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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
6
7
8Exim version 4.92
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10
11JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
12 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
13
14JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
15 non-signal-safe functions being used.
16
17JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
18 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
19 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
20
21JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
22 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
23 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
24
25JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
26 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
27 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
28 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
29 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
30 messed with.
31
32PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
33 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
34
35JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
36 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
37 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
38 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
39 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
40 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
41 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
42
43JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
44 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
45
46JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
47 legitimate.
48
49JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
50 Previously this would segfault.
51
52JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
53 segfault.
54
55JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
56 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
57 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
58 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
59 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
60 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
61
62JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
63
64
65Exim version 4.91
66-----------------
67
68GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
69 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
70 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
71 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
72 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
73 be defined in redis_servers.
74
75GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
76 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
77
78JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
79 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
80 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
81 extant use locations.
82
83JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
84 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
85
86JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
87 Previously only the last row was returned.
88
89JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
90 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
91 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
92 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
93 input.
94
95JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
96 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
97 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
98 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
99 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
100 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
101 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
102 Main pool for expansions.
103 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
104 active in the testsuite.
105 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
106
107JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
108 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
109 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
110 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
111 round-robin DNS.
112
113JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
114 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
115 failure response.
116
117JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
118 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
119 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
120
121JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
122 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
123 ClamAV interface method is removed.
124
125JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
126 rows affected is given instead).
127
128JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
129 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
130
131JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
132 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
133 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
134 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
135 for all multi-message initiating connections.
136
137JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
138 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
139 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
140
141JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
142 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
143 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
144 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
145 separate.
146
147JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
148 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
149 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
150 fake-reject.
151
152HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
153
154JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
155 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
156
157PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
158 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
159 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
160
161JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
162 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
163 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
164 and send a quit.
165
166JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
167 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
168
169JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
170 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
171 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
172
173JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
174 for the build is renamed.
175
176JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
177 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
178 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
179
180JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
181 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
182 result replacing the original.
183
184JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
185 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
186 and the resources needed to be freed.
187
188JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
189
190JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
191 was not propagated.
192
193JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
194 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
195 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
196 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
197
198JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
199 length value. Previously this would segfault.
200
201HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
202 newer versions of the scanner.
203
204JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
205 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
206 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
207 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
208 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
209 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
210 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
211
212JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
213 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
214 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
215 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
216 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
217 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
218 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
219 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
220 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
221 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
222
223JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
224 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
225
226JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
227
228HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
229 allows proper process termination in container environments.
230
231JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
232 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
233
234JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
235 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
236 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
237
238JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
239 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
240 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
241 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
242
243JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
244 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
245 would be spooled.
246
247PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
248 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
249
250HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
251 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
252 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
253 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
254 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
255
256JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
257 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
258 lines.
259
260JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
261 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
262
263PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
264 suffix list.
265
266JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
267 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
268 "bare" representation.
269
270JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
271 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
272 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
273 corrupted the output.
274
275
276Exim version 4.90
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278
279JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
280 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
281 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
282 pairs of long lines into single ones.
283
284PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
285 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
286
287JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
288 This permits better logging.
289
290JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
291 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
292 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
293 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
294 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
295 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
296
297JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
298 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
299 "exiwhat" output.
300
301PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
302 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
303 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
304
305JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
306 than 255 are no longer allowed.
307
308JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
309 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
310 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
311 client, there is no benefit for these.
312 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
313 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
314 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
315 is used (3.2.4 +).
316
317PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
318 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
319
320JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
321 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
322 erroneously found still-pending ones.
323
324JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
325 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
326
327JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
328 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
329 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
330 signature and again for transmission.
331
332JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
333 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
334 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
335
336JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
337 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
338 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
339 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
340 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
341 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
342 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
343
344JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
345 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
346 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
347 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
348
349PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
350 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
351 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
352 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
353 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
354 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
355 processing options.
356
357JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
358 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
359 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
360 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
361 connections.
362
363PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
364 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
365 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
366 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
367 versions.
368
369JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
370 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
371 inaccessible.
372
373JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
374 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
375 banner-time rejection.
376
377JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
378 callout/hold.
379
380PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
381 is the name of a transport.
382 Fixes bug 2140.
383
384HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
385
386JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
387 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
388
389JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
390 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
391 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
392 during compilation.
393
394JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
395 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
396 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
397 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
398
399JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
400 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
401 initial verify call returned a defer.
402
403JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
404 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
405
406JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
407 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
408
409JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
410 if present. Previously it was ignored.
411
412JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
413 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
414
415JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
416 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
417 extensible.
418
419PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
420 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
421
422PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
423 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
424 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
425
426JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
427 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
428 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
429 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
430
431HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
432 and confused the parent.
433
434JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
435 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
436
437JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
438 for log purposes.
439
440JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
441 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
442 out-of-order delivery.
443
444JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
445 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
446 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
447 error for the HELO.
448
449JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
450 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
451 desynchronisation.
452
453JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
454 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
455 one run was done. Bug 2189.
456
457JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
458 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
459 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
460 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
461 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
462 message is still "Temporary local problem".
463
464JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
465 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
466 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
467
468HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
469 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
470 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
471
472JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
473 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
474 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
475 though a different problem.
476
477
478Exim version 4.89
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480
481JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
482 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
483
484JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
485
486PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
487 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
488
489JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
490 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
491
492JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
493 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
494 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
495 before acknowledging the chunk.
496
497PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
498 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
499 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
500
501JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
502 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
503 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
504 should.
505
506JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
507 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
508 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
509
510JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
511 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
512
513JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
514 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
515 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
516 body hash calculated value.
517
518JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
519 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
520 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
521
522JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
523
524JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
525 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
526
527JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
528 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
529 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
530
531JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
532 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
533 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
534 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
535 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
536 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
537
538JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
539 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
540 past that check, despite the cost.
541
542JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
543 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
544 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
545
546PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
547 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
548 TLS library to consume.
549
550PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
551
552PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
553
554JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
555 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
556 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
557 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
558 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
559 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
560 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
561
562PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
563
564PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
565
566PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
567 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
568 should be warning-free.
569
570JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
571
572HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
573 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
574
575HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
576 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
577 general solution here.
578
579PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
580 already-broken messages in the queue.
581
582JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
583
584JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
585
586
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589
590JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
591 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
592
593JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
594 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
595 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
596
597JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
598 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
599 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
600 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
601 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
602 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
603 if one fails this test.
604 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
605 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
606
607JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
608 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
609
610JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
611 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
612
613JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
614 in rewrites and routers.
615
616JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
617 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
618
619JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
620 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
621
622JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
623
624JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
625 certificate).
626
627JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
628 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
629 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
630 connection after a verify cache hit.
631 Do not update it with the verify result either.
632
633JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
634 when routing results in more than one destination address.
635
636JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
637 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
638 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
639 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
640 when the cutthrough connection is made).
641
642JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
643 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
644
645JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
646 Previously they were not counted.
647
648JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
649 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
650 that needed the lookup.
651
652JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
653 distinguished as "(=".
654
655JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
656 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
657
658JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
659
660JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
661 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
662
663JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
664 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
665
666JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
667 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
668 compatible.
669
670JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
671 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
672 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
673 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
674
675JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
676
677JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
678 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
679 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
680
681JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
682 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
683 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
684 be lost.
685
686JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
687 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
688 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
689 itself :(
690
691JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
692 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
693 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
694
695JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
696 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
697 options.
698
699JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
700
701PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
702 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
703
704PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
705 are not in the system include path.
706
707JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
708 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
709 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
710 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
711
712JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
713 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
714 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
715
716JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
717
718HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
719 an incoming connection.
720
721HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
722 to rspamd.
723
724HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
725 fallback to "prime256v1".
726
727JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
728 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
729
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733
734JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
735 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
736 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
737 client dropping the TLS connection.
738
739TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
740 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
741
742TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
743 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
744 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
745 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
746 outgoing I= field.
747
748JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
749 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
750 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
751 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
752 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
753 check on the next write.
754
755HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
756 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
757 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
758 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
759 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
760
761JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
762 mime_regex ACL conditions.
763
764JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
765 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
766 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
767
768JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
769 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
770 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
771 an authenticate fail is not an error.
772
773HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
774 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
775
776JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
777 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
778
779JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
780 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
781 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
782 distinct.
783
784JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
785
786JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
787
788JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
789
790JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
791 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
792
793JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
794 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
795
796JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
797
798JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
799 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
800
801JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
802
803JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
804 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
805
806JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
807
808JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
809 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
810 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
811 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
812 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
813 they will retry in-clear.
814 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
815 at installation time.
816
817HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
818 with the $config_file variable.
819
820JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
821 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
822 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
823 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
824 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
825
826GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
827 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
828 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
829 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
830 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
831
832JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
833
834JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
835 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
836 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
837 list order is no longer honoured.
838
839JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
840 for DKIM processing.
841
842JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
843 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
844
845JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
846 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
847 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
848 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
849
850JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
851 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
852
853JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
854 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
855
856JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
857 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
858
859JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
860
861JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
862 cached by the daemon.
863
864JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
865 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
866
867JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
868 keys are given for lookup.
869
870JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
871 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
872 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
873 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
874
875JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
876 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
877 server-side so match that on older versions.
878
879JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
880 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
881 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
882
883JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
884 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
885
886JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
887 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
888 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
889 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
890 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
891 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
892 initial truncated version.
893
894JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
895
896JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
897
898JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
899 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
900
901JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
902
903HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
904
905JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
906 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
907 induced overflows.
908
909JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
910 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
911 stage.
912
913JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
914 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
915
916JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
917 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
918 former class.
919
920JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
921 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
922 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
923
924JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
925 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
926 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
927 extraction. Accept either.
928
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932
933JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
934 expanded.
935
936JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
937
938JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
939 it.
940
941JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
942 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
943 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
944 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
945
946JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
947 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
948 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
949
950JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
951 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
952 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
953 TLS connections
954
955JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
956 sites use this now.
957
958JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
959 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
960 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
961 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
962 have a dsn_lasthop option.
963
964JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
965 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
966 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
967
968JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
969
970JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
971 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
972
973JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
974 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
975
976JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
977 /defer_ok option.
978
979JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
980 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
981
982JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
983 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
984 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
985
986JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
987 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
988 specify a port-range.
989
990JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
991 timeout value per server.
992
993JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
994 now have the list separator specified.
995
996JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
997 option values.
998
999JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1000 under OpenSSL.
1001
1002JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1003
1004JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1005 rather than the verbs used.
1006
1007JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1008 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1009
1010JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1011
1012HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1013 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1014
1015JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1016 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1017
1018HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1019 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1020
1021JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1022
1023JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1024
1025JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1026 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1027 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1028 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1029
1030JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1031
1032JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1033 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1034
1035JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1036 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1037
1038JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1039
1040JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1041
1042JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1043
1044JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1045 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1046
1047JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1048 added for tls authenticator.
1049
1050HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1051
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1055
1056TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1057 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1058 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1059 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1060 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1061 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1062 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1063
1064TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1065 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1066 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1067 function when detected.
1068
1069JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1070 cause callback expansion.
1071
1072TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1073 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1074 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1075 instead of bool when processing it.
1076
1077JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1078 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1079
1080JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1081
1082JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1083
1084TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1085
1086TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1087 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1088
1089JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1090 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1091 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1092 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1093 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1094 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1095
1096JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1097 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1098 exceeded it.
1099
1100JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1101 version 3.3.6 or later.
1102
1103JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1104 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1105 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1106 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1107 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1108 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1109 option is defined.
1110
1111TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1112 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1113
1114JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1115 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1116 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1117 matches.
1118
1119JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1120 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1121 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1122
1123JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1124 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1125
1126JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1127 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1128 syntax errors.
1129
1130JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1131
1132JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1133 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1134
1135TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1136 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1137 tarball.
1138
1139JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1140
1141JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1142 Bug 1561.
1143
1144JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1145 output list separator was used.
1146
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1150TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1151 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1152 return.
1153
1154JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1155 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1156
1157JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1158
1159TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1160 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1161
1162
1163Exim version 4.83
1164-----------------
1165
1166TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1167
1168 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1169 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1170 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1171 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1172 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1173 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1174
1175TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1176 utilities have not been installed.
1177
1178JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1179 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1180
1181TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1182 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1183
1184TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1185 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1186 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1187 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1188
1189JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1190
1191TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1192 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1193
1194PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1195 not dns_use_dnssec.
1196
1197JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1198
1199TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1200 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1201 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1202
1203TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1204 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1205 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1206 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1207 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1208 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1209
1210JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1211
1212JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1213 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1214
1215JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1216 failed delivery.
1217
1218JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1219
1220JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1221
1222JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1223 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1224
1225JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1226 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1227
1228TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1229
1230JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1231
1232JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1233 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1234
1235 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1236 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1237 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1238
1239TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1240 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1241 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1242 analysis.
1243
1244JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1245
1246JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1247 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1248 lookup).
1249
1250TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1251 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1252 Schlichting.
1253
1254JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1255 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1256
1257TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1258 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1259
1260JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1261
1262TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1263 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1264 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1265
1266JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1267 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1268
1269JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1270 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1271 hosts_request_ocsp.
1272
1273JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1274 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1275 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1276
1277JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1278
1279TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1280 Christian Aistleitner.
1281
1282JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1283
1284TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1285 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1286
1287JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1288 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1289
1290JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1291 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1292
1293TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1294 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1295
1296TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1297 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1298
1299TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1300 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1301 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1302
1303JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1304
1305PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1306 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1307 Jasper Wallace.
1308
1309JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1310
1311TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1312 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1313 CVE-2014-2972
1314
1315
1316Exim version 4.82
1317-----------------
1318
1319PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1320
1321PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1322 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1323
1324PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1325 by GnuTLS.
1326
1327PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1328 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1329 routines.
1330
1331PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1332
1333PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1334 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1335 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1336 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1337 using channel bindings instead).
1338
1339PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1340 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1341 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1342 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1343 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1344 Bugzilla 1117.
1345
1346TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1347
1348TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1349
1350TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1351 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1352
1353TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1354 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1355 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1356
1357TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1358
1359TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1360
1361TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1362 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1363
1364JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1365
1366JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1367
1368PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1369
1370NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1371 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1372
1373JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1374
1375PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1376 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1377 function.
1378
1379PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1380 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1381
1382JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1383 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1384 "acl = name arg..."
1385
1386JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1387
1388JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1389
1390JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1391 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1392
1393JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1394 Bugzilla 884.
1395
1396JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1397 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1398
1399JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1400 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1401
1402PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1403 CVE-2012-5671
1404 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1405
1406JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1407 authenticators.
1408
1409JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1410 for control.
1411
1412PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1413
1414PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1415 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1416 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1417 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1418
1419TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1420
1421 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1422 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1423 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1424 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1425 the retry rules.
1426
1427 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1428 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1429 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1430
1431 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1432 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1433 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1434 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1435
1436 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1437 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1438 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1439 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1440 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1441 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1442 delivery, as in LMTP.
1443
1444 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1445 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1446
1447TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1448
1449 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1450
1451 Resent-From: f
1452
1453 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1454 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1455 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1456 username as equal to the username.
1457
1458 This change corrects that bug.
1459
1460GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1461 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1462 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1463
1464TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1465
1466PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1467 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1468 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1469 NULL dereference and crash.
1470
1471JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1472
1473PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1474 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1475 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1476
1477SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1478
1479JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1480 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1481 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1482 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1483 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1484 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1485 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1486 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1487 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1488 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1489 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1490
1491PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1492 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1493
1494PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1495 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1496 Bugzilla 880.
1497
1498PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1499 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1500 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1501 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1502 an empty string is now equivalent.
1503
1504PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1505 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1506 not performing validation itself.
1507
1508PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1509 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1510
1511JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1512 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1513
1514TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1515
1516PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1517 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1518 other false fix of the same issue.
1519 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1520 Bugzilla 1363.
1521
1522PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1523 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1524
1525PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1526 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1527 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1528
1529PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1530 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1531 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1532
1533TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1534
1535JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1536
1537TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1538 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1539
1540TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1541 Alexander Miroch.
1542
1543TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1544 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1545 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1546 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1547 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1548
1549TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1550 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1551
1552TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1553 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1554 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1555
1556TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1557 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1558 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1559 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1560
1561TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1562
1563TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1564 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1565 from multiple comments on this bug.
1566
1567TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1568
1569TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1570 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1571 interaction.
1572
1573TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1574 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1575
1576TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1577 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1578
1579
1580Exim version 4.80.1
1581-------------------
1582
1583PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1584 CVE-2012-5671
1585 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1586
1587
1588Exim version 4.80
1589-----------------
1590
1591PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1592 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1593 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1594
1595NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1596
1597NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1598 improved.
1599
1600NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1601
1602PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1603
1604PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1605
1606PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1607 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1608
1609PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1610 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1611
1612PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1613 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1614
1615PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1616 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1617 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
1618
1619PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1620
1621PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1622 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1623
1624PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1625
1626PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
1627
1628PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1629 non-compliant senders.
1630 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1631
1632NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
1633 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
1634 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1635
1636PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1637 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1638 in spool file corruption.
1639
1640PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1641 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1642 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1643 "Got SSL error 2".
1644
1645TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1646 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1647 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1648
1649JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1650 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1651
1652JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1653
1654PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1655 diagnostics.
1656 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1657
1658PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
1659 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1660 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1661
1662PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1663 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
1664 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1665 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
1666
1667PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1668 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1669
1670PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1671 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1672 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1673 resolver implementation change.
1674
1675PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1676 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1677
1678PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1679
1680PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1681
1682PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1683 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1684
1685PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1686 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1687
1688JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1689 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1690
1691PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1692 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1693 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1694 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1695 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1696
1697PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1698
1699PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1700 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1701 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1702
1703JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1704
1705PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1706 read-only, out of scope).
1707 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1708
1709PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1710 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1711 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1712 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1713
1714PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1715
1716PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1717 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1718 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1719 real issues in debug logging.
1720
1721PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1722 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1723
1724PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1725 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1726 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1727
1728PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1729 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1730 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1731 problems.
1732
1733PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1734 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1735
1736PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1737 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1738 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1739 needs to override this, it can.
1740
1741PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1742 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1743 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1744
1745PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1746 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1747 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1748 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1749
1750PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1751
1752
1753Exim version 4.77
1754-----------------
1755
1756PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1757 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1758
1759TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1760
1761TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1762 whitespace trailer
1763
1764TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1765 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1766
1767TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1768 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1769 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1770
1771 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1772 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1773 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1774 not safe for signals.
1775
1776 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1777 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1778 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1779 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1780 exiwhat.
1781
1782TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1783
1784 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1785 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1786 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1787 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1788 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1789
1790 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1791 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1792 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1793 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1794 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1795 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1796
1797 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1798 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1799 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1800 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1801
1802 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1803 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1804 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1805 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1806
1807 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1808 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1809 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1810 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1811 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1812 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1813 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1814 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1815 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1816
1817 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1818 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1819 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1820 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1821
1822 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1823 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1824 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1825 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1826 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1827 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1828 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1829 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1830 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1831 details in the main documentation.
1832
1833TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1834
1835TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1836
1837TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1838 repository when doing development or release builds.
1839
1840PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1841 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
1842
1843PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1844 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1845 Bugzilla 97.
1846
1847PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1848
1849PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
1850 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1851
1852PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1853 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1854
1855PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
1856 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1857
1858PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1859 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
1860
1861PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1862 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1863
1864PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1865 Bugzilla 1156.
1866 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1867 Bugzilla 1095.
1868
1869PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
1870 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1871 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1872
1873PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1874
1875PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
1876
1877PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1878 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1879
1880
1881Exim version 4.76
1882-----------------
1883
1884PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1885
1886PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1887 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1888
1889PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1890
1891PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1892
1893PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1894 Bugzilla 1098.
1895
1896PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1897 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
1898
1899TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1900 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1901
1902PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1903 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1904
1905PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1906 Bugzilla 1104.
1907
1908TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
1909 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1910
1911TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1912 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1913 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1914 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1915
1916PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1917 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
1918
1919
1920Exim version 4.75
1921-----------------
1922
1923NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
1924 Bugzilla 1073
1925
1926TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1927 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1928 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1929
1930TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1931 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1932
1933PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1934 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1935 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1936
1937PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1938 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1939
1940PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1941 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1942
1943NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1944 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1945
1946NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1947 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1948
1949PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1950 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
1951
1952NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1953 Fixes bug 943.
1954
1955PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1956 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1957
1958PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1959 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1960
1961PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1962 SQL string expansion failure details.
1963 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1964
1965PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1966 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1967
1968PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1969 extern declarations in function scope.
1970 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1971
1972PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1973 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1974 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1975 a kernel bug).
1976
1977PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1978 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1979
1980PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1981 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1982
1983PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1984 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1985
1986PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1987 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1988
1989NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1990 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1991 Dennis Davis.
1992
1993PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
1994
1995PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1996
1997NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1998 Patch by Simon Arlott
1999
2000TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2001 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2002
2003
2004Exim version 4.74
2005-----------------
2006
2007TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2008 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2009
2010TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2011 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2012
2013TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2014
2015DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2016 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2017 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2018
2019PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2020 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2021 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2022
2023PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2024 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2025 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2026 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2027
2028PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2029 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2030 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2031 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2032
2033PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2034 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2035 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2036 arbitrary files.
2037
2038PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2039 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2040
2041PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2042 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2043 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2044 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2045 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2046
2047
2048Exim version 4.73
2049-----------------
2050
2051PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2052 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2053 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2054
2055PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2056 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2057
2058JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2059
2060PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2061
2062PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2063
2064PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2065
2066PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2067
2068PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2069 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2070 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2071 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2072
2073PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2074 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2075 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2076 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2077 more caution in buffer sizes.
2078
2079PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2080
2081PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2082
2083PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2084
2085PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2086
2087PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2088
2089PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2090
2091PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2092
2093PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2094 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2095 ignore trailing whitespace.
2096
2097JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2098
2099JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2100 "exim" to be used
2101
2102PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2103 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2104
2105PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2106 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2107 Notification from John Horne.
2108
2109PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2110 compatible.
2111
2112PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2113 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2114 it normally works.
2115
2116DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2117 access.
2118
2119DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2120 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2121 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2122
2123DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2124 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2125 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2126 configuration file.
2127
2128DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2129 option (effectively making it always true).
2130
2131DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2132 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2133
2134DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2135 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2136
2137PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2138 run-time user, instead of root.
2139
2140PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2141 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2142
2143DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2144 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2145 arguments.
2146
2147DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2148 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2149 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2150
2151DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2152
2153NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2154
2155
2156Exim version 4.72
2157-----------------
2158
2159JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2160 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2161 typos
2162
2163JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2164 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2165 (Finput)
2166
2167NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2168 Patch from Alain Williams
2169
2170NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2171
2172NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2173 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2174
2175NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2176 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2177
2178NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2179
2180JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2181
2182NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2183 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2184
2185TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2186
2187TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2188
2189MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2190 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2191 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2192
2193NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2194 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2195
2196NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2197 Patch by Simon Arlott
2198
2199PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2200 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2201
2202
2203Exim version 4.71
2204-----------------
2205
2206TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2207
2208NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2209
2210NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2211
2212NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2213
2214NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2215
2216
2217Exim version 4.70
2218-----------------
2219
2220TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2221 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2222
2223TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2224 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2225 Hirsch).
2226
2227TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2228 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2229 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2230
2231TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2232 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2233
2234NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2235 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2236 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2237 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2238
2239NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2240 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2241 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2242
2243TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2244
2245TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2246
2247NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2248 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2249
2250NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2251
2252TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2253 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2254 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2255 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2256
2257NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2258 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2259
2260TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2261
2262NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2263
2264NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2265 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2266
2267TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2268 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2269
2270TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2271 that they are available at delivery time.
2272
2273TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2274
2275TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2276 incoming_port log selectors.
2277
2278TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2279 setting expands to an empty string.
2280
2281NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2282 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2283
2284NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2285 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2286
2287NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2288 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2289
2290NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2291 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2292
2293NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2294 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2295
2296NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2297 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2298
2299NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2300
2301NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2302 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2303
2304NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2305 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2306
2307TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2308
2309NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2310 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2311
2312NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2313
2314NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2315
2316NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2317 lsearch.
2318
2319NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2320 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2321
2322NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2323 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2324
2325NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2326 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2327
2328NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2329 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2330
2331NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2332 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2333
2334NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2335 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2336
2337NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2338 plus update to original patch.
2339
2340NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2341
2342NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2343 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2344
2345NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2346
2347NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2348
2349NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2350
2351NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2352
2353NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2354 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2355
2356NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2357 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2358
2359NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2360 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2361
2362NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2363 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2364
2365NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2366
2367NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2368
2369NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2370
2371NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2372
2373
2374Exim version 4.69
2375-----------------
2376
2377TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2378 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2379 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2380
2381 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2382 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2383 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2384 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2385 build errors in sieve.c.
2386
2387NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2388 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2389 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2390
2391SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2392
2393NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2394
2395NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2396
2397NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2398
2399
2400Exim version 4.68
2401-----------------
2402
2403PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2404
2405PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2406 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2407 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2408 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2409 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2410 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2411 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2412 for iplsearch lookups.
2413
2414 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2415 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2416 previously such lookups could never work.
2417
2418 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2419 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2420 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2421
2422TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2423 version.
2424
2425MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2426 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2427 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2428 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2429 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2430 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2431
2432TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2433 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2434
2435MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2436 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2437 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2438 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2439 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2440 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2441
2442PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2443 local_scan API.
2444
2445PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2446
2447PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2448 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2449 encrypted.
2450
2451PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2452 by clients under certain conditions.
2453
2454PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2455 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2456
2457PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2458
2459PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2460 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2461
2462PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2463
2464PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2465
2466PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2467
2468PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2469 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2470
2471PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2472
2473PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2474 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2475
2476PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2477
2478PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2479
2480PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2481 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2482 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2483 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2484
2485PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2486 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2487 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2488
2489PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2490 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2491
2492PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2493
2494PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2495
2496PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2497
2498PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2499 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2500 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2501
2502
2503Exim version 4.67
2504-----------------
2505
2506MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2507 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2508 Jan Srzednicki.
2509
2510PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2511 issue a MAIL command.
2512
2513PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2514
2515 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2516
2517 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2518 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2519 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2520 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2521 item. This has been fixed.
2522
2523PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2524 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2525
2526PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2527 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2528
2529PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2530 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2531 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2532
2533SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2534
2535PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2536 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2537 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2538 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2539 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2540
2541MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2542 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2543 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2544
2545PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2546 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2547 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2548 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2549
2550PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2551
2552PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2553
2554PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2555 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2556 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2557 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2558 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2559
2560PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2561
2562PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2563 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2564 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2565 values).
2566
2567PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2568
2569PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2570
2571PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2572
2573PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2574
2575PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2576
2577PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2578 no_callout_flush is set.
2579
2580PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2581 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2582 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2583 fixed.
2584
2585PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2586
2587PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2588 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2589 other ACL rejections are.
2590
2591PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2592 with slight modification.
2593
2594PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2595 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2596
2597PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2598 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2599 connection.
2600
2601PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2602 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2603
2604SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2605
2606PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2607 expansion side effects.
2608
2609PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2610 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2611 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2612 be the same.
2613
2614MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2615 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2616 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2617
2618PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2619 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2620 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2621 were accidentally chopped off.
2622
2623PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2624 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2625 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2626 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2627 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2628 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2629 pipelining has not been advertised.
2630
2631PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2632
2633PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2634 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2635 This has been fixed.
2636
2637PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2638 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2639 reported on Solaris.
2640
2641PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2642 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2643 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2644 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2645 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2646 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2647 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2648
2649PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2650 cpus.
2651
2652PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2653
2654PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2655
2656PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2657 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
2658 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2659 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2660 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2661 criteria to be more general.
2662
2663PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2664 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2665 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2666 host_all_ignored option.
2667
2668PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2669 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2670 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2671 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2672 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2673 is what is supposed to happen).
2674
2675PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2676 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2677 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2678 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2679 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2680 uses the Exim user.
2681
2682PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2683 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2684 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2685 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2686 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2687 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2688 users.
2689
2690PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2691
2692SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2693 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2694 (Jez Hancock).
2695 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2696 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2697
2698SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2699
2700PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2701
2702PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2703 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2704 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2705 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2706 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2707 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2708 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2709 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2710 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2711 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2712 least in a lot of common cases.
2713
2714PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2715 advertised in response to EHLO.
2716
2717
2718Exim version 4.66
2719-----------------
2720
2721PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2722 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2723
2724 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2725 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2726
2727 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2728 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2729 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2730
2731 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2732 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2733 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2734 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2735 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2736
2737
2738Exim version 4.65
2739-----------------
2740
2741TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2742 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2743 versions. (#438)
2744
2745MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2746 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2747 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2748
2749PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2750 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2751 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2752 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2753 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2754 rather than extend the field.
2755
2756
2757Exim version 4.64
2758-----------------
2759
2760TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2761 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2762 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2763 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2764 these files.
2765
2766TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2767 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2768 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2769
2770TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2771 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2772 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2773
2774TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2775 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2776 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2777 in the field name.
2778
2779PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2780 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2781 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2782 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2783 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2784 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2785 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2786 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2787 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2788 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2789 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2790
2791PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2792 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2793
2794PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2795 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2796 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2797 ignores EPIPE as well.
2798
2799PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2800 (quoted-printable decoding).
2801
2802PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
2803 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
2804
2805PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2806
2807PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2808
2809PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2810
2811PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
2812 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
2813
2814JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2815 in 4.64-PH/09.
2816
2817JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2818 miscellaneous code fixes
2819
2820PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2821 rejections.
2822
2823PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2824 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2825 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2826 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2827 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2828 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2829 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2830 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
2831
2832PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
2833 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
2834 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2835 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2836 function.
2837 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2838 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2839 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2840 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2841 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2842 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2843 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2844 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2845 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2846
2847PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2848 decoding.
2849
2850PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2851 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2852 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2853 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2854 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2855 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2856 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2857 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2858
2859PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2860 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2861 list.
2862
2863PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2864 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2865 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2866 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2867 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2868 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2869 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2870 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2871 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2872 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2873 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2874 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2875 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2876
2877PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2878 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2879 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2880 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2881 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2882 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2883 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2884
2885PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2886 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2887 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2888 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2889 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2890 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2891 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2892 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2893 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2894 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2895
2896PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2897 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2898 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2899 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2900 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2901
2902PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2903 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2904 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2905 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2906 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2907 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2908 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2909
2910PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2911 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2912 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2913 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2914 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2915 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2916 been verified.
2917
2918PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
2919 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2920 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2921 and authorization.)
2922
2923PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2924 if any retry times were supplied.
2925
2926PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2927 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2928 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2929
2930PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2931
2932PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2933
2934PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2935 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2936 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2937 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
2938 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2939 before) are ignored.
2940
2941PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2942 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2943
2944PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2945 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2946 committing the later change.]
2947
2948PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2949 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2950 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2951 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2952 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2953 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2954 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2955 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2956 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2957
2958 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2959 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2960 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2961 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2962 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2963 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2964 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2965 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2966 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2967
2968 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2969 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2970 hammering the server.
2971
2972PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2973 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2974
2975PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2976
2977PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2978 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2979 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2980
2981PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2982 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2983 one case where this was not true.
2984
2985PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2986 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2987 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2988 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2989 fails.
2990
2991PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2992 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2993 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2994 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2995 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2996 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2997 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2998 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2999 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3000 smtp transport.
3001
3002PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3003 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3004 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3005 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3006
3007PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3008 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3009
3010PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3011 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3012 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3013
3014PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3015
3016PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3017
3018PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3019
3020PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3021 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3022 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3023 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3024
3025PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3026 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3027
3028PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3029 be meaningful with "accept".
3030
3031SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3032 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3033
3034SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3035 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3036 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3037
3038SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3039 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3040 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3041 there is data to show.
3042 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3043
3044SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3045 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3046 as well as the number of messages.
3047
3048SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3049 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3050 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3051
3052SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3053 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3054 have a flag are now skipped.
3055
3056SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3057 Added the -emptyok flag.
3058
3059SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3060 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3061
3062JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3063 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3064 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3065
3066JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3067 match 4.64-PH/13
3068
3069JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3070 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3071
3072JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3073
3074JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3075 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3076
3077PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3078
3079PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3080 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3081 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3082 contravention of the specifications.
3083
3084PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3085 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3086 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3087
3088PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3089 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3090 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3091
3092PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3093
3094MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3095 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3096 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3097 some point in the past.
3098
3099PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3100 transport during callout processing was broken.
3101
3102PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3103 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3104
3105PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3106 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3107
3108PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3109 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3110
3111PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3112
3113
3114Exim version 4.63
3115-----------------
3116
3117SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3118 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3119
3120SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3121 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3122 there is data to show.
3123 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3124
3125SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3126 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3127
3128TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3129 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3130
3131TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3132 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3133
3134TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3135 submissions from trusted users.
3136
3137TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3138 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3139
3140TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3141 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3142 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3143 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3144 there is now a framework to start from.
3145
3146PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3147 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3148 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3149
3150PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3151
3152PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3153
3154PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3155
3156PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3157 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3158 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3159
3160PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3161 libradius.
3162
3163PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3164 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3165 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3166
3167PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3168 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3169 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3170 its arguments.
3171
3172PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3173 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3174 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3175 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3176 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3177
3178PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3179 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3180
3181PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3182
3183PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3184 operations in malware.c.
3185
3186PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3187 signatures.
3188
3189PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3190 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3191 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3192 all.
3193
3194PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3195 statements to "add_header".
3196
3197PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3198 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3199
3200PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3201 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3202 latter.
3203
3204PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3205 so that it is now:
3206
3207 ${if or { \
3208 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3209 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3210 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3211 }{no}{yes}}
3212
3213 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3214 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3215
3216PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3217 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3218
3219PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3220 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3221 any possible encoding problems.
3222
3223PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3224 but not after initializing Perl.
3225
3226PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3227 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3228 apparently, which is not desirable.
3229
3230PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3231 queries.
3232
3233JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3234 --not options
3235
3236JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3237
3238PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3239 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3240 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3241 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3242
3243PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3244 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3245 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3246
3247PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3248 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3249 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3250 0.12.
3251
3252PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3253 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3254 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3255 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3256 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3257
3258
3259Exim version 4.62
3260-----------------
3261
3262TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3263 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3264
3265PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3266 patch).
3267
3268PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3269 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3270 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3271 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3272 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3273 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3274 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3275 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3276 451 error is used.
3277
3278PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3279
3280PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3281 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3282 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3283
3284PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3285 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3286 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3287 odd errors.
3288
3289PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3290 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3291
3292PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3293 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3294 option (which defaults to 0600).
3295
3296PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3297
3298PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3299 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3300 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3301 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3302 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3303 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3304 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3305
3306PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3307
3308
3309Exim version 4.61
3310-----------------
3311
3312PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3313 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3314 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3315 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3316 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3317 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3318 addresses as local.
3319
3320PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3321 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3322
3323PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3324
3325PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3326 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3327 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3328 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3329 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3330 grumble.
3331
3332PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3333 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3334
3335PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3336 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3337 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3338 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3339 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3340
3341PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3342 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3343 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3344 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3345
3346PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3347 be the same on different OS.
3348
3349PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3350 testing.
3351
3352JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3353 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3354
3355JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3356 in 4.61-PH/06
3357
3358PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3359 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3360 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3361 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3362 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3363 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3364 bounce message.
3365
3366PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3367 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3368 when Exim was called.
3369
3370PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3371 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3372
3373PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3374 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3375 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3376 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3377
3378PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3379 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3380 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3381 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3382 changes:
3383
3384 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3385 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3386 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3387
3388 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3389 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3390 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3391
3392PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3393 feature).
3394
3395PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3396 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3397 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3398 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3399 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3400 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3401 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3402 values from the SRV records were lost.
3403
3404PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3405 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3406 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3407
3408PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3409 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3410 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3411
3412PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3413 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3414 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3415 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3416 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3417 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3418 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3419 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3420 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3421 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3422
3423PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3424 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3425 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3426
3427PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3428 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3429
3430PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3431 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3432 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3433 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3434 is given.
3435
3436PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3437 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3438 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3439
3440PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3441 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3442 PH/23 above applies.
3443
3444PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3445 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3446 (for which there is an explicit test).
3447
3448PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3449
3450PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3451 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3452 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3453 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3454 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3455
3456PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3457 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3458 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3459 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3460
3461PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3462 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3463 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3464
3465PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3466
3467PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3468
3469PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3470 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3471 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3472
3473PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3474 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3475 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3476 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3477 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3478
3479PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3480 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3481 the message gets confusing).
3482
3483PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3484 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3485 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3486 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3487
3488PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3489 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3490 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3491 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3492 same order.
3493
3494PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3495 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3496 the different processes.
3497
3498PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3499
3500PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3501
3502JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3503 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3504
3505JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3506 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3507
3508JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3509 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3510 messages matching specified criteria.
3511
3512PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3513
3514PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3515 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3516
3517PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3518 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3519 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3520 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3521 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3522 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3523 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3524 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3525 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3526 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3527
3528PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3529 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3530 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3531
3532PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3533
3534PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3535 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3536 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3537 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3538 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3539 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3540 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3541 the variable.
3542
3543PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3544 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3545
3546PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3547
3548PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3549
3550PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3551
3552PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3553 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3554 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3555 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3556 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3557 size of the count of files.
3558
3559PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3560
3561PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3562 used in LMTP mode:
3563
3564 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3565 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3566 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3567 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3568
3569 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3570 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3571 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3572
3573PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3574 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3575 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3576 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3577 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3578
3579PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3580 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3581
3582PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3583 will now be deprecated.
3584
3585PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3586
3587JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3588 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3589 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3590
3591JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3592 with very large, slow to parse queues
3593
3594JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3595
3596JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3597
3598PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3599 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3600 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3601 SMTP output lines.
3602
3603PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3604 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3605 Sieve code now uses this.
3606
3607PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3608 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3609
3610PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3611 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3612
3613PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3614
3615PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3616 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3617 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3618 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3619 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3620
3621PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3622 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3623 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3624 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3625
3626PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3627
3628PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3629
3630PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3631 is preferred over IPv4.
3632
3633PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3634 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3635 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3636 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3637 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3638 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3639 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3640
3641PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3642 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3643 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3644
3645PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3646
3647PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3648 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3649 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3650 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3651 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3652 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3653 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3654 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3655 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3656 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3657 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3658
3659PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3660 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3661 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3662
3663
3664Exim version 4.60
3665-----------------
3666
3667PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3668
3669 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3670 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3671
3672 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3673 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3674 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3675
3676PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3677
3678 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3679 not a single digit.
3680
3681 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3682 string.
3683
3684 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3685 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3686 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3687 silly things.
3688
3689 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3690 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3691
3692 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3693 inside the third argument.
3694
3695PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3696 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3697 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3698
3699PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3700 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3701
3702PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3703 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3704
3705 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3706
3707 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3708 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3709 this:
3710
3711 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3712
3713PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3714 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3715 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3716 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3717 identical. For example:
3718
3719 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3720
3721 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3722 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3723 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3724
3725PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3726 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3727 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3728 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3729
3730PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3731 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3732 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3733 message.
3734
3735PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3736
3737 o fixes some comments
3738 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3739 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3740 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3741 and documents the missing references header update
3742
3743 and most important:
3744
3745 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3746 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
3747 result)
3748
3749PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3750 Electronic Mail") by including:
3751
3752 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3753
3754 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3755 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
3756 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3757 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3758 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3759
3760 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3761
3762 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3763
3764 The auto-replied keyword:
3765
3766 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3767 message by an automatic process,
3768
3769 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3770
3771 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3772 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3773
3774 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3775 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3776 other messages.
3777
3778PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3779 to the default Received: header definition.
3780
3781PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3782
3783PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3784 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3785 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3786
3787PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3788 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3789 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3790
3791PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3792 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3793 and treats the condition as false.
3794
3795PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3796
3797PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3798 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3799 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3800 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3801 not changing the active code.
3802
3803 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3804 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3805
3806 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3807 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3808
3809PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3810 (Bugzilla #53).
3811
3812PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3813 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3814 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3815 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3816 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3817 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3818 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3819 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3820 the text comparison.
3821
3822PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3823 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3824 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3825 The same fix has been applied.
3826
3827
3828Exim version 4.54
3829-----------------
3830
3831PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3832 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3833 It now does.
3834
3835PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3836 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3837
3838PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3839
3840PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3841 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3842 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3843 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3844 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3845
3846TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3847 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3848 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3849 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3850 or /domain=).
3851
3852PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3853 testing suite.
3854
3855
3856
3857Exim version 4.53
3858-----------------
3859
3860TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3861 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3862
3863PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3864
3865PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3866
3867PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3868 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3869 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3870
3871PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3872 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3873 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3874
3875PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3876 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3877 operating systems.
3878
3879PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3880 ${stat: expansion item.
3881
3882PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3883 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3884
3885PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3886 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3887 file for comments.
3888
3889PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3890
3891PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3892 setting.
3893
3894PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3895 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3896
3897TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3898
3899PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3900 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3901 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3902 the end of the subprocess.
3903
3904PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3905 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3906 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3907 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3908 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3909
3910JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3911
3912TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3913
3914PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3915 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3916
3917PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3918
3919PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3920
3921PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3922 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3923 HP-UX compiler.
3924
3925PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3926
3927PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3928 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3929 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3930
3931PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3932 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3933
3934PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3935 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3936
3937PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3938 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3939
3940 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3941 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3942
3943 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3944 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3945 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3946 contributed by a Radius user.
3947
3948PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3949 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3950
3951TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3952 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3953
3954PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3955 available.
3956
3957PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3958 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3959 received.
3960
3961PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3962 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3963 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3964 header lines when this was not necessary.
3965
3966PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3967
3968PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3969 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3970 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3971 exists".
3972
3973PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3974 -bV or -d is used.
3975
3976PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3977 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
3978 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3979 return code was incorrect.
3980
3981PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3982
3983PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3984
3985TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3986
3987PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3988
3989PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3990 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3991 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3992 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3993 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3994 settings.
3995
3996PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3997
3998PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3999 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4000 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4001 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4002 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4003 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4004 which is clearly wrong.
4005
4006PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4007
4008PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4009 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4010 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4011 subsequently added.
4012
4013PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4014 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4015
4016PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4017
4018PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4019 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4020
4021PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4022 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4023
4024PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4025 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4026
4027PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4028 recipients, not senders.
4029
4030TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4031 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4032
4033PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4034
4035PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4036
4037PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4038 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4039 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4040 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4041
4042TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4043
4044TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4045 clock is set back in time.
4046
4047TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4048 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4049
4050TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4051 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4052
4053PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4054 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4055 (see PH/47 above).
4056
4057TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4058 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4059 header rewrites.
4060
4061PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4062 type ("H").
4063
4064PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4065
4066TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4067 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4068 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4069
4070TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4071 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4072 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4073 helo verification defer as a failure.
4074
4075PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4076 actual error message.
4077
4078
4079Exim version 4.52
4080-----------------
4081
4082TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4083
4084PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4085 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4086 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4087 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4088
4089TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4090
4091PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4092 can still be requested.
4093
4094PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4095 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4096 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4097 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4098
4099TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4100 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4101 circumstances, but probably never did.
4102
4103PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4104 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4105 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4106 in the header line.
4107
4108TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4109
4110TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4111 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4112
4113TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4114
4115TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4116
4117PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4118 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4119 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4120 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4121 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4122 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4123
4124PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4125 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4126 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4127 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4128 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4129 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4130
4131TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4132 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4133
4134PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4135 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4136
4137SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4138 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4139
4140SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4141
4142SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4143
4144SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4145
4146SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4147
4148SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4149
4150SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4151
4152TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4153
4154TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4155 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4156 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4157
4158TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4159 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4160 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4161 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4162
4163PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4164 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4165 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4166
4167PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4168 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4169 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4170 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4171
4172PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4173 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4174 to be made).
4175
4176PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4177 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4178 should work with maildirs and everything.
4179
4180TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4181 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4182
4183TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4184 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4185
4186PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4187 function for BDB 4.3.
4188
4189PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4190
4191PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4192 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4193 involved.
4194
4195PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4196 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4197 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4198 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4199 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4200 formatting function string_vformat().
4201
4202PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4203 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4204 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4205 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4206 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4207 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4208 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4209 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4210
4211TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4212 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4213 details.
4214
4215PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4216 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4217
4218PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4219 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4220 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4221 test. It is now used for both.
4222
4223PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4224 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4225 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4226 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4227 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4228 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4229
4230PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4231 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4232 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4233 string_vformat().
4234
4235PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4236 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4237 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4238
4239PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4240 experimental DomainKeys support:
4241
4242 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4243 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4244 the control was given.
4245
4246 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4247
4248PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4249
4250PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4251
4252PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4253 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4254 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4255 db.h files).
4256
4257PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4258 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4259 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4260 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4261 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4262 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4263 course.
4264
4265PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4266 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4267 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4268 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4269 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4270 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4271
4272PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4273 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4274 do -d+all out of habit.
4275
4276PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4277 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4278 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4279
4280PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4281 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4282 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4283 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4284 record types that Exim uses.
4285
4286PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4287 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4288 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4289 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4290 non-existent file that was broken.
4291
4292TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4293 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4294
4295TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4296 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4297 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4298
4299TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4300
4301PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4302 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4303 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4304 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4305 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4306 same time.
4307
4308SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4309 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4310 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4311 at a slight CPU cost.
4312
4313SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4314 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4315
4316SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4317 by Marc Sherman.
4318
4319SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4320
4321PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4322 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4323
4324
4325Exim version 4.51
4326-----------------
4327
4328TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4329 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4330
4331TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4332
4333TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4334
4335PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4336 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4337
4338PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4339 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4340 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4341 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4342 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4343 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4344 file.
4345
4346PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4347 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4348 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4349 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4350 these two options.
4351
4352PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4353 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4354 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4355 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4356 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4357 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4358 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4359 address.
4360
4361PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4362 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4363
4364PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4365 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4366 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4367 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4368 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4369 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4370
4371PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4372 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4373 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4374 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4375
4376PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4377 Finch).
4378
4379PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4380 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4381
4382PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4383 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4384 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4385 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4386 message.
4387
4388PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4389
4390PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4391 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4392
4393PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4394 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4395 to what was transported.)
4396
4397TF/01 Added $received_time.
4398
4399PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4400 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4401 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4402 spamd_address settings.
4403
4404PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4405 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4406 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4407 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4408 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4409
4410PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4411
4412PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4413 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4414 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4415 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4416 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4417
4418PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4419 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4420
4421PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4422 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4423 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4424 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4425 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4426 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4427 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4428 for failure.
4429
4430PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4431 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4432 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4433 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4434 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4435 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4436 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4437 "input=".
4438
4439PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4440
4441PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4442 driver and ACL definitions.
4443
4444PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4445 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4446
4447PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4448 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4449 understands it better than I do:
4450
4451 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4452 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4453
4454 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4455 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4456 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4457 => three warnings about OTP not working
4458 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4459
4460 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4461 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4462 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4463 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4464 for each call.)
4465 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4466 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4467
4468 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4469 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4470 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4471
4472PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4473 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4474 specified.
4475
4476PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4477 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4478 "Linux".
4479
4480PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4481 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4482 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4483
4484 warn !verify = sender
4485 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4486
4487 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4488 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4489
4490PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4491
4492 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4493 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4494
4495 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4496 nomenclature these days.)
4497
4498PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4499 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4500
4501PH/30 In these circumstances:
4502 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4503 . First host does not offer TLS;
4504 . First host accepts first address;
4505 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4506 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4507 . Second host accepts second address.
4508 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4509 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4510 address.
4511
4512PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4513 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4514 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4515 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4516 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4517
4518PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4519 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4520
4521PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4522 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4523
4524PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4525 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4526 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4527
4528PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4529 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4530 overlooked.
4531
4532PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4533
4534PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4535 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4536 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4537 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4538 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4539 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4540 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4541
4542 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4543 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4544 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4545 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4546 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4547
4548 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4549 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4550 routed further.
4551
4552PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4553 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4554 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4555 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4556 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4557 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4558
4559PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4560
4561PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4562 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4563 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4564 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4565 printable escape sequences.
4566
4567PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4568 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4569 body only.
4570
4571PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4572 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4573 are as follows:
4574
4575 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4576 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4577 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4578 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4579 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4580
4581 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4582 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4583 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4584
4585PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4586
4587PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4588 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4589 play with."
4590
4591PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4592 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4593 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4594 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4595 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4596 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4597 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4598 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4599 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4600 the log output.
4601
4602PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4603 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4604 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4605 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4606 "make".
4607
4608
4609A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4610----------------------------------------
4611
4612Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4613changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4614needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4615in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4616that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4617release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4618from 4.43.
4619
4620I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
46214.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4622those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4623historical information.
4624
4625
4626Exim version 4.50
4627-----------------
4628
4629 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4630
4631 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
4632 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
4633
4634 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4635 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4636 place.
4637
4638 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4639 filter fails to execute.
4640
4641 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4642 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4643 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4644 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4645 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4646
4647 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4648
4649 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4650 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4651 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4652 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4653
4654 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4655 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4656 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4657 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4658 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4659
4660 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4661
466210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4663
466411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4665 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4666 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4667 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4668
466912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4670 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4671 sender verification.
4672
467313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4674 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4675
467614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4677
467815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4679 connection timeout.
4680
468116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4682 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4683
468417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4685 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4686
468718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4688 information about exactly what failed.
4689
469019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4691
469220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4693 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4694 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4695
469621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4697 It is now set to "smtps".
4698
469922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4700 ignore_target_hosts.
4701
470223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4703 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4704 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4705 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4706 "[x.x.x.x]".
4707
470824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4709 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4710 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4711
471225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4713 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4714 wake it up if nothing else does.
4715
471626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4717 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4718 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4719 end up negative.
4720
472127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4722 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4723
472428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4725
472629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4727 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4728 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4729 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4730 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4731 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4732 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4733 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4734
473530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4736 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4737 than one IP address.
4738
473931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4740 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4741 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4742 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4743
474432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4745 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4746 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4747 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4748 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4749 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4750
475133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4752 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4753 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4754 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4755
475634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4757 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4758 respected.
4759
476035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4761 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4762 $sender_host_address.
4763
476436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4765 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4766 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4767 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4768 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4769 very small.
4770
477137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4772
4773 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4774 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4775
4776 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4777 just the host names, not the priorities.
4778
4779 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4780 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4781 controlled by a keyword.
4782
4783 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
4784 multiple records are returned.
4785
478638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4787 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4788 domain.
4789
479039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4791
479240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4793 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4794
479541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4796 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4797 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4798
479942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4800
480143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4802
480344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4804
480545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4806 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4807 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4808 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4809 because the tests only now provoked it.
4810
481146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4812 (this can affect the format of dates).
4813
481447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4815 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4816 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4817 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4818
481948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4820
482149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4822 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4823 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4824 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4825
482650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4827 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4828 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4829
483051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4831 autoreply.
4832
483352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4834 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4835 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4836 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4837 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4838 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4839 is going on).
4840
484153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4842 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4843 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4844 the line.
4845
484654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4847 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4848 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4849
4850 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4851 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4852 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4853 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4854 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4855 so I produce this patch..."
4856
4857 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4858 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4859 is not defined.
4860
486155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4862 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4863 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4864 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4865 CAN-2005-0021
4866
486756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4868
486957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4870 long debug lines gets shown.
4871
487258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4873 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4874
487559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4876
4877 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4878 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4879 of $primary_hostname.
4880
488160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4882 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4883 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4884 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4885 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4886 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4887 by change 4.50/55 above.
4888
4889 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4890 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4891 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4892 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4893 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4894 running as the user.
4895 CAN-2005-0021
4896
489761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4898 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4899 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4900 CAN-2005-0022
4901
490262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4903 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4904
490563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4906 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4907 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4908 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4909 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4910
491164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4912 This has been fixed.
4913
491465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4915 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4916 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4917 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4918 the caching.)
4919
492066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4921
492267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4923 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4924 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4925 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4926
492768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4928 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4929
493069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4931 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4932 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4933
493470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4935 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4936 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4937 message there.
4938
493971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4940 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4941 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4942
494372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4944 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4945 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4946 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4947
494873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4949 during host lookups.
4950
495174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4952 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4953
4954 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4955
495675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4957 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4958 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4959 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4960 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4961 background.
4962
496376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4964 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4965
496677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4967 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4968 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4969
497078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4971
497279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4973 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4974 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4975 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4976 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4977 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4978 process earlier.
4979
498080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4981 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4982 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4983 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4984 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4985
498681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4987 tables).
4988
498982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4990
499183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4992 "vacation" handling.
4993
499484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4995 OS variants using glibc.
4996
499785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4998
4999
5000----------------------------------------------------
5001See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5002----------------------------------------------------
5003
5004
5005Exim version 4.44
5006-----------------
5007
5008 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5009 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5010 transport
5011
5012 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5013 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5014 place.
5015
5016 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5017 filter fails to execute.
5018
5019 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5020 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5021 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5022 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5023 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5024
5025 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5026 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5027 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5028 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5029
5030 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5031 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5032 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5033 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5034 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5035
5036 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5037
5038 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5039 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5040 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5041 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5042
5043 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5044 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5045 sender verification.
5046
504710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5048 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5049
505011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5051 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5052
505312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5054 ignore_target_hosts.
5055
505613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5057 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5058 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5059 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5060 "[x.x.x.x]".
5061
506214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5063 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5064 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5065
506615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5067 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5068 wake it up if nothing else does.
5069
507016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5071 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5072 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5073 end up negative.
5074
507517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5076 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5077
507818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5079
508019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5081 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5082 empty pattern.
5083
508420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5085 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5086 one IP address.
5087
508821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5089 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5090 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5091 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5092 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5093 1024 to 2048 bytes.
5094
509522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5096 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5097 respected.
5098
509923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5100 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5101 $sender_host_address.
5102
510324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5104
510525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5106 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5107 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5108
510926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5110 As per change 25.
5111
511227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5113 (this can affect the format of dates).
5114
511528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5116 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5117 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5118 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5119
512029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5121 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5122 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5123
512430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5125 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5126 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5127 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5128
512931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5130 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5131 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5132
513331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5134 autoreply.
5135
513632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5137 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5138 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5139 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5140 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5141 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5142 is going on).
5143
514433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5145 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5146 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5147 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5148 CAN-2005-0021
5149
515034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5151 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5152 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5153 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5154 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5155 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5156 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5157
5158 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5159 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5160 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5161 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5162 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5163 running as the user.
5164 CAN-2005-0021
5165
516635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5167 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5168 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5169 CAN-2005-0022
5170
517136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5172 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5173 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5174 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5175 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5176
517737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5178 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5179 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5180 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5181 the caching.)
5182
518338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5184 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5185 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5186 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5187 because the tests only now provoked it.
5188
5189
5190Exim version 4.43
5191-----------------
5192
5193 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5194 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5195 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5196 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5197 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5198 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5199 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5200
5201 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5202 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5203 the delivery.
5204
5205 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5206
5207 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5208
5209 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5210 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5211 to local_scan().
5212
5213 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5214 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5215 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5216 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5217 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5218
5219 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5220 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5221
5222 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5223
5224 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5225
522610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5227 header_sender only.
5228
522911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5230 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5231
523212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5233 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5234 affecting debugging statements).
5235
523613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5237
523814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5239 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5240 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5241 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5242 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5243 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5244 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5245 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5246 after the received time, and all would be well.
5247
524815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5249 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5250 condition in an expansion string.
5251
525216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5253
525417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5255 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5256 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5257 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5258 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5259 job under whatever limits there are.
5260
526118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5262
526319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5264 space).
5265
526620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5267 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5268 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5269 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5270 return path is set.
5271
527221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5273 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5274 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5275 binary data in such strings.
5276
527722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5278
527923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5280 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5281 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5282 failure, which is pointless.
5283
528424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5285
528625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5287
528826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5289 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5290 Sender: header lines.
5291
529227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5293 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5294 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5295
529628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5297 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5298 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5299 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5300 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5301 happens.
5302
530329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5304 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5305 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5306 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5307 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5308
530930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5310 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5311 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5312 1024.
5313
531431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5315 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5316
531732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5318 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5319
532033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5321
532232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5323
532433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5325
532634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5327 syntax error.
5328
532935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5330
533136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5332
533337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5334 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5335 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5336 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5337
533838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5339 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5340
5341
5342Exim version 4.42
5343-----------------
5344
5345 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5346 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5347 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5348 it was not quoted.
5349 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5350 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5351 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5352 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5353 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5354 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5355
5356 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5357 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5358 verification failure".
5359
5360 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5361 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5362 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5363 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5364
5365 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5366 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5367 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5368 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5369 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5370 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5371 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5372 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5373 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5374 treated as a timeout.
5375
5376 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5377 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5378 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5379 not set for Exim filters).
5380
5381 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5382 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5383 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5384
5385 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5386
5387 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5388 try to make them clearer.
5389
5390 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5391 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5392
5393 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5394
5395 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5396
539710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5398 only the Cygwin environment.
5399
540011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5401 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5402 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5403 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5404 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5405
540612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5407 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5408 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5409 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5410 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5411 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5412 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5413
541413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5415 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5416
541714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5418
5419 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5420 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5421 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5422
5423 To: susanne@some.where
5424
5425 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5426 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5427 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5428 of addresses in From: header lines).
5429
5430 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5431 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5432 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5433
5434 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5435 treated as non-personal.
5436
5437 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5438 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5439
544015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5441
544216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5443
544417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5445 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5446 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5447
544818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5449 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5450
545119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5452 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5453 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5454 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5455 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5456 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5457
545820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5459 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5460 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5461 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5462 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5463 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5464 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5465 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5466
5467 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5468
546921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5470 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5471
547222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5473 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5474 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5475
547623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5477 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5478
547924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5480 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5481 rather than long int.
5482
548325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5484
548526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5486
5487
5488Exim version 4.41
5489-----------------
5490
5491 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5492 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5493 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5494 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5495 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5496 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5497
5498
5499Exim version 4.40
5500-----------------
5501
5502 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5503 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5504
5505 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5506 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5507 socklen_t is defined.
5508
5509 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5510 always exist.
5511
5512 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5513 configured.
5514
5515 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5516 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5517 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5518 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5519 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5520
5521 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5522 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5523 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5524 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5525
5526 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5527 of flapping under certain conditions.
5528
5529 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5530 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5531 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5532
5533 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5534
553510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5536
553711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5538 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5539 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5540 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5541
554212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5543 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5544 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5545 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5546 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5547 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5548 preserved with the message after it was received.
5549
555013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5551 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5552 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5553 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5554 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5555 test suite worked just fine.
5556
555714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5558 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5559 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5560
556115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5562 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5563 string.
5564
556516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5566 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5567 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5568 does not fully solve it.
5569
557017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5571 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5572 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5573 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5574 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5575
557618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5577 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5578 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5579
558019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5581 string, for example:
5582
5583 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5584
5585 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5586 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5587 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5588 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5589 the routers could not see them.
5590
559120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5592 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5593
559421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5595 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5596 output).
5597
559822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5599 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5600 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5601 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5602 that needed quoting.
5603
560423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5605 was not being matched caselessly.
5606
560724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5608 backslashes.
5609
561025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5611 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5612 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5613 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5614 when use_sender is false.
5615
561626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5617
561827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5619
562028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5621
562229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5623 the configuration file.
5624
562530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5626 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5627
562831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5629
563032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5631 bytes in the message body.
5632
563333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5634 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5635 delivery.
5636
563734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5638
563935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5640
564136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5642 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5643 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5644 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5645 another IP address.
5646
5647
5648Exim version 4.34
5649-----------------
5650
5651 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5652 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5653
5654 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5655 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5656 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5657 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5658 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5659
5660 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5661 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5662
5663 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5664 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5665 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5666
5667 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5668 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5669 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5670
5671 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5672 for routers.
5673
5674 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5675 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5676 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5677 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5678 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5679 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5680 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5681
5682
5683Exim version 4.33
5684-----------------
5685
5686 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5687 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5688 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5689 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5690 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5691 default (and expected) setting.
5692
5693 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5694 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5695 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5696 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5697
5698 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5699 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5700
5701 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5702 in domain lists.
5703
5704 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5705 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5706 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5707 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5708 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5709 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5710
5711 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5712 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5713 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5714
5715 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5716 part (NOT match_host).
5717
5718 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5719
5720 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5721 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5722 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5723 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5724 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5725 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5726 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5727 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5728 the same named file.
5729
573010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5731 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5732 when Exim is built.
5733
573411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5735 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5736 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5737 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5738 a host name.
5739
574012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5741 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5742 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5743
574413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5745
574614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5747
574815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5749
575016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5751 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5752
575317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5754 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5755 before starting the TLS session.
5756
575718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5758
575919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5760 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5761
576220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5763 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5764 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5765 colon in the middle).
5766
5767
5768Exim version 4.32
5769-----------------
5770
5771 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5772 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5773 multiple configurations are in use.
5774
5775 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5776 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5777 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5778 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5779 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5780 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5781
5782 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5783 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5784
5785 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5786 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5787 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5788
5789 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5790 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5791 occurs.
5792
5793 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5794 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5795
5796 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5797
5798 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5799 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5800
5801 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5802
5803 -prval:sval
5804
5805 is equivalent to
5806
5807 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5808
5809 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5810 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5811 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5812 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5813 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5814
581510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5816 Exim's behaviour:
5817
5818 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5819 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5820 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5821 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5822 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5823 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5824
5825 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5826 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5827 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5828 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5829 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5830 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5831 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5832 string.
5833
5834 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5835 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5836 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5837 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5838 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5839
584011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5841
584212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5843 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5844 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5845
584613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5847
584814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5849 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5850 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5851 information.
5852
585315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5854 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5855
585616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5857 Three changes have been made:
5858
5859 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5860 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5861 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5862 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5863 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5864
5865 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5866 been restored.
5867
5868 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5869 the modified behaviour.
5870
5871
5872Exim version 4.31
5873-----------------
5874
5875 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5876 Larry Rosenman.
5877
5878 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5879 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5880
5881 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5882 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5883 try to track down a specific problem.
5884
5885 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5886 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5887 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5888
5889 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5890 warning.
5891
5892 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5893 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5894 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5895 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5896 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5897 some earlier ones do not.
5898
5899 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5900
5901 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5902 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5903 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5904 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5905 address literals are enabled, of course).
5906
5907 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5908
590910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5910 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5911 by a command such as
5912
5913 exim -f "" ...
5914
5915 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5916
591711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5918
591912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5920 remained set. It is now erased.
5921
592213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5923 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5924
592514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5926 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5927 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5928 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5929 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5930 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5931 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5932 appropriate error code.
5933
593415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5935 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5936 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5937 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5938 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5939 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5940
594116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5942 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5943 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5944
594517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5946 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5947 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5948 terminate the header.
5949
595018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5951 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5952 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5953
595419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5955 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5956 (4.30/29). In particular:
5957
5958 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5959 imposed.
5960
5961 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5962 to write a maildirsize file.
5963
5964 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5965 the transport, the new value overrides.
5966
5967 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5968 count.
5969
597020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5971 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5972 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5973 space or a tab.
5974
597521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5976 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5977 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5978 the fallback hosts.
5979
598022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5981 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5982 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5983
598423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5985 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5986 using a union.
5987
598824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5989 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5990 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5991
599225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5993
599426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5995
599627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5997
599828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5999 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6000 become corrupted.
6001
600229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6003 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6004 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6005 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6006 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6007 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6008 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6009 too great.
6010
601130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6012 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6013 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6014 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6015 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6016 incorrectly.
6017
601831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6019 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6020 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6021 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6022 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6023 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6024 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6025 cached value only when the same options are set.
6026
602732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6028
602933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6030 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6031 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6032 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6033 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6034
603534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6036 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6037 it is clearly obsolete.
6038
603935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6040 transport.
6041
604236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6043 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6044 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6045 times.
6046
604737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6048 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6049 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6050 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6051 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6052
605338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6054 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6055 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6056 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6057
605839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6059
6060 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6061
6062 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6063 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6064 2^31.
6065
606640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6067 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6068 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6069 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6070 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6071 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6072 $localpart_data.
6073
607441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6075 with the -f command-line option.
6076
607742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6078 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6079 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6080 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6081 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6082 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6083
608443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6085 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6086 line.
6087
608844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6089 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6090 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6091 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6092 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6093 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6094 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6095 buffer is too small.
6096
609745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6098 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6099
610046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6101 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6102 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6103 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6104 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6105 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6106 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6107 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6108 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6109
611047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6111 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6112 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6113
611448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6115 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6116 ACL").
6117
611849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6119 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6120 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6121 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6122 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6123
612450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6125 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6126 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6127 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6128 is set.
6129
613051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6131
613252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6133
613453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6135 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6136
613754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6138 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6139 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6140
614155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6142 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6143 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6144 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6145 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6146
614756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6148 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6149 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6150 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6151 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6152 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6153 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6154
615557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6156 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6157 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6158 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6159 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6160 the test of how many are available.
6161
616258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6163 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6164 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6165 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6166 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6167 new message is started.
6168
616959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6170 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6171
617260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6173 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6174
617561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6176 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6177 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6178 is no long logged.
6179
618062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6181 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6182 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6183 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6184 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6185 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6186 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6187
618863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6189 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6190 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6191 interpreted as octal.
6192
619364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6194 setting.
6195
619665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6197 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6198 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6199 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6200 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6201 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6202
620366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6204 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6205 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6206 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6207
6208 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6209 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6210 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6211 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6212
6213 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6214 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6215 is a bug fix.
6216
6217 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6218 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6219
622067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6221
622268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6223 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6224 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6225 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6226
622769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6228 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6229 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6230 supplied", which is not helpful.
6231
623270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6233 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6234 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6235
623671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6237 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6238 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6239 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6240 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6241 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6242 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6243 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6244
624572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6246 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6247 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6248 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6249 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6250
625173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6252 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6253 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6254 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6255 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6256 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6257
625874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6259 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6260 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6261
626275. Added write_rejectlog option.
6263
626476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6265 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6266 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6267 variables.
6268
626977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6270
627178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6272 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6273 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6274 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6275 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6276 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6277 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6278 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6279
628079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6281 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6282 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6283 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6284 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6285
628680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6287 Haardt.
6288
628981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6290 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6291 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6292 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6293 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6294 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6295 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6296 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6297 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6298
6299
6300Exim version 4.30
6301-----------------
6302
6303 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6304 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6305 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6306
6307 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6308 fixed.
6309
6310 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6311 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6312 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6313
6314 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6315 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6316 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6317 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6318 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6319 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6320
6321 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6322 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6323 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6324 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6325 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6326 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6327 the Exim test suite.
6328
6329 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6330 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6331 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6332 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6333
6334 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6335 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6336 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6337 specify it in this variable.
6338
6339 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6340 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6341 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6342 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6343
6344 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6345 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6346 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6347 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6348
6349 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6350 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6351 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6352 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6353 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6354
6355 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6356
635710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6358 they are logged.
6359
636011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6361 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6362 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6363 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6364 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6365
636612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6367 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6368
636913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6370 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6371 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6372 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6373 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6374
637514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6376 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6377
637815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6379 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6380 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6381
638216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6383 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6384
638517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6386 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6387
638818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6389 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6390 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6391
639219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6393 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6394
639520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6396 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6397 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6398 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6399
640021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6401
640222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6403 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6404 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6405 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6406
640723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6408
640924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6410 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6411
641225. Added .include_if_exists.
6413
641426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6415 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6416 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6417 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6418 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6419 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6420
642127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6422
642328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6424 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6425 this.
6426
642729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6428
642930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6430 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6431
6432 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6433 550 Sender verify failed
6434
6435 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6436 the final line of the response.
6437
643831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6439 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6440 all other user lookups.
6441
644232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6443 delivery time.
6444
644533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6446 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6447 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6448 result into an int without checking.
6449
645034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6451 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6452 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6453
645435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6455 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6456 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6457 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6458
645936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6460 correctly.
6461
646237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6463 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6464
646538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6466 to the empty sender.
6467
646839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6469 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6470 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6471 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6472 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6473 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6474 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6475 panic log.
6476
647740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6478 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6479 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6480 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6481 used.
6482
648341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6484 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6485
648642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6487 timestamps.
6488
648943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6490 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6491
649244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6493
649445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6495 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6496 logs.
6497
649846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6499 as soon as it is encountered.
6500
650147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6502
650348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6504 rewritten to "<>".
6505
650649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6507 recognizes a tab character.
6508
650950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6510 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6511 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6512 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6513
651451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6515
651652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6517 crash.
6518
651953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6520
652154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6522
652355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6524 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6525 2822.
6526
652756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6528 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6529 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6530 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6531 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6532
653357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6534 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6535
653658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6537 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6538 list (.included file names were always shown).
6539
654059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6541 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6542 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6543 root at that time.
6544
654560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6546 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6547
654861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6549
655062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6551
655263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6553
655464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6555 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6556 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6557 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6558 failures to open the logs.
6559
656065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6561 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6562 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6563 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6564 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6565 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6566 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6567
6568
6569Exim version 4.24
6570-----------------
6571
6572 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6573 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6574 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6575 change 4.23/1.
6576
6577 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6578 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6579 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6580
6581 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6582 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6583 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6584
6585 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6586 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6587 causing some misleading effects.
6588
6589 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6590 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6591 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6592
6593 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6594 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6595 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6596 queue-runner function directly.
6597
6598
6599Exim version 4.23
6600-----------------
6601
6602 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6603 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6604
6605 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6606 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6607 was always written to the default place.
6608
6609 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6610 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6611 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6612
6613 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6614
6615 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6616
6617 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6618 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6619 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6620
6621 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6622 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6623 must start.
6624
6625 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6626 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6627 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6628
6629 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6630 command line option is disabled.
6631
6632 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6633 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6634
6635 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6636
6637 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6638
6639 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6640 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6641
664210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6643
664411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6645 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6646 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6647 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6648 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6649 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6650
665112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6652 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6653 timeout.
6654
665513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6656 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6657
665814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6659 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6660
666115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6662 received was valid base64.
6663
666416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6665 name of the variable that was being set.
6666
666717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6668
666918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6670 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6671 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6672 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6673 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6674 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6675
667619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6677
667820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6679 nor realm was specified.
6680
668121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6682 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6683 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6684 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6685
668622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6687 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6688 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6689
669023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6691 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6692 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6693
669424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6695 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6696 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6697 some systems use these upper case variants.
6698
669925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6700 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6701 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6702 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6703
670426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6705
670627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6707 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6708
670928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6710 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6711 expansion variable.
6712
671329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6714
671530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6716 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6717 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6718 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6719
672031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6721 using it.
6722
672332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6724 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6725 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6726
672733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6728 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6729
673034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6731 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6732 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6733 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6734
673535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6736 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6737 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6738
673936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6740
674137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6742 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6743 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6744 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6745 aborted.
6746
674738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6748 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6749 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6750
675139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6752
675340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6754 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6755
675641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6757 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6758
675942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6760 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6761 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6762 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6763 when emails are that large.
6764
6765
6766
6767Exim version 4.22
6768-----------------
6769
6770 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6771 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6772
6773 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6774 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6775 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6776
6777 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6778 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6779 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6780
6781 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6782 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6783 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6784 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6785 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6786
6787 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6788 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6789 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6790 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6791 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6792 ever.
6793
6794 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6795 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6796 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6797 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6798 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6799 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6800 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6801 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6802 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6803 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6804 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6805 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6806 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6807 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6808
6809 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6810 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6811 parameterised it.
6812
6813 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6814 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6815 error should be diagnosed.
6816
6817 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6818 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6819 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6820 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6821 appeared instead of "NULL".
6822
682310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6824 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6825 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6826 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6827 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6828 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6829 proceeds).
6830
6831 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6832 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6833 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6834
6835
6836Exim version 4.21
6837-----------------
6838
6839 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6840 or receiver verification errors.
6841
6842 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6843 name.
6844
6845 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6846 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6847 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6848 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6849
6850 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6851 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6852 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6853 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6854 shouldn't happen again.
6855
6856 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6857 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6858 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6859
6860 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6861 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6862
6863 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6864
6865 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6866 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6867
6868 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6869 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6870 RFC.
6871
687210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6873 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6874 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6875
687611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6877 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6878 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6879 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6880
688112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6882 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6883 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6884 to define what should happen).
6885
688613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6887 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6888 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6889
689014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6891
689215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6893
689416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6895 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6896
689717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
6898 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6899 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6900 structure in all cases.
6901
6902 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6903 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6904 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6905 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6906
690718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6908 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6909 domain name.
6910
691119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6912 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6913
691420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6915 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6916
691721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6918 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6919 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6920
692122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6922 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6923 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6924
692523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6926 the book and for uniformity.
6927
692824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6929
693025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6931 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6932 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6933 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6934 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6935 non-existent command as the problem.
6936
693726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6938 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6939 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6940
694127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6942
694328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6944 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6945 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6946
694729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6948 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6949 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6950 timestamps using strftime().
6951
695230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6953 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6954
695532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6956 transport-time rewrites.
6957
695833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6959 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6960 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6961 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6962
696334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6964 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6965
696635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6967 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6968 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6969 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6970 comma and a space.
6971
697236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6973 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6974 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6975 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6976 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6977 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6978 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6979
698037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6981 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6982 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6983 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6984 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6985
698638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6987 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6988 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6989 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6990 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6991 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6992 remaining text gets split now.
6993
699439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6995 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6996 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6997 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6998
699940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7000 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7001 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7002 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7003 $return_path.
7004
700541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7006 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7007 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7008 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7009 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7010 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7011 passed through if needed.
7012
701342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7014 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7015 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7016 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7017 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7018 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7019
702043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7021 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7022 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7023 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7024 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7025
702644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7027 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7028 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7029 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7030 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7031
703245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7033 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7034 noticed.
7035
703646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7037 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7038 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7039 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7040 mayhem of various kinds.
7041
704247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7043 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7044 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7045 the right test for positive values.
7046
704748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7048 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7049 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7050 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7051 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7052 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7053 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7054 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7055 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7056 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7057 envelope.
7058
705949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7060 module.
7061
706250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7063 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7064 forbidding it.
7065
706651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7067 the existing equality matching.
7068
706952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7070 dealing with inode numbers.
7071
707253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7073 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7074 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7075
707654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7077 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7078 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7079 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7080 local_scan().
7081
708255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7083 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7084 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7085 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7086 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7087 relay addresses has also been removed.
7088
708956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7090
709157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7092 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7093 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7094
709558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7096 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7097 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7098 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7099 processing applies to CR:
7100
7101 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7102 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7103
7104 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7105 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7106 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7107 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7108
710959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7110 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7111 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7112
711360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7114 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7115 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7116 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7117 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7118 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7119 arisen.
7120
712161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7122 program routers.
7123
712462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7125 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7126 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7127 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7128 adds:
7129
7130 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7131
7132 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7133
7134 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7135
713663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7137 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7138 not considered personal.
7139
714064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7141
714265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7143
714466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7145
714667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7147 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7148 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7149 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7150 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7151 header lines, and spool format errors.
7152
715368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7154 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7155 for more flexibility.
7156
715769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7158 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7159 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7160
716170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7162 Sabourenkov.
7163
716471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7165 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7166 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7167 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7168 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7169 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7170 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7171 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7172 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7173
717472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7175 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7176 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7177 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7178 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7179 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7180 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7181
718273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7183 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7184 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7185
718674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7187 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7188 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7189 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7190 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7191 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7192 instead of killing the process with assert().
7193
719475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7195 than Unicode encoding.
7196
719776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7198 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7199 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7200 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7201
720277. Added process_log_path.
7203
720478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7205 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7206
720779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7208 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7209
721080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7211 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7212 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7213
721481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7215 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7216 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7217 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7218 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7219 were applied:
7220
7221 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7222 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7223 as invalid.
7224
722582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7226 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7227 they will be used during message reception.
7228
7229
7230Exim version 4.20
7231-----------------
7232
7233The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7234
7235****