are that large.
5998
5999
6000
6001Exim version 4.22
6002-----------------
6003
6004 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6005 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6006
6007 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6008 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6009 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6010
6011 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6012 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6013 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6014
6015 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6016 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6017 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6018 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6019 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6020
6021 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6022 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6023 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6024 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6025 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6026 ever.
6027
6028 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6029 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6030 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6031 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6032 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6033 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6034 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6035 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6036 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6037 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6038 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6039 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6040 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6041 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6042
6043 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6044 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6045 parameterised it.
6046
6047 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6048 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6049 error should be diagnosed.
6050
6051 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6052 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6053 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6054 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6055 appeared instead of "NULL".
6056
605710. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6058 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6059 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6060 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6061 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6062 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6063 proceeds).
6064
6065 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6066 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6067 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6068
6069
6070Exim version 4.21
6071-----------------
6072
6073 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6074 or receiver verification errors.
6075
6076 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6077 name.
6078
6079 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6080 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6081 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6082 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6083
6084 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6085 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6086 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6087 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6088 shouldn't happen again.
6089
6090 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6091 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6092 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6093
6094 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6095 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6096
6097 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6098
6099 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6100 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6101
6102 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6103 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6104 RFC.
6105
610610. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6107 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6108 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6109
611011. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6111 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6112 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6113 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6114
611512. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6116 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6117 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6118 to define what should happen).
6119
612013. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6121 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6122 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6123
612414. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6125
612615. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6127
612816. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6129 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6130
613117. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6132 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6133 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6134 structure in all cases.
6135
6136 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6137 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6138 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6139 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6140
614118. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6142 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6143 domain name.
6144
614519. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6146 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6147
614820. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6149 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6150
615121. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6152 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6153 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6154
615522. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6156 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6157 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6158
615923. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6160 the book and for uniformity.
6161
616224. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6163
616425. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6165 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6166 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6167 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6168 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6169 non-existent command as the problem.
6170
617126. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6172 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6173 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6174
617527. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6176
617728. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6178 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6179 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6180
618129. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6182 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6183 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6184 timestamps using strftime().
6185
618630. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6187 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6188
618932. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6190 transport-time rewrites.
6191
619233. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6193 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6194 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6195 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6196
619734. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6198 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6199
620035. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6201 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6202 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6203 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6204 comma and a space.
6205
620636. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6207 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6208 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6209 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6210 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6211 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6212 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6213
621437. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6215 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6216 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6217 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6218 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6219
622038. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6221 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6222 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6223 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6224 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6225 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6226 remaining text gets split now.
6227
622839. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6229 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6230 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6231 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6232
623340. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6234 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6235 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6236 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6237 $return_path.
6238
623941. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6240 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6241 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6242 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6243 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6244 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6245 passed through if needed.
6246
624742. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6248 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6249 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6250 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6251 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6252 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6253
625443. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6255 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6256 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6257 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6258 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6259
626044. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6261 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6262 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6263 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6264 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6265
626645. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6267 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6268 noticed.
6269
627046. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6271 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6272 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6273 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6274 mayhem of various kinds.
6275
627647. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6277 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6278 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6279 the right test for positive values.
6280
628148. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6282 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6283 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6284 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6285 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6286 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6287 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6288 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6289 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6290 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6291 envelope.
6292
629349. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6294 module.
6295
629650. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6297 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6298 forbidding it.
6299
630051. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6301 the existing equality matching.
6302
630352. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6304 dealing with inode numbers.
6305
630653. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6307 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6308 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6309
631054. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6311 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6312 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6313 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6314 local_scan().
6315
631655. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6317 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6318 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6319 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6320 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6321 relay addresses has also been removed.
6322
632356. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6324
632557. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6326 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6327 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6328
632958. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6330 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6331 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6332 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6333 processing applies to CR:
6334
6335 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6336 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6337
6338 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6339 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6340 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6341 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6342
634359. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6344 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6345 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6346
634760. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6348 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6349 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6350 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6351 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6352 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6353 arisen.
6354
635561. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6356 program routers.
6357
635862. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6359 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6360 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6361 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6362 adds:
6363
6364 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6365
6366 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6367
6368 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6369
637063. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6371 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6372 not considered personal.
6373
637464. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6375
637665. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6377
637866. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6379
638067. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6381 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6382 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6383 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6384 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6385 header lines, and spool format errors.
6386
638768. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6388 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6389 for more flexibility.
6390
639169. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6392 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6393 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6394
639570. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6396 Sabourenkov.
6397
639871. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6399 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6400 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6401 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6402 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6403 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6404 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6405 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6406 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6407
640872. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6409 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6410 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6411 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6412 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6413 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6414 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6415
641673. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6417 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6418 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6419
642074. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6421 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6422 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6423 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6424 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6425 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6426 instead of killing the process with assert().
6427
642875. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6429 than Unicode encoding.
6430
643176. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6432 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6433 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6434 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6435
643677. Added process_log_path.
6437
643878. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6439 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6440
644179. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6442 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6443
644480. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6445 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6446 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6447
644881. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6449 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6450 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6451 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6452 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6453 were applied:
6454
6455 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6456 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6457 as invalid.
6458
645982. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6460 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6461 they will be used during message reception.
6462
6463
6464Exim version 4.20
6465-----------------
6466
6467The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6468
6469****