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1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
6
7
8 Exim 4.next
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10
11 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
12 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
13
14 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
15 non-signal-safe funxtions being used.
16
17 JH/03 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
18 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
19 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
20 corrupted the output.
21
22 Since Exim version 4.90
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24
25 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
26 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
27 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
28 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
29 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
30 be defined in redis_servers.
31
32 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
33 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
34 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
35 extant use locations.
36
37 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
38 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
39
40 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
41 Previously only the last row was returned.
42
43 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
44 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
45 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
46 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
47 input.
48
49 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
50 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
51 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
52 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
53 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
54 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
55 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
56 Main pool for expansions.
57 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
58 active in the testsuite.
59 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
60
61 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
62 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
63 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
64 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
65 round-robin DNS.
66
67 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
68 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
69 failure response.
70
71 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
72 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
73 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
74
75 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
76 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
77 ClamAV interface method is removed.
78
79 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
80 rows affected is given instead).
81
82 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
83 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
84
85 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
86 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
87 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
88 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
89 for all multi-message initiating connections.
90
91 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
92 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
93 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
94
95 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
96 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
97 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
98 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
99 separate.
100
101 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
102 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
103 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
104 fake-reject.
105
106 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
107
108 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
109 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
110
111 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
112 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
113 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
114
115 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
116 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
117 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
118 and send a quit.
119
120 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
121 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
122
123 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
124 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
125 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
126
127 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
128 for the build is renamed.
129
130 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
131 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
132 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
133
134 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
135 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
136 result replacing the original.
137
138 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
139 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
140 and the resources needed to be freed.
141
142 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
143
144 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
145 was not propagated.
146
147 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
148 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
149 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
150 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
151
152 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
153 length value. Previously this would segfault.
154
155 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
156 newer versions of the scanner.
157
158 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
159 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
160 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
161 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
162 Do the same for the queue-runner loop, for variables set from spool
163 message files.
164
165 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
166 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
167
168 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
169 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
170 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
171 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
172
173
174 Exim version 4.90
175 -----------------
176
177 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
178 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
179 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
180 pairs of long lines into single ones.
181
182 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
183 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
184
185 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
186 This permits better logging.
187
188 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
189 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
190 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
191 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
192 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
193 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
194
195 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
196 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
197 "exiwhat" output.
198
199 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
200 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
201 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
202
203 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
204 than 255 are no longer allowed.
205
206 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
207 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
208 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
209 client, there is no benefit for these.
210 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
211 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
212 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
213 is used (3.2.4 +).
214
215 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
216 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
217
218 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
219 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
220 erroneously found still-pending ones.
221
222 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
223 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
224
225 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
226 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
227 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
228 signature and again for transmission.
229
230 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
231 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
232 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
233
234 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
235 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
236 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
237 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
238 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
239 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
240 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
241
242 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
243 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
244 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
245 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
246
247 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
248 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
249 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
250 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
251 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
252 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
253 processing options.
254
255 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
256 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
257 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
258 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
259 connections.
260
261 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
262 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
263 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
264 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
265 versions.
266
267 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
268 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
269 inaccessible.
270
271 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
272 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
273 banner-time rejection.
274
275 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
276 callout/hold.
277
278 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
279 is the name of a transport.
280 Fixes bug 2140.
281
282 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
283
284 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
285 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
286
287 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
288 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
289 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
290 during compilation.
291
292 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
293 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
294 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
295 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
296
297 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
298 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
299 initial verify call returned a defer.
300
301 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
302 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
303
304 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
305 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
306
307 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
308 if present. Previously it was ignored.
309
310 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
311 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
312
313 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
314 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
315 extensible.
316
317 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
318 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
319
320 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
321 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
322 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
323
324 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
325 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
326 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
327 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
328
329 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
330 and confused the parent.
331
332 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
333 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
334
335 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
336 for log purposes.
337
338 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
339 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
340 out-of-order delivery.
341
342 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
343 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
344 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
345 error for the HELO.
346
347 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
348 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
349 desynchronisation.
350
351 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
352 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
353 one run was done. Bug 2189.
354
355 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
356 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
357 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
358 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
359 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
360 message is still "Temporary local problem".
361
362 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
363 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
364 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
365
366 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
367 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
368 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
369
370 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
371 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
372 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
373 though a different problem.
374
375
376 Exim version 4.89
377 -----------------
378
379 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
380 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
381
382 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
383
384 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
385 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
386
387 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
388 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
389
390 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
391 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
392 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
393 before acknowledging the chunk.
394
395 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
396 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
397 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
398
399 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
400 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
401 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
402 should.
403
404 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
405 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
406 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
407
408 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
409 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
410
411 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
412 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
413 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
414 body hash calculated value.
415
416 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
417 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
418 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
419
420 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
421
422 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
423 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
424
425 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
426 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
427 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
428
429 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
430 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
431 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
432 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
433 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
434 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
435
436 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
437 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
438 past that check, despite the cost.
439
440 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
441 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
442 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
443
444 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
445 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
446 TLS library to consume.
447
448 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
449
450 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
451
452 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
453 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
454 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
455 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
456 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
457 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
458 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
459
460 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
461
462 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
463
464 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
465 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
466 should be warning-free.
467
468 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
469
470 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
471 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
472
473 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
474 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
475 general solution here.
476
477 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
478 already-broken messages in the queue.
479
480 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
481
482 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
483
484
485 Exim version 4.88
486 -----------------
487
488 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
489 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
490
491 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
492 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
493 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
494
495 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
496 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
497 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
498 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
499 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
500 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
501 if one fails this test.
502 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
503 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
504
505 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
506 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
507
508 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
509 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
510
511 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
512 in rewrites and routers.
513
514 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
515 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
516
517 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
518 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
519
520 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
521
522 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
523 certificate).
524
525 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
526 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
527 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
528 connection after a verify cache hit.
529 Do not update it with the verify result either.
530
531 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
532 when routing results in more than one destination address.
533
534 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
535 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
536 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
537 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
538 when the cutthrough connection is made).
539
540 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
541 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
542
543 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
544 Previously they were not counted.
545
546 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
547 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
548 that needed the lookup.
549
550 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
551 distinguished as "(=".
552
553 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
554 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
555
556 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
557
558 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
559 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
560
561 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
562 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
563
564 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
565 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
566 compatible.
567
568 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
569 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
570 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
571 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
572
573 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
574
575 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
576 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
577 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
578
579 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
580 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
581 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
582 be lost.
583
584 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
585 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
586 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
587 itself :(
588
589 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
590 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
591 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
592
593 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
594 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
595 options.
596
597 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
598
599 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
600 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
601
602 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
603 are not in the system include path.
604
605 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
606 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
607 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
608 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
609
610 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
611 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
612 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
613
614 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
615
616 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
617 an incoming connection.
618
619 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
620 to rspamd.
621
622 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
623 fallback to "prime256v1".
624
625 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
626 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
627
628
629 Exim version 4.87
630 -----------------
631
632 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
633 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
634 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
635 client dropping the TLS connection.
636
637 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
638 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
639
640 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
641 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
642 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
643 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
644 outgoing I= field.
645
646 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
647 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
648 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
649 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
650 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
651 check on the next write.
652
653 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
654 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
655 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
656 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
657 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
658
659 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
660 mime_regex ACL conditions.
661
662 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
663 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
664 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
665
666 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
667 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
668 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
669 an authenticate fail is not an error.
670
671 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
672 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
673
674 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
675 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
676
677 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
678 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
679 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
680 distinct.
681
682 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
683
684 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
685
686 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
687
688 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
689 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
690
691 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
692 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
693
694 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
695
696 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
697 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
698
699 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
700
701 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
702 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
703
704 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
705
706 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
707 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
708 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
709 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
710 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
711 they will retry in-clear.
712 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
713 at installation time.
714
715 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
716 with the $config_file variable.
717
718 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
719 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
720 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
721 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
722 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
723
724 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
725 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
726 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
727 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
728 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
729
730 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
731
732 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
733 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
734 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
735 list order is no longer honoured.
736
737 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
738 for DKIM processing.
739
740 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
741 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
742
743 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
744 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
745 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
746 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
747
748 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
749 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
750
751 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
752 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
753
754 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
755 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
756
757 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
758
759 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
760 cached by the daemon.
761
762 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
763 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
764
765 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
766 keys are given for lookup.
767
768 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
769 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
770 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
771 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
772
773 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
774 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
775 server-side so match that on older versions.
776
777 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
778 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
779 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
780
781 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
782 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
783
784 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
785 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
786 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
787 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
788 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
789 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
790 initial truncated version.
791
792 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
793
794 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
795
796 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
797 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
798
799 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
800
801 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
802
803 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
804 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
805 induced overflows.
806
807 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
808 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
809 stage.
810
811 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
812 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
813
814 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
815 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
816 former class.
817
818 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
819 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
820 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
821
822 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
823 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
824 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
825 extraction. Accept either.
826
827
828 Exim version 4.86
829 -----------------
830
831 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
832 expanded.
833
834 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
835
836 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
837 it.
838
839 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
840 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
841 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
842 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
843
844 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
845 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
846 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
847
848 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
849 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
850 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
851 TLS connections
852
853 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
854 sites use this now.
855
856 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
857 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
858 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
859 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
860 have a dsn_lasthop option.
861
862 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
863 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
864 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
865
866 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
867
868 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
869 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
870
871 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
872 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
873
874 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
875 /defer_ok option.
876
877 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
878 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
879
880 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
881 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
882 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
883
884 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
885 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
886 specify a port-range.
887
888 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
889 timeout value per server.
890
891 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
892 now have the list separator specified.
893
894 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
895 option values.
896
897 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
898 under OpenSSL.
899
900 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
901
902 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
903 rather than the verbs used.
904
905 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
906 from 255 to 1024 chars.
907
908 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
909
910 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
911 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
912
913 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
914 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
915
916 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
917 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
918
919 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
920
921 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
922
923 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
924 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
925 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
926 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
927
928 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
929
930 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
931 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
932
933 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
934 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
935
936 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
937
938 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
939
940 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
941
942 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
943 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
944
945 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
946 added for tls authenticator.
947
948 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
949
950
951 Exim version 4.85
952 -----------------
953
954 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
955 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
956 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
957 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
958 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
959 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
960 the script parsing/test process like normal.
961
962 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
963 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
964 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
965 function when detected.
966
967 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
968 cause callback expansion.
969
970 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
971 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
972 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
973 instead of bool when processing it.
974
975 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
976 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
977
978 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
979
980 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
981
982 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
983
984 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
985 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
986
987 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
988 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
989 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
990 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
991 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
992 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
993
994 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
995 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
996 exceeded it.
997
998 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
999 version 3.3.6 or later.
1000
1001 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1002 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1003 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1004 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1005 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1006 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1007 option is defined.
1008
1009 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1010 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1011
1012 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1013 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1014 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1015 matches.
1016
1017 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1018 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1019 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1020
1021 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1022 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1023
1024 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1025 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1026 syntax errors.
1027
1028 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1029
1030 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1031 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1032
1033 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1034 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1035 tarball.
1036
1037 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1038
1039 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1040 Bug 1561.
1041
1042 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1043 output list separator was used.
1044
1045
1046 Exim version 4.84
1047 -----------------
1048 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1049 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1050 return.
1051
1052 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1053 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1054
1055 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1056
1057 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1058 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1059
1060
1061 Exim version 4.83
1062 -----------------
1063
1064 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1065
1066 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1067 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1068 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1069 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1070 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1071 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1072
1073 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1074 utilities have not been installed.
1075
1076 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1077 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1078
1079 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1080 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1081
1082 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1083 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1084 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1085 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1086
1087 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1088
1089 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1090 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1091
1092 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1093 not dns_use_dnssec.
1094
1095 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1096
1097 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1098 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1099 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1100
1101 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1102 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1103 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1104 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1105 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1106 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1107
1108 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1109
1110 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1111 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1112
1113 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1114 failed delivery.
1115
1116 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1117
1118 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1119
1120 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1121 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1122
1123 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1124 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1125
1126 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1127
1128 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1129
1130 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1131 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1132
1133 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1134 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1135 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1136
1137 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1138 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1139 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1140 analysis.
1141
1142 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1143
1144 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1145 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1146 lookup).
1147
1148 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1149 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1150 Schlichting.
1151
1152 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1153 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1154
1155 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1156 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1157
1158 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1159
1160 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1161 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1162 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1163
1164 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1165 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1166
1167 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1168 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1169 hosts_request_ocsp.
1170
1171 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1172 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1173 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1174
1175 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1176
1177 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1178 Christian Aistleitner.
1179
1180 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1181
1182 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1183 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1184
1185 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1186 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1187
1188 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1189 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1190
1191 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1192 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1193
1194 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1195 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1196
1197 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1198 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1199 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1200
1201 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1202
1203 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1204 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1205 Jasper Wallace.
1206
1207 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1208
1209 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1210 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1211 CVE-2014-2972
1212
1213
1214 Exim version 4.82
1215 -----------------
1216
1217 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1218
1219 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1220 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1221
1222 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1223 by GnuTLS.
1224
1225 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1226 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1227 routines.
1228
1229 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1230
1231 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1232 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1233 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1234 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1235 using channel bindings instead).
1236
1237 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1238 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1239 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1240 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1241 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1242 Bugzilla 1117.
1243
1244 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1245
1246 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1247
1248 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1249 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1250
1251 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1252 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1253 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1254
1255 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1256
1257 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1258
1259 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1260 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1261
1262 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1263
1264 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1265
1266 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1267
1268 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1269 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1270
1271 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1272
1273 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1274 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1275 function.
1276
1277 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1278 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1279
1280 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1281 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1282 "acl = name arg..."
1283
1284 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1285
1286 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1287
1288 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1289 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1290
1291 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1292 Bugzilla 884.
1293
1294 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1295 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1296
1297 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1298 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1299
1300 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1301 CVE-2012-5671
1302 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1303
1304 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1305 authenticators.
1306
1307 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1308 for control.
1309
1310 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1311
1312 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1313 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1314 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1315 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1316
1317 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1318
1319 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1320 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1321 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1322 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1323 the retry rules.
1324
1325 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1326 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1327 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1328
1329 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1330 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1331 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1332 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1333
1334 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1335 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1336 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1337 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1338 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1339 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1340 delivery, as in LMTP.
1341
1342 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1343 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1344
1345 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1346
1347 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1348
1349 Resent-From: f
1350
1351 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1352 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1353 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1354 username as equal to the username.
1355
1356 This change corrects that bug.
1357
1358 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1359 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1360 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1361
1362 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1363
1364 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1365 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1366 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1367 NULL dereference and crash.
1368
1369 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1370
1371 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1372 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1373 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1374
1375 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1376
1377 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1378 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1379 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1380 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1381 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1382 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1383 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1384 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1385 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1386 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1387 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1388
1389 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1390 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1391
1392 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1393 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1394 Bugzilla 880.
1395
1396 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1397 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1398 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1399 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1400 an empty string is now equivalent.
1401
1402 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1403 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1404 not performing validation itself.
1405
1406 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1407 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1408
1409 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1410 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1411
1412 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1413
1414 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1415 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1416 other false fix of the same issue.
1417 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1418 Bugzilla 1363.
1419
1420 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1421 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1422
1423 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1424 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1425 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1426
1427 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1428 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1429 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1430
1431 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1432
1433 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1434
1435 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1436 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1437
1438 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1439 Alexander Miroch.
1440
1441 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1442 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1443 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1444 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1445 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1446
1447 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1448 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1449
1450 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1451 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1452 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1453
1454 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1455 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1456 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1457 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1458
1459 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1460
1461 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1462 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1463 from multiple comments on this bug.
1464
1465 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1466
1467 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1468 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1469 interaction.
1470
1471 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1472 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1473
1474 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1475 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1476
1477
1478 Exim version 4.80.1
1479 -------------------
1480
1481 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1482 CVE-2012-5671
1483 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1484
1485
1486 Exim version 4.80
1487 -----------------
1488
1489 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1490 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1491 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1492
1493 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1494
1495 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1496 improved.
1497
1498 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1499
1500 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1501
1502 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1503
1504 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1505 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1506
1507 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1508 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1509
1510 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1511 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1512
1513 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1514 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1515 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
1516
1517 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1518
1519 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1520 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1521
1522 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1523
1524 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
1525
1526 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1527 non-compliant senders.
1528 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1529
1530 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
1531 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
1532 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1533
1534 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1535 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1536 in spool file corruption.
1537
1538 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1539 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1540 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1541 "Got SSL error 2".
1542
1543 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1544 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1545 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1546
1547 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1548 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1549
1550 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1551
1552 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1553 diagnostics.
1554 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1555
1556 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
1557 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1558 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1559
1560 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1561 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
1562 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1563 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
1564
1565 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1566 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1567
1568 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1569 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1570 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1571 resolver implementation change.
1572
1573 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1574 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1575
1576 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1577
1578 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1579
1580 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1581 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1582
1583 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1584 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1585
1586 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1587 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1588
1589 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1590 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1591 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1592 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1593 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1594
1595 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1596
1597 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1598 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1599 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1600
1601 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1602
1603 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1604 read-only, out of scope).
1605 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1606
1607 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1608 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1609 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1610 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1611
1612 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1613
1614 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1615 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1616 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1617 real issues in debug logging.
1618
1619 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1620 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1621
1622 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1623 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1624 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1625
1626 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1627 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1628 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1629 problems.
1630
1631 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1632 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1633
1634 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1635 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1636 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1637 needs to override this, it can.
1638
1639 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1640 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1641 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1642
1643 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1644 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1645 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1646 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1647
1648 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1649
1650
1651 Exim version 4.77
1652 -----------------
1653
1654 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1655 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1656
1657 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1658
1659 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1660 whitespace trailer
1661
1662 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1663 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1664
1665 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1666 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1667 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1668
1669 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1670 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1671 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1672 not safe for signals.
1673
1674 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1675 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1676 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1677 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1678 exiwhat.
1679
1680 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1681
1682 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1683 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1684 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1685 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1686 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1687
1688 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1689 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1690 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1691 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1692 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1693 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1694
1695 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1696 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1697 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1698 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1699
1700 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1701 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1702 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1703 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1704
1705 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1706 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1707 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1708 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1709 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1710 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1711 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1712 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1713 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1714
1715 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1716 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1717 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1718 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1719
1720 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1721 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1722 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1723 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1724 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1725 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1726 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1727 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1728 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1729 details in the main documentation.
1730
1731 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1732
1733 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1734
1735 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1736 repository when doing development or release builds.
1737
1738 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1739 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
1740
1741 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1742 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1743 Bugzilla 97.
1744
1745 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1746
1747 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
1748 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1749
1750 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1751 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1752
1753 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
1754 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1755
1756 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1757 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
1758
1759 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1760 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1761
1762 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1763 Bugzilla 1156.
1764 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1765 Bugzilla 1095.
1766
1767 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
1768 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1769 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1770
1771 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1772
1773 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
1774
1775 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1776 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1777
1778
1779 Exim version 4.76
1780 -----------------
1781
1782 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1783
1784 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1785 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1786
1787 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1788
1789 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1790
1791 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1792 Bugzilla 1098.
1793
1794 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1795 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
1796
1797 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1798 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1799
1800 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1801 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1802
1803 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1804 Bugzilla 1104.
1805
1806 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
1807 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1808
1809 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1810 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1811 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1812 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1813
1814 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1815 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
1816
1817
1818 Exim version 4.75
1819 -----------------
1820
1821 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
1822 Bugzilla 1073
1823
1824 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1825 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1826 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1827
1828 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1829 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1830
1831 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1832 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1833 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1834
1835 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1836 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1837
1838 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1839 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1840
1841 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1842 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1843
1844 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1845 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1846
1847 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1848 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
1849
1850 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1851 Fixes bug 943.
1852
1853 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1854 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1855
1856 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1857 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1858
1859 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1860 SQL string expansion failure details.
1861 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1862
1863 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1864 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1865
1866 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1867 extern declarations in function scope.
1868 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1869
1870 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1871 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1872 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1873 a kernel bug).
1874
1875 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1876 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1877
1878 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1879 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1880
1881 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1882 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1883
1884 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1885 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1886
1887 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1888 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1889 Dennis Davis.
1890
1891 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
1892
1893 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1894
1895 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1896 Patch by Simon Arlott
1897
1898 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1899 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1900
1901
1902 Exim version 4.74
1903 -----------------
1904
1905 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1906 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1907
1908 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1909 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1910
1911 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1912
1913 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1914 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1915 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1916
1917 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1918 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1919 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1920
1921 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1922 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1923 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1924 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1925
1926 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1927 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1928 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1929 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1930
1931 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1932 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1933 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1934 arbitrary files.
1935
1936 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1937 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1938
1939 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1940 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1941 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1942 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1943 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1944
1945
1946 Exim version 4.73
1947 -----------------
1948
1949 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1950 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1951 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1952
1953 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1954 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1955
1956 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1957
1958 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1959
1960 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1961
1962 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
1963
1964 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1965
1966 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
1967 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1968 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
1969 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1970
1971 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1972 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1973 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
1974 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1975 more caution in buffer sizes.
1976
1977 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1978
1979 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1980
1981 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1982
1983 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1984
1985 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1986
1987 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1988
1989 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1990
1991 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
1992 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1993 ignore trailing whitespace.
1994
1995 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1996
1997 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1998 "exim" to be used
1999
2000 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2001 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2002
2003 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2004 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2005 Notification from John Horne.
2006
2007 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2008 compatible.
2009
2010 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2011 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2012 it normally works.
2013
2014 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2015 access.
2016
2017 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2018 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2019 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2020
2021 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2022 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2023 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2024 configuration file.
2025
2026 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2027 option (effectively making it always true).
2028
2029 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2030 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2031
2032 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2033 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2034
2035 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2036 run-time user, instead of root.
2037
2038 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2039 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2040
2041 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2042 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2043 arguments.
2044
2045 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2046 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2047 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2048
2049 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2050
2051 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2052
2053
2054 Exim version 4.72
2055 -----------------
2056
2057 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2058 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2059 typos
2060
2061 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2062 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2063 (Finput)
2064
2065 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2066 Patch from Alain Williams
2067
2068 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2069
2070 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2071 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2072
2073 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2074 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2075
2076 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2077
2078 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2079
2080 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2081 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2082
2083 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2084
2085 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2086
2087 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2088 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2089 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2090
2091 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2092 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2093
2094 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2095 Patch by Simon Arlott
2096
2097 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2098 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2099
2100
2101 Exim version 4.71
2102 -----------------
2103
2104 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2105
2106 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2107
2108 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2109
2110 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2111
2112 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2113
2114
2115 Exim version 4.70
2116 -----------------
2117
2118 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2119 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2120
2121 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2122 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2123 Hirsch).
2124
2125 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2126 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2127 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2128
2129 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2130 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2131
2132 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2133 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2134 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2135 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2136
2137 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2138 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2139 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2140
2141 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2142
2143 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2144
2145 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2146 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2147
2148 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2149
2150 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2151 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2152 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2153 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2154
2155 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2156 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2157
2158 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2159
2160 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2161
2162 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2163 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2164
2165 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2166 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2167
2168 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2169 that they are available at delivery time.
2170
2171 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2172
2173 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2174 incoming_port log selectors.
2175
2176 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2177 setting expands to an empty string.
2178
2179 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2180 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2181
2182 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2183 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2184
2185 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2186 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2187
2188 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2189 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2190
2191 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2192 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2193
2194 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2195 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2196
2197 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2198
2199 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2200 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2201
2202 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2203 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2204
2205 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2206
2207 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2208 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2209
2210 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2211
2212 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2213
2214 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2215 lsearch.
2216
2217 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2218 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2219
2220 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2221 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2222
2223 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2224 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2225
2226 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2227 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2228
2229 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2230 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2231
2232 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2233 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2234
2235 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2236 plus update to original patch.
2237
2238 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2239
2240 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2241 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2242
2243 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2244
2245 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2246
2247 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2248
2249 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2250
2251 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2252 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2253
2254 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2255 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2256
2257 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2258 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2259
2260 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2261 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2262
2263 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2264
2265 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2266
2267 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2268
2269 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2270
2271
2272 Exim version 4.69
2273 -----------------
2274
2275 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2276 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2277 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2278
2279 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2280 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2281 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2282 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2283 build errors in sieve.c.
2284
2285 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2286 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2287 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2288
2289 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2290
2291 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2292
2293 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2294
2295 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2296
2297
2298 Exim version 4.68
2299 -----------------
2300
2301 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2302
2303 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2304 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2305 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2306 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2307 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2308 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2309 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2310 for iplsearch lookups.
2311
2312 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2313 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2314 previously such lookups could never work.
2315
2316 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2317 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2318 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2319
2320 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2321 version.
2322
2323 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2324 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2325 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2326 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2327 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2328 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2329
2330 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2331 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2332
2333 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2334 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2335 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2336 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2337 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2338 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2339
2340 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2341 local_scan API.
2342
2343 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2344
2345 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2346 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2347 encrypted.
2348
2349 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2350 by clients under certain conditions.
2351
2352 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2353 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2354
2355 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2356
2357 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2358 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2359
2360 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2361
2362 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2363
2364 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2365
2366 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2367 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2368
2369 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2370
2371 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2372 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2373
2374 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2375
2376 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2377
2378 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2379 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2380 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2381 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2382
2383 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2384 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2385 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2386
2387 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2388 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2389
2390 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2391
2392 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2393
2394 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2395
2396 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2397 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2398 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2399
2400
2401 Exim version 4.67
2402 -----------------
2403
2404 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2405 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2406 Jan Srzednicki.
2407
2408 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2409 issue a MAIL command.
2410
2411 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2412
2413 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2414
2415 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2416 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2417 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2418 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2419 item. This has been fixed.
2420
2421 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2422 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2423
2424 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2425 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2426
2427 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2428 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2429 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2430
2431 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2432
2433 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2434 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2435 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2436 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2437 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2438
2439 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2440 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2441 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2442
2443 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2444 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2445 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2446 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2447
2448 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2449
2450 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2451
2452 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2453 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2454 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2455 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2456 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2457
2458 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2459
2460 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2461 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2462 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2463 values).
2464
2465 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2466
2467 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2468
2469 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2470
2471 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2472
2473 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2474
2475 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2476 no_callout_flush is set.
2477
2478 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2479 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2480 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2481 fixed.
2482
2483 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2484
2485 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2486 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2487 other ACL rejections are.
2488
2489 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2490 with slight modification.
2491
2492 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2493 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2494
2495 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2496 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2497 connection.
2498
2499 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2500 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2501
2502 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2503
2504 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2505 expansion side effects.
2506
2507 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2508 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2509 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2510 be the same.
2511
2512 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2513 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2514 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2515
2516 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2517 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2518 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2519 were accidentally chopped off.
2520
2521 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2522 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2523 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2524 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2525 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2526 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2527 pipelining has not been advertised.
2528
2529 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2530
2531 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2532 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2533 This has been fixed.
2534
2535 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2536 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2537 reported on Solaris.
2538
2539 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2540 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2541 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2542 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2543 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2544 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2545 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2546
2547 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2548 cpus.
2549
2550 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2551
2552 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2553
2554 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2555 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
2556 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2557 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2558 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2559 criteria to be more general.
2560
2561 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2562 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2563 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2564 host_all_ignored option.
2565
2566 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2567 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2568 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2569 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2570 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2571 is what is supposed to happen).
2572
2573 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2574 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2575 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2576 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2577 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2578 uses the Exim user.
2579
2580 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2581 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2582 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2583 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2584 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2585 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2586 users.
2587
2588 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2589
2590 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2591 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2592 (Jez Hancock).
2593 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2594 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2595
2596 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2597
2598 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2599
2600 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2601 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2602 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2603 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2604 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2605 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2606 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2607 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2608 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2609 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2610 least in a lot of common cases.
2611
2612 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2613 advertised in response to EHLO.
2614
2615
2616 Exim version 4.66
2617 -----------------
2618
2619 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2620 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2621
2622 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2623 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2624
2625 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2626 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2627 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2628
2629 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2630 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2631 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2632 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2633 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2634
2635
2636 Exim version 4.65
2637 -----------------
2638
2639 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2640 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2641 versions. (#438)
2642
2643 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2644 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2645 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2646
2647 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2648 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2649 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2650 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2651 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2652 rather than extend the field.
2653
2654
2655 Exim version 4.64
2656 -----------------
2657
2658 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2659 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2660 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2661 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2662 these files.
2663
2664 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2665 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2666 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2667
2668 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2669 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2670 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2671
2672 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2673 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2674 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2675 in the field name.
2676
2677 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2678 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2679 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2680 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2681 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2682 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2683 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2684 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2685 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2686 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2687 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2688
2689 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2690 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2691
2692 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2693 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2694 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2695 ignores EPIPE as well.
2696
2697 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2698 (quoted-printable decoding).
2699
2700 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
2701 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
2702
2703 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2704
2705 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2706
2707 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2708
2709 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
2710 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
2711
2712 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2713 in 4.64-PH/09.
2714
2715 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2716 miscellaneous code fixes
2717
2718 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2719 rejections.
2720
2721 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2722 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2723 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2724 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2725 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2726 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2727 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2728 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
2729
2730 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
2731 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
2732 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2733 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2734 function.
2735 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2736 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2737 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2738 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2739 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2740 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2741 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2742 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2743 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2744
2745 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2746 decoding.
2747
2748 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2749 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2750 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2751 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2752 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2753 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2754 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2755 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2756
2757 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2758 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2759 list.
2760
2761 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2762 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2763 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2764 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2765 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2766 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2767 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2768 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2769 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2770 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2771 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2772 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2773 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2774
2775 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2776 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2777 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2778 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2779 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2780 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2781 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2782
2783 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2784 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2785 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2786 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2787 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2788 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2789 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2790 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2791 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2792 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2793
2794 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2795 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2796 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2797 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2798 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2799
2800 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2801 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2802 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2803 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2804 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2805 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2806 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2807
2808 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2809 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2810 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2811 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2812 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2813 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2814 been verified.
2815
2816 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
2817 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2818 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2819 and authorization.)
2820
2821 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2822 if any retry times were supplied.
2823
2824 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2825 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2826 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2827
2828 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2829
2830 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2831
2832 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2833 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2834 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2835 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
2836 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2837 before) are ignored.
2838
2839 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2840 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2841
2842 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2843 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2844 committing the later change.]
2845
2846 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2847 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2848 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2849 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2850 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2851 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2852 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2853 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2854 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2855
2856 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2857 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2858 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2859 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2860 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2861 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2862 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2863 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2864 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2865
2866 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2867 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2868 hammering the server.
2869
2870 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2871 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2872
2873 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2874
2875 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2876 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2877 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2878
2879 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2880 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2881 one case where this was not true.
2882
2883 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2884 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2885 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2886 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2887 fails.
2888
2889 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2890 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2891 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2892 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2893 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2894 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2895 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2896 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2897 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2898 smtp transport.
2899
2900 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2901 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2902 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2903 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2904
2905 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2906 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2907
2908 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2909 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2910 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2911
2912 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2913
2914 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2915
2916 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2917
2918 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2919 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2920 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2921 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2922
2923 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2924 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2925
2926 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2927 be meaningful with "accept".
2928
2929 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2930 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2931
2932 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2933 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2934 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2935
2936 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2937 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2938 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2939 there is data to show.
2940 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2941
2942 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2943 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2944 as well as the number of messages.
2945
2946 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2947 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2948 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2949
2950 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2951 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2952 have a flag are now skipped.
2953
2954 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2955 Added the -emptyok flag.
2956
2957 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2958 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2959
2960 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2961 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2962 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2963
2964 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2965 match 4.64-PH/13
2966
2967 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2968 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2969
2970 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2971
2972 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2973 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2974
2975 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2976
2977 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2978 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2979 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2980 contravention of the specifications.
2981
2982 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2983 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2984 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
2985
2986 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2987 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2988 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2989
2990 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2991
2992 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2993 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2994 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2995 some point in the past.
2996
2997 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2998 transport during callout processing was broken.
2999
3000 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3001 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3002
3003 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3004 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3005
3006 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3007 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3008
3009 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3010
3011
3012 Exim version 4.63
3013 -----------------
3014
3015 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3016 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3017
3018 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3019 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3020 there is data to show.
3021 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3022
3023 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3024 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3025
3026 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3027 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3028
3029 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3030 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3031
3032 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3033 submissions from trusted users.
3034
3035 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3036 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3037
3038 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3039 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3040 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3041 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3042 there is now a framework to start from.
3043
3044 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3045 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3046 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3047
3048 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3049
3050 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3051
3052 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3053
3054 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3055 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3056 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3057
3058 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3059 libradius.
3060
3061 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3062 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3063 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3064
3065 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3066 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3067 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3068 its arguments.
3069
3070 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3071 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3072 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3073 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3074 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3075
3076 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3077 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3078
3079 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3080
3081 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3082 operations in malware.c.
3083
3084 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3085 signatures.
3086
3087 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3088 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3089 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3090 all.
3091
3092 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3093 statements to "add_header".
3094
3095 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3096 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3097
3098 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3099 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3100 latter.
3101
3102 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3103 so that it is now:
3104
3105 ${if or { \
3106 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3107 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3108 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3109 }{no}{yes}}
3110
3111 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3112 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3113
3114 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3115 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3116
3117 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3118 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3119 any possible encoding problems.
3120
3121 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3122 but not after initializing Perl.
3123
3124 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3125 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3126 apparently, which is not desirable.
3127
3128 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3129 queries.
3130
3131 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3132 --not options
3133
3134 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3135
3136 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3137 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3138 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3139 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3140
3141 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3142 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3143 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3144
3145 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3146 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3147 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3148 0.12.
3149
3150 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3151 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3152 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3153 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3154 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3155
3156
3157 Exim version 4.62
3158 -----------------
3159
3160 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3161 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3162
3163 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3164 patch).
3165
3166 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3167 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3168 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3169 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3170 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3171 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3172 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3173 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3174 451 error is used.
3175
3176 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3177
3178 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3179 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3180 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3181
3182 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3183 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3184 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3185 odd errors.
3186
3187 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3188 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3189
3190 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3191 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3192 option (which defaults to 0600).
3193
3194 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3195
3196 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3197 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3198 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3199 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3200 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3201 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3202 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3203
3204 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3205
3206
3207 Exim version 4.61
3208 -----------------
3209
3210 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3211 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3212 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3213 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3214 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3215 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3216 addresses as local.
3217
3218 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3219 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3220
3221 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3222
3223 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3224 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3225 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3226 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3227 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3228 grumble.
3229
3230 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3231 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3232
3233 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3234 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3235 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3236 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3237 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3238
3239 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3240 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3241 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3242 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3243
3244 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3245 be the same on different OS.
3246
3247 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3248 testing.
3249
3250 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3251 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3252
3253 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3254 in 4.61-PH/06
3255
3256 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3257 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3258 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3259 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3260 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3261 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3262 bounce message.
3263
3264 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3265 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3266 when Exim was called.
3267
3268 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3269 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3270
3271 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3272 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3273 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3274 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3275
3276 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3277 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3278 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3279 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3280 changes:
3281
3282 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3283 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3284 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3285
3286 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3287 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3288 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3289
3290 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3291 feature).
3292
3293 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3294 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3295 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3296 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3297 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3298 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3299 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3300 values from the SRV records were lost.
3301
3302 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3303 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3304 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3305
3306 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3307 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3308 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3309
3310 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3311 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3312 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3313 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3314 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3315 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3316 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3317 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3318 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3319 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3320
3321 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3322 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3323 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3324
3325 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3326 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3327
3328 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3329 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3330 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3331 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3332 is given.
3333
3334 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3335 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3336 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3337
3338 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3339 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3340 PH/23 above applies.
3341
3342 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3343 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3344 (for which there is an explicit test).
3345
3346 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3347
3348 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3349 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3350 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3351 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3352 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3353
3354 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3355 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3356 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3357 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3358
3359 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3360 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3361 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3362
3363 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3364
3365 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3366
3367 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3368 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3369 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3370
3371 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3372 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3373 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3374 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3375 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3376
3377 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3378 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3379 the message gets confusing).
3380
3381 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3382 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3383 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3384 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3385
3386 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3387 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3388 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3389 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3390 same order.
3391
3392 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3393 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3394 the different processes.
3395
3396 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3397
3398 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3399
3400 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3401 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3402
3403 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3404 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3405
3406 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3407 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3408 messages matching specified criteria.
3409
3410 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3411
3412 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3413 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3414
3415 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3416 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3417 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3418 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3419 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3420 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3421 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3422 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3423 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3424 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3425
3426 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3427 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3428 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3429
3430 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3431
3432 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3433 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3434 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3435 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3436 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3437 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3438 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3439 the variable.
3440
3441 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3442 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3443
3444 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3445
3446 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3447
3448 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3449
3450 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3451 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3452 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3453 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3454 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3455 size of the count of files.
3456
3457 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3458
3459 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3460 used in LMTP mode:
3461
3462 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3463 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3464 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3465 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3466
3467 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3468 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3469 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3470
3471 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3472 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3473 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3474 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3475 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3476
3477 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3478 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3479
3480 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3481 will now be deprecated.
3482
3483 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3484
3485 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3486 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3487 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3488
3489 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3490 with very large, slow to parse queues
3491
3492 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3493
3494 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3495
3496 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3497 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3498 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3499 SMTP output lines.
3500
3501 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3502 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3503 Sieve code now uses this.
3504
3505 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3506 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3507
3508 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3509 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3510
3511 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3512
3513 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3514 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3515 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3516 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3517 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3518
3519 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3520 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3521 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3522 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3523
3524 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3525
3526 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3527
3528 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3529 is preferred over IPv4.
3530
3531 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3532 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3533 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3534 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3535 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3536 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3537 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3538
3539 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3540 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3541 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3542
3543 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3544
3545 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3546 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3547 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3548 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3549 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3550 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3551 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3552 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3553 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3554 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3555 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3556
3557 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3558 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3559 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3560
3561
3562 Exim version 4.60
3563 -----------------
3564
3565 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3566
3567 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3568 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3569
3570 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3571 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3572 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3573
3574 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3575
3576 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3577 not a single digit.
3578
3579 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3580 string.
3581
3582 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3583 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3584 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3585 silly things.
3586
3587 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3588 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3589
3590 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3591 inside the third argument.
3592
3593 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3594 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3595 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3596
3597 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3598 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3599
3600 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3601 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3602
3603 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3604
3605 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3606 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3607 this:
3608
3609 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3610
3611 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3612 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3613 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3614 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3615 identical. For example:
3616
3617 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3618
3619 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3620 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3621 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3622
3623 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3624 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3625 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3626 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3627
3628 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3629 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3630 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3631 message.
3632
3633 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3634
3635 o fixes some comments
3636 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3637 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3638 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3639 and documents the missing references header update
3640
3641 and most important:
3642
3643 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3644 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
3645 result)
3646
3647 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3648 Electronic Mail") by including:
3649
3650 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3651
3652 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3653 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
3654 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3655 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3656 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3657
3658 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3659
3660 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3661
3662 The auto-replied keyword:
3663
3664 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3665 message by an automatic process,
3666
3667 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3668
3669 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3670 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3671
3672 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3673 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3674 other messages.
3675
3676 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3677 to the default Received: header definition.
3678
3679 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3680
3681 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3682 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3683 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3684
3685 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3686 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3687 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3688
3689 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3690 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3691 and treats the condition as false.
3692
3693 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3694
3695 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3696 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3697 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3698 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3699 not changing the active code.
3700
3701 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3702 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3703
3704 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3705 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3706
3707 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3708 (Bugzilla #53).
3709
3710 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3711 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3712 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3713 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3714 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3715 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3716 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3717 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3718 the text comparison.
3719
3720 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3721 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3722 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3723 The same fix has been applied.
3724
3725
3726 Exim version 4.54
3727 -----------------
3728
3729 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3730 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3731 It now does.
3732
3733 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3734 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3735
3736 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3737
3738 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3739 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3740 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3741 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3742 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3743
3744 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3745 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3746 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3747 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3748 or /domain=).
3749
3750 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3751 testing suite.
3752
3753
3754
3755 Exim version 4.53
3756 -----------------
3757
3758 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3759 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3760
3761 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3762
3763 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3764
3765 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3766 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3767 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3768
3769 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3770 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3771 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3772
3773 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3774 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3775 operating systems.
3776
3777 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3778 ${stat: expansion item.
3779
3780 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3781 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3782
3783 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3784 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3785 file for comments.
3786
3787 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3788
3789 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3790 setting.
3791
3792 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3793 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3794
3795 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3796
3797 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3798 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3799 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3800 the end of the subprocess.
3801
3802 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3803 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3804 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3805 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3806 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3807
3808 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3809
3810 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3811
3812 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3813 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3814
3815 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3816
3817 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3818
3819 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3820 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3821 HP-UX compiler.
3822
3823 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3824
3825 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3826 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3827 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3828
3829 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3830 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3831
3832 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3833 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3834
3835 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3836 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3837
3838 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3839 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3840
3841 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3842 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3843 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3844 contributed by a Radius user.
3845
3846 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3847 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3848
3849 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3850 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3851
3852 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3853 available.
3854
3855 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3856 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3857 received.
3858
3859 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3860 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3861 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3862 header lines when this was not necessary.
3863
3864 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3865
3866 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3867 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3868 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3869 exists".
3870
3871 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3872 -bV or -d is used.
3873
3874 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3875 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
3876 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3877 return code was incorrect.
3878
3879 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3880
3881 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3882
3883 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3884
3885 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3886
3887 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3888 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3889 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3890 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3891 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3892 settings.
3893
3894 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3895
3896 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3897 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3898 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3899 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3900 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3901 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3902 which is clearly wrong.
3903
3904 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3905
3906 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3907 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3908 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3909 subsequently added.
3910
3911 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3912 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3913
3914 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3915
3916 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3917 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3918
3919 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3920 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3921
3922 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3923 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3924
3925 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3926 recipients, not senders.
3927
3928 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3929 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3930
3931 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3932
3933 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3934
3935 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3936 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3937 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3938 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3939
3940 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3941
3942 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3943 clock is set back in time.
3944
3945 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3946 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3947
3948 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3949 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3950
3951 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3952 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3953 (see PH/47 above).
3954
3955 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3956 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3957 header rewrites.
3958
3959 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3960 type ("H").
3961
3962 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3963
3964 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3965 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3966 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3967
3968 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3969 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3970 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3971 helo verification defer as a failure.
3972
3973 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3974 actual error message.
3975
3976
3977 Exim version 4.52
3978 -----------------
3979
3980 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3981
3982 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3983 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3984 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3985 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3986
3987 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3988
3989 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3990 can still be requested.
3991
3992 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3993 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3994 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3995 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3996
3997 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3998 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3999 circumstances, but probably never did.
4000
4001 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4002 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4003 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4004 in the header line.
4005
4006 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4007
4008 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4009 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4010
4011 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4012
4013 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4014
4015 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4016 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4017 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4018 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4019 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4020 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4021
4022 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4023 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4024 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4025 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4026 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4027 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4028
4029 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4030 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4031
4032 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4033 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4034
4035 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4036 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4037
4038 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4039
4040 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4041
4042 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4043
4044 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4045
4046 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4047
4048 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4049
4050 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4051
4052 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4053 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4054 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4055
4056 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4057 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4058 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4059 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4060
4061 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4062 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4063 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4064
4065 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4066 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4067 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4068 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4069
4070 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4071 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4072 to be made).
4073
4074 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4075 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4076 should work with maildirs and everything.
4077
4078 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4079 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4080
4081 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4082 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4083
4084 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4085 function for BDB 4.3.
4086
4087 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4088
4089 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4090 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4091 involved.
4092
4093 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4094 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4095 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4096 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4097 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4098 formatting function string_vformat().
4099
4100 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4101 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4102 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4103 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4104 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4105 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4106 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4107 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4108
4109 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4110 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4111 details.
4112
4113 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4114 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4115
4116 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4117 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4118 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4119 test. It is now used for both.
4120
4121 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4122 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4123 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4124 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4125 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4126 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4127
4128 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4129 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4130 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4131 string_vformat().
4132
4133 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4134 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4135 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4136
4137 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4138 experimental DomainKeys support:
4139
4140 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4141 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4142 the control was given.
4143
4144 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4145
4146 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4147
4148 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4149
4150 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4151 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4152 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4153 db.h files).
4154
4155 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4156 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4157 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4158 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4159 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4160 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4161 course.
4162
4163 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4164 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4165 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4166 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4167 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4168 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4169
4170 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4171 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4172 do -d+all out of habit.
4173
4174 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4175 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4176 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4177
4178 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4179 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4180 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4181 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4182 record types that Exim uses.
4183
4184 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4185 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4186 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4187 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4188 non-existent file that was broken.
4189
4190 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4191 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4192
4193 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4194 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4195 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4196
4197 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4198
4199 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4200 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4201 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4202 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4203 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4204 same time.
4205
4206 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4207 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4208 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4209 at a slight CPU cost.
4210
4211 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4212 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4213
4214 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4215 by Marc Sherman.
4216
4217 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4218
4219 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4220 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4221
4222
4223 Exim version 4.51
4224 -----------------
4225
4226 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4227 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4228
4229 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4230
4231 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4232
4233 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4234 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4235
4236 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4237 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4238 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4239 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4240 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4241 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4242 file.
4243
4244 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4245 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4246 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4247 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4248 these two options.
4249
4250 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4251 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4252 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4253 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4254 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4255 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4256 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4257 address.
4258
4259 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4260 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4261
4262 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4263 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4264 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4265 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4266 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4267 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4268
4269 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4270 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4271 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4272 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4273
4274 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4275 Finch).
4276
4277 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4278 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4279
4280 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4281 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4282 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4283 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4284 message.
4285
4286 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4287
4288 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4289 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4290
4291 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4292 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4293 to what was transported.)
4294
4295 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4296
4297 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4298 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4299 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4300 spamd_address settings.
4301
4302 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4303 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4304 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4305 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4306 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4307
4308 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4309
4310 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4311 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4312 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4313 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4314 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4315
4316 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4317 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4318
4319 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4320 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4321 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4322 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4323 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4324 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4325 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4326 for failure.
4327
4328 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4329 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4330 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4331 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4332 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4333 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4334 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4335 "input=".
4336
4337 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4338
4339 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4340 driver and ACL definitions.
4341
4342 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4343 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4344
4345 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4346 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4347 understands it better than I do:
4348
4349 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4350 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4351
4352 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4353 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4354 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4355 => three warnings about OTP not working
4356 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4357
4358 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4359 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4360 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4361 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4362 for each call.)
4363 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4364 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4365
4366 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4367 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4368 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4369
4370 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4371 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4372 specified.
4373
4374 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4375 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4376 "Linux".
4377
4378 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4379 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4380 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4381
4382 warn !verify = sender
4383 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4384
4385 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4386 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4387
4388 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4389
4390 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4391 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4392
4393 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4394 nomenclature these days.)
4395
4396 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4397 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4398
4399 PH/30 In these circumstances:
4400 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4401 . First host does not offer TLS;
4402 . First host accepts first address;
4403 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4404 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4405 . Second host accepts second address.
4406 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4407 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4408 address.
4409
4410 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4411 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4412 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4413 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4414 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4415
4416 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4417 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4418
4419 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4420 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4421
4422 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4423 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4424 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4425
4426 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4427 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4428 overlooked.
4429
4430 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4431
4432 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4433 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4434 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4435 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4436 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4437 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4438 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4439
4440 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4441 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4442 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4443 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4444 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4445
4446 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4447 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4448 routed further.
4449
4450 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4451 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4452 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4453 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4454 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4455 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4456
4457 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4458
4459 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4460 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4461 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4462 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4463 printable escape sequences.
4464
4465 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4466 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4467 body only.
4468
4469 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4470 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4471 are as follows:
4472
4473 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4474 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4475 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4476 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4477 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4478
4479 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4480 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4481 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4482
4483 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4484
4485 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4486 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4487 play with."
4488
4489 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4490 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4491 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4492 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4493 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4494 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4495 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4496 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4497 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4498 the log output.
4499
4500 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4501 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4502 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4503 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4504 "make".
4505
4506
4507 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4508 ----------------------------------------
4509
4510 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4511 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4512 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4513 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4514 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4515 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4516 from 4.43.
4517
4518 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
4519 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4520 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4521 historical information.
4522
4523
4524 Exim version 4.50
4525 -----------------
4526
4527 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4528
4529 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
4530 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
4531
4532 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4533 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4534 place.
4535
4536 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4537 filter fails to execute.
4538
4539 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4540 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4541 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4542 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4543 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4544
4545 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4546
4547 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4548 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4549 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4550 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4551
4552 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4553 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4554 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4555 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4556 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4557
4558 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4559
4560 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4561
4562 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4563 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4564 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4565 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4566
4567 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4568 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4569 sender verification.
4570
4571 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4572 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4573
4574 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4575
4576 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4577 connection timeout.
4578
4579 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4580 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4581
4582 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4583 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4584
4585 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4586 information about exactly what failed.
4587
4588 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4589
4590 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4591 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4592 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4593
4594 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4595 It is now set to "smtps".
4596
4597 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4598 ignore_target_hosts.
4599
4600 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4601 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4602 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4603 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4604 "[x.x.x.x]".
4605
4606 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4607 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4608 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4609
4610 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4611 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4612 wake it up if nothing else does.
4613
4614 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4615 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4616 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4617 end up negative.
4618
4619 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4620 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4621
4622 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4623
4624 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4625 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4626 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4627 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4628 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4629 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4630 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4631 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4632
4633 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4634 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4635 than one IP address.
4636
4637 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4638 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4639 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4640 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4641
4642 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4643 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4644 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4645 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4646 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4647 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4648
4649 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4650 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4651 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4652 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4653
4654 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4655 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4656 respected.
4657
4658 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4659 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4660 $sender_host_address.
4661
4662 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4663 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4664 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4665 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4666 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4667 very small.
4668
4669 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4670
4671 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4672 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4673
4674 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4675 just the host names, not the priorities.
4676
4677 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4678 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4679 controlled by a keyword.
4680
4681 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
4682 multiple records are returned.
4683
4684 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4685 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4686 domain.
4687
4688 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4689
4690 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4691 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4692
4693 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4694 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4695 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4696
4697 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4698
4699 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4700
4701 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4702
4703 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4704 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4705 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4706 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4707 because the tests only now provoked it.
4708
4709 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4710 (this can affect the format of dates).
4711
4712 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4713 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4714 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4715 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4716
4717 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4718
4719 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4720 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4721 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4722 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4723
4724 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4725 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4726 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4727
4728 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4729 autoreply.
4730
4731 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4732 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4733 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4734 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4735 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4736 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4737 is going on).
4738
4739 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4740 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4741 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4742 the line.
4743
4744 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4745 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4746 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4747
4748 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4749 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4750 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4751 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4752 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4753 so I produce this patch..."
4754
4755 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4756 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4757 is not defined.
4758
4759 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4760 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4761 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4762 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4763 CAN-2005-0021
4764
4765 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4766
4767 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4768 long debug lines gets shown.
4769
4770 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4771 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4772
4773 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4774
4775 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4776 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4777 of $primary_hostname.
4778
4779 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4780 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4781 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4782 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4783 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4784 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4785 by change 4.50/55 above.
4786
4787 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4788 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4789 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4790 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4791 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4792 running as the user.
4793 CAN-2005-0021
4794
4795 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4796 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4797 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4798 CAN-2005-0022
4799
4800 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4801 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4802
4803 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4804 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4805 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4806 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4807 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4808
4809 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4810 This has been fixed.
4811
4812 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4813 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4814 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4815 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4816 the caching.)
4817
4818 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4819
4820 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4821 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4822 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4823 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4824
4825 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4826 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4827
4828 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4829 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4830 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4831
4832 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4833 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4834 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4835 message there.
4836
4837 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4838 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4839 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4840
4841 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4842 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4843 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4844 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4845
4846 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4847 during host lookups.
4848
4849 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4850 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4851
4852 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4853
4854 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4855 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4856 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4857 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4858 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4859 background.
4860
4861 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4862 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4863
4864 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4865 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4866 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4867
4868 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4869
4870 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4871 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4872 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4873 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4874 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4875 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4876 process earlier.
4877
4878 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4879 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4880 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4881 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4882 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4883
4884 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4885 tables).
4886
4887 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4888
4889 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4890 "vacation" handling.
4891
4892 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4893 OS variants using glibc.
4894
4895 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4896
4897
4898 ----------------------------------------------------
4899 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4900 ----------------------------------------------------
4901
4902
4903 Exim version 4.44
4904 -----------------
4905
4906 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4907 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4908 transport
4909
4910 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4911 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4912 place.
4913
4914 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4915 filter fails to execute.
4916
4917 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4918 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4919 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4920 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4921 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4922
4923 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4924 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4925 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4926 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4927
4928 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4929 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4930 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4931 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4932 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4933
4934 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4935
4936 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4937 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4938 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4939 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4940
4941 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4942 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4943 sender verification.
4944
4945 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4946 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4947
4948 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4949 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4950
4951 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4952 ignore_target_hosts.
4953
4954 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4955 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4956 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4957 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4958 "[x.x.x.x]".
4959
4960 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4961 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4962 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4963
4964 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4965 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4966 wake it up if nothing else does.
4967
4968 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4969 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4970 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4971 end up negative.
4972
4973 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4974 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4975
4976 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
4977
4978 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4979 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4980 empty pattern.
4981
4982 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4983 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4984 one IP address.
4985
4986 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4987 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4988 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4989 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4990 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4991 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4992
4993 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4994 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4995 respected.
4996
4997 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4998 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4999 $sender_host_address.
5000
5001 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5002
5003 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5004 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5005 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5006
5007 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5008 As per change 25.
5009
5010 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5011 (this can affect the format of dates).
5012
5013 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5014 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5015 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5016 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5017
5018 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5019 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5020 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5021
5022 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5023 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5024 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5025 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5026
5027 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5028 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5029 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5030
5031 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5032 autoreply.
5033
5034 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5035 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5036 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5037 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5038 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5039 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5040 is going on).
5041
5042 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5043 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5044 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5045 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5046 CAN-2005-0021
5047
5048 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5049 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5050 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5051 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5052 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5053 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5054 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5055
5056 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5057 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5058 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5059 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5060 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5061 running as the user.
5062 CAN-2005-0021
5063
5064 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5065 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5066 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5067 CAN-2005-0022
5068
5069 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5070 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5071 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5072 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5073 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5074
5075 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5076 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5077 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5078 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5079 the caching.)
5080
5081 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5082 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5083 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5084 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5085 because the tests only now provoked it.
5086
5087
5088 Exim version 4.43
5089 -----------------
5090
5091 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5092 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5093 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5094 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5095 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5096 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5097 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5098
5099 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5100 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5101 the delivery.
5102
5103 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5104
5105 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5106
5107 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5108 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5109 to local_scan().
5110
5111 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5112 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5113 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5114 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5115 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5116
5117 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5118 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5119
5120 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5121
5122 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5123
5124 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5125 header_sender only.
5126
5127 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5128 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5129
5130 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5131 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5132 affecting debugging statements).
5133
5134 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5135
5136 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5137 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5138 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5139 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5140 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5141 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5142 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5143 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5144 after the received time, and all would be well.
5145
5146 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5147 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5148 condition in an expansion string.
5149
5150 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5151
5152 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5153 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5154 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5155 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5156 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5157 job under whatever limits there are.
5158
5159 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5160
5161 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5162 space).
5163
5164 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5165 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5166 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5167 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5168 return path is set.
5169
5170 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5171 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5172 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5173 binary data in such strings.
5174
5175 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5176
5177 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5178 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5179 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5180 failure, which is pointless.
5181
5182 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5183
5184 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5185
5186 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5187 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5188 Sender: header lines.
5189
5190 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5191 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5192 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5193
5194 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5195 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5196 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5197 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5198 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5199 happens.
5200
5201 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5202 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5203 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5204 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5205 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5206
5207 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5208 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5209 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5210 1024.
5211
5212 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5213 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5214
5215 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5216 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5217
5218 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5219
5220 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5221
5222 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5223
5224 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5225 syntax error.
5226
5227 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5228
5229 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5230
5231 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5232 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5233 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5234 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5235
5236 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5237 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5238
5239
5240 Exim version 4.42
5241 -----------------
5242
5243 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5244 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5245 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5246 it was not quoted.
5247 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5248 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5249 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5250 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5251 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5252 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5253
5254 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5255 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5256 verification failure".
5257
5258 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5259 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5260 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5261 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5262
5263 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5264 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5265 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5266 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5267 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5268 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5269 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5270 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5271 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5272 treated as a timeout.
5273
5274 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5275 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5276 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5277 not set for Exim filters).
5278
5279 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5280 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5281 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5282
5283 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5284
5285 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5286 try to make them clearer.
5287
5288 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5289 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5290
5291 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5292
5293 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5294
5295 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5296 only the Cygwin environment.
5297
5298 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5299 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5300 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5301 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5302 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5303
5304 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5305 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5306 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5307 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5308 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5309 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5310 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5311
5312 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5313 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5314
5315 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5316
5317 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5318 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5319 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5320
5321 To: susanne@some.where
5322
5323 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5324 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5325 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5326 of addresses in From: header lines).
5327
5328 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5329 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5330 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5331
5332 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5333 treated as non-personal.
5334
5335 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5336 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5337
5338 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5339
5340 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5341
5342 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5343 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5344 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5345
5346 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5347 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5348
5349 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5350 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5351 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5352 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5353 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5354 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5355
5356 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5357 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5358 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5359 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5360 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5361 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5362 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5363 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5364
5365 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5366
5367 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5368 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5369
5370 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5371 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5372 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5373
5374 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5375 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5376
5377 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5378 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5379 rather than long int.
5380
5381 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5382
5383 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5384
5385
5386 Exim version 4.41
5387 -----------------
5388
5389 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5390 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5391 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5392 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5393 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5394 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5395
5396
5397 Exim version 4.40
5398 -----------------
5399
5400 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5401 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5402
5403 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5404 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5405 socklen_t is defined.
5406
5407 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5408 always exist.
5409
5410 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5411 configured.
5412
5413 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5414 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5415 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5416 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5417 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5418
5419 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5420 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5421 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5422 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5423
5424 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5425 of flapping under certain conditions.
5426
5427 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5428 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5429 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5430
5431 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5432
5433 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5434
5435 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5436 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5437 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5438 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5439
5440 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5441 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5442 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5443 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5444 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5445 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5446 preserved with the message after it was received.
5447
5448 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5449 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5450 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5451 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5452 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5453 test suite worked just fine.
5454
5455 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5456 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5457 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5458
5459 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5460 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5461 string.
5462
5463 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5464 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5465 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5466 does not fully solve it.
5467
5468 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5469 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5470 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5471 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5472 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5473
5474 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5475 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5476 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5477
5478 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5479 string, for example:
5480
5481 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5482
5483 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5484 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5485 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5486 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5487 the routers could not see them.
5488
5489 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5490 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5491
5492 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5493 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5494 output).
5495
5496 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5497 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5498 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5499 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5500 that needed quoting.
5501
5502 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5503 was not being matched caselessly.
5504
5505 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5506 backslashes.
5507
5508 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5509 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5510 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5511 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5512 when use_sender is false.
5513
5514 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5515
5516 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5517
5518 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5519
5520 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5521 the configuration file.
5522
5523 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5524 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5525
5526 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5527
5528 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5529 bytes in the message body.
5530
5531 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5532 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5533 delivery.
5534
5535 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5536
5537 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5538
5539 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5540 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5541 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5542 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5543 another IP address.
5544
5545
5546 Exim version 4.34
5547 -----------------
5548
5549 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5550 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5551
5552 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5553 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5554 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5555 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5556 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5557
5558 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5559 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5560
5561 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5562 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5563 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5564
5565 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5566 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5567 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5568
5569 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5570 for routers.
5571
5572 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5573 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5574 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5575 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5576 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5577 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5578 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5579
5580
5581 Exim version 4.33
5582 -----------------
5583
5584 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5585 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5586 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5587 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5588 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5589 default (and expected) setting.
5590
5591 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5592 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5593 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5594 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5595
5596 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5597 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5598
5599 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5600 in domain lists.
5601
5602 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5603 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5604 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5605 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5606 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5607 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5608
5609 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5610 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5611 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5612
5613 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5614 part (NOT match_host).
5615
5616 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5617
5618 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5619 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5620 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5621 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5622 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5623 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5624 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5625 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5626 the same named file.
5627
5628 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5629 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5630 when Exim is built.
5631
5632 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5633 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5634 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5635 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5636 a host name.
5637
5638 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5639 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5640 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5641
5642 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5643
5644 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5645
5646 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5647
5648 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5649 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5650
5651 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5652 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5653 before starting the TLS session.
5654
5655 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5656
5657 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5658 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5659
5660 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5661 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5662 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5663 colon in the middle).
5664
5665
5666 Exim version 4.32
5667 -----------------
5668
5669 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5670 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5671 multiple configurations are in use.
5672
5673 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5674 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5675 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5676 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5677 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5678 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5679
5680 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5681 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5682
5683 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5684 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5685 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5686
5687 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5688 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5689 occurs.
5690
5691 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5692 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5693
5694 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5695
5696 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5697 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5698
5699 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5700
5701 -prval:sval
5702
5703 is equivalent to
5704
5705 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5706
5707 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5708 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5709 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5710 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5711 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5712
5713 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5714 Exim's behaviour:
5715
5716 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5717 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5718 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5719 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5720 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5721 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5722
5723 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5724 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5725 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5726 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5727 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5728 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5729 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5730 string.
5731
5732 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5733 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5734 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5735 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5736 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5737
5738 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5739
5740 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5741 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5742 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5743
5744 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5745
5746 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5747 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5748 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5749 information.
5750
5751 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5752 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5753
5754 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5755 Three changes have been made:
5756
5757 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5758 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5759 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5760 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5761 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5762
5763 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5764 been restored.
5765
5766 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5767 the modified behaviour.
5768
5769
5770 Exim version 4.31
5771 -----------------
5772
5773 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5774 Larry Rosenman.
5775
5776 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5777 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5778
5779 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5780 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5781 try to track down a specific problem.
5782
5783 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5784 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5785 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5786
5787 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5788 warning.
5789
5790 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5791 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5792 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5793 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5794 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5795 some earlier ones do not.
5796
5797 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5798
5799 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5800 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5801 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5802 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5803 address literals are enabled, of course).
5804
5805 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5806
5807 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5808 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5809 by a command such as
5810
5811 exim -f "" ...
5812
5813 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5814
5815 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5816
5817 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5818 remained set. It is now erased.
5819
5820 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5821 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5822
5823 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5824 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5825 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5826 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5827 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5828 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5829 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5830 appropriate error code.
5831
5832 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5833 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5834 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5835 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5836 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5837 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5838
5839 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5840 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5841 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5842
5843 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5844 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5845 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5846 terminate the header.
5847
5848 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5849 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5850 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5851
5852 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5853 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5854 (4.30/29). In particular:
5855
5856 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5857 imposed.
5858
5859 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5860 to write a maildirsize file.
5861
5862 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5863 the transport, the new value overrides.
5864
5865 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5866 count.
5867
5868 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5869 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5870 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5871 space or a tab.
5872
5873 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5874 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5875 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5876 the fallback hosts.
5877
5878 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5879 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5880 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5881
5882 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5883 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5884 using a union.
5885
5886 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5887 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5888 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5889
5890 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5891
5892 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5893
5894 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5895
5896 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5897 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5898 become corrupted.
5899
5900 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5901 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5902 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5903 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5904 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5905 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5906 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5907 too great.
5908
5909 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5910 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5911 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5912 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5913 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5914 incorrectly.
5915
5916 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5917 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5918 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5919 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5920 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5921 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5922 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5923 cached value only when the same options are set.
5924
5925 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5926
5927 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5928 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5929 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5930 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5931 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5932
5933 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5934 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5935 it is clearly obsolete.
5936
5937 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5938 transport.
5939
5940 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5941 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5942 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5943 times.
5944
5945 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5946 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5947 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5948 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5949 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5950
5951 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5952 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5953 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5954 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5955
5956 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5957
5958 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5959
5960 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5961 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5962 2^31.
5963
5964 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5965 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5966 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5967 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5968 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5969 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5970 $localpart_data.
5971
5972 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5973 with the -f command-line option.
5974
5975 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5976 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5977 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5978 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5979 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5980 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5981
5982 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5983 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5984 line.
5985
5986 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5987 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5988 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5989 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5990 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5991 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5992 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5993 buffer is too small.
5994
5995 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5996 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5997
5998 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5999 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6000 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6001 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6002 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6003 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6004 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6005 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6006 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6007
6008 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6009 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6010 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6011
6012 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6013 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6014 ACL").
6015
6016 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6017 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6018 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6019 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6020 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6021
6022 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6023 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6024 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6025 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6026 is set.
6027
6028 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6029
6030 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6031
6032 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6033 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6034
6035 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6036 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6037 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6038
6039 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6040 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6041 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6042 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6043 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6044
6045 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6046 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6047 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6048 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6049 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6050 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6051 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6052
6053 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6054 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6055 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6056 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6057 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6058 the test of how many are available.
6059
6060 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6061 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6062 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6063 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6064 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6065 new message is started.
6066
6067 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6068 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6069
6070 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6071 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6072
6073 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6074 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6075 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6076 is no long logged.
6077
6078 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6079 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6080 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6081 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6082 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6083 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6084 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6085
6086 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6087 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6088 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6089 interpreted as octal.
6090
6091 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6092 setting.
6093
6094 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6095 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6096 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6097 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6098 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6099 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6100
6101 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6102 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6103 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6104 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6105
6106 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6107 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6108 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6109 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6110
6111 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6112 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6113 is a bug fix.
6114
6115 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6116 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6117
6118 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6119
6120 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6121 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6122 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6123 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6124
6125 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6126 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6127 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6128 supplied", which is not helpful.
6129
6130 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6131 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6132 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6133
6134 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6135 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6136 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6137 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6138 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6139 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6140 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6141 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6142
6143 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6144 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6145 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6146 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6147 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6148
6149 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6150 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6151 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6152 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6153 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6154 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6155
6156 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6157 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6158 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6159
6160 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6161
6162 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6163 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6164 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6165 variables.
6166
6167 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6168
6169 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6170 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6171 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6172 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6173 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6174 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6175 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6176 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6177
6178 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6179 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6180 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6181 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6182 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6183
6184 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6185 Haardt.
6186
6187 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6188 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6189 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6190 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6191 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6192 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6193 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6194 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6195 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6196
6197
6198 Exim version 4.30
6199 -----------------
6200
6201 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6202 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6203 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6204
6205 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6206 fixed.
6207
6208 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6209 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6210 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6211
6212 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6213 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6214 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6215 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6216 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6217 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6218
6219 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6220 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6221 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6222 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6223 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6224 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6225 the Exim test suite.
6226
6227 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6228 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6229 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6230 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6231
6232 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6233 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6234 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6235 specify it in this variable.
6236
6237 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6238 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6239 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6240 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6241
6242 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6243 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6244 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6245 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6246
6247 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6248 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6249 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6250 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6251 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6252
6253 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6254
6255 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6256 they are logged.
6257
6258 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6259 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6260 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6261 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6262 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6263
6264 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6265 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6266
6267 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6268 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6269 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6270 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6271 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6272
6273 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6274 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6275
6276 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6277 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6278 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6279
6280 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6281 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6282
6283 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6284 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6285
6286 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6287 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6288 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6289
6290 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6291 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6292
6293 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6294 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6295 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6296 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6297
6298 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6299
6300 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6301 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6302 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6303 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6304
6305 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6306
6307 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6308 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6309
6310 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6311
6312 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6313 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6314 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6315 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6316 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6317 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6318
6319 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6320
6321 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6322 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6323 this.
6324
6325 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6326
6327 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6328 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6329
6330 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6331 550 Sender verify failed
6332
6333 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6334 the final line of the response.
6335
6336 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6337 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6338 all other user lookups.
6339
6340 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6341 delivery time.
6342
6343 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6344 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6345 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6346 result into an int without checking.
6347
6348 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6349 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6350 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6351
6352 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6353 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6354 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6355 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6356
6357 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6358 correctly.
6359
6360 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6361 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6362
6363 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6364 to the empty sender.
6365
6366 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6367 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6368 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6369 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6370 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6371 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6372 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6373 panic log.
6374
6375 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6376 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6377 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6378 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6379 used.
6380
6381 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6382 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6383
6384 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6385 timestamps.
6386
6387 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6388 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6389
6390 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6391
6392 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6393 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6394 logs.
6395
6396 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6397 as soon as it is encountered.
6398
6399 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6400
6401 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6402 rewritten to "<>".
6403
6404 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6405 recognizes a tab character.
6406
6407 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6408 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6409 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6410 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6411
6412 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6413
6414 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6415 crash.
6416
6417 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6418
6419 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6420
6421 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6422 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6423 2822.
6424
6425 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6426 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6427 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6428 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6429 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6430
6431 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6432 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6433
6434 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6435 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6436 list (.included file names were always shown).
6437
6438 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6439 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6440 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6441 root at that time.
6442
6443 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6444 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6445
6446 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6447
6448 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6449
6450 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6451
6452 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6453 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6454 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6455 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6456 failures to open the logs.
6457
6458 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6459 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6460 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6461 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6462 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6463 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6464 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6465
6466
6467 Exim version 4.24
6468 -----------------
6469
6470 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6471 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6472 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6473 change 4.23/1.
6474
6475 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6476 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6477 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6478
6479 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6480 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6481 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6482
6483 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6484 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6485 causing some misleading effects.
6486
6487 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6488 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6489 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6490
6491 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6492 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6493 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6494 queue-runner function directly.
6495
6496
6497 Exim version 4.23
6498 -----------------
6499
6500 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6501 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6502
6503 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6504 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6505 was always written to the default place.
6506
6507 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6508 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6509 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6510
6511 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6512
6513 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6514
6515 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6516 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6517 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6518
6519 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6520 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6521 must start.
6522
6523 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6524 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6525 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6526
6527 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6528 command line option is disabled.
6529
6530 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6531 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6532
6533 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6534
6535 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6536
6537 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6538 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6539
6540 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6541
6542 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6543 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6544 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6545 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6546 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6547 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6548
6549 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6550 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6551 timeout.
6552
6553 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6554 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6555
6556 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6557 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6558
6559 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6560 received was valid base64.
6561
6562 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6563 name of the variable that was being set.
6564
6565 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6566
6567 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6568 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6569 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6570 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6571 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6572 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6573
6574 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6575
6576 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6577 nor realm was specified.
6578
6579 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6580 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6581 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6582 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6583
6584 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6585 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6586 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6587
6588 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6589 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6590 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6591
6592 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6593 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6594 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6595 some systems use these upper case variants.
6596
6597 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6598 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6599 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6600 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6601
6602 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6603
6604 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6605 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6606
6607 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6608 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6609 expansion variable.
6610
6611 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6612
6613 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6614 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6615 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6616 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6617
6618 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6619 using it.
6620
6621 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6622 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6623 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6624
6625 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6626 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6627
6628 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6629 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6630 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6631 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6632
6633 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6634 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6635 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6636
6637 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6638
6639 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6640 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6641 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6642 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6643 aborted.
6644
6645 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6646 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6647 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6648
6649 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6650
6651 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6652 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6653
6654 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6655 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6656
6657 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6658 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6659 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6660 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6661 when emails are that large.
6662
6663
6664
6665 Exim version 4.22
6666 -----------------
6667
6668 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6669 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6670
6671 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6672 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6673 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6674
6675 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6676 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6677 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6678
6679 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6680 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6681 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6682 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6683 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6684
6685 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6686 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6687 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6688 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6689 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6690 ever.
6691
6692 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6693 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6694 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6695 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6696 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6697 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6698 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6699 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6700 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6701 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6702 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6703 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6704 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6705 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6706
6707 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6708 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6709 parameterised it.
6710
6711 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6712 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6713 error should be diagnosed.
6714
6715 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6716 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6717 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6718 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6719 appeared instead of "NULL".
6720
6721 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6722 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6723 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6724 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6725 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6726 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6727 proceeds).
6728
6729 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6730 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6731 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6732
6733
6734 Exim version 4.21
6735 -----------------
6736
6737 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6738 or receiver verification errors.
6739
6740 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6741 name.
6742
6743 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6744 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6745 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6746 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6747
6748 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6749 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6750 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6751 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6752 shouldn't happen again.
6753
6754 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6755 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6756 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6757
6758 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6759 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6760
6761 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6762
6763 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6764 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6765
6766 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6767 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6768 RFC.
6769
6770 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6771 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6772 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6773
6774 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6775 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6776 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6777 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6778
6779 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6780 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6781 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6782 to define what should happen).
6783
6784 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6785 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6786 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6787
6788 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6789
6790 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6791
6792 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6793 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6794
6795 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
6796 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6797 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6798 structure in all cases.
6799
6800 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6801 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6802 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6803 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6804
6805 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6806 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6807 domain name.
6808
6809 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6810 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6811
6812 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6813 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6814
6815 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6816 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6817 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6818
6819 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6820 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6821 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6822
6823 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6824 the book and for uniformity.
6825
6826 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6827
6828 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6829 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6830 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6831 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6832 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6833 non-existent command as the problem.
6834
6835 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6836 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6837 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6838
6839 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6840
6841 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6842 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6843 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6844
6845 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6846 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6847 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6848 timestamps using strftime().
6849
6850 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6851 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6852
6853 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6854 transport-time rewrites.
6855
6856 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6857 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6858 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6859 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6860
6861 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6862 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6863
6864 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6865 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6866 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6867 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6868 comma and a space.
6869
6870 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6871 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6872 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6873 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6874 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6875 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6876 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6877
6878 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6879 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6880 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6881 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6882 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6883
6884 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6885 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6886 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6887 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6888 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6889 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6890 remaining text gets split now.
6891
6892 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6893 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6894 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6895 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6896
6897 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6898 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6899 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6900 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6901 $return_path.
6902
6903 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6904 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6905 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6906 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6907 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6908 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6909 passed through if needed.
6910
6911 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6912 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6913 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6914 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6915 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6916 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6917
6918 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6919 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6920 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6921 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6922 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6923
6924 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6925 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6926 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6927 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6928 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6929
6930 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6931 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6932 noticed.
6933
6934 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6935 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6936 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6937 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6938 mayhem of various kinds.
6939
6940 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6941 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6942 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6943 the right test for positive values.
6944
6945 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6946 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6947 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6948 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6949 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6950 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6951 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6952 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6953 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6954 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6955 envelope.
6956
6957 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6958 module.
6959
6960 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6961 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6962 forbidding it.
6963
6964 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6965 the existing equality matching.
6966
6967 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6968 dealing with inode numbers.
6969
6970 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6971 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6972 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6973
6974 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6975 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6976 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6977 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6978 local_scan().
6979
6980 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6981 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6982 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6983 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6984 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6985 relay addresses has also been removed.
6986
6987 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6988
6989 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6990 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6991 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6992
6993 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6994 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6995 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6996 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6997 processing applies to CR:
6998
6999 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7000 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7001
7002 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7003 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7004 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7005 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7006
7007 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7008 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7009 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7010
7011 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7012 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7013 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7014 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7015 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7016 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7017 arisen.
7018
7019 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7020 program routers.
7021
7022 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7023 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7024 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7025 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7026 adds:
7027
7028 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7029
7030 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7031
7032 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7033
7034 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7035 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7036 not considered personal.
7037
7038 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7039
7040 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7041
7042 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7043
7044 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7045 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7046 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7047 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7048 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7049 header lines, and spool format errors.
7050
7051 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7052 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7053 for more flexibility.
7054
7055 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7056 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7057 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7058
7059 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7060 Sabourenkov.
7061
7062 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7063 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7064 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7065 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7066 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7067 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7068 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7069 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7070 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7071
7072 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7073 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7074 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7075 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7076 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7077 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7078 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7079
7080 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7081 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7082 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7083
7084 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7085 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7086 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7087 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7088 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7089 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7090 instead of killing the process with assert().
7091
7092 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7093 than Unicode encoding.
7094
7095 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7096 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7097 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7098 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7099
7100 77. Added process_log_path.
7101
7102 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7103 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7104
7105 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7106 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7107
7108 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7109 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7110 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7111
7112 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7113 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7114 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7115 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7116 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7117 were applied:
7118
7119 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7120 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7121 as invalid.
7122
7123 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7124 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7125 they will be used during message reception.
7126
7127
7128 Exim version 4.20
7129 -----------------
7130
7131 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7132
7133 ****