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1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3
4 Exim version 4.88
5 -----------------
6 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
7 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8
9 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
10 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
11 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
12
13 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
14 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
15 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
16 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
17 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
18 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
19 if one fails this test.
20 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
21 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
22
23 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
24 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
25
26 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
27 selfsigned certificate for inbound TLS connections.
28
29 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
30 in rewrites and routers.
31
32 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
33 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
34
35 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
36 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
37
38 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
39
40 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
41 certificate).
42
43 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
44 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
45 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
46 connection after a verify cache hit.
47 Do not update it with the verify result either.
48
49 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
50 when routing results in more than one destination address.
51
52 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
53 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
54 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
55 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
56 when the cutthrough connection is made).
57
58
59 Exim version 4.87
60 -----------------
61 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
62 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
63 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
64 client dropping the TLS connection.
65
66 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
67 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
68
69 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
70 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
71 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
72 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
73 outgoing I= field.
74
75 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
76 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
77 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
78 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
79 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
80 check on the next write.
81
82 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
83 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
84 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
85 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
86 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
87
88 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
89 mime_regex ACL conditions.
90
91 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
92 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
93 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
94
95 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
96 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
97 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
98 an authenticate fail is not an error.
99
100 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
101 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
102
103 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
104 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
105
106 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
107 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
108 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
109 distinct.
110
111 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
112
113 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
114
115 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
116
117 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
118 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
119
120 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
121 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
122
123 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
124
125 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
126 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
127
128 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
129
130 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
131 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
132
133 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
134
135 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
136 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
137 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
138 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
139 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
140 they will retry in-clear.
141 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
142 at installation time.
143
144 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
145 with the $config_file variable.
146
147 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
148 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
149 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
150 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
151 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx reponse.
152
153 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
154 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
155 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
156 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
157 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
158
159 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
160
161 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
162 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
163 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
164 list order is no longer honoured.
165
166 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalisation
167 for DKIM processing.
168
169 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
170 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
171
172 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
173 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
174 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
175 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
176
177 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
178 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
179
180 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
181 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
182
183 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
184 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
185
186 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
187
188 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
189 cached by the daemon.
190
191 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
192 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
193
194 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
195 keys are given for lookup.
196
197 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
198 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
199 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
200 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
201
202 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
203 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
204 server-side so match that on older versions.
205
206 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
207 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
208 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
209
210 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
211 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
212
213 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
214 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
215 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
216 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
217 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
218 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
219 initial truncated version.
220
221 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
222
223 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
224
225 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
226 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
227
228 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
229
230 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
231
232 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
233 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
234 induced overflows.
235
236 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
237 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
238 stage.
239
240 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
241 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
242
243 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
244 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
245 former class.
246
247 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
248 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
249 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
250
251 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
252 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
253 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
254 extraction. Accept either.
255
256
257
258 Exim version 4.86
259 -----------------
260 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
261 expanded.
262
263 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
264
265 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
266 it.
267
268 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
269 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
270 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
271 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
272
273 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
274 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
275 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
276
277 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
278 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
279 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
280 TLS connections
281
282 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
283 sites use this now.
284
285 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
286 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
287 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
288 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
289 have a dsn_lasthop option.
290
291 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
292 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
293 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
294
295 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
296
297 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
298 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
299
300 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
301 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
302
303 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
304 /defer_ok option.
305
306 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
307 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
308
309 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
310 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
311 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
312
313 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
314 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
315 specify a port-range.
316
317 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
318 timeout value per server.
319
320 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
321 now have the list separator specified.
322
323 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
324 option values.
325
326 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
327 under OpenSSL.
328
329 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
330
331 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
332 rather than the verbs used.
333
334 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
335 from 255 to 1024 chars.
336
337 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
338
339 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
340 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
341
342 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
343 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
344
345 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
346 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
347
348 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
349
350 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
351
352 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
353 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
354 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
355 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
356
357 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
358
359 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
360 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
361
362 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
363 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
364
365 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
366
367 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
368
369 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
370
371 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
372 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
373
374 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
375 added for tls authenticator.
376
377 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
378
379
380 Exim version 4.85
381 -----------------
382 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
383 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
384 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
385 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
386 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
387 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
388 the script parsing/test process like normal.
389
390 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
391 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
392 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
393 function when detected.
394
395 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
396 cause callback expansion.
397
398 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
399 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
400 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
401 instead of bool when processing it.
402
403 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
404 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
405
406 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
407
408 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
409
410 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
411
412 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
413 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
414
415 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
416 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
417 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
418 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
419 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
420 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
421
422 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
423 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
424 exceeded it.
425
426 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
427 version 3.3.6 or later.
428
429 JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
430 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
431 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
432 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
433 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
434 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
435 option is defined.
436
437 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
438 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
439
440 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
441 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
442 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
443 matches.
444
445 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
446 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
447 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
448
449 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
450 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
451
452 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
453 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
454 syntax errors.
455
456 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
457
458 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
459 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
460
461 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
462 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
463 tarball.
464
465 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
466
467 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
468 Bug 1561.
469
470 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
471 output list separator was used.
472
473
474 Exim version 4.84
475 -----------------
476 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
477 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
478 return.
479
480 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
481 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
482
483 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
484
485 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
486 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
487
488
489 Exim version 4.83
490 -----------------
491
492 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
493
494 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
495 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
496 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
497 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
498 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
499 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
500
501 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
502 utilities have not been installed.
503
504 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
505 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
506
507 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
508 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
509
510 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
511 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
512 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
513 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
514
515 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
516
517 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
518 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
519
520 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
521 not dns_use_dnssec.
522
523 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
524
525 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
526 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
527 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
528
529 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
530 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
531 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
532 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
533 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
534 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
535
536 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
537
538 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
539 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
540
541 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
542 failed delivery.
543
544 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
545
546 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
547
548 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
549 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
550
551 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
552 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
553
554 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
555
556 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
557
558 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
559 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
560
561 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
562 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
563 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
564
565 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
566 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
567 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
568 analysis.
569
570 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
571
572 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
573 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
574 lookup).
575
576 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
577 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
578 Schlichting.
579
580 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
581 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
582
583 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
584 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
585
586 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
587
588 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
589 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
590 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
591
592 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
593 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
594
595 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
596 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
597 hosts_request_ocsp.
598
599 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
600 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
601 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
602
603 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
604
605 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
606 Christian Aistleitner.
607
608 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
609
610 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
611 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
612
613 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
614 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
615
616 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
617 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
618
619 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
620 support and error reporting did not work properly.
621
622 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
623 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
624
625 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
626 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
627 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
628
629 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
630
631 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
632 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
633 Jasper Wallace.
634
635 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
636
637 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
638 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
639 CVE-2014-2972
640
641
642 Exim version 4.82
643 -----------------
644
645 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
646
647 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
648 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
649
650 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
651 by GnuTLS.
652
653 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
654 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
655 routines.
656
657 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
658
659 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
660 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
661 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
662 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
663 using channel bindings instead).
664
665 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
666 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
667 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
668 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
669 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
670 Bugzilla 1117.
671
672 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
673
674 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
675
676 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
677 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
678
679 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
680 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
681 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
682
683 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
684
685 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
686
687 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
688 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
689
690 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
691
692 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
693
694 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
695
696 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
697 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
698
699 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
700
701 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
702 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
703 function.
704
705 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
706 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
707
708 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
709 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
710 "acl = name arg..."
711
712 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
713
714 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
715
716 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
717 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
718
719 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
720 Bugzilla 884.
721
722 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
723 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
724
725 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
726 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
727
728 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
729 CVE-2012-5671
730 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
731
732 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
733 authenticators.
734
735 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
736 for control.
737
738 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
739
740 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
741 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
742 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
743 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
744
745 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
746
747 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
748 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
749 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
750 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
751 the retry rules.
752
753 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
754 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
755 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
756
757 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
758 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
759 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
760 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
761
762 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
763 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
764 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
765 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
766 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
767 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
768 delivery, as in LMTP.
769
770 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
771 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
772
773 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
774
775 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
776
777 Resent-From: f
778
779 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
780 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
781 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
782 username as equal to the username.
783
784 This change corrects that bug.
785
786 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
787 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
788 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
789
790 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
791
792 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
793 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
794 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
795 NULL dereference and crash.
796
797 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
798
799 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
800 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
801 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
802
803 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
804
805 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
806 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
807 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
808 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
809 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
810 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
811 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
812 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
813 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
814 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
815 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
816
817 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
818 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
819
820 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
821 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
822 Bugzilla 880.
823
824 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
825 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
826 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
827 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
828 an empty string is now equivalent.
829
830 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
831 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
832 not performing validation itself.
833
834 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
835 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
836
837 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
838 Bugzilla 321, 823.
839
840 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
841
842 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
843 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
844 other false fix of the same issue.
845 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
846 Bugzilla 1363.
847
848 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
849 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
850
851 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
852 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
853 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
854
855 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
856 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
857 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
858
859 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
860
861 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
862
863 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
864 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
865
866 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
867 Alexander Miroch.
868
869 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
870 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
871 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
872 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
873 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
874
875 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
876 the src/util/ subdirectory.
877
878 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
879 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
880 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
881
882 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
883 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
884 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
885 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
886
887 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
888
889 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
890 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
891 from multiple comments on this bug.
892
893 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
894
895 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
896 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
897 interaction.
898
899 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
900 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
901
902 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
903 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
904
905
906 Exim version 4.80.1
907 -------------------
908
909 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
910 CVE-2012-5671
911 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
912
913
914 Exim version 4.80
915 -----------------
916
917 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
918 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
919 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
920
921 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
922
923 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
924 improved.
925
926 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
927
928 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
929
930 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
931
932 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
933 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
934
935 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
936 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
937
938 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
939 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
940
941 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
942 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
943 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
944
945 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
946
947 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
948 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
949
950 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
951
952 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
953
954 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
955 non-compliant senders.
956 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
957
958 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
959 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
960 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
961
962 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
963 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
964 in spool file corruption.
965
966 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
967 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
968 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
969 "Got SSL error 2".
970
971 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
972 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
973 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
974
975 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
976 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
977
978 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
979
980 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
981 diagnostics.
982 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
983
984 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
985 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
986 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
987
988 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
989 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
990 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
991 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
992
993 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
994 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
995
996 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
997 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
998 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
999 resolver implementation change.
1000
1001 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1002 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1003
1004 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1005
1006 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1007
1008 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1009 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1010
1011 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1012 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1013
1014 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1015 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1016
1017 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1018 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1019 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1020 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1021 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1022
1023 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1024
1025 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1026 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1027 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1028
1029 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1030
1031 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1032 read-only, out of scope).
1033 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1034
1035 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1036 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1037 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1038 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1039
1040 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1041
1042 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1043 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1044 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1045 real issues in debug logging.
1046
1047 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1048 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1049
1050 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1051 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1052 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1053
1054 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1055 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1056 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1057 problems.
1058
1059 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1060 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1061
1062 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1063 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1064 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1065 needs to override this, it can.
1066
1067 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1068 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1069 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1070
1071 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1072 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1073 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1074 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1075
1076 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1077
1078
1079 Exim version 4.77
1080 -----------------
1081
1082 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1083 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1084
1085 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1086
1087 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1088 whitespace trailer
1089
1090 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1091 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1092
1093 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1094 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1095 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1096
1097 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1098 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1099 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1100 not safe for signals.
1101
1102 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1103 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1104 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1105 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1106 exiwhat.
1107
1108 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1109
1110 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1111 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1112 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1113 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1114 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1115
1116 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1117 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1118 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1119 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1120 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1121 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1122
1123 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1124 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1125 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1126 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1127
1128 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1129 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1130 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1131 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1132
1133 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1134 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1135 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1136 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1137 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1138 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1139 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1140 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1141 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1142
1143 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1144 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1145 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1146 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1147
1148 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1149 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1150 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1151 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1152 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1153 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1154 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1155 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1156 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1157 details in the main documentation.
1158
1159 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1160
1161 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1162
1163 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1164 repository when doing development or release builds.
1165
1166 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1167 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
1168
1169 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1170 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1171 Bugzilla 97.
1172
1173 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1174
1175 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
1176 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1177
1178 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1179 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1180
1181 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
1182 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1183
1184 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1185 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
1186
1187 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1188 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1189
1190 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1191 Bugzilla 1156.
1192 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1193 Bugzilla 1095.
1194
1195 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
1196 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1197 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1198
1199 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1200
1201 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
1202
1203 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1204 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1205
1206
1207 Exim version 4.76
1208 -----------------
1209
1210 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1211
1212 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1213 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1214
1215 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1216
1217 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1218
1219 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1220 Bugzilla 1098.
1221
1222 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1223 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
1224
1225 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1226 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1227
1228 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1229 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1230
1231 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1232 Bugzilla 1104.
1233
1234 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
1235 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1236
1237 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1238 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1239 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1240 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1241
1242 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1243 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
1244
1245
1246 Exim version 4.75
1247 -----------------
1248
1249 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
1250 Bugzilla 1073
1251
1252 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1253 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1254 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1255
1256 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1257 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1258
1259 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1260 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1261 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1262
1263 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1264 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1265
1266 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1267 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1268
1269 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1270 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1271
1272 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1273 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1274
1275 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1276 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
1277
1278 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1279 Fixes bug 943.
1280
1281 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1282 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1283
1284 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1285 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1286
1287 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1288 SQL string expansion failure details.
1289 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1290
1291 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1292 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1293
1294 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1295 extern declarations in function scope.
1296 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1297
1298 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1299 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1300 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1301 a kernel bug).
1302
1303 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1304 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1305
1306 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1307 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1308
1309 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1310 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1311
1312 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1313 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1314
1315 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1316 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1317 Dennis Davis.
1318
1319 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1320
1321 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1322
1323 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1324 Patch by Simon Arlott
1325
1326 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1327 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1328
1329
1330 Exim version 4.74
1331 -----------------
1332
1333 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1334 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1335
1336 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1337 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1338
1339 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1340
1341 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1342 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1343 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1344
1345 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1346 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1347 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1348
1349 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1350 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1351 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1352 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1353
1354 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1355 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1356 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1357 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1358
1359 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1360 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1361 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1362 arbitrary files.
1363
1364 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1365 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1366
1367 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1368 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1369 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1370 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1371 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1372
1373
1374 Exim version 4.73
1375 -----------------
1376
1377 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1378 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1379 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1380
1381 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1382 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1383
1384 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1385
1386 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1387
1388 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1389
1390 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
1391
1392 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1393
1394 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
1395 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1396 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
1397 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1398
1399 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1400 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1401 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
1402 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1403 more caution in buffer sizes.
1404
1405 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1406
1407 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1408
1409 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1410
1411 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1412
1413 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1414
1415 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1416
1417 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1418
1419 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
1420 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1421 ignore trailing whitespace.
1422
1423 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1424
1425 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1426 "exim" to be used
1427
1428 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1429 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1430
1431 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1432 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1433 Notification from John Horne.
1434
1435 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1436 compatible.
1437
1438 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1439 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1440 it normally works.
1441
1442 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1443 access.
1444
1445 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1446 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1447 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1448
1449 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1450 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1451 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1452 configuration file.
1453
1454 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1455 option (effectively making it always true).
1456
1457 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1458 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1459
1460 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1461 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1462
1463 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1464 run-time user, instead of root.
1465
1466 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
1467 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1468
1469 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1470 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1471 arguments.
1472
1473 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1474 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1475 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1476
1477 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1478
1479 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1480
1481
1482 Exim version 4.72
1483 -----------------
1484
1485 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1486 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1487 typos
1488
1489 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1490 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1491 (Finput)
1492
1493 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1494 Patch from Alain Williams
1495
1496 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1497
1498 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1499 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1500
1501 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1502 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1503
1504 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1505
1506 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1507
1508 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
1509 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
1510
1511 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1512
1513 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1514
1515 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1516 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1517 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1518
1519 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1520 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
1521
1522 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
1523 Patch by Simon Arlott
1524
1525 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
1526 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
1527
1528
1529 Exim version 4.71
1530 -----------------
1531
1532 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
1533
1534 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1535
1536 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1537
1538 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1539
1540 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1541
1542
1543 Exim version 4.70
1544 -----------------
1545
1546 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
1547 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
1548
1549 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1550 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
1551 Hirsch).
1552
1553 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1554 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
1555 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
1556
1557 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1558 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1559
1560 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1561 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1562 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1563 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1564
1565 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1566 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
1567 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
1568
1569 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1570
1571 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1572
1573 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
1574 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
1575
1576 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
1577
1578 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1579 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1580 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1581 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1582
1583 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
1584 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
1585
1586 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
1587
1588 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
1589
1590 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
1591 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
1592
1593 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1594 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
1595
1596 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1597 that they are available at delivery time.
1598
1599 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1600
1601 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1602 incoming_port log selectors.
1603
1604 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1605 setting expands to an empty string.
1606
1607 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
1608 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1609
1610 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
1611 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
1612
1613 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
1614 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
1615
1616 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1617 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
1618
1619 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1620 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
1621
1622 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
1623 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1624
1625 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1626
1627 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
1628 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1629
1630 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
1631 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
1632
1633 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1634
1635 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
1636 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
1637
1638 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1639
1640 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
1641
1642 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1643 lsearch.
1644
1645 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1646 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1647
1648 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1649 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1650
1651 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1652 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1653
1654 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1655 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1656
1657 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1658 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1659
1660 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1661 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1662
1663 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1664 plus update to original patch.
1665
1666 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
1667
1668 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1669 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
1670
1671 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
1672
1673 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
1674
1675 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
1676
1677 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
1678
1679 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
1680 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
1681
1682 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1683 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
1684
1685 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
1686 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
1687
1688 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1689 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
1690
1691 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
1692
1693 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
1694
1695 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
1696
1697 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
1698
1699
1700 Exim version 4.69
1701 -----------------
1702
1703 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1704 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1705 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1706
1707 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1708 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1709 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1710 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1711 build errors in sieve.c.
1712
1713 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1714 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1715 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1716
1717 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1718
1719 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
1720
1721 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
1722
1723 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
1724
1725
1726 Exim version 4.68
1727 -----------------
1728
1729 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1730
1731 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1732 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1733 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1734 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1735 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1736 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1737 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1738 for iplsearch lookups.
1739
1740 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1741 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1742 previously such lookups could never work.
1743
1744 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1745 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1746 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1747
1748 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1749 version.
1750
1751 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1752 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1753 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1754 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1755 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1756 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1757
1758 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1759 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1760
1761 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1762 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1763 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1764 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1765 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1766 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1767
1768 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1769 local_scan API.
1770
1771 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1772
1773 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1774 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1775 encrypted.
1776
1777 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1778 by clients under certain conditions.
1779
1780 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1781 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1782
1783 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1784
1785 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1786 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1787
1788 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1789
1790 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1791
1792 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1793
1794 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1795 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1796
1797 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1798
1799 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1800 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1801
1802 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1803
1804 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1805
1806 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1807 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1808 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1809 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
1810
1811 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
1812 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1813 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1814
1815 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
1816 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1817
1818 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1819
1820 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1821
1822 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1823
1824 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1825 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1826 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1827
1828
1829 Exim version 4.67
1830 -----------------
1831
1832 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1833 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1834 Jan Srzednicki.
1835
1836 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1837 issue a MAIL command.
1838
1839 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1840
1841 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1842
1843 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1844 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1845 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1846 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1847 item. This has been fixed.
1848
1849 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1850 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1851
1852 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1853 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1854
1855 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1856 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1857 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1858
1859 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1860
1861 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1862 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1863 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1864 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1865 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1866
1867 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1868 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1869 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1870
1871 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1872 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1873 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1874 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1875
1876 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1877
1878 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1879
1880 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1881 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1882 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1883 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1884 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1885
1886 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1887
1888 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1889 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1890 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1891 values).
1892
1893 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1894
1895 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1896
1897 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1898
1899 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1900
1901 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1902
1903 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1904 no_callout_flush is set.
1905
1906 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1907 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1908 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1909 fixed.
1910
1911 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1912
1913 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1914 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1915 other ACL rejections are.
1916
1917 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1918 with slight modification.
1919
1920 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1921 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1922
1923 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1924 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1925 connection.
1926
1927 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1928 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1929
1930 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1931
1932 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1933 expansion side effects.
1934
1935 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1936 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1937 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1938 be the same.
1939
1940 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1941 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1942 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1943
1944 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1945 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1946 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1947 were accidentally chopped off.
1948
1949 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1950 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1951 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1952 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1953 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1954 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1955 pipelining has not been advertised.
1956
1957 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1958
1959 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1960 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1961 This has been fixed.
1962
1963 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1964 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1965 reported on Solaris.
1966
1967 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1968 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1969 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1970 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1971 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1972 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1973 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1974
1975 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1976 cpus.
1977
1978 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1979
1980 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1981
1982 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1983 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1984 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1985 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1986 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1987 criteria to be more general.
1988
1989 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1990 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1991 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1992 host_all_ignored option.
1993
1994 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1995 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1996 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1997 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1998 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1999 is what is supposed to happen).
2000
2001 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2002 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2003 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2004 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2005 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2006 uses the Exim user.
2007
2008 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2009 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2010 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2011 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2012 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2013 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2014 users.
2015
2016 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2017
2018 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2019 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2020 (Jez Hancock).
2021 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2022 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2023
2024 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2025
2026 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2027
2028 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2029 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2030 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2031 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2032 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2033 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2034 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2035 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2036 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2037 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2038 least in a lot of common cases.
2039
2040 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2041 advertised in response to EHLO.
2042
2043
2044 Exim version 4.66
2045 -----------------
2046
2047 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2048 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2049
2050 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2051 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2052
2053 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2054 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2055 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2056
2057 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2058 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2059 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2060 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2061 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2062
2063
2064 Exim version 4.65
2065 -----------------
2066
2067 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2068 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2069 versions. (#438)
2070
2071 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2072 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2073 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2074
2075 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2076 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2077 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2078 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2079 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2080 rather than extend the field.
2081
2082
2083 Exim version 4.64
2084 -----------------
2085
2086 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2087 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2088 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2089 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2090 these files.
2091
2092 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2093 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2094 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2095
2096 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2097 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2098 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2099
2100 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2101 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2102 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2103 in the field name.
2104
2105 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2106 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2107 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2108 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2109 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2110 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2111 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2112 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2113 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2114 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2115 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2116
2117 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2118 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2119
2120 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2121 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2122 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2123 ignores EPIPE as well.
2124
2125 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2126 (quoted-printable decoding).
2127
2128 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
2129 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
2130
2131 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2132
2133 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2134
2135 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2136
2137 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
2138 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
2139
2140 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2141 in 4.64-PH/09.
2142
2143 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2144 miscellaneous code fixes
2145
2146 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2147 rejections.
2148
2149 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2150 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2151 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2152 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2153 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2154 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2155 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2156 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
2157
2158 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
2159 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
2160 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2161 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2162 function.
2163 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2164 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2165 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2166 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2167 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2168 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2169 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2170 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2171 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2172
2173 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2174 decoding.
2175
2176 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2177 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2178 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2179 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2180 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2181 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2182 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2183 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2184
2185 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2186 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2187 list.
2188
2189 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2190 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2191 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2192 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2193 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2194 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2195 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2196 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2197 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2198 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2199 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2200 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2201 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2202
2203 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2204 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2205 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2206 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2207 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2208 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2209 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2210
2211 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2212 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2213 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2214 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2215 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2216 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2217 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2218 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2219 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2220 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2221
2222 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2223 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2224 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2225 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2226 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2227
2228 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2229 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2230 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2231 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2232 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2233 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2234 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2235
2236 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2237 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2238 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2239 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2240 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2241 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2242 been verified.
2243
2244 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
2245 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2246 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2247 and authorization.)
2248
2249 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2250 if any retry times were supplied.
2251
2252 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2253 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2254 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2255
2256 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2257
2258 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2259
2260 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2261 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2262 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2263 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
2264 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2265 before) are ignored.
2266
2267 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2268 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2269
2270 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2271 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2272 committing the later change.]
2273
2274 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2275 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2276 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2277 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2278 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2279 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2280 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2281 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2282 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2283
2284 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2285 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2286 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2287 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2288 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2289 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2290 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2291 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2292 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2293
2294 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2295 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2296 hammering the server.
2297
2298 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2299 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2300
2301 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2302
2303 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2304 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2305 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2306
2307 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2308 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2309 one case where this was not true.
2310
2311 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2312 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2313 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2314 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2315 fails.
2316
2317 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2318 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2319 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2320 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2321 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2322 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2323 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2324 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2325 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2326 smtp transport.
2327
2328 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2329 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2330 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2331 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2332
2333 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2334 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2335
2336 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2337 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2338 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2339
2340 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2341
2342 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2343
2344 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2345
2346 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2347 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2348 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2349 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2350
2351 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2352 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2353
2354 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2355 be meaningful with "accept".
2356
2357 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2358 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2359
2360 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2361 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2362 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2363
2364 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2365 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2366 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2367 there is data to show.
2368 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2369
2370 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2371 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2372 as well as the number of messages.
2373
2374 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2375 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2376 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2377
2378 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2379 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2380 have a flag are now skipped.
2381
2382 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2383 Added the -emptyok flag.
2384
2385 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2386 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2387
2388 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2389 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2390 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2391
2392 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2393 match 4.64-PH/13
2394
2395 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2396 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2397
2398 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2399
2400 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2401 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2402
2403 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2404
2405 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2406 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2407 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2408 contravention of the specifications.
2409
2410 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2411 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2412 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
2413
2414 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2415 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2416 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2417
2418 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2419
2420 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2421 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2422 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2423 some point in the past.
2424
2425 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2426 transport during callout processing was broken.
2427
2428 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2429 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2430
2431 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2432 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2433
2434 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2435 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2436
2437 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2438
2439
2440 Exim version 4.63
2441 -----------------
2442
2443 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2444 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2445
2446 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2447 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2448 there is data to show.
2449 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2450
2451 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2452 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2453
2454 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2455 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
2456
2457 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2458 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
2459
2460 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2461 submissions from trusted users.
2462
2463 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2464 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2465
2466 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2467 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2468 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2469 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2470 there is now a framework to start from.
2471
2472 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2473 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2474 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2475
2476 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2477
2478 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2479
2480 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2481
2482 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2483 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2484 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2485
2486 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2487 libradius.
2488
2489 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2490 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2491 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2492
2493 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2494 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2495 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2496 its arguments.
2497
2498 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2499 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2500 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2501 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2502 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2503
2504 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2505 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2506
2507 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2508
2509 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2510 operations in malware.c.
2511
2512 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2513 signatures.
2514
2515 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2516 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2517 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2518 all.
2519
2520 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2521 statements to "add_header".
2522
2523 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2524 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2525
2526 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2527 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2528 latter.
2529
2530 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
2531 so that it is now:
2532
2533 ${if or { \
2534 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2535 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2536 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
2537 }{no}{yes}}
2538
2539 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2540 don't think Precedence: ever was.
2541
2542 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2543 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2544
2545 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2546 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2547 any possible encoding problems.
2548
2549 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2550 but not after initializing Perl.
2551
2552 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2553 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2554 apparently, which is not desirable.
2555
2556 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2557 queries.
2558
2559 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2560 --not options
2561
2562 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2563
2564 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2565 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2566 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2567 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2568
2569 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2570 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2571 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2572
2573 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2574 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2575 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2576 0.12.
2577
2578 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2579 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2580 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2581 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2582 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2583
2584
2585 Exim version 4.62
2586 -----------------
2587
2588 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2589 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2590
2591 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2592 patch).
2593
2594 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2595 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2596 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2597 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2598 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2599 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2600 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2601 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2602 451 error is used.
2603
2604 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2605
2606 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2607 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2608 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2609
2610 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2611 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2612 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2613 odd errors.
2614
2615 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2616 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2617
2618 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2619 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2620 option (which defaults to 0600).
2621
2622 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2623
2624 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2625 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2626 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2627 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2628 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2629 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2630 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2631
2632 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2633
2634
2635 Exim version 4.61
2636 -----------------
2637
2638 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2639 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2640 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2641 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2642 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2643 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2644 addresses as local.
2645
2646 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2647 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2648
2649 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2650
2651 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2652 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2653 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2654 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2655 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2656 grumble.
2657
2658 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2659 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2660
2661 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2662 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2663 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2664 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2665 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2666
2667 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2668 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2669 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2670 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2671
2672 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2673 be the same on different OS.
2674
2675 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2676 testing.
2677
2678 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2679 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2680
2681 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2682 in 4.61-PH/06
2683
2684 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2685 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2686 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2687 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2688 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2689 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2690 bounce message.
2691
2692 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2693 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2694 when Exim was called.
2695
2696 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2697 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2698
2699 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2700 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2701 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2702 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2703
2704 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2705 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2706 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2707 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2708 changes:
2709
2710 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2711 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2712 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2713
2714 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2715 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2716 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2717
2718 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2719 feature).
2720
2721 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2722 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2723 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2724 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2725 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2726 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2727 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2728 values from the SRV records were lost.
2729
2730 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2731 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2732 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2733
2734 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2735 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2736 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2737
2738 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2739 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2740 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2741 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2742 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2743 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2744 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2745 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2746 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
2747 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
2748
2749 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2750 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2751 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2752
2753 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2754 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2755
2756 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2757 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2758 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2759 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2760 is given.
2761
2762 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2763 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2764 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2765
2766 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2767 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2768 PH/23 above applies.
2769
2770 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2771 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2772 (for which there is an explicit test).
2773
2774 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2775
2776 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2777 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2778 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2779 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2780 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
2781
2782 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2783 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2784 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2785 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2786
2787 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2788 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2789 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2790
2791 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2792
2793 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2794
2795 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2796 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2797 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2798
2799 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2800 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2801 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2802 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2803 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2804
2805 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2806 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2807 the message gets confusing).
2808
2809 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2810 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2811 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2812 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2813
2814 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2815 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2816 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2817 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2818 same order.
2819
2820 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2821 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2822 the different processes.
2823
2824 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2825
2826 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2827
2828 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2829 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2830
2831 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2832 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2833
2834 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2835 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2836 messages matching specified criteria.
2837
2838 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2839
2840 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2841 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2842
2843 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2844 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2845 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2846 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2847 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2848 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2849 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2850 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2851 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2852 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2853
2854 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2855 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2856 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2857
2858 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2859
2860 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2861 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2862 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2863 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2864 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2865 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2866 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2867 the variable.
2868
2869 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2870 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2871
2872 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2873
2874 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2875
2876 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2877
2878 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2879 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2880 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2881 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2882 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2883 size of the count of files.
2884
2885 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2886
2887 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2888 used in LMTP mode:
2889
2890 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2891 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2892 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2893 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2894
2895 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2896 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2897 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2898
2899 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2900 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2901 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2902 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2903 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2904
2905 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2906 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2907
2908 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2909 will now be deprecated.
2910
2911 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2912
2913 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2914 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2915 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2916
2917 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2918 with very large, slow to parse queues
2919
2920 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2921
2922 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2923
2924 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2925 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2926 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2927 SMTP output lines.
2928
2929 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2930 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2931 Sieve code now uses this.
2932
2933 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2934 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2935
2936 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2937 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2938
2939 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2940
2941 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2942 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2943 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2944 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2945 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2946
2947 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2948 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2949 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2950 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2951
2952 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2953
2954 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2955
2956 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2957 is preferred over IPv4.
2958
2959 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2960 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2961 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2962 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2963 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2964 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2965 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2966
2967 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2968 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2969 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2970
2971 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2972
2973 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2974 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2975 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2976 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2977 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2978 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2979 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2980 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2981 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2982 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2983 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2984
2985 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2986 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2987 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2988
2989
2990 Exim version 4.60
2991 -----------------
2992
2993 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2994
2995 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2996 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2997
2998 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2999 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3000 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3001
3002 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3003
3004 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3005 not a single digit.
3006
3007 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3008 string.
3009
3010 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3011 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3012 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3013 silly things.
3014
3015 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3016 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3017
3018 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3019 inside the third argument.
3020
3021 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3022 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3023 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3024
3025 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3026 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3027
3028 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3029 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3030
3031 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3032
3033 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3034 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3035 this:
3036
3037 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3038
3039 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3040 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3041 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3042 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3043 identical. For example:
3044
3045 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3046
3047 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3048 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3049 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3050
3051 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3052 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3053 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3054 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3055
3056 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3057 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3058 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3059 message.
3060
3061 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3062
3063 o fixes some comments
3064 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3065 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3066 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3067 and documents the missing references header update
3068
3069 and most important:
3070
3071 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3072 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
3073 result)
3074
3075 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3076 Electronic Mail") by including:
3077
3078 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3079
3080 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3081 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
3082 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3083 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3084 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3085
3086 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3087
3088 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3089
3090 The auto-replied keyword:
3091
3092 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3093 message by an automatic process,
3094
3095 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3096
3097 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3098 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3099
3100 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3101 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3102 other messages.
3103
3104 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3105 to the default Received: header definition.
3106
3107 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3108
3109 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3110 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3111 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3112
3113 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3114 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3115 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3116
3117 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3118 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3119 and treats the condition as false.
3120
3121 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3122
3123 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3124 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3125 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3126 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3127 not changing the active code.
3128
3129 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3130 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3131
3132 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3133 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3134
3135 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3136 (Bugzilla #53).
3137
3138 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3139 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3140 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3141 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3142 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3143 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3144 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3145 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3146 the text comparison.
3147
3148 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3149 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3150 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3151 The same fix has been applied.
3152
3153
3154 Exim version 4.54
3155 -----------------
3156
3157 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3158 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3159 It now does.
3160
3161 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3162 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3163
3164 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3165
3166 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3167 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3168 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3169 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3170 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3171
3172 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3173 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3174 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3175 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3176 or /domain=).
3177
3178 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3179 testing suite.
3180
3181
3182
3183 Exim version 4.53
3184 -----------------
3185
3186 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3187 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3188
3189 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3190
3191 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3192
3193 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3194 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3195 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3196
3197 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3198 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3199 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3200
3201 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3202 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3203 operating systems.
3204
3205 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3206 ${stat: expansion item.
3207
3208 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3209 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3210
3211 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3212 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3213 file for comments.
3214
3215 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3216
3217 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3218 setting.
3219
3220 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3221 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3222
3223 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3224
3225 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3226 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3227 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3228 the end of the subprocess.
3229
3230 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3231 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3232 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3233 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3234 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3235
3236 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3237
3238 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3239
3240 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3241 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3242
3243 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3244
3245 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3246
3247 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3248 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3249 HP-UX compiler.
3250
3251 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3252
3253 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3254 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3255 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3256
3257 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3258 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3259
3260 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3261 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3262
3263 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3264 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3265
3266 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3267 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3268
3269 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3270 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3271 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3272 contributed by a Radius user.
3273
3274 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3275 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3276
3277 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3278 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3279
3280 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3281 available.
3282
3283 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3284 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3285 received.
3286
3287 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3288 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3289 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3290 header lines when this was not necessary.
3291
3292 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3293
3294 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3295 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3296 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3297 exists".
3298
3299 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3300 -bV or -d is used.
3301
3302 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3303 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
3304 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3305 return code was incorrect.
3306
3307 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3308
3309 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3310
3311 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3312
3313 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3314
3315 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3316 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3317 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3318 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3319 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3320 settings.
3321
3322 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3323
3324 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3325 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3326 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3327 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3328 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3329 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3330 which is clearly wrong.
3331
3332 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3333
3334 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3335 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3336 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3337 subsequently added.
3338
3339 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3340 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3341
3342 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3343
3344 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3345 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3346
3347 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3348 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3349
3350 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3351 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3352
3353 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3354 recipients, not senders.
3355
3356 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3357 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3358
3359 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3360
3361 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3362
3363 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3364 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3365 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3366 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3367
3368 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3369
3370 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3371 clock is set back in time.
3372
3373 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3374 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3375
3376 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3377 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3378
3379 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3380 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3381 (see PH/47 above).
3382
3383 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3384 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3385 header rewrites.
3386
3387 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3388 type ("H").
3389
3390 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3391
3392 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3393 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3394 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3395
3396 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3397 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3398 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3399 helo verification defer as a failure.
3400
3401 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3402 actual error message.
3403
3404
3405 Exim version 4.52
3406 -----------------
3407
3408 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3409
3410 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3411 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3412 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3413 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3414
3415 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3416
3417 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3418 can still be requested.
3419
3420 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3421 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3422 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3423 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3424
3425 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3426 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3427 circumstances, but probably never did.
3428
3429 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3430 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3431 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3432 in the header line.
3433
3434 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3435
3436 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3437 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
3438
3439 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3440
3441 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3442
3443 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3444 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3445 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3446 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3447 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3448 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
3449
3450 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3451 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3452 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3453 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3454 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3455 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3456
3457 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3458 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3459
3460 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3461 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3462
3463 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3464 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3465
3466 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3467
3468 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3469
3470 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3471
3472 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3473
3474 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3475
3476 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3477
3478 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3479
3480 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3481 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3482 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3483
3484 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3485 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3486 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3487 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3488
3489 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3490 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3491 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3492
3493 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3494 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3495 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3496 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3497
3498 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3499 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3500 to be made).
3501
3502 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3503 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3504 should work with maildirs and everything.
3505
3506 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3507 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3508
3509 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3510 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3511
3512 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3513 function for BDB 4.3.
3514
3515 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3516
3517 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3518 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3519 involved.
3520
3521 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3522 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3523 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
3524 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3525 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3526 formatting function string_vformat().
3527
3528 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3529 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3530 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3531 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3532 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3533 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3534 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3535 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3536
3537 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3538 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3539 details.
3540
3541 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3542 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3543
3544 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3545 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3546 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3547 test. It is now used for both.
3548
3549 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3550 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3551 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3552 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3553 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3554 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3555
3556 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3557 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3558 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3559 string_vformat().
3560
3561 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3562 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3563 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
3564
3565 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3566 experimental DomainKeys support:
3567
3568 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3569 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3570 the control was given.
3571
3572 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3573
3574 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3575
3576 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3577
3578 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3579 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3580 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3581 db.h files).
3582
3583 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
3584 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3585 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3586 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3587 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3588 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3589 course.
3590
3591 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3592 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3593 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3594 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3595 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3596 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3597
3598 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3599 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3600 do -d+all out of habit.
3601
3602 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3603 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3604 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3605
3606 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3607 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3608 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3609 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3610 record types that Exim uses.
3611
3612 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3613 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3614 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3615 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3616 non-existent file that was broken.
3617
3618 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3619 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3620
3621 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3622 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3623 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3624
3625 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3626
3627 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3628 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3629 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3630 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3631 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3632 same time.
3633
3634 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3635 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3636 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3637 at a slight CPU cost.
3638
3639 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3640 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3641
3642 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3643 by Marc Sherman.
3644
3645 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3646
3647 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3648 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3649
3650
3651 Exim version 4.51
3652 -----------------
3653
3654 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3655 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3656
3657 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
3658
3659 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3660
3661 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3662 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3663
3664 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3665 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3666 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3667 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3668 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3669 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3670 file.
3671
3672 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3673 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3674 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3675 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3676 these two options.
3677
3678 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3679 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3680 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3681 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3682 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3683 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3684 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
3685 address.
3686
3687 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3688 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3689
3690 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3691 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3692 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3693 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3694 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3695 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3696
3697 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3698 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3699 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3700 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3701
3702 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3703 Finch).
3704
3705 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3706 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
3707
3708 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3709 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
3710 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3711 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3712 message.
3713
3714 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3715
3716 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3717 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3718
3719 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3720 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3721 to what was transported.)
3722
3723 TF/01 Added $received_time.
3724
3725 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3726 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3727 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3728 spamd_address settings.
3729
3730 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3731 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3732 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3733 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3734 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3735
3736 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3737
3738 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3739 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3740 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3741 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3742 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3743
3744 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3745 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3746
3747 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3748 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3749 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3750 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3751 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3752 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3753 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3754 for failure.
3755
3756 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3757 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3758 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3759 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3760 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3761 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3762 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3763 "input=".
3764
3765 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3766
3767 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3768 driver and ACL definitions.
3769
3770 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3771 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3772
3773 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3774 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3775 understands it better than I do:
3776
3777 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3778 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3779
3780 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3781 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3782 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3783 => three warnings about OTP not working
3784 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3785
3786 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3787 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3788 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3789 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3790 for each call.)
3791 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3792 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3793
3794 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3795 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3796 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3797
3798 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3799 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3800 specified.
3801
3802 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3803 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3804 "Linux".
3805
3806 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3807 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3808 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3809
3810 warn !verify = sender
3811 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3812
3813 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3814 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3815
3816 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3817
3818 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3819 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3820
3821 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3822 nomenclature these days.)
3823
3824 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3825 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3826
3827 PH/30 In these circumstances:
3828 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3829 . First host does not offer TLS;
3830 . First host accepts first address;
3831 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3832 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3833 . Second host accepts second address.
3834 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3835 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3836 address.
3837
3838 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3839 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3840 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3841 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3842 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3843
3844 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3845 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3846
3847 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3848 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
3849
3850 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3851 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3852 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3853
3854 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3855 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3856 overlooked.
3857
3858 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3859
3860 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3861 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3862 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3863 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3864 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3865 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3866 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3867
3868 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3869 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3870 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3871 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3872 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3873
3874 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3875 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3876 routed further.
3877
3878 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3879 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3880 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3881 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3882 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3883 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3884
3885 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3886
3887 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3888 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3889 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3890 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3891 printable escape sequences.
3892
3893 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3894 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3895 body only.
3896
3897 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3898 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3899 are as follows:
3900
3901 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3902 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3903 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3904 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3905 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3906
3907 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3908 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3909 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3910
3911 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3912
3913 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3914 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3915 play with."
3916
3917 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3918 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3919 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3920 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3921 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3922 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3923 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3924 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3925 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3926 the log output.
3927
3928 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3929 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3930 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3931 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3932 "make".
3933
3934
3935 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3936 ----------------------------------------
3937
3938 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3939 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3940 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3941 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3942 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3943 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3944 from 4.43.
3945
3946 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
3947 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3948 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3949 historical information.
3950
3951
3952 Exim version 4.50
3953 -----------------
3954
3955 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3956
3957 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3958 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3959
3960 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3961 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3962 place.
3963
3964 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3965 filter fails to execute.
3966
3967 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3968 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3969 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3970 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3971 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3972
3973 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3974
3975 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3976 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3977 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3978 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3979
3980 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3981 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3982 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3983 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3984 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3985
3986 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3987
3988 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3989
3990 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3991 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3992 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3993 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3994
3995 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3996 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3997 sender verification.
3998
3999 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4000 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4001
4002 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4003
4004 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4005 connection timeout.
4006
4007 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4008 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4009
4010 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4011 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4012
4013 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4014 information about exactly what failed.
4015
4016 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4017
4018 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4019 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4020 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4021
4022 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4023 It is now set to "smtps".
4024
4025 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4026 ignore_target_hosts.
4027
4028 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4029 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4030 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4031 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4032 "[x.x.x.x]".
4033
4034 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4035 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4036 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4037
4038 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4039 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4040 wake it up if nothing else does.
4041
4042 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4043 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4044 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4045 end up negative.
4046
4047 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4048 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4049
4050 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4051
4052 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4053 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4054 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4055 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4056 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4057 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4058 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4059 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4060
4061 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4062 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4063 than one IP address.
4064
4065 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4066 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4067 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4068 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4069
4070 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4071 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4072 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4073 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4074 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4075 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4076
4077 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4078 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4079 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4080 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4081
4082 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4083 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4084 respected.
4085
4086 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4087 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4088 $sender_host_address.
4089
4090 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4091 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4092 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4093 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4094 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4095 very small.
4096
4097 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4098
4099 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4100 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4101
4102 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4103 just the host names, not the priorities.
4104
4105 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4106 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4107 controlled by a keyword.
4108
4109 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
4110 multiple records are returned.
4111
4112 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4113 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4114 domain.
4115
4116 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4117
4118 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4119 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4120
4121 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4122 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4123 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4124
4125 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4126
4127 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4128
4129 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4130
4131 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4132 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4133 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4134 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4135 because the tests only now provoked it.
4136
4137 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4138 (this can affect the format of dates).
4139
4140 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4141 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4142 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4143 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4144
4145 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4146
4147 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4148 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4149 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4150 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4151
4152 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4153 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4154 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4155
4156 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4157 autoreply.
4158
4159 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4160 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4161 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4162 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4163 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4164 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4165 is going on).
4166
4167 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4168 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4169 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4170 the line.
4171
4172 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4173 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4174 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4175
4176 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4177 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4178 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4179 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4180 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4181 so I produce this patch..."
4182
4183 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4184 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4185 is not defined.
4186
4187 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4188 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4189 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4190 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4191 CAN-2005-0021
4192
4193 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4194
4195 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4196 long debug lines gets shown.
4197
4198 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4199 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4200
4201 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4202
4203 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4204 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4205 of $primary_hostname.
4206
4207 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4208 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4209 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4210 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4211 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4212 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4213 by change 4.50/55 above.
4214
4215 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4216 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4217 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4218 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4219 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4220 running as the user.
4221 CAN-2005-0021
4222
4223 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4224 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4225 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4226 CAN-2005-0022
4227
4228 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4229 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4230
4231 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4232 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4233 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4234 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4235 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4236
4237 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4238 This has been fixed.
4239
4240 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4241 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4242 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4243 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4244 the caching.)
4245
4246 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4247
4248 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4249 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4250 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4251 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4252
4253 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4254 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4255
4256 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4257 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4258 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4259
4260 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4261 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4262 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4263 message there.
4264
4265 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4266 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4267 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4268
4269 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4270 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4271 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4272 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4273
4274 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4275 during host lookups.
4276
4277 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4278 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4279
4280 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4281
4282 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4283 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4284 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4285 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4286 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4287 background.
4288
4289 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4290 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4291
4292 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4293 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4294 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4295
4296 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4297
4298 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4299 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4300 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4301 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4302 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4303 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4304 process earlier.
4305
4306 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4307 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4308 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4309 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4310 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4311
4312 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4313 tables).
4314
4315 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4316
4317 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4318 "vacation" handling.
4319
4320 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4321 OS variants using glibc.
4322
4323 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4324
4325
4326 ----------------------------------------------------
4327 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4328 ----------------------------------------------------
4329
4330
4331 Exim version 4.44
4332 -----------------
4333
4334 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4335 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4336 transport
4337
4338 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4339 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4340 place.
4341
4342 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4343 filter fails to execute.
4344
4345 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4346 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4347 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4348 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4349 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4350
4351 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4352 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4353 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4354 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4355
4356 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4357 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4358 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4359 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4360 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4361
4362 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4363
4364 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4365 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4366 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4367 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4368
4369 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4370 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4371 sender verification.
4372
4373 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4374 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4375
4376 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4377 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4378
4379 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4380 ignore_target_hosts.
4381
4382 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4383 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4384 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4385 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4386 "[x.x.x.x]".
4387
4388 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4389 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4390 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4391
4392 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4393 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4394 wake it up if nothing else does.
4395
4396 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4397 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4398 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4399 end up negative.
4400
4401 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4402 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4403
4404 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
4405
4406 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4407 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4408 empty pattern.
4409
4410 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4411 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4412 one IP address.
4413
4414 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4415 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4416 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4417 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4418 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4419 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4420
4421 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4422 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4423 respected.
4424
4425 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4426 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4427 $sender_host_address.
4428
4429 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4430
4431 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4432 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4433 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4434
4435 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
4436 As per change 25.
4437
4438 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4439 (this can affect the format of dates).
4440
4441 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4442 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4443 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4444 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4445
4446 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4447 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4448 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4449
4450 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4451 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4452 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4453 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4454
4455 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4456 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4457 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4458
4459 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4460 autoreply.
4461
4462 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4463 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4464 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4465 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4466 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4467 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4468 is going on).
4469
4470 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4471 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4472 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4473 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4474 CAN-2005-0021
4475
4476 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4477 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4478 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4479 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4480 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4481 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4482 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4483
4484 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4485 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4486 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4487 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4488 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4489 running as the user.
4490 CAN-2005-0021
4491
4492 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4493 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4494 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4495 CAN-2005-0022
4496
4497 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4498 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4499 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4500 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4501 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4502
4503 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4504 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4505 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4506 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4507 the caching.)
4508
4509 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4510 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4511 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4512 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4513 because the tests only now provoked it.
4514
4515
4516 Exim version 4.43
4517 -----------------
4518
4519 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4520 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4521 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4522 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4523 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4524 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4525 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4526
4527 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4528 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4529 the delivery.
4530
4531 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4532
4533 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4534
4535 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4536 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4537 to local_scan().
4538
4539 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4540 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4541 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4542 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4543 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4544
4545 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4546 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4547
4548 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4549
4550 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4551
4552 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4553 header_sender only.
4554
4555 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4556 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4557
4558 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4559 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4560 affecting debugging statements).
4561
4562 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4563
4564 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4565 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4566 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4567 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4568 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4569 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4570 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4571 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4572 after the received time, and all would be well.
4573
4574 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4575 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4576 condition in an expansion string.
4577
4578 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4579
4580 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4581 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4582 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4583 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4584 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4585 job under whatever limits there are.
4586
4587 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4588
4589 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4590 space).
4591
4592 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4593 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4594 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4595 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4596 return path is set.
4597
4598 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4599 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4600 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4601 binary data in such strings.
4602
4603 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4604
4605 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4606 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4607 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4608 failure, which is pointless.
4609
4610 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4611
4612 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4613
4614 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4615 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4616 Sender: header lines.
4617
4618 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4619 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4620 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4621
4622 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4623 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4624 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4625 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4626 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4627 happens.
4628
4629 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4630 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4631 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4632 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4633 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4634
4635 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4636 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4637 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4638 1024.
4639
4640 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4641 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4642
4643 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4644 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4645
4646 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4647
4648 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4649
4650 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4651
4652 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4653 syntax error.
4654
4655 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4656
4657 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4658
4659 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4660 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4661 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4662 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4663
4664 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4665 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4666
4667
4668 Exim version 4.42
4669 -----------------
4670
4671 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4672 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4673 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4674 it was not quoted.
4675 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4676 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4677 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4678 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4679 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4680 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4681
4682 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4683 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4684 verification failure".
4685
4686 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4687 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4688 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4689 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4690
4691 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4692 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4693 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4694 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4695 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4696 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4697 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4698 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4699 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4700 treated as a timeout.
4701
4702 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4703 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4704 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4705 not set for Exim filters).
4706
4707 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4708 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4709 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4710
4711 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4712
4713 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4714 try to make them clearer.
4715
4716 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4717 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4718
4719 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4720
4721 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4722
4723 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4724 only the Cygwin environment.
4725
4726 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4727 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4728 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4729 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4730 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4731
4732 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4733 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4734 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4735 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4736 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4737 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4738 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4739
4740 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4741 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4742
4743 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4744
4745 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4746 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4747 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4748
4749 To: susanne@some.where
4750
4751 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4752 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4753 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4754 of addresses in From: header lines).
4755
4756 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4757 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4758 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4759
4760 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4761 treated as non-personal.
4762
4763 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4764 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4765
4766 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4767
4768 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4769
4770 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4771 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4772 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4773
4774 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4775 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4776
4777 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4778 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4779 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4780 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4781 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4782 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4783
4784 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4785 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4786 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4787 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4788 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4789 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4790 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4791 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4792
4793 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4794
4795 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4796 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4797
4798 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4799 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4800 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4801
4802 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4803 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4804
4805 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4806 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4807 rather than long int.
4808
4809 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4810
4811 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4812
4813
4814 Exim version 4.41
4815 -----------------
4816
4817 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4818 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4819 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4820 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4821 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4822 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4823
4824
4825 Exim version 4.40
4826 -----------------
4827
4828 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4829 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4830
4831 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4832 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4833 socklen_t is defined.
4834
4835 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4836 always exist.
4837
4838 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4839 configured.
4840
4841 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4842 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4843 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4844 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4845 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4846
4847 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4848 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4849 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4850 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4851
4852 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4853 of flapping under certain conditions.
4854
4855 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4856 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4857 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4858
4859 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4860
4861 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4862
4863 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4864 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4865 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4866 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4867
4868 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4869 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4870 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4871 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4872 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4873 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4874 preserved with the message after it was received.
4875
4876 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4877 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4878 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4879 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4880 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4881 test suite worked just fine.
4882
4883 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4884 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4885 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4886
4887 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4888 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4889 string.
4890
4891 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4892 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4893 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4894 does not fully solve it.
4895
4896 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4897 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4898 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4899 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4900 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4901
4902 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4903 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4904 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4905
4906 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4907 string, for example:
4908
4909 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4910
4911 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4912 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4913 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4914 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4915 the routers could not see them.
4916
4917 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4918 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4919
4920 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4921 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4922 output).
4923
4924 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4925 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4926 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4927 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4928 that needed quoting.
4929
4930 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4931 was not being matched caselessly.
4932
4933 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4934 backslashes.
4935
4936 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4937 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4938 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4939 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4940 when use_sender is false.
4941
4942 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4943
4944 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4945
4946 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4947
4948 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4949 the configuration file.
4950
4951 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4952 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4953
4954 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4955
4956 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4957 bytes in the message body.
4958
4959 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4960 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4961 delivery.
4962
4963 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4964
4965 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4966
4967 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4968 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4969 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4970 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4971 another IP address.
4972
4973
4974 Exim version 4.34
4975 -----------------
4976
4977 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4978 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4979
4980 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4981 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4982 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4983 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4984 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4985
4986 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4987 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4988
4989 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4990 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4991 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4992
4993 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4994 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4995 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4996
4997 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4998 for routers.
4999
5000 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5001 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5002 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5003 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5004 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5005 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5006 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5007
5008
5009 Exim version 4.33
5010 -----------------
5011
5012 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5013 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5014 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5015 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5016 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5017 default (and expected) setting.
5018
5019 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5020 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5021 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5022 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5023
5024 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5025 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5026
5027 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5028 in domain lists.
5029
5030 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5031 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5032 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5033 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5034 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5035 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5036
5037 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5038 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5039 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5040
5041 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5042 part (NOT match_host).
5043
5044 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5045
5046 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5047 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5048 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5049 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5050 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5051 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5052 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5053 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5054 the same named file.
5055
5056 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5057 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5058 when Exim is built.
5059
5060 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5061 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5062 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5063 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5064 a host name.
5065
5066 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5067 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5068 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5069
5070 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5071
5072 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5073
5074 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5075
5076 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5077 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5078
5079 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5080 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5081 before starting the TLS session.
5082
5083 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5084
5085 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5086 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5087
5088 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5089 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5090 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5091 colon in the middle).
5092
5093
5094 Exim version 4.32
5095 -----------------
5096
5097 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5098 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5099 multiple configurations are in use.
5100
5101 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5102 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5103 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5104 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5105 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5106 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5107
5108 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5109 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5110
5111 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5112 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5113 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5114
5115 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5116 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5117 occurs.
5118
5119 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5120 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5121
5122 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5123
5124 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5125 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5126
5127 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5128
5129 -prval:sval
5130
5131 is equivalent to
5132
5133 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5134
5135 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5136 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5137 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5138 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5139 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5140
5141 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5142 Exim's behaviour:
5143
5144 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5145 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5146 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5147 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5148 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5149 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5150
5151 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5152 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5153 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5154 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5155 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5156 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5157 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5158 string.
5159
5160 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5161 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5162 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5163 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5164 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5165
5166 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5167
5168 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5169 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5170 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5171
5172 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5173
5174 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5175 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5176 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5177 information.
5178
5179 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5180 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5181
5182 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5183 Three changes have been made:
5184
5185 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5186 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5187 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5188 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5189 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5190
5191 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5192 been restored.
5193
5194 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5195 the modified behaviour.
5196
5197
5198 Exim version 4.31
5199 -----------------
5200
5201 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5202 Larry Rosenman.
5203
5204 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5205 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5206
5207 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5208 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5209 try to track down a specific problem.
5210
5211 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5212 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5213 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5214
5215 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5216 warning.
5217
5218 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5219 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5220 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5221 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5222 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5223 some earlier ones do not.
5224
5225 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5226
5227 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5228 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5229 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5230 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5231 address literals are enabled, of course).
5232
5233 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5234
5235 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5236 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5237 by a command such as
5238
5239 exim -f "" ...
5240
5241 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5242
5243 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5244
5245 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5246 remained set. It is now erased.
5247
5248 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5249 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5250
5251 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5252 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5253 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5254 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5255 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5256 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5257 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5258 appropriate error code.
5259
5260 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5261 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5262 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5263 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5264 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5265 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5266
5267 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5268 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5269 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5270
5271 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5272 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5273 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5274 terminate the header.
5275
5276 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5277 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5278 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5279
5280 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5281 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5282 (4.30/29). In particular:
5283
5284 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5285 imposed.
5286
5287 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5288 to write a maildirsize file.
5289
5290 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5291 the transport, the new value overrides.
5292
5293 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5294 count.
5295
5296 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5297 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5298 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5299 space or a tab.
5300
5301 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5302 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5303 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5304 the fallback hosts.
5305
5306 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5307 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5308 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5309
5310 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5311 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5312 using a union.
5313
5314 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5315 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5316 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5317
5318 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5319
5320 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5321
5322 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5323
5324 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5325 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5326 become corrupted.
5327
5328 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5329 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5330 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5331 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5332 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5333 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5334 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5335 too great.
5336
5337 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5338 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5339 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5340 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5341 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5342 incorrectly.
5343
5344 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5345 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5346 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5347 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5348 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5349 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5350 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5351 cached value only when the same options are set.
5352
5353 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5354
5355 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5356 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5357 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5358 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5359 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5360
5361 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5362 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5363 it is clearly obsolete.
5364
5365 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5366 transport.
5367
5368 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5369 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5370 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5371 times.
5372
5373 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5374 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5375 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5376 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5377 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5378
5379 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5380 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5381 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5382 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5383
5384 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5385
5386 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5387
5388 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5389 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5390 2^31.
5391
5392 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5393 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5394 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5395 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5396 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5397 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5398 $localpart_data.
5399
5400 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5401 with the -f command-line option.
5402
5403 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5404 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5405 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5406 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5407 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5408 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5409
5410 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5411 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5412 line.
5413
5414 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5415 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5416 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5417 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5418 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5419 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5420 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5421 buffer is too small.
5422
5423 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5424 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5425
5426 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5427 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5428 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5429 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5430 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5431 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5432 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5433 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5434 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5435
5436 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5437 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5438 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5439
5440 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5441 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5442 ACL").
5443
5444 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5445 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5446 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5447 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5448 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5449
5450 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5451 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5452 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5453 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5454 is set.
5455
5456 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5457
5458 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5459
5460 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5461 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5462
5463 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5464 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5465 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5466
5467 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5468 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5469 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5470 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5471 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5472
5473 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5474 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5475 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5476 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5477 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5478 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5479 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5480
5481 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5482 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5483 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5484 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5485 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5486 the test of how many are available.
5487
5488 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5489 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5490 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5491 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5492 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5493 new message is started.
5494
5495 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5496 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5497
5498 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5499 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5500
5501 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5502 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5503 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5504 is no long logged.
5505
5506 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5507 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5508 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5509 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5510 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5511 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5512 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5513
5514 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5515 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5516 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5517 interpreted as octal.
5518
5519 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5520 setting.
5521
5522 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5523 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5524 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5525 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5526 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5527 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5528
5529 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5530 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5531 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5532 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5533
5534 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5535 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5536 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5537 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5538
5539 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5540 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5541 is a bug fix.
5542
5543 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5544 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5545
5546 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5547
5548 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5549 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5550 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5551 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5552
5553 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5554 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5555 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5556 supplied", which is not helpful.
5557
5558 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5559 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5560 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5561
5562 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5563 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5564 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5565 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5566 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5567 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5568 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5569 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5570
5571 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5572 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5573 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5574 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5575 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5576
5577 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5578 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5579 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5580 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5581 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5582 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5583
5584 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5585 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5586 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5587
5588 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
5589
5590 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5591 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5592 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5593 variables.
5594
5595 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5596
5597 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5598 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5599 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5600 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5601 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5602 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5603 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5604 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5605
5606 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5607 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5608 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5609 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5610 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5611
5612 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5613 Haardt.
5614
5615 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5616 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5617 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5618 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5619 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5620 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5621 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5622 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5623 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5624
5625
5626 Exim version 4.30
5627 -----------------
5628
5629 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5630 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5631 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5632
5633 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5634 fixed.
5635
5636 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5637 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5638 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5639
5640 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5641 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5642 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5643 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5644 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5645 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5646
5647 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5648 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5649 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5650 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5651 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5652 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5653 the Exim test suite.
5654
5655 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5656 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5657 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5658 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5659
5660 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5661 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5662 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5663 specify it in this variable.
5664
5665 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5666 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5667 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5668 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5669
5670 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5671 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5672 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5673 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5674
5675 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5676 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5677 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5678 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5679 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5680
5681 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5682
5683 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5684 they are logged.
5685
5686 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5687 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5688 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5689 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5690 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5691
5692 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5693 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5694
5695 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5696 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5697 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5698 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5699 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5700
5701 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5702 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5703
5704 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5705 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5706 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5707
5708 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5709 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5710
5711 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5712 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5713
5714 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5715 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5716 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5717
5718 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5719 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5720
5721 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5722 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5723 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5724 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5725
5726 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5727
5728 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5729 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5730 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5731 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5732
5733 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5734
5735 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5736 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5737
5738 25. Added .include_if_exists.
5739
5740 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5741 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5742 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5743 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5744 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5745 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5746
5747 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5748
5749 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5750 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5751 this.
5752
5753 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5754
5755 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5756 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5757
5758 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5759 550 Sender verify failed
5760
5761 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5762 the final line of the response.
5763
5764 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5765 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5766 all other user lookups.
5767
5768 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5769 delivery time.
5770
5771 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5772 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5773 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5774 result into an int without checking.
5775
5776 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5777 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5778 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5779
5780 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5781 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5782 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5783 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5784
5785 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5786 correctly.
5787
5788 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5789 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5790
5791 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5792 to the empty sender.
5793
5794 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5795 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5796 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5797 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5798 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5799 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5800 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5801 panic log.
5802
5803 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5804 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5805 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5806 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5807 used.
5808
5809 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5810 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5811
5812 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5813 timestamps.
5814
5815 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5816 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5817
5818 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5819
5820 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5821 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5822 logs.
5823
5824 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5825 as soon as it is encountered.
5826
5827 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5828
5829 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5830 rewritten to "<>".
5831
5832 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5833 recognizes a tab character.
5834
5835 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5836 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5837 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5838 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5839
5840 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5841
5842 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5843 crash.
5844
5845 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5846
5847 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5848
5849 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5850 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5851 2822.
5852
5853 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5854 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5855 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5856 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5857 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5858
5859 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5860 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5861
5862 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5863 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5864 list (.included file names were always shown).
5865
5866 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5867 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5868 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5869 root at that time.
5870
5871 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5872 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5873
5874 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5875
5876 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5877
5878 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5879
5880 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5881 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5882 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5883 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5884 failures to open the logs.
5885
5886 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5887 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5888 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5889 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5890 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5891 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5892 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5893
5894
5895 Exim version 4.24
5896 -----------------
5897
5898 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5899 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5900 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5901 change 4.23/1.
5902
5903 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5904 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5905 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5906
5907 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5908 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5909 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5910
5911 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5912 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5913 causing some misleading effects.
5914
5915 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5916 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5917 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5918
5919 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5920 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5921 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5922 queue-runner function directly.
5923
5924
5925 Exim version 4.23
5926 -----------------
5927
5928 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5929 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5930
5931 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5932 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5933 was always written to the default place.
5934
5935 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5936 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5937 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5938
5939 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5940
5941 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5942
5943 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5944 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5945 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5946
5947 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5948 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5949 must start.
5950
5951 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5952 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5953 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5954
5955 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5956 command line option is disabled.
5957
5958 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5959 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5960
5961 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5962
5963 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5964
5965 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5966 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5967
5968 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5969
5970 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5971 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5972 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5973 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5974 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5975 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5976
5977 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5978 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5979 timeout.
5980
5981 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5982 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5983
5984 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5985 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5986
5987 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5988 received was valid base64.
5989
5990 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5991 name of the variable that was being set.
5992
5993 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5994
5995 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5996 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5997 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5998 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5999 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6000 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6001
6002 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6003
6004 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6005 nor realm was specified.
6006
6007 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6008 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6009 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6010 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6011
6012 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6013 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6014 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6015
6016 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6017 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6018 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6019
6020 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6021 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6022 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6023 some systems use these upper case variants.
6024
6025 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6026 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6027 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6028 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6029
6030 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6031
6032 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6033 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6034
6035 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6036 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6037 expansion variable.
6038
6039 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6040
6041 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6042 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6043 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6044 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6045
6046 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6047 using it.
6048
6049 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6050 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6051 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6052
6053 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6054 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6055
6056 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6057 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6058 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6059 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6060
6061 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6062 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6063 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6064
6065 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6066
6067 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6068 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6069 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6070 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6071 aborted.
6072
6073 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6074 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6075 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6076
6077 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6078
6079 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6080 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6081
6082 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6083 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6084
6085 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6086 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6087 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6088 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6089 when emails are that large.
6090
6091
6092
6093 Exim version 4.22
6094 -----------------
6095
6096 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6097 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6098
6099 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6100 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6101 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6102
6103 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6104 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6105 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6106
6107 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6108 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6109 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6110 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6111 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6112
6113 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6114 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6115 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6116 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6117 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6118 ever.
6119
6120 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6121 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6122 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6123 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6124 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6125 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6126 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6127 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6128 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6129 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6130 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6131 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6132 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6133 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6134
6135 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6136 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6137 parameterised it.
6138
6139 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6140 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6141 error should be diagnosed.
6142
6143 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6144 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6145 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6146 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6147 appeared instead of "NULL".
6148
6149 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6150 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6151 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6152 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6153 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6154 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6155 proceeds).
6156
6157 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6158 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6159 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6160
6161
6162 Exim version 4.21
6163 -----------------
6164
6165 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6166 or receiver verification errors.
6167
6168 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6169 name.
6170
6171 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6172 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6173 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6174 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6175
6176 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6177 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6178 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6179 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6180 shouldn't happen again.
6181
6182 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6183 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6184 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6185
6186 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6187 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6188
6189 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6190
6191 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6192 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6193
6194 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6195 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6196 RFC.
6197
6198 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6199 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6200 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6201
6202 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6203 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6204 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6205 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6206
6207 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6208 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6209 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6210 to define what should happen).
6211
6212 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6213 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6214 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6215
6216 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6217
6218 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6219
6220 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6221 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6222
6223 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6224 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6225 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6226 structure in all cases.
6227
6228 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6229 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6230 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6231 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6232
6233 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6234 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6235 domain name.
6236
6237 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6238 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6239
6240 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6241 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6242
6243 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6244 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6245 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6246
6247 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6248 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6249 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6250
6251 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6252 the book and for uniformity.
6253
6254 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6255
6256 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6257 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6258 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6259 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6260 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6261 non-existent command as the problem.
6262
6263 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6264 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6265 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6266
6267 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6268
6269 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6270 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6271 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6272
6273 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6274 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6275 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6276 timestamps using strftime().
6277
6278 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6279 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6280
6281 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6282 transport-time rewrites.
6283
6284 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6285 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6286 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6287 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6288
6289 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6290 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6291
6292 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6293 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6294 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6295 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6296 comma and a space.
6297
6298 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6299 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6300 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6301 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6302 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6303 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6304 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6305
6306 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6307 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6308 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6309 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6310 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6311
6312 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6313 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6314 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6315 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6316 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6317 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6318 remaining text gets split now.
6319
6320 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6321 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6322 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6323 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6324
6325 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6326 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6327 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6328 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6329 $return_path.
6330
6331 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6332 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6333 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6334 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6335 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6336 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6337 passed through if needed.
6338
6339 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6340 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6341 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6342 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6343 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6344 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6345
6346 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6347 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6348 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6349 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6350 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6351
6352 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6353 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6354 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6355 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6356 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6357
6358 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6359 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6360 noticed.
6361
6362 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6363 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6364 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6365 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6366 mayhem of various kinds.
6367
6368 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6369 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6370 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6371 the right test for positive values.
6372
6373 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6374 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6375 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6376 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6377 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6378 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6379 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6380 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6381 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6382 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6383 envelope.
6384
6385 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6386 module.
6387
6388 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6389 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6390 forbidding it.
6391
6392 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6393 the existing equality matching.
6394
6395 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6396 dealing with inode numbers.
6397
6398 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6399 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6400 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6401
6402 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6403 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6404 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6405 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6406 local_scan().
6407
6408 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6409 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6410 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6411 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6412 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6413 relay addresses has also been removed.
6414
6415 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6416
6417 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6418 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6419 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6420
6421 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6422 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6423 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6424 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6425 processing applies to CR:
6426
6427 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6428 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6429
6430 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6431 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6432 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6433 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6434
6435 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6436 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6437 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6438
6439 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6440 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6441 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6442 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6443 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6444 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6445 arisen.
6446
6447 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6448 program routers.
6449
6450 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6451 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6452 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6453 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6454 adds:
6455
6456 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6457
6458 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6459
6460 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6461
6462 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6463 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6464 not considered personal.
6465
6466 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6467
6468 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6469
6470 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6471
6472 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6473 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6474 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6475 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6476 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6477 header lines, and spool format errors.
6478
6479 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6480 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6481 for more flexibility.
6482
6483 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6484 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6485 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6486
6487 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6488 Sabourenkov.
6489
6490 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6491 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6492 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6493 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6494 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6495 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6496 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6497 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6498 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6499
6500 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6501 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6502 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6503 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6504 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6505 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6506 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6507
6508 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6509 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6510 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6511
6512 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6513 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6514 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6515 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6516 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6517 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6518 instead of killing the process with assert().
6519
6520 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6521 than Unicode encoding.
6522
6523 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6524 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6525 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6526 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6527
6528 77. Added process_log_path.
6529
6530 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6531 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6532
6533 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6534 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6535
6536 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6537 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6538 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6539
6540 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6541 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6542 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6543 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6544 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6545 were applied:
6546
6547 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6548 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6549 as invalid.
6550
6551 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6552 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6553 they will be used during message reception.
6554
6555
6556 Exim version 4.20
6557 -----------------
6558
6559 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6560
6561 ****