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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
8Since Exim version 4.90
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10
11GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
12 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
13 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
14 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
15 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
16 be defined in redis_servers.
17
18JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
19 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
20 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
21 extant use locations.
22
23JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
24 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
25
26JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
27 Previously only the last row was returned.
28
29JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
30 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
31 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
32 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
33 input.
34
35JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
36 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
37 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
38 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
39 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
40 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
41 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
42 Main pool for expansions.
43 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
44 active in the testsuite.
45 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
46
47JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
48 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
49 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
50 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
51 round-robin DNS.
52
53JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
54 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
55 failure response.
56
57JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
58 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
59 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
60
61JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
62 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
63 ClamAV interface method is removed.
64
65JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
66 rows affected is given instead).
67
68JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
69 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
70
71JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
72 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
73 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
74 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
75 for all multi-message initiating connections.
76
77JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
78 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
79 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
80
81JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
82 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
83 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
84 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
85 separate.
86
87JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
88 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
89 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
90 fake-reject.
91
92HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
93
94JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
95 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
96
97PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
98 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
99 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
100
101JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
102 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
103 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
104 and send a quit.
105
106JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
107 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
108
109JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
110 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
111 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
112
113JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
114 for the build is renamed.
115
116JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
117 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
118 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
119
120JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
121 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
122 result replacing the original.
123
124JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
125 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
126 and the resources needed to be freed.
127
128JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
129
130JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
131 was not propagated.
132
133JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
134 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
135 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
136 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
137
138JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
139 length value. Previously this would segfault.
140
141HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
142 newer versions of the scanner.
143
144JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
145 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
146 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
147 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
148 Do the same for the queue-runner loop, for variables set from spool
149 message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for certain
150 variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
151
152
153Exim version 4.90
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155
156JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
157 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
158 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
159 pairs of long lines into single ones.
160
161PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
162 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
163
164JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
165 This permits better logging.
166
167JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
168 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
169 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
170 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
171 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
172 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
173
174JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
175 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
176 "exiwhat" output.
177
178PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
179 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
180 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
181
182JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
183 than 255 are no longer allowed.
184
185JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
186 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
187 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
188 client, there is no benefit for these.
189 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
190 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
191 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
192 is used (3.2.4 +).
193
194PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
195 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
196
197JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
198 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
199 erroneously found still-pending ones.
200
201JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
202 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
203
204JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
205 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
206 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
207 signature and again for transmission.
208
209JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
210 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
211 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
212
213JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
214 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
215 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
216 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
217 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
218 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
219 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
220
221JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
222 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
223 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
224 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
225
226PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
227 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
228 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
229 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
230 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
231 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
232 processing options.
233
234JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
235 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
236 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
237 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
238 connections.
239
240PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
241 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
242 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
243 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
244 versions.
245
246JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
247 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
248 inaccessible.
249
250JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
251 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
252 banner-time rejection.
253
254JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
255 callout/hold.
256
257PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
258 is the name of a transport.
259 Fixes bug 2140.
260
261HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
262
263JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
264 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
265
266JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
267 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
268 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
269 during compilation.
270
271JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
272 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
273 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
274 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
275
276JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
277 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
278 initial verify call returned a defer.
279
280JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
281 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
282
283JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
284 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
285
286JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
287 if present. Previously it was ignored.
288
289JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
290 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
291
292JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
293 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
294 extensible.
295
296PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
297 Patch provided by Jaroslav Škarvada.
298
299PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
300 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
301 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
302
303JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
304 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
305 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
306 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
307
308HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
309 and confused the parent.
310
311JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
312 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
313
314JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
315 for log purposes.
316
317JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
318 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
319 out-of-order delivery.
320
321JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
322 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
323 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
324 error for the HELO.
325
326JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
327 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
328 desynchronisation.
329
330JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
331 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
332 one run was done. Bug 2189.
333
334JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
335 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
336 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
337 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
338 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
339 message is still "Temporary local problem".
340
341JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
342 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
343 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
344
345HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
346 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
347 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
348
349JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
350 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
351 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
352 though a different problem.
353
354
355Exim version 4.89
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357
358JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
359 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
360
361JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
362
363PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
364 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
365
366JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
367 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
368
369JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
370 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
371 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
372 before acknowledging the chunk.
373
374PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
375 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
376 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
377
378JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
379 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
380 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
381 should.
382
383JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
384 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
385 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
386
387JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
388 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
389
390JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
391 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
392 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
393 body hash calculated value.
394
395JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
396 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
397 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
398
399JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
400
401JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
402 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
403
404JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
405 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
406 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
407
408JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
409 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
410 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
411 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
412 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
413 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
414
415JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
416 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
417 past that check, despite the cost.
418
419JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
420 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
421 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
422
423PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
424 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
425 TLS library to consume.
426
427PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
428
429PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
430
431JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
432 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
433 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
434 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
435 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
436 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
437 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
438
439PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
440
441PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
442
443PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
444 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
445 should be warning-free.
446
447JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
448
449HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
450 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
451
452HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
453 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
454 general solution here.
455
456PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
457 already-broken messages in the queue.
458
459JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
460
461JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
462
463
464Exim version 4.88
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466
467JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
468 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
469
470JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
471 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
472 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
473
474JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
475 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
476 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
477 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
478 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
479 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
480 if one fails this test.
481 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
482 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
483
484JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
485 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
486
487JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
488 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
489
490JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
491 in rewrites and routers.
492
493JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
494 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
495
496JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
497 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
498
499JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
500
501JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
502 certificate).
503
504JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
505 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
506 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
507 connection after a verify cache hit.
508 Do not update it with the verify result either.
509
510JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
511 when routing results in more than one destination address.
512
513JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
514 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
515 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
516 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
517 when the cutthrough connection is made).
518
519JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
520 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
521
522JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
523 Previously they were not counted.
524
525JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
526 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
527 that needed the lookup.
528
529JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
530 distinguished as "(=".
531
532JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
533 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
534
535JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
536
537JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
538 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
539
540JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
541 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
542
543JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
544 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
545 compatible.
546
547JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
548 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
549 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
550 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
551
552JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
553
554JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
555 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
556 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
557
558JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
559 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
560 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
561 be lost.
562
563JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
564 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
565 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
566 itself :(
567
568JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
569 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
570 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
571
572JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
573 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
574 options.
575
576JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
577
578PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
579 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
580
581PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
582 are not in the system include path.
583
584JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
585 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
586 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
587 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
588
589JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
590 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
591 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
592
593JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
594
595HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
596 an incoming connection.
597
598HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
599 to rspamd.
600
601HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
602 fallback to "prime256v1".
603
604JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
605 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
606
607
608Exim version 4.87
609-----------------
610
611JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
612 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
613 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
614 client dropping the TLS connection.
615
616TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
617 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
618
619TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
620 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
621 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
622 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
623 outgoing I= field.
624
625JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
626 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
627 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
628 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
629 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
630 check on the next write.
631
632HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
633 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
634 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
635 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
636 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
637
638JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
639 mime_regex ACL conditions.
640
641JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
642 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
643 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
644
645JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
646 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
647 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
648 an authenticate fail is not an error.
649
650HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
651 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
652
653JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
654 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
655
656JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
657 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
658 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
659 distinct.
660
661JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
662
663JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
664
665JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
666
667JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
668 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
669
670JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
671 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
672
673JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
674
675JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
676 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
677
678JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
679
680JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
681 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
682
683JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
684
685JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
686 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
687 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
688 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
689 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
690 they will retry in-clear.
691 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
692 at installation time.
693
694HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
695 with the $config_file variable.
696
697JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
698 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
699 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
700 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
701 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
702
703GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
704 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
705 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
706 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
707 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
708
709JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
710
711JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
712 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
713 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
714 list order is no longer honoured.
715
716JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
717 for DKIM processing.
718
719JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
720 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
721
722JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
723 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
724 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
725 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
726
727JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
728 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
729
730JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
731 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
732
733JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
734 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
735
736JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
737
738JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
739 cached by the daemon.
740
741JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
742 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
743
744JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
745 keys are given for lookup.
746
747JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
748 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
749 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
750 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
751
752JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
753 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
754 server-side so match that on older versions.
755
756JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
757 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
758 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
759
760JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
761 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
762
763JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
764 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
765 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
766 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
767 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
768 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
769 initial truncated version.
770
771JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
772
773JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
774
775JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
776 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
777
778JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
779
780HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
781
782JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
783 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
784 induced overflows.
785
786JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
787 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
788 stage.
789
790JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
791 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
792
793JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
794 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
795 former class.
796
797JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
798 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
799 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
800
801JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
802 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
803 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
804 extraction. Accept either.
805
806
807Exim version 4.86
808-----------------
809
810JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
811 expanded.
812
813JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
814
815JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
816 it.
817
818JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
819 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
820 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
821 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
822
823JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
824 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
825 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
826
827JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
828 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
829 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
830 TLS connections
831
832JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
833 sites use this now.
834
835JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
836 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
837 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
838 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
839 have a dsn_lasthop option.
840
841JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
842 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
843 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
844
845JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
846
847JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
848 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
849
850JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
851 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
852
853JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
854 /defer_ok option.
855
856JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
857 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
858
859JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
860 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
861 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
862
863JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
864 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
865 specify a port-range.
866
867JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
868 timeout value per server.
869
870JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
871 now have the list separator specified.
872
873JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
874 option values.
875
876JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
877 under OpenSSL.
878
879JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
880
881JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
882 rather than the verbs used.
883
884JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
885 from 255 to 1024 chars.
886
887JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
888
889HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
890 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
891
892JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
893 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
894
895HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
896 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
897
898JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
899
900JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
901
902JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
903 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
904 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
905 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
906
907JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
908
909JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
910 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
911
912JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
913 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
914
915JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
916
917JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
918
919JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
920
921JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
922 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
923
924JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
925 added for tls authenticator.
926
927HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
928
929
930Exim version 4.85
931-----------------
932
933TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
934 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
935 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
936 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
937 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
938 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
939 the script parsing/test process like normal.
940
941TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
942 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
943 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
944 function when detected.
945
946JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
947 cause callback expansion.
948
949TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
950 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
951 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
952 instead of bool when processing it.
953
954JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
955 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
956
957JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
958
959JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
960
961TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
962
963TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
964 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
965
966JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
967 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
968 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
969 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
970 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
971 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
972
973JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
974 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
975 exceeded it.
976
977JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
978 version 3.3.6 or later.
979
980JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
981 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
982 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
983 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
984 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
985 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
986 option is defined.
987
988TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
989 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
990
991JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
992 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
993 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
994 matches.
995
996JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
997 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
998 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
999
1000JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1001 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1002
1003JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1004 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1005 syntax errors.
1006
1007JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1008
1009JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1010 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1011
1012TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1013 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1014 tarball.
1015
1016JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1017
1018JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1019 Bug 1561.
1020
1021JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1022 output list separator was used.
1023
1024
1025Exim version 4.84
1026-----------------
1027TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1028 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1029 return.
1030
1031JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1032 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1033
1034JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1035
1036TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1037 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1038
1039
1040Exim version 4.83
1041-----------------
1042
1043TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1044
1045 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1046 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1047 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1048 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1049 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1050 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1051
1052TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1053 utilities have not been installed.
1054
1055JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1056 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1057
1058TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1059 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1060
1061TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1062 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1063 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1064 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1065
1066JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1067
1068TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1069 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1070
1071PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1072 not dns_use_dnssec.
1073
1074JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1075
1076TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1077 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1078 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1079
1080TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1081 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1082 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1083 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1084 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1085 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1086
1087JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1088
1089JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1090 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1091
1092JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1093 failed delivery.
1094
1095JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1096
1097JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1098
1099JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1100 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1101
1102JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1103 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1104
1105TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1106
1107JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1108
1109JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1110 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1111
1112 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1113 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1114 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1115
1116TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1117 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1118 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1119 analysis.
1120
1121JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1122
1123JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1124 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1125 lookup).
1126
1127TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1128 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1129 Schlichting.
1130
1131JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1132 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1133
1134TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1135 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1136
1137JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1138
1139TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1140 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1141 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1142
1143JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1144 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1145
1146JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1147 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1148 hosts_request_ocsp.
1149
1150JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1151 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1152 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1153
1154JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1155
1156TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1157 Christian Aistleitner.
1158
1159JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1160
1161TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1162 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1163
1164JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1165 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1166
1167JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1168 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1169
1170TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1171 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1172
1173TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1174 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1175
1176TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1177 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1178 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1179
1180JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1181
1182PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1183 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1184 Jasper Wallace.
1185
1186JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1187
1188TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1189 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1190 CVE-2014-2972
1191
1192
1193Exim version 4.82
1194-----------------
1195
1196PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1197
1198PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1199 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1200
1201PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1202 by GnuTLS.
1203
1204PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1205 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1206 routines.
1207
1208PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1209
1210PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1211 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1212 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1213 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1214 using channel bindings instead).
1215
1216PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1217 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1218 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1219 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1220 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1221 Bugzilla 1117.
1222
1223TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1224
1225TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1226
1227TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1228 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1229
1230TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1231 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1232 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1233
1234TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1235
1236TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1237
1238TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1239 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1240
1241JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1242
1243JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1244
1245PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1246
1247NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1248 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1249
1250JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1251
1252PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1253 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1254 function.
1255
1256PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1257 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1258
1259JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1260 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1261 "acl = name arg..."
1262
1263JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1264
1265JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1266
1267JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1268 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1269
1270JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1271 Bugzilla 884.
1272
1273JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1274 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1275
1276JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1277 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1278
1279PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1280 CVE-2012-5671
1281 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1282
1283JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1284 authenticators.
1285
1286JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1287 for control.
1288
1289PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1290
1291PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1292 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1293 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1294 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1295
1296TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1297
1298 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1299 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1300 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1301 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1302 the retry rules.
1303
1304 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1305 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1306 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1307
1308 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1309 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1310 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1311 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1312
1313 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1314 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1315 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1316 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1317 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1318 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1319 delivery, as in LMTP.
1320
1321 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1322 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1323
1324TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1325
1326 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1327
1328 Resent-From: f
1329
1330 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1331 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1332 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1333 username as equal to the username.
1334
1335 This change corrects that bug.
1336
1337GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1338 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1339 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1340
1341TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1342
1343PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1344 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1345 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1346 NULL dereference and crash.
1347
1348JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1349
1350PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1351 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1352 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1353
1354SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1355
1356JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1357 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1358 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1359 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1360 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1361 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1362 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1363 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1364 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1365 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1366 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1367
1368PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1369 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1370
1371PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1372 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1373 Bugzilla 880.
1374
1375PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1376 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1377 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1378 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1379 an empty string is now equivalent.
1380
1381PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1382 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1383 not performing validation itself.
1384
1385PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1386 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1387
1388JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1389 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1390
1391TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1392
1393PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1394 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1395 other false fix of the same issue.
1396 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1397 Bugzilla 1363.
1398
1399PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1400 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1401
1402PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1403 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1404 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1405
1406PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1407 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1408 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1409
1410TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1411
1412JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1413
1414TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1415 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1416
1417TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1418 Alexander Miroch.
1419
1420TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1421 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1422 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1423 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1424 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1425
1426TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1427 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1428
1429TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1430 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1431 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1432
1433TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1434 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1435 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1436 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1437
1438TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1439
1440TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1441 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1442 from multiple comments on this bug.
1443
1444TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1445
1446TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1447 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1448 interaction.
1449
1450TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1451 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1452
1453TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1454 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1455
1456
1457Exim version 4.80.1
1458-------------------
1459
1460PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1461 CVE-2012-5671
1462 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1463
1464
1465Exim version 4.80
1466-----------------
1467
1468PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1469 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1470 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1471
1472NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1473
1474NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1475 improved.
1476
1477NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1478
1479PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1480
1481PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1482
1483PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1484 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1485
1486PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1487 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1488
1489PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1490 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1491
1492PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1493 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1494 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
1495
1496PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1497
1498PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1499 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1500
1501PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1502
1503PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
1504
1505PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1506 non-compliant senders.
1507 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1508
1509NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
1510 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
1511 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1512
1513PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1514 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1515 in spool file corruption.
1516
1517PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1518 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1519 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1520 "Got SSL error 2".
1521
1522TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1523 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1524 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1525
1526JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1527 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1528
1529JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1530
1531PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1532 diagnostics.
1533 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1534
1535PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
1536 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1537 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1538
1539PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1540 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
1541 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1542 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
1543
1544PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1545 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1546
1547PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1548 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1549 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1550 resolver implementation change.
1551
1552PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1553 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1554
1555PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1556
1557PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1558
1559PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1560 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1561
1562PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1563 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1564
1565JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1566 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1567
1568PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1569 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1570 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1571 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1572 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1573
1574PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1575
1576PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1577 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1578 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1579
1580JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1581
1582PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1583 read-only, out of scope).
1584 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1585
1586PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1587 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1588 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1589 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1590
1591PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1592
1593PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1594 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1595 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1596 real issues in debug logging.
1597
1598PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1599 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1600
1601PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1602 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1603 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1604
1605PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1606 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1607 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1608 problems.
1609
1610PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1611 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1612
1613PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1614 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1615 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1616 needs to override this, it can.
1617
1618PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1619 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1620 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1621
1622PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1623 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1624 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1625 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1626
1627PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1628
1629
1630Exim version 4.77
1631-----------------
1632
1633PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1634 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1635
1636TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1637
1638TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1639 whitespace trailer
1640
1641TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1642 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1643
1644TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1645 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1646 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1647
1648 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1649 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1650 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1651 not safe for signals.
1652
1653 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1654 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1655 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1656 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1657 exiwhat.
1658
1659TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1660
1661 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1662 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1663 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1664 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1665 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1666
1667 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1668 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1669 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1670 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1671 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1672 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1673
1674 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1675 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1676 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1677 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1678
1679 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1680 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1681 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1682 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1683
1684 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1685 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1686 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1687 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1688 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1689 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1690 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1691 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1692 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1693
1694 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1695 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1696 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1697 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1698
1699 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1700 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1701 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1702 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1703 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1704 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1705 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1706 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1707 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1708 details in the main documentation.
1709
1710TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1711
1712TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1713
1714TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1715 repository when doing development or release builds.
1716
1717PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1718 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
1719
1720PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1721 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1722 Bugzilla 97.
1723
1724PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1725
1726PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
1727 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1728
1729PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1730 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1731
1732PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
1733 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1734
1735PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1736 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
1737
1738PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1739 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1740
1741PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1742 Bugzilla 1156.
1743 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1744 Bugzilla 1095.
1745
1746PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
1747 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1748 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1749
1750PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1751
1752PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
1753
1754PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1755 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1756
1757
1758Exim version 4.76
1759-----------------
1760
1761PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1762
1763PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1764 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1765
1766PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1767
1768PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1769
1770PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1771 Bugzilla 1098.
1772
1773PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1774 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
1775
1776TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1777 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1778
1779PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1780 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1781
1782PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1783 Bugzilla 1104.
1784
1785TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
1786 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1787
1788TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1789 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1790 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1791 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1792
1793PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1794 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
1795
1796
1797Exim version 4.75
1798-----------------
1799
1800NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
1801 Bugzilla 1073
1802
1803TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1804 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1805 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1806
1807TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1808 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1809
1810PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1811 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1812 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1813
1814PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1815 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1816
1817PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1818 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1819
1820NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1821 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1822
1823NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1824 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1825
1826PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1827 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
1828
1829NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1830 Fixes bug 943.
1831
1832PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1833 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1834
1835PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1836 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1837
1838PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1839 SQL string expansion failure details.
1840 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1841
1842PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1843 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1844
1845PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1846 extern declarations in function scope.
1847 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1848
1849PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1850 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1851 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1852 a kernel bug).
1853
1854PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1855 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1856
1857PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1858 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1859
1860PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1861 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1862
1863PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1864 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1865
1866NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1867 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1868 Dennis Davis.
1869
1870PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
1871
1872PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1873
1874NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1875 Patch by Simon Arlott
1876
1877TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1878 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1879
1880
1881Exim version 4.74
1882-----------------
1883
1884TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1885 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1886
1887TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1888 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1889
1890TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1891
1892DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1893 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1894 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1895
1896PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1897 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1898 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1899
1900PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1901 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1902 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1903 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1904
1905PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1906 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1907 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1908 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1909
1910PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1911 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1912 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1913 arbitrary files.
1914
1915PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1916 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1917
1918PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1919 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1920 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1921 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1922 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1923
1924
1925Exim version 4.73
1926-----------------
1927
1928PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1929 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1930 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1931
1932PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1933 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1934
1935JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1936
1937PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1938
1939PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1940
1941PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
1942
1943PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1944
1945PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
1946 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1947 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
1948 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1949
1950PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1951 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1952 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
1953 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1954 more caution in buffer sizes.
1955
1956PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1957
1958PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1959
1960PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1961
1962PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1963
1964PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1965
1966PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1967
1968PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1969
1970PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
1971 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1972 ignore trailing whitespace.
1973
1974JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1975
1976JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1977 "exim" to be used
1978
1979PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1980 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1981
1982PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1983 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1984 Notification from John Horne.
1985
1986PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1987 compatible.
1988
1989PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1990 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1991 it normally works.
1992
1993DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1994 access.
1995
1996DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1997 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1998 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1999
2000DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2001 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2002 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2003 configuration file.
2004
2005DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2006 option (effectively making it always true).
2007
2008DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2009 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2010
2011DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2012 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2013
2014PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2015 run-time user, instead of root.
2016
2017PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2018 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2019
2020DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2021 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2022 arguments.
2023
2024DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2025 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2026 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2027
2028DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2029
2030NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2031
2032
2033Exim version 4.72
2034-----------------
2035
2036JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2037 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2038 typos
2039
2040JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2041 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2042 (Finput)
2043
2044NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2045 Patch from Alain Williams
2046
2047NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2048
2049NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2050 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2051
2052NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2053 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2054
2055NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2056
2057JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2058
2059NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2060 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2061
2062TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2063
2064TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2065
2066MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2067 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2068 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2069
2070NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2071 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2072
2073NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2074 Patch by Simon Arlott
2075
2076PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2077 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2078
2079
2080Exim version 4.71
2081-----------------
2082
2083TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2084
2085NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2086
2087NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2088
2089NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2090
2091NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2092
2093
2094Exim version 4.70
2095-----------------
2096
2097TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2098 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2099
2100TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2101 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2102 Hirsch).
2103
2104TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2105 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2106 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2107
2108TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2109 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2110
2111NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2112 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2113 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2114 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2115
2116NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2117 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2118 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2119
2120TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2121
2122TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2123
2124NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2125 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2126
2127NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2128
2129TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2130 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2131 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2132 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2133
2134NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2135 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2136
2137TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2138
2139NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2140
2141NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2142 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2143
2144TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2145 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2146
2147TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2148 that they are available at delivery time.
2149
2150TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2151
2152TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2153 incoming_port log selectors.
2154
2155TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2156 setting expands to an empty string.
2157
2158NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2159 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2160
2161NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2162 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2163
2164NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2165 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2166
2167NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2168 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2169
2170NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2171 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2172
2173NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2174 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2175
2176NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2177
2178NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2179 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2180
2181NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2182 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2183
2184TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2185
2186NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2187 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2188
2189NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2190
2191NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2192
2193NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2194 lsearch.
2195
2196NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2197 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2198
2199NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2200 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2201
2202NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2203 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2204
2205NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2206 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2207
2208NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2209 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2210
2211NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2212 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2213
2214NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2215 plus update to original patch.
2216
2217NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2218
2219NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2220 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2221
2222NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2223
2224NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2225
2226NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2227
2228NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2229
2230NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2231 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2232
2233NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2234 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2235
2236NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2237 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2238
2239NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2240 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2241
2242NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2243
2244NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2245
2246NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2247
2248NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2249
2250
2251Exim version 4.69
2252-----------------
2253
2254TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2255 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2256 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2257
2258 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2259 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2260 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2261 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2262 build errors in sieve.c.
2263
2264NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2265 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2266 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2267
2268SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2269
2270NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2271
2272NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2273
2274NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2275
2276
2277Exim version 4.68
2278-----------------
2279
2280PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2281
2282PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2283 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2284 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2285 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2286 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2287 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2288 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2289 for iplsearch lookups.
2290
2291 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2292 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2293 previously such lookups could never work.
2294
2295 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2296 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2297 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2298
2299TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2300 version.
2301
2302MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2303 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2304 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2305 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2306 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2307 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2308
2309TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2310 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2311
2312MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2313 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2314 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2315 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2316 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2317 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2318
2319PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2320 local_scan API.
2321
2322PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2323
2324PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2325 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2326 encrypted.
2327
2328PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2329 by clients under certain conditions.
2330
2331PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2332 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2333
2334PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2335
2336PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2337 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2338
2339PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2340
2341PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2342
2343PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2344
2345PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2346 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2347
2348PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2349
2350PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2351 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2352
2353PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2354
2355PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2356
2357PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2358 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2359 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2360 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2361
2362PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2363 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2364 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2365
2366PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2367 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2368
2369PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2370
2371PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2372
2373PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2374
2375PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2376 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2377 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2378
2379
2380Exim version 4.67
2381-----------------
2382
2383MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2384 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2385 Jan Srzednicki.
2386
2387PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2388 issue a MAIL command.
2389
2390PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2391
2392 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2393
2394 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2395 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2396 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2397 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2398 item. This has been fixed.
2399
2400PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2401 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2402
2403PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2404 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2405
2406PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2407 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2408 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2409
2410SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2411
2412PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2413 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2414 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2415 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2416 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2417
2418MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2419 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2420 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2421
2422PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2423 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2424 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2425 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2426
2427PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2428
2429PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2430
2431PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2432 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2433 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2434 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2435 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2436
2437PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2438
2439PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2440 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2441 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2442 values).
2443
2444PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2445
2446PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2447
2448PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2449
2450PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2451
2452PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2453
2454PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2455 no_callout_flush is set.
2456
2457PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2458 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2459 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2460 fixed.
2461
2462PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2463
2464PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2465 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2466 other ACL rejections are.
2467
2468PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2469 with slight modification.
2470
2471PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2472 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2473
2474PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2475 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2476 connection.
2477
2478PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2479 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2480
2481SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2482
2483PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2484 expansion side effects.
2485
2486PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2487 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2488 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2489 be the same.
2490
2491MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2492 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2493 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2494
2495PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2496 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2497 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2498 were accidentally chopped off.
2499
2500PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2501 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2502 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2503 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2504 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2505 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2506 pipelining has not been advertised.
2507
2508PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2509
2510PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2511 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2512 This has been fixed.
2513
2514PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2515 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2516 reported on Solaris.
2517
2518PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2519 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2520 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2521 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2522 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2523 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2524 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2525
2526PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2527 cpus.
2528
2529PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2530
2531PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2532
2533PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2534 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
2535 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2536 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2537 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2538 criteria to be more general.
2539
2540PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2541 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2542 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2543 host_all_ignored option.
2544
2545PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2546 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2547 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2548 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2549 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2550 is what is supposed to happen).
2551
2552PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2553 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2554 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2555 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2556 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2557 uses the Exim user.
2558
2559PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2560 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2561 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2562 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2563 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2564 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2565 users.
2566
2567PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2568
2569SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2570 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2571 (Jez Hancock).
2572 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2573 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2574
2575SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2576
2577PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2578
2579PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2580 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2581 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2582 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2583 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2584 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2585 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2586 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2587 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2588 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2589 least in a lot of common cases.
2590
2591PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2592 advertised in response to EHLO.
2593
2594
2595Exim version 4.66
2596-----------------
2597
2598PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2599 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2600
2601 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2602 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2603
2604 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2605 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2606 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2607
2608 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2609 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2610 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2611 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2612 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2613
2614
2615Exim version 4.65
2616-----------------
2617
2618TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2619 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2620 versions. (#438)
2621
2622MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2623 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2624 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2625
2626PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2627 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2628 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2629 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2630 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2631 rather than extend the field.
2632
2633
2634Exim version 4.64
2635-----------------
2636
2637TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2638 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2639 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2640 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2641 these files.
2642
2643TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2644 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2645 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2646
2647TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2648 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2649 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2650
2651TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2652 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2653 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2654 in the field name.
2655
2656PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2657 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2658 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2659 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2660 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2661 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2662 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2663 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2664 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2665 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2666 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2667
2668PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2669 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2670
2671PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2672 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2673 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2674 ignores EPIPE as well.
2675
2676PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2677 (quoted-printable decoding).
2678
2679PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
2680 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
2681
2682PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2683
2684PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2685
2686PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2687
2688PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
2689 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
2690
2691JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2692 in 4.64-PH/09.
2693
2694JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2695 miscellaneous code fixes
2696
2697PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2698 rejections.
2699
2700PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2701 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2702 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2703 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2704 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2705 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2706 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2707 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
2708
2709PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
2710 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
2711 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2712 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2713 function.
2714 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2715 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2716 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2717 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2718 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2719 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2720 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2721 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2722 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2723
2724PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2725 decoding.
2726
2727PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2728 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2729 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2730 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2731 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2732 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2733 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2734 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2735
2736PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2737 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2738 list.
2739
2740PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2741 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2742 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2743 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2744 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2745 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2746 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2747 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2748 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2749 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2750 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2751 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2752 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2753
2754PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2755 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2756 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2757 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2758 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2759 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2760 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2761
2762PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2763 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2764 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2765 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2766 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2767 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2768 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2769 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2770 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2771 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2772
2773PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2774 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2775 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2776 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2777 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2778
2779PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2780 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2781 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2782 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2783 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2784 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2785 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2786
2787PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2788 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2789 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2790 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2791 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2792 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2793 been verified.
2794
2795PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
2796 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2797 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2798 and authorization.)
2799
2800PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2801 if any retry times were supplied.
2802
2803PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2804 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2805 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2806
2807PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2808
2809PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2810
2811PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2812 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2813 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2814 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
2815 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2816 before) are ignored.
2817
2818PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2819 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2820
2821PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2822 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2823 committing the later change.]
2824
2825PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2826 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2827 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2828 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2829 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2830 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2831 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2832 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2833 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2834
2835 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2836 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2837 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2838 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2839 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2840 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2841 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2842 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2843 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2844
2845 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2846 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2847 hammering the server.
2848
2849PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2850 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2851
2852PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2853
2854PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2855 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2856 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2857
2858PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2859 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2860 one case where this was not true.
2861
2862PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2863 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2864 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2865 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2866 fails.
2867
2868PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2869 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2870 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2871 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2872 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2873 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2874 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2875 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2876 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2877 smtp transport.
2878
2879PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2880 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2881 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2882 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2883
2884PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2885 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2886
2887PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2888 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2889 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2890
2891PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2892
2893PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2894
2895PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2896
2897PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2898 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2899 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2900 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2901
2902PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2903 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2904
2905PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2906 be meaningful with "accept".
2907
2908SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2909 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2910
2911SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2912 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2913 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2914
2915SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2916 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2917 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2918 there is data to show.
2919 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2920
2921SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2922 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2923 as well as the number of messages.
2924
2925SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2926 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2927 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2928
2929SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2930 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2931 have a flag are now skipped.
2932
2933SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2934 Added the -emptyok flag.
2935
2936SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2937 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2938
2939JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2940 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2941 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2942
2943JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2944 match 4.64-PH/13
2945
2946JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2947 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2948
2949JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2950
2951JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2952 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2953
2954PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2955
2956PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2957 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2958 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2959 contravention of the specifications.
2960
2961PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2962 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2963 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
2964
2965PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2966 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2967 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2968
2969PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2970
2971MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2972 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2973 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2974 some point in the past.
2975
2976PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2977 transport during callout processing was broken.
2978
2979PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2980 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2981
2982PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2983 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2984
2985PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2986 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2987
2988PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2989
2990
2991Exim version 4.63
2992-----------------
2993
2994SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2995 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2996
2997SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2998 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2999 there is data to show.
3000 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3001
3002SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3003 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3004
3005TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3006 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3007
3008TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3009 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3010
3011TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3012 submissions from trusted users.
3013
3014TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3015 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3016
3017TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3018 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3019 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3020 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3021 there is now a framework to start from.
3022
3023PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3024 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3025 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3026
3027PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3028
3029PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3030
3031PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3032
3033PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3034 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3035 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3036
3037PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3038 libradius.
3039
3040PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3041 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3042 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3043
3044PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3045 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3046 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3047 its arguments.
3048
3049PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3050 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3051 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3052 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3053 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3054
3055PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3056 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3057
3058PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3059
3060PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3061 operations in malware.c.
3062
3063PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3064 signatures.
3065
3066PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3067 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3068 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3069 all.
3070
3071PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3072 statements to "add_header".
3073
3074PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3075 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3076
3077PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3078 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3079 latter.
3080
3081PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3082 so that it is now:
3083
3084 ${if or { \
3085 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3086 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3087 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3088 }{no}{yes}}
3089
3090 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3091 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3092
3093PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3094 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3095
3096PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3097 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3098 any possible encoding problems.
3099
3100PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3101 but not after initializing Perl.
3102
3103PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3104 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3105 apparently, which is not desirable.
3106
3107PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3108 queries.
3109
3110JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3111 --not options
3112
3113JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3114
3115PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3116 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3117 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3118 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3119
3120PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3121 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3122 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3123
3124PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3125 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3126 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3127 0.12.
3128
3129PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3130 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3131 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3132 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3133 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3134
3135
3136Exim version 4.62
3137-----------------
3138
3139TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3140 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3141
3142PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3143 patch).
3144
3145PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3146 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3147 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3148 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3149 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3150 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3151 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3152 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3153 451 error is used.
3154
3155PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3156
3157PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3158 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3159 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3160
3161PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3162 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3163 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3164 odd errors.
3165
3166PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3167 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3168
3169PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3170 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3171 option (which defaults to 0600).
3172
3173PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3174
3175PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3176 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3177 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3178 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3179 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3180 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3181 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3182
3183PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3184
3185
3186Exim version 4.61
3187-----------------
3188
3189PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3190 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3191 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3192 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3193 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3194 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3195 addresses as local.
3196
3197PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3198 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3199
3200PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3201
3202PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3203 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3204 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3205 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3206 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3207 grumble.
3208
3209PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3210 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3211
3212PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3213 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3214 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3215 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3216 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3217
3218PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3219 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3220 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3221 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3222
3223PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3224 be the same on different OS.
3225
3226PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3227 testing.
3228
3229JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3230 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3231
3232JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3233 in 4.61-PH/06
3234
3235PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3236 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3237 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3238 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3239 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3240 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3241 bounce message.
3242
3243PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3244 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3245 when Exim was called.
3246
3247PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3248 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3249
3250PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3251 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3252 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3253 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3254
3255PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3256 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3257 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3258 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3259 changes:
3260
3261 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3262 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3263 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3264
3265 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3266 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3267 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3268
3269PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3270 feature).
3271
3272PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3273 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3274 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3275 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3276 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3277 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3278 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3279 values from the SRV records were lost.
3280
3281PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3282 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3283 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3284
3285PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3286 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3287 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3288
3289PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3290 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3291 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3292 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3293 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3294 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3295 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3296 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3297 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3298 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3299
3300PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3301 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3302 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3303
3304PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3305 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3306
3307PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3308 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3309 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3310 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3311 is given.
3312
3313PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3314 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3315 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3316
3317PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3318 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3319 PH/23 above applies.
3320
3321PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3322 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3323 (for which there is an explicit test).
3324
3325PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3326
3327PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3328 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3329 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3330 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3331 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3332
3333PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3334 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3335 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3336 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3337
3338PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3339 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3340 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3341
3342PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3343
3344PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3345
3346PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3347 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3348 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3349
3350PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3351 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3352 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3353 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3354 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3355
3356PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3357 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3358 the message gets confusing).
3359
3360PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3361 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3362 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3363 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3364
3365PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3366 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3367 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3368 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3369 same order.
3370
3371PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3372 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3373 the different processes.
3374
3375PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3376
3377PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3378
3379JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3380 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3381
3382JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3383 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3384
3385JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3386 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3387 messages matching specified criteria.
3388
3389PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3390
3391PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3392 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3393
3394PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3395 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3396 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3397 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3398 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3399 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3400 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3401 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3402 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3403 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3404
3405PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3406 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3407 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3408
3409PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3410
3411PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3412 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3413 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3414 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3415 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3416 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3417 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3418 the variable.
3419
3420PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3421 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3422
3423PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3424
3425PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3426
3427PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3428
3429PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3430 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3431 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3432 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3433 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3434 size of the count of files.
3435
3436PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3437
3438PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3439 used in LMTP mode:
3440
3441 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3442 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3443 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3444 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3445
3446 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3447 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3448 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3449
3450PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3451 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3452 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3453 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3454 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3455
3456PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3457 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3458
3459PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3460 will now be deprecated.
3461
3462PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3463
3464JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3465 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3466 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3467
3468JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3469 with very large, slow to parse queues
3470
3471JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3472
3473JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3474
3475PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3476 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3477 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3478 SMTP output lines.
3479
3480PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3481 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3482 Sieve code now uses this.
3483
3484PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3485 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3486
3487PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3488 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3489
3490PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3491
3492PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3493 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3494 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3495 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3496 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3497
3498PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3499 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3500 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3501 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3502
3503PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3504
3505PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3506
3507PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3508 is preferred over IPv4.
3509
3510PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3511 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3512 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3513 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3514 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3515 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3516 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3517
3518PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3519 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3520 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3521
3522PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3523
3524PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3525 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3526 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3527 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3528 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3529 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3530 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3531 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3532 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3533 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3534 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3535
3536PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3537 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3538 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3539
3540
3541Exim version 4.60
3542-----------------
3543
3544PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3545
3546 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3547 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3548
3549 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3550 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3551 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3552
3553PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3554
3555 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3556 not a single digit.
3557
3558 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3559 string.
3560
3561 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3562 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3563 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3564 silly things.
3565
3566 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3567 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3568
3569 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3570 inside the third argument.
3571
3572PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3573 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3574 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3575
3576PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3577 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3578
3579PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3580 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3581
3582 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3583
3584 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3585 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3586 this:
3587
3588 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3589
3590PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3591 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3592 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3593 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3594 identical. For example:
3595
3596 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3597
3598 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3599 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3600 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3601
3602PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3603 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3604 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3605 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3606
3607PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3608 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3609 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3610 message.
3611
3612PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3613
3614 o fixes some comments
3615 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3616 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3617 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3618 and documents the missing references header update
3619
3620 and most important:
3621
3622 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3623 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
3624 result)
3625
3626PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3627 Electronic Mail") by including:
3628
3629 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3630
3631 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3632 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
3633 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3634 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3635 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3636
3637 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3638
3639 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3640
3641 The auto-replied keyword:
3642
3643 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3644 message by an automatic process,
3645
3646 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3647
3648 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3649 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3650
3651 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3652 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3653 other messages.
3654
3655PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3656 to the default Received: header definition.
3657
3658PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3659
3660PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3661 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3662 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3663
3664PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3665 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3666 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3667
3668PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3669 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3670 and treats the condition as false.
3671
3672PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3673
3674PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3675 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3676 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3677 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3678 not changing the active code.
3679
3680 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3681 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3682
3683 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3684 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3685
3686PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3687 (Bugzilla #53).
3688
3689PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3690 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3691 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3692 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3693 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3694 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3695 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3696 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3697 the text comparison.
3698
3699PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3700 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3701 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3702 The same fix has been applied.
3703
3704
3705Exim version 4.54
3706-----------------
3707
3708PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3709 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3710 It now does.
3711
3712PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3713 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3714
3715PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3716
3717PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3718 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3719 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3720 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3721 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3722
3723TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3724 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3725 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3726 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3727 or /domain=).
3728
3729PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3730 testing suite.
3731
3732
3733
3734Exim version 4.53
3735-----------------
3736
3737TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3738 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3739
3740PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3741
3742PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3743
3744PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3745 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3746 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3747
3748PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3749 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3750 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3751
3752PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3753 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3754 operating systems.
3755
3756PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3757 ${stat: expansion item.
3758
3759PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3760 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3761
3762PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3763 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3764 file for comments.
3765
3766PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3767
3768PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3769 setting.
3770
3771PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3772 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3773
3774TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3775
3776PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3777 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3778 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3779 the end of the subprocess.
3780
3781PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3782 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3783 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3784 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3785 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3786
3787JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3788
3789TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3790
3791PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3792 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3793
3794PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3795
3796PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3797
3798PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3799 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3800 HP-UX compiler.
3801
3802PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3803
3804PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3805 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3806 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3807
3808PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3809 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3810
3811PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3812 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3813
3814PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3815 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3816
3817 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3818 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3819
3820 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3821 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3822 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3823 contributed by a Radius user.
3824
3825PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3826 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3827
3828TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3829 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3830
3831PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3832 available.
3833
3834PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3835 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3836 received.
3837
3838PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3839 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3840 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3841 header lines when this was not necessary.
3842
3843PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3844
3845PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3846 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3847 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3848 exists".
3849
3850PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3851 -bV or -d is used.
3852
3853PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3854 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
3855 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3856 return code was incorrect.
3857
3858PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3859
3860PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3861
3862TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3863
3864PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3865
3866PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3867 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3868 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3869 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3870 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3871 settings.
3872
3873PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3874
3875PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3876 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3877 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3878 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3879 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3880 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3881 which is clearly wrong.
3882
3883PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3884
3885PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3886 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3887 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3888 subsequently added.
3889
3890PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3891 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3892
3893PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3894
3895PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3896 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3897
3898PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3899 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3900
3901PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3902 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3903
3904PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3905 recipients, not senders.
3906
3907TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3908 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3909
3910PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3911
3912PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3913
3914PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3915 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3916 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3917 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3918
3919TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3920
3921TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3922 clock is set back in time.
3923
3924TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3925 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3926
3927TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3928 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3929
3930PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3931 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3932 (see PH/47 above).
3933
3934TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3935 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3936 header rewrites.
3937
3938PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3939 type ("H").
3940
3941PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3942
3943TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3944 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3945 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3946
3947TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3948 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3949 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3950 helo verification defer as a failure.
3951
3952PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3953 actual error message.
3954
3955
3956Exim version 4.52
3957-----------------
3958
3959TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3960
3961PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3962 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3963 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3964 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3965
3966TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3967
3968PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3969 can still be requested.
3970
3971PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3972 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3973 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3974 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3975
3976TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3977 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3978 circumstances, but probably never did.
3979
3980PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3981 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3982 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3983 in the header line.
3984
3985TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3986
3987TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3988 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
3989
3990TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3991
3992TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3993
3994PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3995 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3996 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3997 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
3998 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3999 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4000
4001PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4002 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4003 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4004 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4005 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4006 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4007
4008TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4009 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4010
4011PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4012 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4013
4014SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4015 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4016
4017SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4018
4019SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4020
4021SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4022
4023SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4024
4025SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4026
4027SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4028
4029TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4030
4031TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4032 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4033 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4034
4035TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4036 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4037 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4038 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4039
4040PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4041 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4042 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4043
4044PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4045 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4046 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4047 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4048
4049PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4050 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4051 to be made).
4052
4053PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4054 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4055 should work with maildirs and everything.
4056
4057TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4058 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4059
4060TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4061 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4062
4063PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4064 function for BDB 4.3.
4065
4066PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4067
4068PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4069 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4070 involved.
4071
4072PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4073 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4074 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4075 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4076 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4077 formatting function string_vformat().
4078
4079PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4080 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4081 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4082 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4083 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4084 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4085 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4086 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4087
4088TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4089 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4090 details.
4091
4092PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4093 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4094
4095PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4096 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4097 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4098 test. It is now used for both.
4099
4100PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4101 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4102 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4103 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4104 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4105 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4106
4107PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4108 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4109 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4110 string_vformat().
4111
4112PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4113 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4114 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4115
4116PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4117 experimental DomainKeys support:
4118
4119 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4120 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4121 the control was given.
4122
4123 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4124
4125PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4126
4127PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4128
4129PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4130 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4131 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4132 db.h files).
4133
4134PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4135 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4136 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4137 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4138 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4139 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4140 course.
4141
4142PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4143 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4144 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4145 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4146 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4147 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4148
4149PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4150 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4151 do -d+all out of habit.
4152
4153PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4154 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4155 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4156
4157PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4158 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4159 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4160 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4161 record types that Exim uses.
4162
4163PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4164 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4165 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4166 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4167 non-existent file that was broken.
4168
4169TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4170 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4171
4172TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4173 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4174 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4175
4176TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4177
4178PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4179 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4180 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4181 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4182 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4183 same time.
4184
4185SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4186 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4187 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4188 at a slight CPU cost.
4189
4190SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4191 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4192
4193SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4194 by Marc Sherman.
4195
4196SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4197
4198PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4199 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4200
4201
4202Exim version 4.51
4203-----------------
4204
4205TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4206 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4207
4208TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4209
4210TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4211
4212PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4213 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4214
4215PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4216 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4217 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4218 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4219 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4220 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4221 file.
4222
4223PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4224 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4225 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4226 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4227 these two options.
4228
4229PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4230 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4231 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4232 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4233 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4234 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4235 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4236 address.
4237
4238PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4239 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4240
4241PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4242 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4243 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4244 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4245 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4246 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4247
4248PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4249 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4250 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4251 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4252
4253PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4254 Finch).
4255
4256PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4257 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4258
4259PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4260 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4261 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4262 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4263 message.
4264
4265PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4266
4267PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4268 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4269
4270PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4271 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4272 to what was transported.)
4273
4274TF/01 Added $received_time.
4275
4276PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4277 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4278 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4279 spamd_address settings.
4280
4281PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4282 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4283 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4284 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4285 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4286
4287PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4288
4289PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4290 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4291 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4292 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4293 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4294
4295PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4296 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4297
4298PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4299 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4300 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4301 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4302 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4303 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4304 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4305 for failure.
4306
4307PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4308 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4309 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4310 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4311 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4312 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4313 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4314 "input=".
4315
4316PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4317
4318PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4319 driver and ACL definitions.
4320
4321PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4322 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4323
4324PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4325 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4326 understands it better than I do:
4327
4328 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4329 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4330
4331 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4332 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4333 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4334 => three warnings about OTP not working
4335 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4336
4337 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4338 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4339 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4340 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4341 for each call.)
4342 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4343 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4344
4345 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4346 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4347 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4348
4349PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4350 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4351 specified.
4352
4353PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4354 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4355 "Linux".
4356
4357PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4358 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4359 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4360
4361 warn !verify = sender
4362 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4363
4364 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4365 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4366
4367PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4368
4369 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4370 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4371
4372 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4373 nomenclature these days.)
4374
4375PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4376 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4377
4378PH/30 In these circumstances:
4379 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4380 . First host does not offer TLS;
4381 . First host accepts first address;
4382 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4383 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4384 . Second host accepts second address.
4385 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4386 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4387 address.
4388
4389PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4390 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4391 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4392 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4393 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4394
4395PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4396 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4397
4398PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4399 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4400
4401PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4402 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4403 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4404
4405PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4406 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4407 overlooked.
4408
4409PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4410
4411PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4412 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4413 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4414 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4415 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4416 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4417 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4418
4419 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4420 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4421 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4422 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4423 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4424
4425 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4426 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4427 routed further.
4428
4429PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4430 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4431 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4432 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4433 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4434 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4435
4436PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4437
4438PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4439 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4440 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4441 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4442 printable escape sequences.
4443
4444PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4445 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4446 body only.
4447
4448PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4449 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4450 are as follows:
4451
4452 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4453 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4454 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4455 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4456 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4457
4458 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4459 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4460 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4461
4462PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4463
4464PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4465 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4466 play with."
4467
4468PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4469 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4470 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4471 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4472 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4473 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4474 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4475 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4476 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4477 the log output.
4478
4479PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4480 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4481 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4482 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4483 "make".
4484
4485
4486A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4487----------------------------------------
4488
4489Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4490changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4491needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4492in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4493that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4494release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4495from 4.43.
4496
4497I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
44984.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4499those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4500historical information.
4501
4502
4503Exim version 4.50
4504-----------------
4505
4506 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4507
4508 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
4509 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
4510
4511 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4512 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4513 place.
4514
4515 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4516 filter fails to execute.
4517
4518 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4519 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4520 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4521 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4522 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4523
4524 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4525
4526 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4527 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4528 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4529 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4530
4531 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4532 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4533 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4534 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4535 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4536
4537 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4538
453910. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4540
454111. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4542 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4543 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4544 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4545
454612. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4547 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4548 sender verification.
4549
455013. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4551 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4552
455314. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4554
455515. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4556 connection timeout.
4557
455816. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4559 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4560
456117. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4562 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4563
456418. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4565 information about exactly what failed.
4566
456719. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4568
456920. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4570 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4571 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4572
457321. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4574 It is now set to "smtps".
4575
457622. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4577 ignore_target_hosts.
4578
457923. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4580 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4581 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4582 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4583 "[x.x.x.x]".
4584
458524. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4586 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4587 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4588
458925. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4590 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4591 wake it up if nothing else does.
4592
459326. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4594 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4595 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4596 end up negative.
4597
459827. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4599 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4600
460128. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4602
460329. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4604 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4605 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4606 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4607 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4608 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4609 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4610 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4611
461230. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4613 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4614 than one IP address.
4615
461631. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4617 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4618 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4619 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4620
462132. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4622 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4623 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4624 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4625 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4626 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4627
462833. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4629 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4630 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4631 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4632
463334. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4634 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4635 respected.
4636
463735. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4638 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4639 $sender_host_address.
4640
464136. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4642 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4643 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4644 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4645 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4646 very small.
4647
464837. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4649
4650 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4651 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4652
4653 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4654 just the host names, not the priorities.
4655
4656 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4657 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4658 controlled by a keyword.
4659
4660 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
4661 multiple records are returned.
4662
466338. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4664 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4665 domain.
4666
466739. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4668
466940. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4670 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4671
467241. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4673 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4674 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4675
467642. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4677
467843. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4679
468044. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4681
468245. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4683 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4684 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4685 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4686 because the tests only now provoked it.
4687
468846. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4689 (this can affect the format of dates).
4690
469147. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4692 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4693 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4694 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4695
469648. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4697
469849. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4699 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4700 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4701 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4702
470350. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4704 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4705 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4706
470751. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4708 autoreply.
4709
471052. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4711 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4712 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4713 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4714 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4715 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4716 is going on).
4717
471853. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4719 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4720 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4721 the line.
4722
472354. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4724 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4725 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4726
4727 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4728 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4729 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4730 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4731 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4732 so I produce this patch..."
4733
4734 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4735 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4736 is not defined.
4737
473855. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4739 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4740 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4741 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4742 CAN-2005-0021
4743
474456. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4745
474657. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4747 long debug lines gets shown.
4748
474958. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4750 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4751
475259. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4753
4754 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4755 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4756 of $primary_hostname.
4757
475860. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4759 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4760 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4761 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4762 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4763 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4764 by change 4.50/55 above.
4765
4766 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4767 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4768 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4769 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4770 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4771 running as the user.
4772 CAN-2005-0021
4773
477461. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4775 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4776 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4777 CAN-2005-0022
4778
477962. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4780 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4781
478263. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4783 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4784 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4785 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4786 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4787
478864. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4789 This has been fixed.
4790
479165. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4792 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4793 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4794 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4795 the caching.)
4796
479766. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4798
479967. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4800 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4801 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4802 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4803
480468. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4805 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4806
480769. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4808 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4809 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4810
481170. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4812 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4813 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4814 message there.
4815
481671. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4817 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4818 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4819
482072. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4821 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4822 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4823 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4824
482573. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4826 during host lookups.
4827
482874. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4829 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4830
4831 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4832
483375. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4834 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4835 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4836 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4837 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4838 background.
4839
484076. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4841 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4842
484377. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4844 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4845 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4846
484778. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4848
484979. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4850 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4851 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4852 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4853 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4854 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4855 process earlier.
4856
485780. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4858 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4859 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4860 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4861 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4862
486381. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4864 tables).
4865
486682. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4867
486883. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4869 "vacation" handling.
4870
487184. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4872 OS variants using glibc.
4873
487485. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4875
4876
4877----------------------------------------------------
4878See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4879----------------------------------------------------
4880
4881
4882Exim version 4.44
4883-----------------
4884
4885 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4886 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4887 transport
4888
4889 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4890 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4891 place.
4892
4893 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4894 filter fails to execute.
4895
4896 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4897 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4898 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4899 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4900 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4901
4902 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4903 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4904 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4905 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4906
4907 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4908 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4909 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4910 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4911 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4912
4913 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4914
4915 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4916 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4917 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4918 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4919
4920 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4921 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4922 sender verification.
4923
492410. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4925 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4926
492711. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4928 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4929
493012. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4931 ignore_target_hosts.
4932
493313. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4934 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4935 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4936 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4937 "[x.x.x.x]".
4938
493914. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4940 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4941 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4942
494315. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4944 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4945 wake it up if nothing else does.
4946
494716. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4948 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4949 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4950 end up negative.
4951
495217. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4953 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4954
495518. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
4956
495719. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4958 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4959 empty pattern.
4960
496120. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4962 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4963 one IP address.
4964
496521. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4966 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4967 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4968 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4969 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4970 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4971
497222. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4973 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4974 respected.
4975
497623. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4977 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4978 $sender_host_address.
4979
498024. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4981
498225. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4983 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4984 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4985
498626. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
4987 As per change 25.
4988
498927. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4990 (this can affect the format of dates).
4991
499228. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4993 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4994 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4995 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4996
499729. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4998 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4999 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5000
500130. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5002 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5003 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5004 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5005
500631. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5007 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5008 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5009
501031. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5011 autoreply.
5012
501332. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5014 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5015 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5016 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5017 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5018 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5019 is going on).
5020
502133. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5022 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5023 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5024 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5025 CAN-2005-0021
5026
502734. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5028 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5029 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5030 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5031 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5032 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5033 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5034
5035 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5036 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5037 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5038 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5039 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5040 running as the user.
5041 CAN-2005-0021
5042
504335. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5044 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5045 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5046 CAN-2005-0022
5047
504836. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5049 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5050 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5051 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5052 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5053
505437. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5055 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5056 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5057 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5058 the caching.)
5059
506038. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5061 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5062 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5063 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5064 because the tests only now provoked it.
5065
5066
5067Exim version 4.43
5068-----------------
5069
5070 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5071 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5072 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5073 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5074 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5075 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5076 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5077
5078 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5079 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5080 the delivery.
5081
5082 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5083
5084 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5085
5086 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5087 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5088 to local_scan().
5089
5090 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5091 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5092 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5093 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5094 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5095
5096 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5097 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5098
5099 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5100
5101 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5102
510310. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5104 header_sender only.
5105
510611. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5107 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5108
510912. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5110 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5111 affecting debugging statements).
5112
511313. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5114
511514. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5116 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5117 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5118 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5119 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5120 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5121 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5122 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5123 after the received time, and all would be well.
5124
512515. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5126 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5127 condition in an expansion string.
5128
512916. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5130
513117. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5132 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5133 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5134 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5135 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5136 job under whatever limits there are.
5137
513818. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5139
514019. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5141 space).
5142
514320. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5144 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5145 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5146 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5147 return path is set.
5148
514921. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5150 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5151 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5152 binary data in such strings.
5153
515422. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5155
515623. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5157 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5158 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5159 failure, which is pointless.
5160
516124. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5162
516325. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5164
516526. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5166 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5167 Sender: header lines.
5168
516927. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5170 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5171 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5172
517328. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5174 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5175 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5176 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5177 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5178 happens.
5179
518029. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5181 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5182 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5183 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5184 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5185
518630. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5187 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5188 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5189 1024.
5190
519131. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5192 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5193
519432. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5195 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5196
519733. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5198
519932. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5200
520133. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5202
520334. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5204 syntax error.
5205
520635. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5207
520836. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5209
521037. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5211 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5212 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5213 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5214
521538. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5216 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5217
5218
5219Exim version 4.42
5220-----------------
5221
5222 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5223 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5224 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5225 it was not quoted.
5226 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5227 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5228 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5229 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5230 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5231 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5232
5233 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5234 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5235 verification failure".
5236
5237 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5238 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5239 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5240 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5241
5242 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5243 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5244 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5245 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5246 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5247 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5248 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5249 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5250 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5251 treated as a timeout.
5252
5253 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5254 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5255 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5256 not set for Exim filters).
5257
5258 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5259 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5260 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5261
5262 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5263
5264 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5265 try to make them clearer.
5266
5267 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5268 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5269
5270 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5271
5272 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5273
527410. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5275 only the Cygwin environment.
5276
527711. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5278 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5279 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5280 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5281 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5282
528312. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5284 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5285 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5286 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5287 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5288 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5289 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5290
529113. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5292 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5293
529414. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5295
5296 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5297 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5298 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5299
5300 To: susanne@some.where
5301
5302 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5303 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5304 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5305 of addresses in From: header lines).
5306
5307 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5308 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5309 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5310
5311 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5312 treated as non-personal.
5313
5314 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5315 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5316
531715. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5318
531916. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5320
532117. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5322 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5323 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5324
532518. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5326 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5327
532819. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5329 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5330 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5331 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5332 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5333 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5334
533520. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5336 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5337 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5338 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5339 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5340 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5341 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5342 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5343
5344 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5345
534621. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5347 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5348
534922. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5350 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5351 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5352
535323. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5354 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5355
535624. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5357 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5358 rather than long int.
5359
536025. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5361
536226. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5363
5364
5365Exim version 4.41
5366-----------------
5367
5368 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5369 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5370 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5371 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5372 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5373 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5374
5375
5376Exim version 4.40
5377-----------------
5378
5379 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5380 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5381
5382 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5383 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5384 socklen_t is defined.
5385
5386 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5387 always exist.
5388
5389 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5390 configured.
5391
5392 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5393 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5394 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5395 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5396 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5397
5398 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5399 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5400 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5401 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5402
5403 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5404 of flapping under certain conditions.
5405
5406 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5407 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5408 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5409
5410 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5411
541210. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5413
541411. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5415 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5416 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5417 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5418
541912. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5420 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5421 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5422 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5423 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5424 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5425 preserved with the message after it was received.
5426
542713. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5428 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5429 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5430 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5431 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5432 test suite worked just fine.
5433
543414. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5435 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5436 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5437
543815. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5439 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5440 string.
5441
544216. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5443 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5444 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5445 does not fully solve it.
5446
544717. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5448 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5449 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5450 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5451 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5452
545318. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5454 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5455 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5456
545719. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5458 string, for example:
5459
5460 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5461
5462 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5463 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5464 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5465 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5466 the routers could not see them.
5467
546820. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5469 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5470
547121. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5472 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5473 output).
5474
547522. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5476 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5477 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5478 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5479 that needed quoting.
5480
548123. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5482 was not being matched caselessly.
5483
548424. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5485 backslashes.
5486
548725. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5488 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5489 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5490 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5491 when use_sender is false.
5492
549326. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5494
549527. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5496
549728. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5498
549929. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5500 the configuration file.
5501
550230. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5503 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5504
550531. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5506
550732. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5508 bytes in the message body.
5509
551033. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5511 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5512 delivery.
5513
551434. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5515
551635. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5517
551836. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5519 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5520 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5521 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5522 another IP address.
5523
5524
5525Exim version 4.34
5526-----------------
5527
5528 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5529 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5530
5531 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5532 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5533 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5534 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5535 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5536
5537 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5538 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5539
5540 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5541 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5542 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5543
5544 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5545 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5546 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5547
5548 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5549 for routers.
5550
5551 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5552 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5553 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5554 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5555 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5556 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5557 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5558
5559
5560Exim version 4.33
5561-----------------
5562
5563 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5564 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5565 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5566 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5567 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5568 default (and expected) setting.
5569
5570 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5571 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5572 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5573 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5574
5575 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5576 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5577
5578 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5579 in domain lists.
5580
5581 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5582 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5583 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5584 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5585 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5586 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5587
5588 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5589 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5590 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5591
5592 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5593 part (NOT match_host).
5594
5595 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5596
5597 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5598 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5599 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5600 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5601 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5602 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5603 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5604 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5605 the same named file.
5606
560710. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5608 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5609 when Exim is built.
5610
561111. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5612 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5613 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5614 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5615 a host name.
5616
561712. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5618 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5619 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5620
562113. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5622
562314. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5624
562515. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5626
562716. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5628 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5629
563017. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5631 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5632 before starting the TLS session.
5633
563418. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5635
563619. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5637 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5638
563920. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5640 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5641 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5642 colon in the middle).
5643
5644
5645Exim version 4.32
5646-----------------
5647
5648 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5649 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5650 multiple configurations are in use.
5651
5652 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5653 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5654 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5655 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5656 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5657 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5658
5659 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5660 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5661
5662 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5663 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5664 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5665
5666 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5667 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5668 occurs.
5669
5670 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5671 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5672
5673 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5674
5675 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5676 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5677
5678 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5679
5680 -prval:sval
5681
5682 is equivalent to
5683
5684 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5685
5686 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5687 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5688 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5689 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5690 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5691
569210. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5693 Exim's behaviour:
5694
5695 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5696 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5697 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5698 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5699 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5700 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5701
5702 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5703 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5704 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5705 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5706 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5707 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5708 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5709 string.
5710
5711 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5712 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5713 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5714 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5715 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5716
571711. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5718
571912. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5720 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5721 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5722
572313. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5724
572514. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5726 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5727 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5728 information.
5729
573015. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5731 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5732
573316. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5734 Three changes have been made:
5735
5736 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5737 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5738 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5739 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5740 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5741
5742 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5743 been restored.
5744
5745 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5746 the modified behaviour.
5747
5748
5749Exim version 4.31
5750-----------------
5751
5752 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5753 Larry Rosenman.
5754
5755 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5756 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5757
5758 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5759 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5760 try to track down a specific problem.
5761
5762 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5763 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5764 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5765
5766 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5767 warning.
5768
5769 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5770 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5771 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5772 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5773 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5774 some earlier ones do not.
5775
5776 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5777
5778 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5779 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5780 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5781 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5782 address literals are enabled, of course).
5783
5784 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5785
578610. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5787 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5788 by a command such as
5789
5790 exim -f "" ...
5791
5792 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5793
579411. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5795
579612. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5797 remained set. It is now erased.
5798
579913. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5800 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5801
580214. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5803 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5804 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5805 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5806 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5807 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5808 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5809 appropriate error code.
5810
581115. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5812 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5813 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5814 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5815 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5816 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5817
581816. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5819 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5820 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5821
582217. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5823 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5824 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5825 terminate the header.
5826
582718. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5828 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5829 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5830
583119. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5832 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5833 (4.30/29). In particular:
5834
5835 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5836 imposed.
5837
5838 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5839 to write a maildirsize file.
5840
5841 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5842 the transport, the new value overrides.
5843
5844 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5845 count.
5846
584720. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5848 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5849 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5850 space or a tab.
5851
585221. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5853 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5854 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5855 the fallback hosts.
5856
585722. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5858 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5859 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5860
586123. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5862 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5863 using a union.
5864
586524. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5866 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5867 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5868
586925. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5870
587126. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5872
587327. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5874
587528. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5876 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5877 become corrupted.
5878
587929. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5880 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5881 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5882 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5883 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5884 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5885 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5886 too great.
5887
588830. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5889 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5890 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5891 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5892 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5893 incorrectly.
5894
589531. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5896 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5897 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5898 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5899 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5900 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5901 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5902 cached value only when the same options are set.
5903
590432. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5905
590633. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5907 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5908 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5909 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5910 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5911
591234: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5913 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5914 it is clearly obsolete.
5915
591635. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5917 transport.
5918
591936. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5920 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5921 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5922 times.
5923
592437. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5925 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5926 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5927 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5928 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5929
593038. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5931 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5932 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5933 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5934
593539. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5936
5937 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5938
5939 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5940 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5941 2^31.
5942
594340. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5944 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5945 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5946 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5947 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5948 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5949 $localpart_data.
5950
595141. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5952 with the -f command-line option.
5953
595442. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5955 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5956 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5957 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5958 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5959 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5960
596143. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5962 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5963 line.
5964
596544. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5966 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5967 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5968 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5969 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5970 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5971 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5972 buffer is too small.
5973
597445. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5975 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5976
597746. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5978 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5979 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5980 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5981 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5982 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5983 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5984 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5985 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5986
598747. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5988 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5989 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5990
599148. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5992 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5993 ACL").
5994
599549. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5996 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5997 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5998 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5999 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6000
600150. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6002 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6003 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6004 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6005 is set.
6006
600751. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6008
600952. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6010
601153. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6012 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6013
601454. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6015 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6016 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6017
601855. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6019 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6020 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6021 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6022 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6023
602456. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6025 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6026 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6027 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6028 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6029 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6030 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6031
603257. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6033 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6034 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6035 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6036 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6037 the test of how many are available.
6038
603958. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6040 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6041 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6042 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6043 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6044 new message is started.
6045
604659. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6047 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6048
604960. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6050 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6051
605261. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6053 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6054 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6055 is no long logged.
6056
605762. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6058 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6059 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6060 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6061 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6062 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6063 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6064
606563. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6066 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6067 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6068 interpreted as octal.
6069
607064. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6071 setting.
6072
607365. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6074 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6075 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6076 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6077 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6078 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6079
608066. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6081 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6082 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6083 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6084
6085 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6086 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6087 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6088 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6089
6090 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6091 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6092 is a bug fix.
6093
6094 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6095 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6096
609767. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6098
609968. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6100 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6101 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6102 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6103
610469. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6105 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6106 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6107 supplied", which is not helpful.
6108
610970. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6110 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6111 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6112
611371. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6114 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6115 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6116 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6117 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6118 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6119 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6120 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6121
612272. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6123 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6124 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6125 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6126 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6127
612873. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6129 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6130 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6131 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6132 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6133 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6134
613574. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6136 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6137 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6138
613975. Added write_rejectlog option.
6140
614176. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6142 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6143 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6144 variables.
6145
614677. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6147
614878. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6149 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6150 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6151 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6152 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6153 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6154 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6155 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6156
615779. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6158 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6159 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6160 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6161 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6162
616380. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6164 Haardt.
6165
616681. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6167 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6168 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6169 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6170 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6171 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6172 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6173 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6174 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6175
6176
6177Exim version 4.30
6178-----------------
6179
6180 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6181 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6182 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6183
6184 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6185 fixed.
6186
6187 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6188 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6189 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6190
6191 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6192 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6193 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6194 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6195 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6196 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6197
6198 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6199 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6200 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6201 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6202 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6203 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6204 the Exim test suite.
6205
6206 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6207 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6208 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6209 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6210
6211 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6212 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6213 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6214 specify it in this variable.
6215
6216 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6217 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6218 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6219 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6220
6221 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6222 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6223 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6224 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6225
6226 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6227 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6228 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6229 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6230 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6231
6232 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6233
623410. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6235 they are logged.
6236
623711. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6238 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6239 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6240 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6241 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6242
624312. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6244 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6245
624613. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6247 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6248 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6249 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6250 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6251
625214. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6253 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6254
625515. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6256 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6257 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6258
625916. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6260 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6261
626217. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6263 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6264
626518. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6266 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6267 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6268
626919. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6270 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6271
627220. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6273 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6274 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6275 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6276
627721. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6278
627922. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6280 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6281 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6282 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6283
628423. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6285
628624. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6287 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6288
628925. Added .include_if_exists.
6290
629126. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6292 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6293 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6294 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6295 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6296 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6297
629827. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6299
630028. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6301 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6302 this.
6303
630429. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6305
630630. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6307 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6308
6309 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6310 550 Sender verify failed
6311
6312 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6313 the final line of the response.
6314
631531. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6316 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6317 all other user lookups.
6318
631932. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6320 delivery time.
6321
632233. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6323 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6324 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6325 result into an int without checking.
6326
632734. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6328 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6329 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6330
633135. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6332 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6333 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6334 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6335
633636. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6337 correctly.
6338
633937. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6340 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6341
634238. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6343 to the empty sender.
6344
634539. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6346 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6347 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6348 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6349 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6350 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6351 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6352 panic log.
6353
635440. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6355 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6356 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6357 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6358 used.
6359
636041. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6361 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6362
636342. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6364 timestamps.
6365
636643. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6367 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6368
636944. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6370
637145. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6372 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6373 logs.
6374
637546. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6376 as soon as it is encountered.
6377
637847. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6379
638048. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6381 rewritten to "<>".
6382
638349. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6384 recognizes a tab character.
6385
638650. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6387 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6388 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6389 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6390
639151. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6392
639352. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6394 crash.
6395
639653. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6397
639854. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6399
640055. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6401 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6402 2822.
6403
640456. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6405 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6406 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6407 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6408 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6409
641057. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6411 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6412
641358. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6414 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6415 list (.included file names were always shown).
6416
641759. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6418 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6419 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6420 root at that time.
6421
642260. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6423 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6424
642561. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6426
642762. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6428
642963. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6430
643164. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6432 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6433 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6434 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6435 failures to open the logs.
6436
643765. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6438 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6439 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6440 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6441 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6442 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6443 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6444
6445
6446Exim version 4.24
6447-----------------
6448
6449 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6450 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6451 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6452 change 4.23/1.
6453
6454 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6455 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6456 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6457
6458 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6459 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6460 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6461
6462 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6463 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6464 causing some misleading effects.
6465
6466 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6467 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6468 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6469
6470 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6471 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6472 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6473 queue-runner function directly.
6474
6475
6476Exim version 4.23
6477-----------------
6478
6479 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6480 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6481
6482 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6483 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6484 was always written to the default place.
6485
6486 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6487 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6488 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6489
6490 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6491
6492 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6493
6494 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6495 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6496 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6497
6498 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6499 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6500 must start.
6501
6502 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6503 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6504 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6505
6506 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6507 command line option is disabled.
6508
6509 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6510 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6511
6512 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6513
6514 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6515
6516 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6517 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6518
651910. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6520
652111. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6522 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6523 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6524 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6525 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6526 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6527
652812. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6529 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6530 timeout.
6531
653213. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6533 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6534
653514. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6536 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6537
653815. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6539 received was valid base64.
6540
654116. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6542 name of the variable that was being set.
6543
654417. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6545
654618. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6547 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6548 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6549 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6550 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6551 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6552
655319. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6554
655520. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6556 nor realm was specified.
6557
655821. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6559 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6560 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6561 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6562
656322. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6564 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6565 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6566
656723. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6568 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6569 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6570
657124. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6572 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6573 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6574 some systems use these upper case variants.
6575
657625. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6577 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6578 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6579 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6580
658126. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6582
658327. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6584 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6585
658628. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6587 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6588 expansion variable.
6589
659029. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6591
659230. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6593 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6594 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6595 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6596
659731. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6598 using it.
6599
660032. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6601 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6602 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6603
660433. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6605 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6606
660734. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6608 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6609 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6610 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6611
661235. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6613 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6614 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6615
661636. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6617
661837. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6619 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6620 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6621 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6622 aborted.
6623
662438. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6625 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6626 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6627
662839. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6629
663040. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6631 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6632
663341. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6634 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6635
663642. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6637 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6638 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6639 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6640 when emails are that large.
6641
6642
6643
6644Exim version 4.22
6645-----------------
6646
6647 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6648 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6649
6650 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6651 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6652 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6653
6654 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6655 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6656 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6657
6658 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6659 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6660 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6661 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6662 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6663
6664 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6665 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6666 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6667 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6668 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6669 ever.
6670
6671 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6672 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6673 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6674 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6675 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6676 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6677 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6678 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6679 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6680 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6681 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6682 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6683 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6684 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6685
6686 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6687 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6688 parameterised it.
6689
6690 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6691 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6692 error should be diagnosed.
6693
6694 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6695 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6696 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6697 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6698 appeared instead of "NULL".
6699
670010. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6701 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6702 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6703 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6704 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6705 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6706 proceeds).
6707
6708 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6709 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6710 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6711
6712
6713Exim version 4.21
6714-----------------
6715
6716 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6717 or receiver verification errors.
6718
6719 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6720 name.
6721
6722 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6723 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6724 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6725 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6726
6727 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6728 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6729 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6730 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6731 shouldn't happen again.
6732
6733 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6734 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6735 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6736
6737 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6738 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6739
6740 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6741
6742 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6743 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6744
6745 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6746 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6747 RFC.
6748
674910. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6750 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6751 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6752
675311. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6754 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6755 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6756 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6757
675812. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6759 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6760 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6761 to define what should happen).
6762
676313. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6764 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6765 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6766
676714. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6768
676915. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6770
677116. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6772 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6773
677417. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
6775 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6776 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6777 structure in all cases.
6778
6779 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6780 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6781 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6782 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6783
678418. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6785 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6786 domain name.
6787
678819. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6789 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6790
679120. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6792 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6793
679421. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6795 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6796 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6797
679822. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6799 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6800 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6801
680223. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6803 the book and for uniformity.
6804
680524. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6806
680725. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6808 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6809 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6810 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6811 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6812 non-existent command as the problem.
6813
681426. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6815 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6816 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6817
681827. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6819
682028. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6821 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6822 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6823
682429. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6825 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6826 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6827 timestamps using strftime().
6828
682930. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6830 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6831
683232. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6833 transport-time rewrites.
6834
683533. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6836 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6837 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6838 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6839
684034. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6841 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6842
684335. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6844 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6845 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6846 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6847 comma and a space.
6848
684936. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6850 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6851 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6852 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6853 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6854 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6855 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6856
685737. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6858 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6859 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6860 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6861 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6862
686338. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6864 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6865 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6866 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6867 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6868 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6869 remaining text gets split now.
6870
687139. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6872 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6873 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6874 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6875
687640. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6877 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6878 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6879 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6880 $return_path.
6881
688241. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6883 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6884 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6885 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6886 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6887 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6888 passed through if needed.
6889
689042. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6891 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6892 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6893 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6894 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6895 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6896
689743. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6898 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6899 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6900 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6901 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6902
690344. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6904 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6905 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6906 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6907 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6908
690945. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6910 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6911 noticed.
6912
691346. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6914 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6915 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6916 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6917 mayhem of various kinds.
6918
691947. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6920 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6921 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6922 the right test for positive values.
6923
692448. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6925 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6926 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6927 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6928 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6929 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6930 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6931 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6932 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6933 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6934 envelope.
6935
693649. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6937 module.
6938
693950. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6940 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6941 forbidding it.
6942
694351. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6944 the existing equality matching.
6945
694652. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6947 dealing with inode numbers.
6948
694953. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6950 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6951 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6952
695354. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6954 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6955 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6956 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6957 local_scan().
6958
695955. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6960 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6961 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6962 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6963 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6964 relay addresses has also been removed.
6965
696656. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6967
696857. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6969 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6970 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6971
697258. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6973 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6974 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6975 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6976 processing applies to CR:
6977
6978 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6979 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6980
6981 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6982 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6983 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6984 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6985
698659. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6987 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6988 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6989
699060. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6991 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6992 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6993 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6994 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6995 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6996 arisen.
6997
699861. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6999 program routers.
7000
700162. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7002 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7003 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7004 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7005 adds:
7006
7007 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7008
7009 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7010
7011 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7012
701363. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7014 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7015 not considered personal.
7016
701764. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7018
701965. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7020
702166. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7022
702367. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7024 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7025 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7026 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7027 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7028 header lines, and spool format errors.
7029
703068. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7031 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7032 for more flexibility.
7033
703469. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7035 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7036 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7037
703870. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7039 Sabourenkov.
7040
704171. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7042 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7043 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7044 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7045 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7046 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7047 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7048 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7049 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7050
705172. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7052 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7053 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7054 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7055 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7056 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7057 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7058
705973. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7060 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7061 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7062
706374. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7064 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7065 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7066 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7067 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7068 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7069 instead of killing the process with assert().
7070
707175. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7072 than Unicode encoding.
7073
707476. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7075 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7076 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7077 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7078
707977. Added process_log_path.
7080
708178. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7082 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7083
708479. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7085 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7086
708780. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7088 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7089 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7090
709181. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7092 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7093 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7094 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7095 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7096 were applied:
7097
7098 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7099 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7100 as invalid.
7101
710282. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7103 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7104 they will be used during message reception.
7105
7106
7107Exim version 4.20
7108-----------------
7109
7110The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7111
7112****