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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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5Exim version 4.83
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7
8TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
9
10 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
11 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
12 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
13 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
14 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
15 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
16
17TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
18 utilities have not been installed.
19
20JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
21 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
22
23TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
24 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
25
26TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
27 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
28 were a direct connection from the outside internet.
29
30JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
31
32TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
33 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
34
35PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
36 not dns_use_dnssec.
37
38JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
39
40TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
41 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
42 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
43
44TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
45 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
46 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
47 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
48 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
49 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
50
51JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
52
53JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
54 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
55
56JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
57 failed delivery.
58
59JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
60
61JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
62
63JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
64 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
65
66JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
67 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
68
69TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
70
71JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
72
73JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
74 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
75
76 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
77 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
78 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
79
80TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
81 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
82 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
83 analysis.
84
85JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
86
87JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
88 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
89 lookup).
90
91TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
92 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
93 Schlichting.
94
95JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
96 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
97
98TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
99 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
100
101JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
102
103TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
104 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
105 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
106
107JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
108 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
109
110JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
111 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
112 hosts_request_ocsp.
113
114JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1::string} can now
115 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
116
117
118Exim version 4.82
119-----------------
120
121PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
122
123PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
124 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
125
126PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
127 by GnuTLS.
128
129PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
130 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
131 routines.
132
133PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
134
135PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
136 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
137 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
138 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
139 using channel bindings instead).
140
141PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
142 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
143 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
144 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
145 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
146 Bugzilla 1117.
147
148TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
149
150TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
151
152TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
153 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
154
155TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
156 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
157 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
158
159TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
160
161TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
162
163TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
164 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
165
166JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
167
168JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
169
170PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
171
172NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
173 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
174
175JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
176
177PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
178 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
179 function.
180
181PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
182 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
183
184JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
185 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
186 "acl = name arg..."
187
188JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
189
190JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
191
192JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
193 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
194
195JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
196 Bugzilla 884.
197
198JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
199 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
200
201JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
202 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
203
204PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
205 CVE-2012-5671
206 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
207
208JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
209 authenticators.
210
211JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
212 for control.
213
214PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
215
216PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
217 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
218 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
219 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
220
221TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
222
223 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
224 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
225 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
226 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
227 the retry rules.
228
229 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
230 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
231 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
232
233 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
234 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
235 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
236 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
237
238 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
239 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
240 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
241 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
242 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
243 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
244 delivery, as in LMTP.
245
246 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
247 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
248
249TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
250
251 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
252
253 Resent-From: f
254
255 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
256 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
257 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
258 username as equal to the username.
259
260 This change corrects that bug.
261
262GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
263 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
264 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
265
266TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
267
268PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
269 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
270 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
271 NULL dereference and crash.
272
273JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
274
275PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
276 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
277 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
278
279SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
280
281JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
282 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
283 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
284 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
285 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
286 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
287 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
288 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
289 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
290 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
291 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
292
293PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
294 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
295
296PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
297 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
298 Bugzilla 880.
299
300PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
301 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
302 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
303 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
304 an empty string is now equivalent.
305
306PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
307 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
308 not performing validation itself.
309
310PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
311 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
312
313JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
314 Bugzilla 321, 823.
315
316TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
317
318PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
319 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
320 other false fix of the same issue.
321 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
322 Bugzilla 1363.
323
324PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
325 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
326
327PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
328 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
329 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
330
331PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
332 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
333 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
334
335TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
336
337JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
338
339TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
340 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
341
342TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
343 Alexander Miroch.
344
345TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
346 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
347 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
348 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
349 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
350
351TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
352 the src/util/ subdirectory.
353
354TL/13 Bug 1301 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
355 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
356 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
357
358TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
359 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
360 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
361 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
362
363TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
364
365TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
366 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
367 from multiple comments on this bug.
368
369TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
370
371TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
372 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
373 interaction.
374
375TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
376 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
377
378TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
379 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
380
381
382Exim version 4.80.1
383-------------------
384
385PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
386 CVE-2012-5671
387 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
388
389
390Exim version 4.80
391-----------------
392
393PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
394 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
395 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
396
397NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
398
399NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
400 improved.
401
402NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
403
404PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
405
406PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
407
408PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
409 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
410
411PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
412 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
413
414PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
415 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
416
417PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
418 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
419 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
420
421PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
422
423PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
424 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
425
426PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
427
428PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
429
430PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
431 non-compliant senders.
432 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
433
434NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
435 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
436 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
437
438PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
439 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
440 in spool file corruption.
441
442PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
443 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
444 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
445 "Got SSL error 2".
446
447TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
448 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
449 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
450
451JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
452 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
453
454JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
455
456PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
457 diagnostics.
458 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
459
460PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
461 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
462 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
463
464PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
465 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
466 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
467 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
468
469PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
470 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
471
472PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
473 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
474 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
475 resolver implementation change.
476
477PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
478 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
479
480PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
481
482PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
483
484PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
485 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
486
487PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
488 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
489
490JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
491 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
492
493PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
494 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
495 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
496 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
497 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
498
499PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
500
501PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
502 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
503 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
504
505JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
506
507PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
508 read-only, out of scope).
509 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
510
511PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
512 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
513 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
514 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
515
516PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
517
518PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
519 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
520 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
521 real issues in debug logging.
522
523PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
524 assignment on my part. Fixed.
525
526PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
527 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
528 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
529
530PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
531 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
532 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
533 problems.
534
535PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
536 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
537
538PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
539 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
540 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
541 needs to override this, it can.
542
543PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
544 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
545 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
546
547PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
548 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
549 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
550 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
551
552PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
553
554
555Exim version 4.77
556-----------------
557
558PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
559 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
560
561TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
562
563TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
564 whitespace trailer
565
566TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
567 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
568
569TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
570 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
571 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
572
573 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
574 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
575 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
576 not safe for signals.
577
578 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
579 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
580 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
581 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
582 exiwhat.
583
584TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
585
586 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
587 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
588 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
589 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
590 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
591
592 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
593 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
594 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
595 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
596 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
597 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
598
599 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
600 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
601 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
602 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
603
604 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
605 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
606 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
607 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
608
609 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
610 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
611 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
612 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
613 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
614 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
615 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
616 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
617 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
618
619 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
620 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
621 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
622 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
623
624 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
625 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
626 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
627 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
628 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
629 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
630 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
631 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
632 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
633 details in the main documentation.
634
635TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
636
637TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
638
639TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
640 repository when doing development or release builds.
641
642PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
643 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
644
645PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
646 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
647 Bugzilla 97.
648
649PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
650
651PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
652 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
653
654PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
655 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
656
657PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
658 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
659
660PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
661 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
662
663PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
664 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
665
666PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
667 Bugzilla 1156.
668 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
669 Bugzilla 1095.
670
671PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
672 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
673 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
674
675PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
676
677PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
678
679PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
680 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
681
682
683Exim version 4.76
684-----------------
685
686PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
687
688PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
689 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
690
691PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
692
693PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
694
695PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
696 Bugzilla 1098.
697
698PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
699 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
700
701TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
702 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
703
704PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
705 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
706
707PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
708 Bugzilla 1104.
709
710TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
711 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
712
713TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
714 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
715 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
716 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
717
718PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
719 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
720
721
722Exim version 4.75
723-----------------
724
725NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
726 Bugzilla 1073
727
728TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
729 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
730 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
731
732TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
733 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
734
735PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
736 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
737 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
738
739PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
740 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
741
742PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
743 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
744
745NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
746 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
747
748NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
749 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
750
751PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
752 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
753
754NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
755 Fixes bug 943.
756
757PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
758 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
759
760PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
761 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
762
763PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
764 SQL string expansion failure details.
765 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
766
767PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
768 Patch from Simon Arlott.
769
770PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
771 extern declarations in function scope.
772 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
773
774PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
775 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
776 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
777 a kernel bug).
778
779PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
780 Patch from Mark Zealey.
781
782PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
783 Patch from Mark Zealey.
784
785PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
786 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
787
788PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
789 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
790
791NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
792 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
793 Dennis Davis.
794
795PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
796
797PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
798
799NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
800 Patch by Simon Arlott
801
802TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
803 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
804
805
806Exim version 4.74
807-----------------
808
809TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
810 consequences so log it to the panic log.
811
812TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
813 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
814
815TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
816
817DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
818 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
819 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
820
821PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
822 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
823 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
824
825PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
826 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
827 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
828 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
829
830PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
831 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
832 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
833 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
834
835PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
836 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
837 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
838 arbitrary files.
839
840PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
841 (Wolfgang Breyha)
842
843PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
844 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
845 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
846 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
847 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
848
849
850Exim version 4.73
851-----------------
852
853PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
854 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
855 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
856
857PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
858 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
859
860JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
861
862PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
863
864PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
865
866PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
867
868PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
869
870PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
871 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
872 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
873 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
874
875PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
876 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
877 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
878 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
879 more caution in buffer sizes.
880
881PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
882
883PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
884
885PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
886
887PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
888
889PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
890
891PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
892
893PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
894
895PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
896 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
897 ignore trailing whitespace.
898
899JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
900
901JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
902 "exim" to be used
903
904PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
905 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
906
907PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
908 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
909 Notification from John Horne.
910
911PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
912 compatible.
913
914PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
915 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
916 it normally works.
917
918DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
919 access.
920
921DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
922 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
923 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
924
925DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
926 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
927 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
928 configuration file.
929
930DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
931 option (effectively making it always true).
932
933DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
934 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
935
936DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
937 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
938
939PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
940 run-time user, instead of root.
941
942PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
943 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
944
945DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
946 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
947 arguments.
948
949DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
950 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
951 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
952
953DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
954
955NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
956
957
958Exim version 4.72
959-----------------
960
961JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
962 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
963 typos
964
965JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
966 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
967 (Finput)
968
969NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
970 Patch from Alain Williams
971
972NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
973
974NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
975 Patch from Andreas Metzler
976
977NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
978 Patch from Kirill Miazine
979
980NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
981
982JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
983
984NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
985 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
986
987TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
988
989TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
990
991MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
992 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
993 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
994
995NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
996 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
997
998NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
999 Patch by Simon Arlott
1000
1001PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
1002 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
1003
1004
1005Exim version 4.71
1006-----------------
1007
1008TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
1009
1010NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1011
1012NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1013
1014NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1015
1016NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1017
1018
1019Exim version 4.70
1020-----------------
1021
1022TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
1023 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
1024
1025TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1026 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
1027 Hirsch).
1028
1029TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1030 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
1031 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
1032
1033TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1034 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1035
1036NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1037 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1038 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1039 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1040
1041NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1042 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
1043 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
1044
1045TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1046
1047TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1048
1049NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
1050 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
1051
1052NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
1053
1054TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1055 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1056 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1057 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1058
1059NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
1060 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
1061
1062TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
1063
1064NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
1065
1066NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
1067 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
1068
1069TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1070 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
1071
1072TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1073 that they are available at delivery time.
1074
1075TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1076
1077TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1078 incoming_port log selectors.
1079
1080TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1081 setting expands to an empty string.
1082
1083NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
1084 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1085
1086NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
1087 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
1088
1089NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
1090 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
1091
1092NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1093 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
1094
1095NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1096 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
1097
1098NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
1099 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1100
1101NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1102
1103NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
1104 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1105
1106NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
1107 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
1108
1109TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1110
1111NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
1112 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
1113
1114NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1115
1116NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
1117
1118NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1119 lsearch.
1120
1121NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1122 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1123
1124NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1125 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1126
1127NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1128 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1129
1130NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1131 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1132
1133NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1134 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1135
1136NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1137 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1138
1139NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1140 plus update to original patch.
1141
1142NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
1143
1144NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1145 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
1146
1147NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
1148
1149NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
1150
1151NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
1152
1153NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
1154
1155NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
1156 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
1157
1158NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1159 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
1160
1161NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
1162 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
1163
1164NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1165 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
1166
1167NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
1168
1169NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
1170
1171NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
1172
1173NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
1174
1175
1176Exim version 4.69
1177-----------------
1178
1179TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1180 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1181 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1182
1183 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1184 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1185 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1186 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1187 build errors in sieve.c.
1188
1189NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1190 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1191 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1192
1193SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1194
1195NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
1196
1197NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
1198
1199NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
1200
1201
1202Exim version 4.68
1203-----------------
1204
1205PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1206
1207PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1208 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1209 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1210 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1211 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1212 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1213 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1214 for iplsearch lookups.
1215
1216 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1217 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1218 previously such lookups could never work.
1219
1220 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1221 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1222 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1223
1224TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1225 version.
1226
1227MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1228 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1229 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1230 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1231 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1232 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1233
1234TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1235 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1236
1237MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1238 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1239 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1240 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1241 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1242 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1243
1244PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1245 local_scan API.
1246
1247PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1248
1249PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1250 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1251 encrypted.
1252
1253PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1254 by clients under certain conditions.
1255
1256PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1257 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1258
1259PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1260
1261PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1262 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1263
1264PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1265
1266PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1267
1268PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1269
1270PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1271 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1272
1273PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1274
1275PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1276 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1277
1278PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1279
1280PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1281
1282PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1283 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1284 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1285 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
1286
1287PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
1288 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1289 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1290
1291PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
1292 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1293
1294PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1295
1296PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1297
1298PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1299
1300PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1301 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1302 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1303
1304
1305Exim version 4.67
1306-----------------
1307
1308MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1309 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1310 Jan Srzednicki.
1311
1312PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1313 issue a MAIL command.
1314
1315PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1316
1317 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1318
1319 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1320 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1321 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1322 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1323 item. This has been fixed.
1324
1325PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1326 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1327
1328PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1329 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1330
1331PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1332 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1333 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1334
1335SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1336
1337PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1338 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1339 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1340 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1341 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1342
1343MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1344 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1345 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1346
1347PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1348 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1349 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1350 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1351
1352PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1353
1354PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1355
1356PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1357 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1358 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1359 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1360 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1361
1362PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1363
1364PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1365 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1366 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1367 values).
1368
1369PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1370
1371PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1372
1373PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1374
1375PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1376
1377PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1378
1379PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1380 no_callout_flush is set.
1381
1382PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1383 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1384 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1385 fixed.
1386
1387PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1388
1389PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1390 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1391 other ACL rejections are.
1392
1393PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1394 with slight modification.
1395
1396PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1397 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1398
1399PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1400 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1401 connection.
1402
1403PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1404 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1405
1406SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1407
1408PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1409 expansion side effects.
1410
1411PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1412 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1413 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1414 be the same.
1415
1416MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1417 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1418 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1419
1420PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1421 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1422 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1423 were accidentally chopped off.
1424
1425PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1426 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1427 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1428 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1429 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1430 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1431 pipelining has not been advertised.
1432
1433PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1434
1435PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1436 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1437 This has been fixed.
1438
1439PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1440 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1441 reported on Solaris.
1442
1443PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1444 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1445 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1446 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1447 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1448 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1449 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1450
1451PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1452 cpus.
1453
1454PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1455
1456PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1457
1458PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1459 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1460 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1461 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1462 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1463 criteria to be more general.
1464
1465PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1466 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1467 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1468 host_all_ignored option.
1469
1470PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1471 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1472 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1473 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1474 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1475 is what is supposed to happen).
1476
1477PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1478 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1479 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1480 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1481 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1482 uses the Exim user.
1483
1484PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1485 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1486 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1487 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1488 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1489 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1490 users.
1491
1492PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1493
1494SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1495 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1496 (Jez Hancock).
1497 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1498 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1499
1500SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1501
1502PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1503
1504PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
1505 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1506 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1507 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1508 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1509 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1510 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1511 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
1512 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
1513 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1514 least in a lot of common cases.
1515
1516PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1517 advertised in response to EHLO.
1518
1519
1520Exim version 4.66
1521-----------------
1522
1523PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1524 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1525
1526 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1527 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1528
1529 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1530 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1531 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1532
1533 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1534 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1535 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1536 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1537 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1538
1539
1540Exim version 4.65
1541-----------------
1542
1543TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1544 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1545 versions. (#438)
1546
1547MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1548 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1549 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1550
1551PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1552 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1553 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1554 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1555 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1556 rather than extend the field.
1557
1558
1559Exim version 4.64
1560-----------------
1561
1562TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1563 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1564 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1565 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1566 these files.
1567
1568TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1569 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1570 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1571
1572TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1573 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1574 hence the _LINUX specificness.
1575
1576TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1577 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1578 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1579 in the field name.
1580
1581PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1582 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1583 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1584 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1585 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1586 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1587 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1588 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1589 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1590 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1591 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1592
1593PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1594 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1595
1596PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1597 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1598 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1599 ignores EPIPE as well.
1600
1601PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1602 (quoted-printable decoding).
1603
1604PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
1605 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
1606
1607PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1608
1609PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1610
1611PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1612
1613PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
1614 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
1615
1616JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1617 in 4.64-PH/09.
1618
1619JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1620 miscellaneous code fixes
1621
1622PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1623 rejections.
1624
1625PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1626 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1627 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1628 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1629 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1630 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1631 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1632 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
1633
1634PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
1635 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
1636 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1637 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1638 function.
1639 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1640 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1641 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1642 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1643 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1644 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1645 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1646 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1647 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1648
1649PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1650 decoding.
1651
1652PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1653 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1654 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1655 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1656 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1657 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1658 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1659 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1660
1661PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1662 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1663 list.
1664
1665PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1666 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1667 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1668 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1669 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1670 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1671 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1672 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1673 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1674 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1675 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1676 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1677 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1678
1679PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1680 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1681 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1682 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1683 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1684 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1685 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1686
1687PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1688 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1689 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1690 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1691 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1692 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1693 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1694 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1695 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1696 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1697
1698PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1699 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1700 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1701 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1702 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1703
1704PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1705 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1706 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1707 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1708 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1709 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1710 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1711
1712PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1713 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1714 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1715 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1716 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1717 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1718 been verified.
1719
1720PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
1721 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1722 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1723 and authorization.)
1724
1725PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1726 if any retry times were supplied.
1727
1728PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1729 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1730 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1731
1732PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1733
1734PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1735
1736PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1737 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1738 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1739 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
1740 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1741 before) are ignored.
1742
1743PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1744 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1745
1746PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1747 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1748 committing the later change.]
1749
1750PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1751 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1752 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1753 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1754 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1755 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1756 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1757 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1758 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1759
1760 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1761 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1762 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1763 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1764 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1765 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1766 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1767 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1768 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1769
1770 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1771 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1772 hammering the server.
1773
1774PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1775 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1776
1777PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1778
1779PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1780 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1781 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1782
1783PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1784 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1785 one case where this was not true.
1786
1787PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1788 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1789 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1790 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1791 fails.
1792
1793PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1794 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1795 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1796 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1797 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1798 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1799 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1800 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1801 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1802 smtp transport.
1803
1804PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1805 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1806 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1807 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1808
1809PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1810 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1811
1812PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1813 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1814 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1815
1816PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1817
1818PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1819
1820PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1821
1822PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1823 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1824 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1825 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1826
1827PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1828 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1829
1830PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1831 be meaningful with "accept".
1832
1833SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1834 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1835
1836SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1837 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1838 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1839
1840SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1841 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1842 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1843 there is data to show.
1844 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1845
1846SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1847 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1848 as well as the number of messages.
1849
1850SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1851 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1852 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1853
1854SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1855 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1856 have a flag are now skipped.
1857
1858SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1859 Added the -emptyok flag.
1860
1861SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1862 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1863
1864JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1865 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1866 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1867
1868JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1869 match 4.64-PH/13
1870
1871JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1872 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1873
1874JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1875
1876JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1877 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1878
1879PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1880
1881PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1882 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1883 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1884 contravention of the specifications.
1885
1886PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1887 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1888 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
1889
1890PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1891 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1892 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1893
1894PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1895
1896MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1897 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1898 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1899 some point in the past.
1900
1901PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1902 transport during callout processing was broken.
1903
1904PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1905 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1906
1907PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1908 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1909
1910PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1911 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1912
1913PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1914
1915
1916Exim version 4.63
1917-----------------
1918
1919SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1920 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1921
1922SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1923 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1924 there is data to show.
1925 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1926
1927SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1928 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1929
1930TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1931 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
1932
1933TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1934 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
1935
1936TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1937 submissions from trusted users.
1938
1939TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1940 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1941
1942TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1943 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1944 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1945 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1946 there is now a framework to start from.
1947
1948PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1949 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1950 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1951
1952PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1953
1954PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1955
1956PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1957
1958PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1959 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1960 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1961
1962PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1963 libradius.
1964
1965PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1966 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1967 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1968
1969PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1970 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1971 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1972 its arguments.
1973
1974PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1975 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1976 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1977 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1978 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1979
1980PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1981 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1982
1983PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1984
1985PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1986 operations in malware.c.
1987
1988PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1989 signatures.
1990
1991PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1992 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1993 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1994 all.
1995
1996PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1997 statements to "add_header".
1998
1999PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2000 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2001
2002PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2003 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2004 latter.
2005
2006PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
2007 so that it is now:
2008
2009 ${if or { \
2010 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2011 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2012 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
2013 }{no}{yes}}
2014
2015 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2016 don't think Precedence: ever was.
2017
2018PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2019 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2020
2021PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2022 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2023 any possible encoding problems.
2024
2025PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2026 but not after initializing Perl.
2027
2028PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2029 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2030 apparently, which is not desirable.
2031
2032PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2033 queries.
2034
2035JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2036 --not options
2037
2038JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2039
2040PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2041 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2042 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2043 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2044
2045PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2046 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2047 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2048
2049PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2050 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2051 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2052 0.12.
2053
2054PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2055 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2056 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2057 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2058 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2059
2060
2061Exim version 4.62
2062-----------------
2063
2064TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2065 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2066
2067PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2068 patch).
2069
2070PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2071 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2072 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2073 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2074 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2075 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2076 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2077 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2078 451 error is used.
2079
2080PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2081
2082PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2083 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2084 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2085
2086PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2087 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2088 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2089 odd errors.
2090
2091PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2092 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2093
2094PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2095 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2096 option (which defaults to 0600).
2097
2098PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2099
2100PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2101 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2102 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2103 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2104 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2105 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2106 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2107
2108PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2109
2110
2111Exim version 4.61
2112-----------------
2113
2114PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2115 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2116 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2117 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2118 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2119 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2120 addresses as local.
2121
2122PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2123 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2124
2125PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2126
2127PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2128 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2129 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2130 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2131 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2132 grumble.
2133
2134PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2135 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2136
2137PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2138 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2139 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2140 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2141 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2142
2143PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2144 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2145 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2146 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2147
2148PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2149 be the same on different OS.
2150
2151PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2152 testing.
2153
2154JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2155 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2156
2157JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2158 in 4.61-PH/06
2159
2160PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2161 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2162 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2163 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2164 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2165 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2166 bounce message.
2167
2168PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2169 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2170 when Exim was called.
2171
2172PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2173 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2174
2175PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2176 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2177 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2178 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2179
2180PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2181 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2182 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2183 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2184 changes:
2185
2186 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2187 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2188 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2189
2190 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2191 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2192 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2193
2194PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2195 feature).
2196
2197PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2198 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2199 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2200 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2201 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2202 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2203 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2204 values from the SRV records were lost.
2205
2206PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2207 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2208 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2209
2210PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2211 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2212 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2213
2214PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2215 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2216 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2217 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2218 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2219 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2220 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2221 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2222 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
2223 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
2224
2225PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2226 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2227 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2228
2229PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2230 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2231
2232PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2233 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2234 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2235 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2236 is given.
2237
2238PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2239 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2240 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2241
2242PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2243 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2244 PH/23 above applies.
2245
2246PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2247 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2248 (for which there is an explicit test).
2249
2250PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2251
2252PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2253 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2254 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2255 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2256 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
2257
2258PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2259 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2260 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2261 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2262
2263PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2264 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2265 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2266
2267PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2268
2269PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2270
2271PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2272 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2273 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2274
2275PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2276 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2277 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2278 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2279 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2280
2281PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2282 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2283 the message gets confusing).
2284
2285PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2286 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2287 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2288 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2289
2290PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2291 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2292 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2293 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2294 same order.
2295
2296PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2297 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2298 the different processes.
2299
2300PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2301
2302PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2303
2304JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2305 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2306
2307JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2308 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2309
2310JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2311 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2312 messages matching specified criteria.
2313
2314PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2315
2316PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2317 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2318
2319PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2320 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2321 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2322 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2323 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2324 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2325 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2326 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2327 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2328 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2329
2330PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2331 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2332 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2333
2334PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2335
2336PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2337 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2338 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2339 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2340 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2341 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2342 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2343 the variable.
2344
2345PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2346 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2347
2348PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2349
2350PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2351
2352PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2353
2354PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2355 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2356 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2357 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2358 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2359 size of the count of files.
2360
2361PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2362
2363PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2364 used in LMTP mode:
2365
2366 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2367 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2368 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2369 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2370
2371 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2372 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2373 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2374
2375PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2376 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2377 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2378 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2379 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2380
2381PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2382 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2383
2384PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2385 will now be deprecated.
2386
2387PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2388
2389JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2390 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2391 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2392
2393JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2394 with very large, slow to parse queues
2395
2396JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2397
2398JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2399
2400PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2401 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2402 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2403 SMTP output lines.
2404
2405PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2406 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2407 Sieve code now uses this.
2408
2409PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2410 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2411
2412PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2413 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2414
2415PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2416
2417PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2418 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2419 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2420 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2421 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2422
2423PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2424 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2425 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2426 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2427
2428PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2429
2430PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2431
2432PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2433 is preferred over IPv4.
2434
2435PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2436 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2437 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2438 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2439 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2440 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2441 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2442
2443PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2444 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2445 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2446
2447PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2448
2449PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2450 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2451 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2452 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2453 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2454 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2455 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2456 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2457 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2458 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2459 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2460
2461PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2462 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2463 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2464
2465
2466Exim version 4.60
2467-----------------
2468
2469PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2470
2471 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2472 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2473
2474 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2475 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2476 statements are most likely to be submissions.
2477
2478PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2479
2480 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2481 not a single digit.
2482
2483 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2484 string.
2485
2486 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2487 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2488 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2489 silly things.
2490
2491 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2492 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2493
2494 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2495 inside the third argument.
2496
2497PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2498 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2499 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2500
2501PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2502 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
2503
2504PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2505 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2506
2507 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2508
2509 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2510 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2511 this:
2512
2513 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2514
2515PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2516 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2517 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2518 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2519 identical. For example:
2520
2521 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2522
2523 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2524 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2525 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2526
2527PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2528 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2529 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2530 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2531
2532PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2533 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2534 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2535 message.
2536
2537PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2538
2539 o fixes some comments
2540 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2541 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2542 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2543 and documents the missing references header update
2544
2545 and most important:
2546
2547 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2548 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2549 result)
2550
2551PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2552 Electronic Mail") by including:
2553
2554 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2555
2556 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2557 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2558 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2559 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2560 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2561
2562 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2563
2564 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2565
2566 The auto-replied keyword:
2567
2568 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2569 message by an automatic process,
2570
2571 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2572
2573 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2574 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2575
2576 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2577 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2578 other messages.
2579
2580PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2581 to the default Received: header definition.
2582
2583PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2584
2585PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2586 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2587 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2588
2589PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2590 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2591 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2592
2593PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2594 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2595 and treats the condition as false.
2596
2597PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2598
2599PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2600 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2601 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2602 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2603 not changing the active code.
2604
2605 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2606 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2607
2608 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2609 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2610
2611PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2612 (Bugzilla #53).
2613
2614PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2615 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2616 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2617 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2618 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2619 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2620 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2621 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2622 the text comparison.
2623
2624PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2625 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2626 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2627 The same fix has been applied.
2628
2629
2630Exim version 4.54
2631-----------------
2632
2633PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2634 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2635 It now does.
2636
2637PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2638 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2639
2640PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2641
2642PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2643 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2644 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2645 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2646 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2647
2648TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2649 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2650 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2651 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2652 or /domain=).
2653
2654PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2655 testing suite.
2656
2657
2658
2659Exim version 4.53
2660-----------------
2661
2662TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2663 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2664
2665PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2666
2667PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2668
2669PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2670 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2671 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2672
2673PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2674 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2675 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2676
2677PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2678 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2679 operating systems.
2680
2681PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2682 ${stat: expansion item.
2683
2684PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2685 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2686
2687PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2688 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2689 file for comments.
2690
2691PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2692
2693PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2694 setting.
2695
2696PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2697 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2698
2699TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2700
2701PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2702 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2703 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2704 the end of the subprocess.
2705
2706PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2707 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2708 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2709 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2710 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2711
2712JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2713
2714TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2715
2716PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2717 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2718
2719PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2720
2721PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2722
2723PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2724 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2725 HP-UX compiler.
2726
2727PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2728
2729PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2730 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2731 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2732
2733PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2734 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2735
2736PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2737 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2738
2739PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2740 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2741
2742 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2743 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2744
2745 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2746 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2747 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2748 contributed by a Radius user.
2749
2750PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2751 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2752
2753TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2754 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2755
2756PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2757 available.
2758
2759PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2760 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2761 received.
2762
2763PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2764 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2765 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2766 header lines when this was not necessary.
2767
2768PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2769
2770PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2771 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2772 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2773 exists".
2774
2775PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2776 -bV or -d is used.
2777
2778PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2779 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
2780 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2781 return code was incorrect.
2782
2783PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2784
2785PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2786
2787TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2788
2789PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2790
2791PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2792 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2793 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2794 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2795 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2796 settings.
2797
2798PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2799
2800PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2801 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2802 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2803 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2804 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2805 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2806 which is clearly wrong.
2807
2808PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2809
2810PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2811 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2812 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2813 subsequently added.
2814
2815PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2816 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2817
2818PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2819
2820PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2821 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2822
2823PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2824 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2825
2826PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2827 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2828
2829PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2830 recipients, not senders.
2831
2832TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2833 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2834
2835PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2836
2837PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2838
2839PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2840 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2841 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2842 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2843
2844TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2845
2846TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2847 clock is set back in time.
2848
2849TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2850 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2851
2852TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2853 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2854
2855PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2856 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2857 (see PH/47 above).
2858
2859TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2860 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2861 header rewrites.
2862
2863PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2864 type ("H").
2865
2866PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2867
2868TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2869 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2870 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2871
2872TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2873 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2874 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2875 helo verification defer as a failure.
2876
2877PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2878 actual error message.
2879
2880
2881Exim version 4.52
2882-----------------
2883
2884TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2885
2886PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2887 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2888 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2889 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2890
2891TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2892
2893PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2894 can still be requested.
2895
2896PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2897 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2898 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2899 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2900
2901TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2902 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2903 circumstances, but probably never did.
2904
2905PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2906 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2907 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2908 in the header line.
2909
2910TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2911
2912TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2913 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
2914
2915TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2916
2917TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2918
2919PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2920 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2921 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2922 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2923 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2924 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
2925
2926PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2927 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2928 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2929 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2930 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2931 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2932
2933TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2934 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2935
2936PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2937 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2938
2939SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2940 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2941
2942SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2943
2944SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2945
2946SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2947
2948SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2949
2950SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2951
2952SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2953
2954TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2955
2956TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2957 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2958 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2959
2960TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2961 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2962 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2963 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2964
2965PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2966 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2967 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2968
2969PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2970 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2971 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2972 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2973
2974PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2975 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2976 to be made).
2977
2978PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2979 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2980 should work with maildirs and everything.
2981
2982TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2983 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2984
2985TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2986 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2987
2988PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2989 function for BDB 4.3.
2990
2991PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2992
2993PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2994 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2995 involved.
2996
2997PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2998 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2999 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
3000 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3001 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3002 formatting function string_vformat().
3003
3004PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3005 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3006 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3007 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3008 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3009 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3010 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3011 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3012
3013TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3014 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3015 details.
3016
3017PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3018 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3019
3020PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3021 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3022 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3023 test. It is now used for both.
3024
3025PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3026 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3027 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3028 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3029 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3030 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3031
3032PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3033 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3034 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3035 string_vformat().
3036
3037PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3038 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3039 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
3040
3041PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3042 experimental DomainKeys support:
3043
3044 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3045 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3046 the control was given.
3047
3048 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3049
3050PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3051
3052PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3053
3054PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3055 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3056 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3057 db.h files).
3058
3059PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
3060 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3061 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3062 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3063 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3064 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3065 course.
3066
3067PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3068 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3069 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3070 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3071 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3072 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3073
3074PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3075 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3076 do -d+all out of habit.
3077
3078PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3079 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3080 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3081
3082PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3083 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3084 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3085 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3086 record types that Exim uses.
3087
3088PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3089 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3090 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3091 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3092 non-existent file that was broken.
3093
3094TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3095 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3096
3097TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3098 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3099 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3100
3101TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3102
3103PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3104 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3105 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3106 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3107 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3108 same time.
3109
3110SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3111 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3112 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3113 at a slight CPU cost.
3114
3115SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3116 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3117
3118SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3119 by Marc Sherman.
3120
3121SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3122
3123PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3124 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3125
3126
3127Exim version 4.51
3128-----------------
3129
3130TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3131 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3132
3133TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
3134
3135TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3136
3137PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3138 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3139
3140PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3141 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3142 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3143 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3144 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3145 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3146 file.
3147
3148PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3149 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3150 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3151 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3152 these two options.
3153
3154PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3155 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3156 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3157 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3158 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3159 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3160 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
3161 address.
3162
3163PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3164 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3165
3166PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3167 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3168 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3169 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3170 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3171 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3172
3173PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3174 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3175 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3176 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3177
3178PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3179 Finch).
3180
3181PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3182 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
3183
3184PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3185 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
3186 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3187 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3188 message.
3189
3190PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3191
3192PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3193 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3194
3195PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3196 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3197 to what was transported.)
3198
3199TF/01 Added $received_time.
3200
3201PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3202 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3203 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3204 spamd_address settings.
3205
3206PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3207 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3208 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3209 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3210 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3211
3212PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3213
3214PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3215 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3216 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3217 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3218 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3219
3220PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3221 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3222
3223PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3224 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3225 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3226 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3227 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3228 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3229 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3230 for failure.
3231
3232PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3233 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3234 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3235 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3236 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3237 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3238 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3239 "input=".
3240
3241PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3242
3243PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3244 driver and ACL definitions.
3245
3246PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3247 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3248
3249PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3250 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3251 understands it better than I do:
3252
3253 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3254 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3255
3256 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3257 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3258 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3259 => three warnings about OTP not working
3260 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3261
3262 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3263 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3264 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3265 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3266 for each call.)
3267 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3268 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3269
3270 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3271 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3272 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3273
3274PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3275 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3276 specified.
3277
3278PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3279 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3280 "Linux".
3281
3282PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3283 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3284 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3285
3286 warn !verify = sender
3287 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3288
3289 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3290 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3291
3292PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3293
3294 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3295 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3296
3297 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3298 nomenclature these days.)
3299
3300PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3301 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3302
3303PH/30 In these circumstances:
3304 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3305 . First host does not offer TLS;
3306 . First host accepts first address;
3307 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3308 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3309 . Second host accepts second address.
3310 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3311 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3312 address.
3313
3314PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3315 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3316 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3317 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3318 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3319
3320PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3321 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3322
3323PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3324 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
3325
3326PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3327 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3328 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3329
3330PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3331 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3332 overlooked.
3333
3334PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3335
3336PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3337 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3338 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3339 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3340 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3341 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3342 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3343
3344 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3345 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3346 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3347 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3348 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3349
3350 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3351 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3352 routed further.
3353
3354PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3355 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3356 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3357 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3358 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3359 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3360
3361PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3362
3363PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3364 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3365 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3366 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3367 printable escape sequences.
3368
3369PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3370 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3371 body only.
3372
3373PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3374 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3375 are as follows:
3376
3377 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3378 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3379 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3380 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3381 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3382
3383 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3384 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3385 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3386
3387PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3388
3389PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3390 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3391 play with."
3392
3393PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3394 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3395 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3396 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3397 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3398 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3399 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3400 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3401 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3402 the log output.
3403
3404PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3405 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3406 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3407 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3408 "make".
3409
3410
3411A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3412----------------------------------------
3413
3414Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3415changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3416needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3417in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3418that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3419release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3420from 4.43.
3421
3422I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
34234.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3424those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3425historical information.
3426
3427
3428Exim version 4.50
3429-----------------
3430
3431 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3432
3433 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3434 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3435
3436 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3437 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3438 place.
3439
3440 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3441 filter fails to execute.
3442
3443 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3444 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3445 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3446 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3447 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3448
3449 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3450
3451 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3452 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3453 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3454 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3455
3456 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3457 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3458 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3459 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3460 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3461
3462 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3463
346410. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3465
346611. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3467 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3468 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3469 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3470
347112. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3472 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3473 sender verification.
3474
347513. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3476 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3477
347814. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3479
348015. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3481 connection timeout.
3482
348316. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3484 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3485
348617. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3487 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3488
348918. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3490 information about exactly what failed.
3491
349219. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3493
349420. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3495 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3496 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3497
349821. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3499 It is now set to "smtps".
3500
350122. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3502 ignore_target_hosts.
3503
350423. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3505 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3506 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3507 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3508 "[x.x.x.x]".
3509
351024. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3511 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3512 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3513
351425. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3515 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3516 wake it up if nothing else does.
3517
351826. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3519 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3520 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3521 end up negative.
3522
352327. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3524 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3525
352628. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3527
352829. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3529 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3530 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3531 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3532 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3533 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3534 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3535 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3536
353730. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3538 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3539 than one IP address.
3540
354131. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3542 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3543 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3544 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3545
354632. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3547 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3548 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3549 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3550 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3551 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3552
355333. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3554 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3555 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3556 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3557
355834. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3559 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3560 respected.
3561
356235. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3563 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3564 $sender_host_address.
3565
356636. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3567 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3568 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3569 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3570 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3571 very small.
3572
357337. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3574
3575 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3576 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3577
3578 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3579 just the host names, not the priorities.
3580
3581 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
3582 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3583 controlled by a keyword.
3584
3585 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
3586 multiple records are returned.
3587
358838. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3589 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3590 domain.
3591
359239. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3593
359440. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3595 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3596
359741. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3598 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3599 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3600
360142. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3602
360343. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3604
360544. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3606
360745. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3608 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3609 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3610 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3611 because the tests only now provoked it.
3612
361346. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3614 (this can affect the format of dates).
3615
361647. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3617 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3618 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3619 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3620
362148. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3622
362349. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3624 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3625 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3626 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3627
362850. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3629 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3630 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3631
363251. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3633 autoreply.
3634
363552. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3636 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3637 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3638 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3639 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3640 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3641 is going on).
3642
364353. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3644 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3645 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3646 the line.
3647
364854. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3649 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3650 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3651
3652 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3653 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3654 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3655 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3656 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3657 so I produce this patch..."
3658
3659 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3660 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3661 is not defined.
3662
366355. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3664 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3665 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3666 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3667 CAN-2005-0021
3668
366956. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3670
367157. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3672 long debug lines gets shown.
3673
367458. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3675 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3676
367759. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3678
3679 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3680 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3681 of $primary_hostname.
3682
368360. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3684 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3685 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3686 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3687 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3688 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3689 by change 4.50/55 above.
3690
3691 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3692 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3693 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3694 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3695 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3696 running as the user.
3697 CAN-2005-0021
3698
369961. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3700 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3701 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3702 CAN-2005-0022
3703
370462. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3705 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3706
370763. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3708 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3709 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3710 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3711 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3712
371364. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3714 This has been fixed.
3715
371665. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3717 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3718 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3719 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3720 the caching.)
3721
372266. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3723
372467. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3725 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3726 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3727 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3728
372968. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3730 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3731
373269. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3733 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3734 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3735
373670. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3737 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3738 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3739 message there.
3740
374171. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3742 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3743 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3744
374572. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3746 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3747 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3748 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3749
375073. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3751 during host lookups.
3752
375374. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3754 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3755
3756 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3757
375875. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3759 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3760 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3761 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3762 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3763 background.
3764
376576. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3766 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3767
376877. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3769 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3770 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3771
377278. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3773
377479. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3775 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3776 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3777 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3778 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3779 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3780 process earlier.
3781
378280. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3783 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3784 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3785 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3786 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3787
378881. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3789 tables).
3790
379182. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3792
379383. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3794 "vacation" handling.
3795
379684. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3797 OS variants using glibc.
3798
379985. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3800
3801
3802----------------------------------------------------
3803See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3804----------------------------------------------------
3805
3806
3807Exim version 4.44
3808-----------------
3809
3810 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3811 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3812 transport
3813
3814 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3815 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3816 place.
3817
3818 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3819 filter fails to execute.
3820
3821 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3822 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3823 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3824 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3825 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3826
3827 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3828 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3829 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3830 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3831
3832 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3833 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3834 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3835 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3836 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3837
3838 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3839
3840 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3841 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3842 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3843 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3844
3845 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3846 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3847 sender verification.
3848
384910. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3850 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3851
385211. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3853 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3854
385512. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3856 ignore_target_hosts.
3857
385813. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3859 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3860 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3861 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3862 "[x.x.x.x]".
3863
386414. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3865 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3866 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3867
386815. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3869 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3870 wake it up if nothing else does.
3871
387216. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3873 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3874 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3875 end up negative.
3876
387717. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3878 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3879
388018. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
3881
388219. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3883 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3884 empty pattern.
3885
388620. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3887 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3888 one IP address.
3889
389021. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3891 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3892 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3893 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3894 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3895 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3896
389722. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3898 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3899 respected.
3900
390123. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3902 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3903 $sender_host_address.
3904
390524. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3906
390725. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3908 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3909 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3910
391126. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
3912 As per change 25.
3913
391427. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3915 (this can affect the format of dates).
3916
391728. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3918 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3919 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3920 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3921
392229. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3923 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3924 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3925
392630. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3927 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3928 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3929 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3930
393131. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3932 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3933 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3934
393531. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3936 autoreply.
3937
393832. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3939 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3940 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3941 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3942 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3943 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3944 is going on).
3945
394633. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3947 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3948 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3949 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3950 CAN-2005-0021
3951
395234. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3953 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3954 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3955 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3956 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3957 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3958 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3959
3960 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3961 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3962 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3963 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3964 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3965 running as the user.
3966 CAN-2005-0021
3967
396835. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3969 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3970 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3971 CAN-2005-0022
3972
397336. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3974 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3975 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3976 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3977 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3978
397937. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3980 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3981 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3982 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3983 the caching.)
3984
398538. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3986 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3987 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3988 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3989 because the tests only now provoked it.
3990
3991
3992Exim version 4.43
3993-----------------
3994
3995 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3996 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3997 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3998 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3999 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4000 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4001 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4002
4003 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4004 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4005 the delivery.
4006
4007 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4008
4009 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4010
4011 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4012 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4013 to local_scan().
4014
4015 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4016 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4017 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4018 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4019 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4020
4021 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4022 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4023
4024 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4025
4026 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4027
402810. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4029 header_sender only.
4030
403111. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4032 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4033
403412. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4035 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4036 affecting debugging statements).
4037
403813. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4039
404014. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4041 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4042 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4043 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4044 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4045 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4046 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4047 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4048 after the received time, and all would be well.
4049
405015. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4051 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4052 condition in an expansion string.
4053
405416. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4055
405617. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4057 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4058 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4059 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4060 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4061 job under whatever limits there are.
4062
406318. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4064
406519. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4066 space).
4067
406820. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4069 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4070 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4071 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4072 return path is set.
4073
407421. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4075 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4076 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4077 binary data in such strings.
4078
407922. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4080
408123. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4082 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4083 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4084 failure, which is pointless.
4085
408624. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4087
408825. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4089
409026. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4091 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4092 Sender: header lines.
4093
409427. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4095 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4096 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4097
409828. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4099 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4100 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4101 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4102 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4103 happens.
4104
410529. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4106 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4107 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4108 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4109 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4110
411130. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4112 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4113 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4114 1024.
4115
411631. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4117 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4118
411932. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4120 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4121
412233. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4123
412432. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4125
412633. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4127
412834. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4129 syntax error.
4130
413135. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4132
413336. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4134
413537. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4136 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4137 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4138 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4139
414038. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4141 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4142
4143
4144Exim version 4.42
4145-----------------
4146
4147 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4148 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4149 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4150 it was not quoted.
4151 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4152 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4153 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4154 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4155 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4156 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4157
4158 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4159 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4160 verification failure".
4161
4162 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4163 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4164 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4165 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4166
4167 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4168 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4169 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4170 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4171 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4172 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4173 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4174 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4175 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4176 treated as a timeout.
4177
4178 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4179 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4180 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4181 not set for Exim filters).
4182
4183 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4184 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4185 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4186
4187 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4188
4189 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4190 try to make them clearer.
4191
4192 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4193 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4194
4195 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4196
4197 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4198
419910. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4200 only the Cygwin environment.
4201
420211. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4203 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4204 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4205 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4206 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4207
420812. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4209 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4210 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4211 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4212 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4213 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4214 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4215
421613. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4217 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4218
421914. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4220
4221 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4222 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4223 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4224
4225 To: susanne@some.where
4226
4227 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4228 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4229 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4230 of addresses in From: header lines).
4231
4232 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4233 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4234 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4235
4236 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4237 treated as non-personal.
4238
4239 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4240 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4241
424215. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4243
424416. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4245
424617. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4247 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4248 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4249
425018. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4251 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4252
425319. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4254 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4255 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4256 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4257 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4258 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4259
426020. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4261 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4262 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4263 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4264 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4265 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4266 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4267 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4268
4269 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4270
427121. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4272 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4273
427422. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4275 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4276 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4277
427823. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4279 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4280
428124. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4282 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4283 rather than long int.
4284
428525. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4286
428726. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4288
4289
4290Exim version 4.41
4291-----------------
4292
4293 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4294 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4295 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4296 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4297 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4298 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4299
4300
4301Exim version 4.40
4302-----------------
4303
4304 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4305 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4306
4307 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4308 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4309 socklen_t is defined.
4310
4311 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4312 always exist.
4313
4314 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4315 configured.
4316
4317 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4318 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4319 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4320 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4321 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4322
4323 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4324 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4325 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4326 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4327
4328 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4329 of flapping under certain conditions.
4330
4331 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4332 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4333 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4334
4335 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4336
433710. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4338
433911. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4340 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4341 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4342 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4343
434412. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4345 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4346 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4347 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4348 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4349 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4350 preserved with the message after it was received.
4351
435213. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4353 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4354 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4355 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4356 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4357 test suite worked just fine.
4358
435914. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4360 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4361 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4362
436315. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4364 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4365 string.
4366
436716. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4368 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4369 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4370 does not fully solve it.
4371
437217. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4373 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4374 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4375 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4376 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4377
437818. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4379 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4380 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4381
438219. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4383 string, for example:
4384
4385 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4386
4387 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4388 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4389 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4390 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4391 the routers could not see them.
4392
439320. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4394 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4395
439621. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4397 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4398 output).
4399
440022. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4401 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4402 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4403 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4404 that needed quoting.
4405
440623. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4407 was not being matched caselessly.
4408
440924. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4410 backslashes.
4411
441225. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4413 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4414 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4415 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4416 when use_sender is false.
4417
441826. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4419
442027. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4421
442228. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4423
442429. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4425 the configuration file.
4426
442730. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4428 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4429
443031. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4431
443232. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4433 bytes in the message body.
4434
443533. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4436 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4437 delivery.
4438
443934. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4440
444135. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4442
444336. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4444 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4445 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4446 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4447 another IP address.
4448
4449
4450Exim version 4.34
4451-----------------
4452
4453 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4454 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4455
4456 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4457 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4458 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4459 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4460 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4461
4462 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4463 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4464
4465 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4466 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4467 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4468
4469 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4470 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4471 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4472
4473 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4474 for routers.
4475
4476 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4477 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4478 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4479 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4480 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4481 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4482 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4483
4484
4485Exim version 4.33
4486-----------------
4487
4488 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4489 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4490 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4491 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4492 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4493 default (and expected) setting.
4494
4495 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4496 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4497 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4498 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4499
4500 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4501 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4502
4503 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4504 in domain lists.
4505
4506 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4507 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4508 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4509 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4510 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4511 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4512
4513 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4514 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4515 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4516
4517 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4518 part (NOT match_host).
4519
4520 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4521
4522 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4523 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4524 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4525 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4526 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4527 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4528 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4529 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4530 the same named file.
4531
453210. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4533 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4534 when Exim is built.
4535
453611. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4537 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4538 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4539 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4540 a host name.
4541
454212. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4543 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4544 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4545
454613. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4547
454814. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4549
455015. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4551
455216. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4553 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4554
455517. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4556 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4557 before starting the TLS session.
4558
455918. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4560
456119. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4562 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4563
456420. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4565 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4566 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4567 colon in the middle).
4568
4569
4570Exim version 4.32
4571-----------------
4572
4573 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4574 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4575 multiple configurations are in use.
4576
4577 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4578 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4579 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4580 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4581 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4582 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4583
4584 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4585 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4586
4587 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4588 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4589 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4590
4591 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4592 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4593 occurs.
4594
4595 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4596 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4597
4598 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4599
4600 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4601 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4602
4603 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4604
4605 -prval:sval
4606
4607 is equivalent to
4608
4609 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4610
4611 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4612 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4613 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4614 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4615 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4616
461710. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4618 Exim's behaviour:
4619
4620 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4621 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4622 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4623 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4624 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4625 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4626
4627 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4628 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4629 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4630 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4631 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4632 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4633 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4634 string.
4635
4636 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4637 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4638 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4639 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4640 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4641
464211. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4643
464412. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4645 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4646 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4647
464813. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4649
465014. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4651 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4652 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4653 information.
4654
465515. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4656 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4657
465816. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4659 Three changes have been made:
4660
4661 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4662 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4663 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4664 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4665 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4666
4667 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4668 been restored.
4669
4670 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4671 the modified behaviour.
4672
4673
4674Exim version 4.31
4675-----------------
4676
4677 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4678 Larry Rosenman.
4679
4680 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4681 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4682
4683 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4684 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4685 try to track down a specific problem.
4686
4687 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4688 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4689 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4690
4691 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4692 warning.
4693
4694 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4695 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4696 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4697 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4698 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4699 some earlier ones do not.
4700
4701 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4702
4703 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4704 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4705 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4706 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4707 address literals are enabled, of course).
4708
4709 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4710
471110. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4712 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4713 by a command such as
4714
4715 exim -f "" ...
4716
4717 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4718
471911. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4720
472112. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4722 remained set. It is now erased.
4723
472413. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4725 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4726
472714. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4728 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4729 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4730 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4731 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4732 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4733 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4734 appropriate error code.
4735
473615. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4737 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4738 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4739 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4740 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4741 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4742
474316. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4744 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4745 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4746
474717. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4748 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4749 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4750 terminate the header.
4751
475218. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4753 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4754 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4755
475619. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4757 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4758 (4.30/29). In particular:
4759
4760 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4761 imposed.
4762
4763 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4764 to write a maildirsize file.
4765
4766 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4767 the transport, the new value overrides.
4768
4769 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4770 count.
4771
477220. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4773 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4774 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4775 space or a tab.
4776
477721. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4778 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4779 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4780 the fallback hosts.
4781
478222. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4783 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4784 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4785
478623. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4787 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4788 using a union.
4789
479024. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4791 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4792 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4793
479425. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4795
479626. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4797
479827. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4799
480028. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4801 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4802 become corrupted.
4803
480429. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4805 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4806 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4807 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4808 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4809 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4810 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4811 too great.
4812
481330. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4814 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4815 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4816 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4817 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4818 incorrectly.
4819
482031. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4821 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4822 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4823 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4824 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4825 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4826 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4827 cached value only when the same options are set.
4828
482932. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4830
483133. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4832 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4833 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4834 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4835 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4836
483734: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4838 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4839 it is clearly obsolete.
4840
484135. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4842 transport.
4843
484436. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4845 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4846 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4847 times.
4848
484937. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4850 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4851 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4852 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4853 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4854
485538. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4856 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4857 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4858 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4859
486039. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4861
4862 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4863
4864 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4865 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4866 2^31.
4867
486840. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4869 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4870 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4871 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4872 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4873 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4874 $localpart_data.
4875
487641. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4877 with the -f command-line option.
4878
487942. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4880 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4881 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4882 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4883 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4884 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4885
488643. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4887 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4888 line.
4889
489044. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4891 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4892 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4893 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4894 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4895 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4896 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4897 buffer is too small.
4898
489945. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4900 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4901
490246. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4903 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4904 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4905 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4906 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4907 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4908 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4909 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4910 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4911
491247. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4913 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4914 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4915
491648. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4917 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4918 ACL").
4919
492049. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4921 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4922 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4923 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4924 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4925
492650. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4927 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4928 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4929 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4930 is set.
4931
493251. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4933
493452. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4935
493653. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4937 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4938
493954. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4940 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4941 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4942
494355. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4944 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4945 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4946 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4947 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4948
494956. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4950 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4951 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4952 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4953 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4954 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4955 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4956
495757. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4958 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4959 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4960 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4961 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4962 the test of how many are available.
4963
496458. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4965 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4966 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4967 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4968 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4969 new message is started.
4970
497159. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4972 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4973
497460. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4975 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4976
497761. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4978 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4979 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4980 is no long logged.
4981
498262. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4983 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4984 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4985 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4986 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4987 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4988 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4989
499063. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4991 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4992 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4993 interpreted as octal.
4994
499564. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4996 setting.
4997
499865. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4999 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5000 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5001 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5002 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5003 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5004
500566. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5006 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5007 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5008 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5009
5010 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5011 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5012 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5013 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5014
5015 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5016 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5017 is a bug fix.
5018
5019 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5020 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5021
502267. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5023
502468. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5025 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5026 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5027 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5028
502969. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5030 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5031 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5032 supplied", which is not helpful.
5033
503470. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5035 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5036 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5037
503871. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5039 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5040 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5041 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5042 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5043 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5044 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5045 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5046
504772. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5048 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5049 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5050 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5051 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5052
505373. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5054 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5055 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5056 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5057 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5058 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5059
506074. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5061 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5062 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5063
506475. Added write_rejectlog option.
5065
506676. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5067 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5068 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5069 variables.
5070
507177. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5072
507378. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5074 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5075 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5076 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5077 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5078 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5079 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5080 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5081
508279. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5083 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5084 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5085 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5086 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5087
508880. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5089 Haardt.
5090
509181. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5092 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5093 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5094 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5095 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5096 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5097 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5098 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5099 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5100
5101
5102Exim version 4.30
5103-----------------
5104
5105 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5106 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5107 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5108
5109 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5110 fixed.
5111
5112 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5113 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5114 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5115
5116 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5117 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5118 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5119 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5120 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5121 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5122
5123 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5124 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5125 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5126 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5127 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5128 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5129 the Exim test suite.
5130
5131 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5132 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5133 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5134 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5135
5136 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5137 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5138 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5139 specify it in this variable.
5140
5141 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5142 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5143 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5144 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5145
5146 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5147 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5148 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5149 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5150
5151 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5152 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5153 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5154 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5155 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5156
5157 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5158
515910. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5160 they are logged.
5161
516211. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5163 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5164 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5165 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5166 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5167
516812. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5169 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5170
517113. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5172 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5173 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5174 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5175 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5176
517714. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5178 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5179
518015. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5181 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5182 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5183
518416. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5185 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5186
518717. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5188 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5189
519018. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5191 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5192 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5193
519419. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5195 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5196
519720. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5198 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5199 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5200 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5201
520221. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5203
520422. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5205 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5206 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5207 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5208
520923. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5210
521124. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5212 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5213
521425. Added .include_if_exists.
5215
521626. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5217 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5218 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5219 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5220 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5221 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5222
522327. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5224
522528. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5226 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5227 this.
5228
522929. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5230
523130. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5232 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5233
5234 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5235 550 Sender verify failed
5236
5237 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5238 the final line of the response.
5239
524031. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5241 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5242 all other user lookups.
5243
524432. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5245 delivery time.
5246
524733. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5248 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5249 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5250 result into an int without checking.
5251
525234. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5253 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5254 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5255
525635. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5257 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5258 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5259 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5260
526136. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5262 correctly.
5263
526437. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5265 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5266
526738. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5268 to the empty sender.
5269
527039. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5271 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5272 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5273 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5274 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5275 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5276 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5277 panic log.
5278
527940. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5280 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5281 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5282 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5283 used.
5284
528541. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5286 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5287
528842. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5289 timestamps.
5290
529143. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5292 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5293
529444. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5295
529645. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5297 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5298 logs.
5299
530046. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5301 as soon as it is encountered.
5302
530347. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5304
530548. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5306 rewritten to "<>".
5307
530849. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5309 recognizes a tab character.
5310
531150. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5312 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5313 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5314 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5315
531651. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5317
531852. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5319 crash.
5320
532153. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5322
532354. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5324
532555. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5326 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5327 2822.
5328
532956. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5330 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5331 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5332 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5333 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5334
533557. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5336 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5337
533858. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5339 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5340 list (.included file names were always shown).
5341
534259. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5343 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5344 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5345 root at that time.
5346
534760. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5348 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5349
535061. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5351
535262. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5353
535463. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5355
535664. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5357 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5358 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5359 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5360 failures to open the logs.
5361
536265. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5363 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5364 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5365 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5366 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5367 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5368 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5369
5370
5371Exim version 4.24
5372-----------------
5373
5374 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5375 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5376 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5377 change 4.23/1.
5378
5379 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5380 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5381 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5382
5383 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5384 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5385 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5386
5387 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5388 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5389 causing some misleading effects.
5390
5391 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5392 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5393 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5394
5395 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5396 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5397 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5398 queue-runner function directly.
5399
5400
5401Exim version 4.23
5402-----------------
5403
5404 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5405 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5406
5407 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5408 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5409 was always written to the default place.
5410
5411 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5412 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5413 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5414
5415 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5416
5417 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5418
5419 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5420 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5421 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5422
5423 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5424 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5425 must start.
5426
5427 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5428 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5429 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5430
5431 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5432 command line option is disabled.
5433
5434 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5435 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5436
5437 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5438
5439 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5440
5441 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5442 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5443
544410. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5445
544611. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5447 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5448 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5449 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5450 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5451 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5452
545312. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5454 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5455 timeout.
5456
545713. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5458 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5459
546014. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5461 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5462
546315. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5464 received was valid base64.
5465
546616. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5467 name of the variable that was being set.
5468
546917. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5470
547118. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5472 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5473 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5474 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5475 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5476 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5477
547819. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5479
548020. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5481 nor realm was specified.
5482
548321. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5484 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5485 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5486 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5487
548822. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5489 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5490 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5491
549223. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5493 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5494 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5495
549624. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5497 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5498 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5499 some systems use these upper case variants.
5500
550125. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5502 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5503 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5504 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5505
550626. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5507
550827. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5509 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5510
551128. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5512 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5513 expansion variable.
5514
551529. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5516
551730. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5518 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5519 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5520 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5521
552231. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5523 using it.
5524
552532. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5526 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5527 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5528
552933. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5530 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5531
553234. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5533 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5534 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5535 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5536
553735. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5538 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5539 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5540
554136. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5542
554337. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5544 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5545 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5546 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5547 aborted.
5548
554938. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5550 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5551 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5552
555339. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5554
555540. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5556 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5557
555841. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5559 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5560
556142. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5562 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5563 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5564 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5565 when emails are that large.
5566
5567
5568
5569Exim version 4.22
5570-----------------
5571
5572 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5573 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5574
5575 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5576 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5577 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5578
5579 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5580 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5581 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5582
5583 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5584 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5585 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5586 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5587 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5588
5589 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5590 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5591 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5592 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5593 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5594 ever.
5595
5596 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5597 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5598 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5599 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5600 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5601 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5602 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5603 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5604 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5605 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5606 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5607 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5608 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5609 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5610
5611 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5612 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5613 parameterised it.
5614
5615 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5616 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5617 error should be diagnosed.
5618
5619 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5620 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5621 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5622 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5623 appeared instead of "NULL".
5624
562510. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5626 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5627 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5628 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5629 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5630 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5631 proceeds).
5632
5633 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5634 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5635 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5636
5637
5638Exim version 4.21
5639-----------------
5640
5641 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5642 or receiver verification errors.
5643
5644 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5645 name.
5646
5647 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5648 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5649 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5650 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5651
5652 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5653 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5654 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5655 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5656 shouldn't happen again.
5657
5658 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5659 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5660 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5661
5662 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5663 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5664
5665 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5666
5667 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5668 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5669
5670 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5671 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5672 RFC.
5673
567410. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5675 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5676 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5677
567811. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5679 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5680 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5681 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5682
568312. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5684 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5685 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5686 to define what should happen).
5687
568813. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5689 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5690 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5691
569214. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5693
569415. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5695
569616. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5697 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5698
569917. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5700 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5701 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5702 structure in all cases.
5703
5704 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5705 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5706 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5707 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5708
570918. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5710 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5711 domain name.
5712
571319. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5714 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5715
571620. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5717 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5718
571921. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5720 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5721 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5722
572322. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5724 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5725 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5726
572723. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5728 the book and for uniformity.
5729
573024. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5731
573225. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5733 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5734 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5735 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5736 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5737 non-existent command as the problem.
5738
573926. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5740 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5741 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5742
574327. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5744
574528. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5746 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5747 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5748
574929. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5750 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5751 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5752 timestamps using strftime().
5753
575430. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5755 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5756
575732. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5758 transport-time rewrites.
5759
576033. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5761 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5762 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5763 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5764
576534. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5766 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5767
576835. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5769 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5770 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5771 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5772 comma and a space.
5773
577436. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5775 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5776 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5777 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5778 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5779 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5780 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5781
578237. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5783 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5784 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5785 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5786 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5787
578838. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5789 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5790 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5791 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5792 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5793 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5794 remaining text gets split now.
5795
579639. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5797 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5798 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5799 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5800
580140. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5802 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5803 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5804 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5805 $return_path.
5806
580741. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5808 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5809 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5810 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5811 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5812 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5813 passed through if needed.
5814
581542. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5816 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5817 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5818 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5819 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5820 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5821
582243. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5823 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5824 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5825 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5826 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5827
582844. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5829 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5830 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5831 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5832 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5833
583445. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5835 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5836 noticed.
5837
583846. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5839 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5840 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5841 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5842 mayhem of various kinds.
5843
584447. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5845 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5846 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5847 the right test for positive values.
5848
584948. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5850 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5851 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5852 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5853 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5854 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5855 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5856 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5857 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5858 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5859 envelope.
5860
586149. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5862 module.
5863
586450. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5865 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5866 forbidding it.
5867
586851. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5869 the existing equality matching.
5870
587152. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5872 dealing with inode numbers.
5873
587453. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5875 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5876 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5877
587854. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5879 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5880 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5881 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5882 local_scan().
5883
588455. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5885 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5886 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5887 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5888 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5889 relay addresses has also been removed.
5890
589156. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5892
589357. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5894 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5895 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5896
589758. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5898 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5899 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5900 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5901 processing applies to CR:
5902
5903 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5904 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5905
5906 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5907 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5908 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5909 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5910
591159. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5912 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5913 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5914
591560. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5916 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5917 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5918 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5919 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5920 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5921 arisen.
5922
592361. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5924 program routers.
5925
592662. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5927 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5928 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5929 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5930 adds:
5931
5932 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5933
5934 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5935
5936 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5937
593863. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5939 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5940 not considered personal.
5941
594264. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5943
594465. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5945
594666. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5947
594867. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5949 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5950 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5951 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5952 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5953 header lines, and spool format errors.
5954
595568. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5956 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5957 for more flexibility.
5958
595969. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5960 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5961 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5962
596370. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5964 Sabourenkov.
5965
596671. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5967 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5968 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5969 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5970 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5971 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5972 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5973 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5974 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5975
597672. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5977 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5978 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5979 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5980 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5981 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5982 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5983
598473. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5985 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5986 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5987
598874. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5989 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5990 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5991 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5992 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5993 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5994 instead of killing the process with assert().
5995
599675. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5997 than Unicode encoding.
5998
599976. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6000 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6001 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6002 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6003
600477. Added process_log_path.
6005
600678. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6007 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6008
600979. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6010 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6011
601280. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6013 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6014 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6015
601681. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6017 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6018 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6019 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6020 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6021 were applied:
6022
6023 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6024 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6025 as invalid.
6026
602782. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6028 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6029 they will be used during message reception.
6030
6031
6032Exim version 4.20
6033-----------------
6034
6035The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6036
6037****