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1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
4
5
6 Exim version 4.94
7 -----------------
8
9 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
10 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
11 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
12
13 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
14
15 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
16 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
17 option.
18
19 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
20 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
21 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
22
23 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
24
25 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
26
27 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
28 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
29 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
30
31 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
32 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
33 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
34
35 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
36 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
37
38 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
39 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
40 was taken.
41
42 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
43 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
44 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
45 should both provide the file and set the option.
46 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
47
48 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
49 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
50
51 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
52 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
53 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
54 Authentication-Results: header.
55
56 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
57 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
58 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
59 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
60
61 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
62 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
63 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
64 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
65 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
66 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
67 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
68
69 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
70 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
71 copies while it is still usable.
72
73 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
74 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
75 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
76
77 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
78 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
79
80 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
81 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
82 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
83 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
84
85 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
86 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
87 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
88 information.
89
90 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
91 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
92 - the pipe transport command
93 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
94 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
95 - named-queue names
96 Previously this was permitted.
97
98 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
99 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
100 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
101 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
102
103 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
104 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
105 support larger malloc requests.
106
107 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
108 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
109 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
110 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
111
112 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
113 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
114 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
115 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
116 indeterminate.
117
118 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
119 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
120 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
121 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
122 data being length-specified.
123
124 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
125 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
126 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
127 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
128
129 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
130 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
131 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
132 not being properly tracked.
133
134 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
135 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
136 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
137 minute could be seen.
138
139 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
140 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
141 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
142
143 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
144 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
145
146 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
147 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
148 non-pipelined mode.
149
150 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
151
152 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
153 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
154
155 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
156 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
157 filesystem as sufficient validation.
158
159 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
160 argument is supplied.
161
162
163 Exim version 4.93
164 -----------------
165
166 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
167 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
168
169 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
170 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
171 its own TCP segment.
172
173 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
174 each verb.
175
176 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
177
178 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
179
180 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
181 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
182
183 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
184 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
185 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
186 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
187 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
188 suitably configured).
189
190 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
191 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
192
193 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
194 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
195 crash could result.
196
197 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
198 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
199
200 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
201 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
202 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
203 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
204 to this system.
205
206 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
207 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
208 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
209
210 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
211 output.
212
213 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
214 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
215
216 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
217 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
218 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
219 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
220 input).
221
222 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
223 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
224 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
225 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
226 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
227
228 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
229 shared (NFS) environment.
230
231 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
232 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
233 affected.
234
235 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
236 on some platforms for bit 31.
237
238 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
239 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
240 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
241 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
242 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
243 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
244 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
245 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
246
247 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
248
249 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
250 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
251
252 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
253 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
254 facility.
255
256 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
257 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
258 documentation.
259
260 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
261 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
262 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
263 not do so.
264
265 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
266 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
267 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
268
269 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
270 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
271 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
272 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
273 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
274
275 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
276 reject under TFO.
277
278 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
279 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
280 be requested on all coneections.
281
282 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
283 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
284
285 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
286
287 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
288 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
289 one for these; the option was ignored.
290
291 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
292 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
293 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
294 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
295
296 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
297 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
298 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
299 standards.
300
301 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
302 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
303 error ignored was made.
304
305 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
306
307 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
308 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
309 values, to catch one form of exploit.
310
311 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
312 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
313 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
314
315 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
316 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
317 causing a segfault.
318
319 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
320 them in our smtp response.
321
322 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
323 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
324 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
325 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
326 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
327
328 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
329 link count into consideration.
330
331 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
332 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
333
334 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
335 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
336 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
337 surprise.
338
339 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
340
341 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
342
343 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
344
345 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
346 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
347 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
348 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
349
350 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
351
352 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
353 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
354 active.
355
356 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
357 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
358 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
359
360 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
361 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
362 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
363
364 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
365 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
366 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
367 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
368 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
369 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
370 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
371 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
372
373 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
374 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
375 resulted in an indefinite loop.
376
377 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
378 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
379 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
380
381
382 Exim version 4.92
383 -----------------
384
385 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
386 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
387
388 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
389 non-signal-safe functions being used.
390
391 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
392 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
393 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
394
395 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
396 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
397 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
398
399 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
400 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
401 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
402 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
403 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
404 messed with.
405
406 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
407 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
408
409 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
410 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
411 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
412 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
413 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
414 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
415 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
416
417 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
418 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
419
420 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
421 legitimate.
422
423 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
424 Previously this would segfault.
425
426 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
427 segfault.
428
429 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
430 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
431 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
432 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
433 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
434 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
435
436 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
437
438 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
439 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
440 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
441 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
442
443 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
444
445 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
446 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
447 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
448 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
449
450 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
451
452 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
453
454 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
455 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
456 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
457
458 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
459 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
460 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
461
462 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
463
464 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
465 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
466 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
467 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
468
469 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
470 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
471 promised '?' replacement.
472
473 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
474
475 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
476 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
477 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
478 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
479 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
480
481 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
482 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
483 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
484
485 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
486 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
487 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
488
489 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
490 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
491 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
492
493 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
494 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
495 hope that is portable enough.
496
497 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
498 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
499 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
500 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
501
502 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
503 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
504 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
505
506 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
507 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
508 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
509 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
510
511 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
512 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
513
514 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
515 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
516 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
517 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
518
519 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
520 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
521 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
522
523 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
524 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
525 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
526 the previous G, M, k.
527
528 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
529 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
530 it was unset.
531
532 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
533 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
534 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
535 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
536
537 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
538 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
539
540 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
541 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
542 off past the nul-terimation.
543
544 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
545 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
546 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
547 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
548 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
549
550 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
551
552 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
553 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
554 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
555 actually does fail.
556
557 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
558 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
559
560 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
561 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
562 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
563
564 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
565 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
566 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
567
568 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
569 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
570
571
572 Exim version 4.91
573 -----------------
574
575 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
576 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
577 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
578 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
579 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
580 be defined in redis_servers.
581
582 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
583 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
584
585 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
586 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
587 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
588 extant use locations.
589
590 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
591 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
592
593 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
594 Previously only the last row was returned.
595
596 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
597 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
598 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
599 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
600 input.
601
602 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
603 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
604 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
605 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
606 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
607 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
608 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
609 Main pool for expansions.
610 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
611 active in the testsuite.
612 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
613
614 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
615 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
616 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
617 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
618 round-robin DNS.
619
620 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
621 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
622 failure response.
623
624 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
625 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
626 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
627
628 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
629 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
630 ClamAV interface method is removed.
631
632 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
633 rows affected is given instead).
634
635 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
636 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
637
638 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
639 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
640 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
641 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
642 for all multi-message initiating connections.
643
644 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
645 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
646 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
647
648 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
649 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
650 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
651 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
652 separate.
653
654 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
655 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
656 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
657 fake-reject.
658
659 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
660
661 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
662 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
663
664 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
665 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
666 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
667
668 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
669 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
670 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
671 and send a quit.
672
673 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
674 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
675
676 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
677 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
678 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
679
680 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
681 for the build is renamed.
682
683 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
684 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
685 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
686
687 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
688 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
689 result replacing the original.
690
691 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
692 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
693 and the resources needed to be freed.
694
695 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
696
697 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
698 was not propagated.
699
700 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
701 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
702 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
703 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
704
705 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
706 length value. Previously this would segfault.
707
708 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
709 newer versions of the scanner.
710
711 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
712 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
713 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
714 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
715 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
716 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
717 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
718
719 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
720 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
721 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
722 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
723 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
724 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
725 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
726 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
727 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
728 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
729
730 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
731 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
732
733 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
734
735 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
736 allows proper process termination in container environments.
737
738 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
739 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
740
741 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
742 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
743 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
744
745 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
746 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
747 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
748 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
749
750 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
751 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
752 would be spooled.
753
754 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
755 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
756
757 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
758 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
759 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
760 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
761 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
762
763 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
764 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
765 lines.
766
767 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
768 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
769
770 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
771 suffix list.
772
773 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
774 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
775 "bare" representation.
776
777 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
778 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
779 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
780 corrupted the output.
781
782
783 Exim version 4.90
784 -----------------
785
786 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
787 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
788 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
789 pairs of long lines into single ones.
790
791 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
792 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
793
794 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
795 This permits better logging.
796
797 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
798 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
799 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
800 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
801 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
802 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
803
804 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
805 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
806 "exiwhat" output.
807
808 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
809 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
810 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
811
812 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
813 than 255 are no longer allowed.
814
815 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
816 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
817 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
818 client, there is no benefit for these.
819 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
820 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
821 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
822 is used (3.2.4 +).
823
824 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
825 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
826
827 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
828 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
829 erroneously found still-pending ones.
830
831 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
832 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
833
834 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
835 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
836 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
837 signature and again for transmission.
838
839 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
840 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
841 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
842
843 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
844 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
845 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
846 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
847 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
848 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
849 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
850
851 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
852 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
853 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
854 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
855
856 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
857 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
858 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
859 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
860 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
861 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
862 processing options.
863
864 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
865 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
866 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
867 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
868 connections.
869
870 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
871 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
872 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
873 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
874 versions.
875
876 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
877 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
878 inaccessible.
879
880 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
881 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
882 banner-time rejection.
883
884 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
885 callout/hold.
886
887 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
888 is the name of a transport.
889 Fixes bug 2140.
890
891 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
892
893 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
894 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
895
896 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
897 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
898 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
899 during compilation.
900
901 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
902 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
903 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
904 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
905
906 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
907 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
908 initial verify call returned a defer.
909
910 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
911 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
912
913 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
914 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
915
916 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
917 if present. Previously it was ignored.
918
919 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
920 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
921
922 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
923 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
924 extensible.
925
926 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
927 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
928
929 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
930 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
931 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
932
933 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
934 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
935 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
936 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
937
938 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
939 and confused the parent.
940
941 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
942 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
943
944 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
945 for log purposes.
946
947 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
948 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
949 out-of-order delivery.
950
951 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
952 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
953 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
954 error for the HELO.
955
956 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
957 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
958 desynchronisation.
959
960 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
961 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
962 one run was done. Bug 2189.
963
964 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
965 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
966 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
967 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
968 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
969 message is still "Temporary local problem".
970
971 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
972 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
973 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
974
975 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
976 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
977 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
978
979 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
980 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
981 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
982 though a different problem.
983
984
985 Exim version 4.89
986 -----------------
987
988 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
989 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
990
991 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
992
993 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
994 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
995
996 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
997 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
998
999 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1000 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1001 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1002 before acknowledging the chunk.
1003
1004 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1005 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1006 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1007
1008 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1009 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1010 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1011 should.
1012
1013 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1014 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1015 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1016
1017 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1018 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1019
1020 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1021 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1022 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1023 body hash calculated value.
1024
1025 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1026 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1027 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1028
1029 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1030
1031 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1032 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1033
1034 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1035 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1036 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1037
1038 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1039 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1040 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1041 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1042 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1043 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1044
1045 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1046 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1047 past that check, despite the cost.
1048
1049 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1050 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1051 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1052
1053 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1054 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1055 TLS library to consume.
1056
1057 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1058
1059 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1060
1061 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1062 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1063 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1064 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1065 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1066 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1067 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1068
1069 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1070
1071 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1072
1073 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1074 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1075 should be warning-free.
1076
1077 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1078
1079 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1080 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1081
1082 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1083 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1084 general solution here.
1085
1086 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1087 already-broken messages in the queue.
1088
1089 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1090
1091 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1092
1093
1094 Exim version 4.88
1095 -----------------
1096
1097 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1098 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1099
1100 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1101 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1102 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1103
1104 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1105 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1106 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1107 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1108 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1109 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1110 if one fails this test.
1111 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1112 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1113
1114 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1115 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1116
1117 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1118 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1119
1120 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1121 in rewrites and routers.
1122
1123 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1124 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1125
1126 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1127 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1128
1129 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1130
1131 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1132 certificate).
1133
1134 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1135 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1136 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1137 connection after a verify cache hit.
1138 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1139
1140 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1141 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1142
1143 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1144 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1145 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1146 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1147 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1148
1149 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1150 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1151
1152 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1153 Previously they were not counted.
1154
1155 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1156 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1157 that needed the lookup.
1158
1159 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1160 distinguished as "(=".
1161
1162 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1163 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1164
1165 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1166
1167 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1168 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1169
1170 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1171 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1172
1173 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1174 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1175 compatible.
1176
1177 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1178 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1179 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1180 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1181
1182 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1183
1184 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1185 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1186 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1187
1188 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1189 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1190 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1191 be lost.
1192
1193 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1194 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1195 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1196 itself :(
1197
1198 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1199 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1200 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1201
1202 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1203 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1204 options.
1205
1206 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1207
1208 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1209 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1210
1211 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1212 are not in the system include path.
1213
1214 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1215 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1216 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1217 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1218
1219 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1220 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1221 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1222
1223 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1224
1225 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1226 an incoming connection.
1227
1228 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1229 to rspamd.
1230
1231 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1232 fallback to "prime256v1".
1233
1234 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1235 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1236
1237
1238 Exim version 4.87
1239 -----------------
1240
1241 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1242 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1243 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1244 client dropping the TLS connection.
1245
1246 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1247 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1248
1249 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1250 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1251 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1252 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1253 outgoing I= field.
1254
1255 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1256 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1257 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1258 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1259 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1260 check on the next write.
1261
1262 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1263 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1264 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1265 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1266 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1267
1268 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1269 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1270
1271 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1272 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1273 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1274
1275 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1276 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1277 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1278 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1279
1280 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1281 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1282
1283 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1284 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1285
1286 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1287 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1288 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1289 distinct.
1290
1291 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1292
1293 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1294
1295 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1296
1297 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1298 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1299
1300 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1301 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1302
1303 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1304
1305 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1306 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1307
1308 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1309
1310 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1311 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1312
1313 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1314
1315 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1316 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1317 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1318 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1319 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1320 they will retry in-clear.
1321 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1322 at installation time.
1323
1324 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1325 with the $config_file variable.
1326
1327 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1328 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1329 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1330 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1331 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1332
1333 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1334 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1335 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1336 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1337 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1338
1339 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1340
1341 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1342 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1343 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1344 list order is no longer honoured.
1345
1346 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1347 for DKIM processing.
1348
1349 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1350 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1351
1352 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1353 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1354 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1355 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1356
1357 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1358 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1359
1360 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1361 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1362
1363 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1364 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1365
1366 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1367
1368 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1369 cached by the daemon.
1370
1371 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1372 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1373
1374 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1375 keys are given for lookup.
1376
1377 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1378 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1379 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1380 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1381
1382 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1383 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1384 server-side so match that on older versions.
1385
1386 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1387 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1388 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1389
1390 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1391 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1392
1393 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1394 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1395 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1396 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1397 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1398 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1399 initial truncated version.
1400
1401 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1402
1403 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1404
1405 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1406 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1407
1408 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1409
1410 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1411
1412 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1413 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1414 induced overflows.
1415
1416 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1417 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1418 stage.
1419
1420 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1421 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1422
1423 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1424 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1425 former class.
1426
1427 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1428 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1429 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1430
1431 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1432 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1433 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1434 extraction. Accept either.
1435
1436
1437 Exim version 4.86
1438 -----------------
1439
1440 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1441 expanded.
1442
1443 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1444
1445 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1446 it.
1447
1448 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1449 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1450 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1451 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1452
1453 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1454 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1455 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1456
1457 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1458 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1459 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1460 TLS connections
1461
1462 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1463 sites use this now.
1464
1465 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1466 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1467 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1468 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1469 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1470
1471 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1472 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1473 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1474
1475 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1476
1477 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1478 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1479
1480 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1481 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1482
1483 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1484 /defer_ok option.
1485
1486 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1487 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1488
1489 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1490 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1491 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1492
1493 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1494 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1495 specify a port-range.
1496
1497 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1498 timeout value per server.
1499
1500 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1501 now have the list separator specified.
1502
1503 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1504 option values.
1505
1506 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1507 under OpenSSL.
1508
1509 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1510
1511 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1512 rather than the verbs used.
1513
1514 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1515 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1516
1517 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1518
1519 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1520 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1521
1522 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1523 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1524
1525 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1526 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1527
1528 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1529
1530 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1531
1532 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1533 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1534 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1535 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1536
1537 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1538
1539 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1540 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1541
1542 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1543 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1544
1545 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1546
1547 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1548
1549 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1550
1551 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1552 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1553
1554 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1555 added for tls authenticator.
1556
1557 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1558
1559
1560 Exim version 4.85
1561 -----------------
1562
1563 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1564 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1565 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1566 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1567 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1568 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1569 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1570
1571 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1572 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1573 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1574 function when detected.
1575
1576 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1577 cause callback expansion.
1578
1579 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1580 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1581 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1582 instead of bool when processing it.
1583
1584 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1585 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1586
1587 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1588
1589 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1590
1591 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1592
1593 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1594 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1595
1596 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1597 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1598 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1599 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1600 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1601 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1602
1603 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1604 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1605 exceeded it.
1606
1607 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1608 version 3.3.6 or later.
1609
1610 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1611 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1612 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1613 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1614 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1615 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1616 option is defined.
1617
1618 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1619 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1620
1621 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1622 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1623 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1624 matches.
1625
1626 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1627 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1628 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1629
1630 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1631 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1632
1633 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1634 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1635 syntax errors.
1636
1637 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1638
1639 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1640 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1641
1642 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1643 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1644 tarball.
1645
1646 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1647
1648 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1649 Bug 1561.
1650
1651 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1652 output list separator was used.
1653
1654
1655 Exim version 4.84
1656 -----------------
1657 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1658 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1659 return.
1660
1661 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1662 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1663
1664 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1665
1666 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1667 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1668
1669
1670 Exim version 4.83
1671 -----------------
1672
1673 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1674
1675 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1676 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1677 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1678 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1679 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1680 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1681
1682 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1683 utilities have not been installed.
1684
1685 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1686 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1687
1688 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1689 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1690
1691 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1692 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1693 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1694 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1695
1696 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1697
1698 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1699 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1700
1701 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1702 not dns_use_dnssec.
1703
1704 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1705
1706 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1707 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1708 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1709
1710 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1711 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1712 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1713 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1714 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1715 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1716
1717 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1718
1719 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1720 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1721
1722 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1723 failed delivery.
1724
1725 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1726
1727 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1728
1729 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1730 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1731
1732 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1733 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1734
1735 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1736
1737 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1738
1739 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1740 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1741
1742 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1743 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1744 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1745
1746 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1747 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1748 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1749 analysis.
1750
1751 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1752
1753 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1754 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1755 lookup).
1756
1757 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1758 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1759 Schlichting.
1760
1761 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1762 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1763
1764 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1765 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1766
1767 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1768
1769 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1770 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1771 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1772
1773 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1774 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1775
1776 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1777 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1778 hosts_request_ocsp.
1779
1780 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1781 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1782 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1783
1784 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1785
1786 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1787 Christian Aistleitner.
1788
1789 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1790
1791 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1792 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1793
1794 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1795 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1796
1797 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1798 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1799
1800 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1801 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1802
1803 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1804 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1805
1806 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1807 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1808 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1809
1810 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1811
1812 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1813 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1814 Jasper Wallace.
1815
1816 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1817
1818 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1819 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1820 CVE-2014-2972
1821
1822
1823 Exim version 4.82
1824 -----------------
1825
1826 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1827
1828 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1829 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1830
1831 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1832 by GnuTLS.
1833
1834 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1835 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1836 routines.
1837
1838 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1839
1840 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1841 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1842 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1843 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1844 using channel bindings instead).
1845
1846 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1847 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1848 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1849 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1850 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1851 Bugzilla 1117.
1852
1853 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1854
1855 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1856
1857 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1858 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1859
1860 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1861 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1862 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1863
1864 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1865
1866 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1867
1868 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1869 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1870
1871 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1872
1873 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1874
1875 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1876
1877 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1878 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1879
1880 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1881
1882 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1883 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1884 function.
1885
1886 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1887 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1888
1889 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1890 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1891 "acl = name arg..."
1892
1893 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1894
1895 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1896
1897 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1898 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1899
1900 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1901 Bugzilla 884.
1902
1903 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1904 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1905
1906 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1907 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1908
1909 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1910 CVE-2012-5671
1911 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1912
1913 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1914 authenticators.
1915
1916 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1917 for control.
1918
1919 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1920
1921 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1922 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1923 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1924 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1925
1926 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1927
1928 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1929 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1930 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1931 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1932 the retry rules.
1933
1934 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1935 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1936 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1937
1938 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1939 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1940 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1941 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1942
1943 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1944 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1945 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1946 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1947 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1948 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1949 delivery, as in LMTP.
1950
1951 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1952 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1953
1954 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1955
1956 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1957
1958 Resent-From: f
1959
1960 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1961 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1962 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1963 username as equal to the username.
1964
1965 This change corrects that bug.
1966
1967 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1968 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1969 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1970
1971 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1972
1973 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1974 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1975 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1976 NULL dereference and crash.
1977
1978 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1979
1980 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1981 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1982 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1983
1984 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1985
1986 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1987 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1988 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1989 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1990 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1991 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1992 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1993 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1994 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1995 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1996 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1997
1998 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1999 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2000
2001 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2002 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2003 Bugzilla 880.
2004
2005 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2006 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2007 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2008 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2009 an empty string is now equivalent.
2010
2011 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2012 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2013 not performing validation itself.
2014
2015 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2016 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2017
2018 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2019 Bugzilla 321, 823.
2020
2021 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2022
2023 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2024 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2025 other false fix of the same issue.
2026 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2027 Bugzilla 1363.
2028
2029 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2030 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2031
2032 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2033 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2034 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2035
2036 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2037 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2038 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2039
2040 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2041
2042 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2043
2044 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2045 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2046
2047 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2048 Alexander Miroch.
2049
2050 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2051 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2052 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2053 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2054 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2055
2056 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2057 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2058
2059 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2060 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2061 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
2062
2063 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2064 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2065 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2066 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2067
2068 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2069
2070 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2071 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2072 from multiple comments on this bug.
2073
2074 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2075
2076 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2077 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2078 interaction.
2079
2080 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2081 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2082
2083 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2084 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2085
2086
2087 Exim version 4.80.1
2088 -------------------
2089
2090 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2091 CVE-2012-5671
2092 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2093
2094
2095 Exim version 4.80
2096 -----------------
2097
2098 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2099 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2100 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2101
2102 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2103
2104 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2105 improved.
2106
2107 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2108
2109 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2110
2111 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2112
2113 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2114 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2115
2116 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2117 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2118
2119 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2120 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2121
2122 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2123 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2124 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2125
2126 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2127
2128 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2129 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2130
2131 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2132
2133 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2134
2135 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2136 non-compliant senders.
2137 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2138
2139 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2140 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2141 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2142
2143 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2144 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2145 in spool file corruption.
2146
2147 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2148 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2149 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2150 "Got SSL error 2".
2151
2152 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2153 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2154 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2155
2156 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2157 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2158
2159 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2160
2161 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2162 diagnostics.
2163 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2164
2165 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2166 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2167 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2168
2169 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2170 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2171 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2172 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2173
2174 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2175 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2176
2177 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2178 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2179 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2180 resolver implementation change.
2181
2182 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2183 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2184
2185 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2186
2187 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2188
2189 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2190 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2191
2192 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2193 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2194
2195 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2196 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2197
2198 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2199 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2200 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2201 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2202 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2203
2204 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2205
2206 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2207 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2208 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2209
2210 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2211
2212 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2213 read-only, out of scope).
2214 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2215
2216 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2217 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2218 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2219 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2220
2221 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2222
2223 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2224 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2225 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2226 real issues in debug logging.
2227
2228 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2229 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2230
2231 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2232 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2233 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2234
2235 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2236 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2237 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2238 problems.
2239
2240 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2241 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2242
2243 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2244 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2245 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2246 needs to override this, it can.
2247
2248 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2249 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2250 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2251
2252 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2253 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2254 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2255 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2256
2257 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2258
2259
2260 Exim version 4.77
2261 -----------------
2262
2263 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2264 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2265
2266 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2267
2268 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2269 whitespace trailer
2270
2271 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2272 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2273
2274 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2275 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2276 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2277
2278 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2279 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2280 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2281 not safe for signals.
2282
2283 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2284 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2285 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2286 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2287 exiwhat.
2288
2289 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2290
2291 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2292 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2293 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2294 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2295 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2296
2297 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2298 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2299 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2300 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2301 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2302 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2303
2304 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2305 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2306 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2307 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2308
2309 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2310 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2311 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2312 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2313
2314 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2315 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2316 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2317 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2318 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2319 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2320 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2321 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2322 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2323
2324 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2325 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2326 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2327 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2328
2329 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2330 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2331 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2332 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2333 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2334 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2335 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2336 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2337 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2338 details in the main documentation.
2339
2340 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2341
2342 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2343
2344 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2345 repository when doing development or release builds.
2346
2347 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2348 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2349
2350 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2351 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2352 Bugzilla 97.
2353
2354 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2355
2356 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2357 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2358
2359 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2360 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2361
2362 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2363 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2364
2365 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2366 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2367
2368 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2369 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2370
2371 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2372 Bugzilla 1156.
2373 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2374 Bugzilla 1095.
2375
2376 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2377 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2378 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2379
2380 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2381
2382 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2383
2384 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2385 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2386
2387
2388 Exim version 4.76
2389 -----------------
2390
2391 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2392
2393 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2394 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2395
2396 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2397
2398 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2399
2400 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2401 Bugzilla 1098.
2402
2403 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2404 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2405
2406 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2407 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2408
2409 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2410 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2411
2412 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2413 Bugzilla 1104.
2414
2415 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2416 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2417
2418 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2419 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2420 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2421 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2422
2423 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2424 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2425
2426
2427 Exim version 4.75
2428 -----------------
2429
2430 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2431 Bugzilla 1073
2432
2433 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2434 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2435 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2436
2437 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2438 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2439
2440 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2441 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2442 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2443
2444 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2445 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2446
2447 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2448 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2449
2450 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2451 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2452
2453 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2454 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2455
2456 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2457 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2458
2459 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2460 Fixes bug 943.
2461
2462 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2463 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2464
2465 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2466 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2467
2468 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2469 SQL string expansion failure details.
2470 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2471
2472 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2473 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2474
2475 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2476 extern declarations in function scope.
2477 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2478
2479 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2480 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2481 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2482 a kernel bug).
2483
2484 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2485 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2486
2487 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2488 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2489
2490 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2491 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2492
2493 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2494 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2495
2496 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2497 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2498 Dennis Davis.
2499
2500 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2501
2502 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2503
2504 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2505 Patch by Simon Arlott
2506
2507 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2508 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2509
2510
2511 Exim version 4.74
2512 -----------------
2513
2514 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2515 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2516
2517 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2518 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2519
2520 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2521
2522 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2523 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2524 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2525
2526 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2527 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2528 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2529
2530 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2531 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2532 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2533 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2534
2535 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2536 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2537 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2538 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2539
2540 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2541 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2542 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2543 arbitrary files.
2544
2545 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2546 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2547
2548 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2549 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2550 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2551 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2552 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2553
2554
2555 Exim version 4.73
2556 -----------------
2557
2558 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2559 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2560 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2561
2562 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2563 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2564
2565 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2566
2567 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2568
2569 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2570
2571 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2572
2573 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2574
2575 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2576 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2577 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2578 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2579
2580 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2581 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2582 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2583 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2584 more caution in buffer sizes.
2585
2586 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2587
2588 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2589
2590 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2591
2592 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2593
2594 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2595
2596 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2597
2598 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2599
2600 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2601 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2602 ignore trailing whitespace.
2603
2604 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2605
2606 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2607 "exim" to be used
2608
2609 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2610 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2611
2612 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2613 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2614 Notification from John Horne.
2615
2616 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2617 compatible.
2618
2619 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2620 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2621 it normally works.
2622
2623 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2624 access.
2625
2626 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2627 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2628 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2629
2630 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2631 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2632 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2633 configuration file.
2634
2635 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2636 option (effectively making it always true).
2637
2638 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2639 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2640
2641 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2642 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2643
2644 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2645 run-time user, instead of root.
2646
2647 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2648 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2649
2650 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2651 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2652 arguments.
2653
2654 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2655 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2656 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2657
2658 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2659
2660 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2661
2662
2663 Exim version 4.72
2664 -----------------
2665
2666 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2667 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2668 typos
2669
2670 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2671 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2672 (Finput)
2673
2674 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2675 Patch from Alain Williams
2676
2677 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2678
2679 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2680 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2681
2682 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2683 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2684
2685 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2686
2687 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2688
2689 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2690 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2691
2692 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2693
2694 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2695
2696 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2697 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2698 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2699
2700 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2701 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2702
2703 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2704 Patch by Simon Arlott
2705
2706 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2707 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2708
2709
2710 Exim version 4.71
2711 -----------------
2712
2713 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2714
2715 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2716
2717 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2718
2719 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2720
2721 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2722
2723
2724 Exim version 4.70
2725 -----------------
2726
2727 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2728 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2729
2730 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2731 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2732 Hirsch).
2733
2734 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2735 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2736 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2737
2738 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2739 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2740
2741 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2742 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2743 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2744 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2745
2746 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2747 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2748 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2749
2750 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2751
2752 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2753
2754 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2755 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2756
2757 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2758
2759 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2760 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2761 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2762 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2763
2764 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2765 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2766
2767 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2768
2769 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2770
2771 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2772 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2773
2774 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2775 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2776
2777 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2778 that they are available at delivery time.
2779
2780 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2781
2782 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2783 incoming_port log selectors.
2784
2785 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2786 setting expands to an empty string.
2787
2788 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2789 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2790
2791 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2792 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2793
2794 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2795 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2796
2797 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2798 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2799
2800 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2801 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2802
2803 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2804 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2805
2806 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2807
2808 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2809 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2810
2811 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2812 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2813
2814 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2815
2816 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2817 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2818
2819 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2820
2821 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2822
2823 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2824 lsearch.
2825
2826 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2827 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2828
2829 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2830 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2831
2832 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2833 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2834
2835 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2836 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2837
2838 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2839 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2840
2841 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2842 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2843
2844 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2845 plus update to original patch.
2846
2847 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2848
2849 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2850 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2851
2852 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2853
2854 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2855
2856 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2857
2858 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2859
2860 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2861 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2862
2863 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2864 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2865
2866 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2867 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2868
2869 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2870 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2871
2872 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2873
2874 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2875
2876 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2877
2878 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2879
2880
2881 Exim version 4.69
2882 -----------------
2883
2884 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2885 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2886 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2887
2888 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2889 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2890 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2891 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2892 build errors in sieve.c.
2893
2894 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2895 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2896 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2897
2898 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2899
2900 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2901
2902 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2903
2904 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2905
2906
2907 Exim version 4.68
2908 -----------------
2909
2910 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2911
2912 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2913 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2914 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2915 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2916 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2917 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2918 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2919 for iplsearch lookups.
2920
2921 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2922 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2923 previously such lookups could never work.
2924
2925 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2926 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2927 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2928
2929 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2930 version.
2931
2932 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2933 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2934 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2935 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2936 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2937 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2938
2939 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2940 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2941
2942 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2943 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2944 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2945 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2946 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2947 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2948
2949 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2950 local_scan API.
2951
2952 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2953
2954 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2955 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2956 encrypted.
2957
2958 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2959 by clients under certain conditions.
2960
2961 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2962 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2963
2964 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2965
2966 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2967 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2968
2969 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2970
2971 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2972
2973 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2974
2975 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2976 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2977
2978 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2979
2980 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2981 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2982
2983 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2984
2985 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2986
2987 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2988 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2989 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2990 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2991
2992 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2993 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2994 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2995
2996 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2997 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2998
2999 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3000
3001 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3002
3003 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3004
3005 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3006 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3007 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3008
3009
3010 Exim version 4.67
3011 -----------------
3012
3013 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3014 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3015 Jan Srzednicki.
3016
3017 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3018 issue a MAIL command.
3019
3020 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3021
3022 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3023
3024 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3025 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3026 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3027 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3028 item. This has been fixed.
3029
3030 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3031 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3032
3033 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3034 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3035
3036 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3037 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3038 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3039
3040 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3041
3042 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3043 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3044 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3045 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3046 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3047
3048 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3049 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3050 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3051
3052 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3053 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3054 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3055 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3056
3057 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3058
3059 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3060
3061 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3062 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3063 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3064 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3065 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3066
3067 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3068
3069 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3070 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3071 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3072 values).
3073
3074 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3075
3076 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3077
3078 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3079
3080 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3081
3082 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3083
3084 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3085 no_callout_flush is set.
3086
3087 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3088 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3089 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3090 fixed.
3091
3092 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3093
3094 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3095 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3096 other ACL rejections are.
3097
3098 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3099 with slight modification.
3100
3101 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3102 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3103
3104 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3105 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3106 connection.
3107
3108 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3109 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3110
3111 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3112
3113 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3114 expansion side effects.
3115
3116 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3117 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3118 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3119 be the same.
3120
3121 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3122 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3123 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3124
3125 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3126 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3127 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3128 were accidentally chopped off.
3129
3130 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3131 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3132 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3133 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3134 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3135 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3136 pipelining has not been advertised.
3137
3138 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3139
3140 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3141 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3142 This has been fixed.
3143
3144 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3145 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3146 reported on Solaris.
3147
3148 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3149 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3150 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3151 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3152 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3153 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3154 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3155
3156 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3157 cpus.
3158
3159 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3160
3161 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3162
3163 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3164 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3165 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3166 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3167 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3168 criteria to be more general.
3169
3170 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3171 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3172 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3173 host_all_ignored option.
3174
3175 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3176 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3177 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3178 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3179 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3180 is what is supposed to happen).
3181
3182 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3183 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3184 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3185 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3186 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3187 uses the Exim user.
3188
3189 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3190 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3191 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3192 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3193 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3194 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3195 users.
3196
3197 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3198
3199 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3200 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3201 (Jez Hancock).
3202 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3203 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3204
3205 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3206
3207 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3208
3209 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3210 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3211 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3212 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3213 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3214 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3215 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3216 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3217 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3218 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3219 least in a lot of common cases.
3220
3221 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3222 advertised in response to EHLO.
3223
3224
3225 Exim version 4.66
3226 -----------------
3227
3228 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3229 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3230
3231 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3232 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3233
3234 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3235 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3236 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3237
3238 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3239 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3240 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3241 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3242 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3243
3244
3245 Exim version 4.65
3246 -----------------
3247
3248 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3249 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3250 versions. (#438)
3251
3252 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3253 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3254 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3255
3256 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3257 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3258 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3259 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3260 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3261 rather than extend the field.
3262
3263
3264 Exim version 4.64
3265 -----------------
3266
3267 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3268 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3269 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3270 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3271 these files.
3272
3273 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3274 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3275 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3276
3277 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3278 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3279 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3280
3281 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3282 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3283 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3284 in the field name.
3285
3286 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3287 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3288 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3289 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3290 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3291 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3292 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3293 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3294 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3295 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3296 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3297
3298 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3299 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
3300
3301 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3302 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3303 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3304 ignores EPIPE as well.
3305
3306 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3307 (quoted-printable decoding).
3308
3309 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3310 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3311
3312 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3313
3314 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3315
3316 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3317
3318 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3319 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3320
3321 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3322 in 4.64-PH/09.
3323
3324 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3325 miscellaneous code fixes
3326
3327 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3328 rejections.
3329
3330 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3331 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3332 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3333 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3334 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3335 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3336 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3337 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3338
3339 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3340 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3341 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3342 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3343 function.
3344 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3345 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3346 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3347 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3348 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3349 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3350 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3351 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3352 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3353
3354 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3355 decoding.
3356
3357 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3358 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3359 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3360 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3361 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3362 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3363 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3364 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3365
3366 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3367 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3368 list.
3369
3370 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3371 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3372 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3373 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3374 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3375 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3376 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3377 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3378 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3379 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3380 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3381 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3382 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3383
3384 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3385 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3386 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3387 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3388 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3389 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3390 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3391
3392 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3393 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3394 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3395 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3396 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3397 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3398 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3399 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3400 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3401 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3402
3403 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3404 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3405 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3406 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3407 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3408
3409 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3410 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3411 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3412 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3413 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3414 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3415 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3416
3417 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3418 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3419 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3420 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3421 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3422 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3423 been verified.
3424
3425 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3426 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3427 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3428 and authorization.)
3429
3430 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3431 if any retry times were supplied.
3432
3433 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3434 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3435 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3436
3437 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3438
3439 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3440
3441 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3442 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3443 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3444 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3445 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3446 before) are ignored.
3447
3448 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3449 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3450
3451 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3452 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3453 committing the later change.]
3454
3455 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3456 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3457 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3458 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3459 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3460 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3461 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3462 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3463 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3464
3465 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3466 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3467 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3468 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3469 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3470 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3471 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3472 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3473 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3474
3475 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3476 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3477 hammering the server.
3478
3479 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3480 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3481
3482 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3483
3484 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3485 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3486 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3487
3488 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3489 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3490 one case where this was not true.
3491
3492 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3493 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3494 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3495 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3496 fails.
3497
3498 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3499 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3500 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3501 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3502 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3503 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3504 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3505 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3506 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3507 smtp transport.
3508
3509 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3510 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3511 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3512 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3513
3514 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3515 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3516
3517 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3518 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3519 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3520
3521 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3522
3523 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3524
3525 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3526
3527 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3528 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3529 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3530 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3531
3532 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3533 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3534
3535 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3536 be meaningful with "accept".
3537
3538 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3539 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3540
3541 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3542 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3543 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3544
3545 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3546 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3547 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3548 there is data to show.
3549 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3550
3551 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3552 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3553 as well as the number of messages.
3554
3555 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3556 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3557 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3558
3559 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3560 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3561 have a flag are now skipped.
3562
3563 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3564 Added the -emptyok flag.
3565
3566 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3567 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3568
3569 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3570 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3571 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3572
3573 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3574 match 4.64-PH/13
3575
3576 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3577 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3578
3579 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3580
3581 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3582 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3583
3584 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3585
3586 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3587 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3588 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3589 contravention of the specifications.
3590
3591 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3592 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3593 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3594
3595 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3596 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3597 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3598
3599 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3600
3601 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3602 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3603 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3604 some point in the past.
3605
3606 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3607 transport during callout processing was broken.
3608
3609 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3610 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3611
3612 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3613 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3614
3615 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3616 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3617
3618 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3619
3620
3621 Exim version 4.63
3622 -----------------
3623
3624 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3625 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3626
3627 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3628 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3629 there is data to show.
3630 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3631
3632 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3633 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3634
3635 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3636 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3637
3638 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3639 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3640
3641 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3642 submissions from trusted users.
3643
3644 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3645 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3646
3647 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3648 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3649 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3650 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3651 there is now a framework to start from.
3652
3653 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3654 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3655 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3656
3657 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3658
3659 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3660
3661 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3662
3663 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3664 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3665 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3666
3667 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3668 libradius.
3669
3670 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3671 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3672 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3673
3674 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3675 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3676 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3677 its arguments.
3678
3679 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3680 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3681 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3682 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3683 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3684
3685 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3686 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3687
3688 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3689
3690 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3691 operations in malware.c.
3692
3693 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3694 signatures.
3695
3696 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3697 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3698 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3699 all.
3700
3701 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3702 statements to "add_header".
3703
3704 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3705 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3706
3707 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3708 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3709 latter.
3710
3711 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3712 so that it is now:
3713
3714 ${if or { \
3715 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3716 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3717 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3718 }{no}{yes}}
3719
3720 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3721 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3722
3723 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3724 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3725
3726 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3727 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3728 any possible encoding problems.
3729
3730 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3731 but not after initializing Perl.
3732
3733 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3734 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3735 apparently, which is not desirable.
3736
3737 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3738 queries.
3739
3740 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3741 --not options
3742
3743 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3744
3745 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3746 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3747 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3748 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3749
3750 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3751 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3752 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3753
3754 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3755 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3756 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3757 0.12.
3758
3759 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3760 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3761 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3762 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3763 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3764
3765
3766 Exim version 4.62
3767 -----------------
3768
3769 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3770 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3771
3772 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3773 patch).
3774
3775 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3776 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3777 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3778 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3779 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3780 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3781 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3782 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3783 451 error is used.
3784
3785 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3786
3787 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3788 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3789 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3790
3791 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3792 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3793 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3794 odd errors.
3795
3796 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3797 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3798
3799 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3800 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3801 option (which defaults to 0600).
3802
3803 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3804
3805 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3806 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3807 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3808 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3809 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3810 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3811 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3812
3813 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3814
3815
3816 Exim version 4.61
3817 -----------------
3818
3819 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3820 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3821 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3822 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3823 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3824 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3825 addresses as local.
3826
3827 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3828 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3829
3830 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3831
3832 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3833 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3834 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3835 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3836 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3837 grumble.
3838
3839 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3840 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3841
3842 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3843 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3844 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3845 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3846 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3847
3848 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3849 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3850 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3851 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3852
3853 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3854 be the same on different OS.
3855
3856 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3857 testing.
3858
3859 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3860 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3861
3862 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3863 in 4.61-PH/06
3864
3865 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3866 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3867 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3868 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3869 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3870 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3871 bounce message.
3872
3873 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3874 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3875 when Exim was called.
3876
3877 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3878 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3879
3880 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3881 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3882 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3883 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3884
3885 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3886 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3887 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3888 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3889 changes:
3890
3891 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3892 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3893 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3894
3895 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3896 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3897 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3898
3899 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3900 feature).
3901
3902 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3903 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3904 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3905 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3906 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3907 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3908 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3909 values from the SRV records were lost.
3910
3911 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3912 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3913 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3914
3915 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3916 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3917 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3918
3919 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3920 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3921 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3922 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3923 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3924 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3925 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3926 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3927 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3928 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3929
3930 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3931 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3932 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3933
3934 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3935 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3936
3937 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3938 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3939 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3940 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3941 is given.
3942
3943 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3944 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3945 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3946
3947 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3948 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3949 PH/23 above applies.
3950
3951 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3952 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3953 (for which there is an explicit test).
3954
3955 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3956
3957 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3958 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3959 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3960 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3961 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3962
3963 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3964 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3965 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3966 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3967
3968 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3969 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3970 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3971
3972 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3973
3974 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3975
3976 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3977 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3978 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3979
3980 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3981 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3982 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3983 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3984 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3985
3986 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3987 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3988 the message gets confusing).
3989
3990 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3991 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3992 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3993 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3994
3995 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3996 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3997 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3998 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3999 same order.
4000
4001 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4002 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4003 the different processes.
4004
4005 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4006
4007 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4008
4009 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4010 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4011
4012 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4013 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4014
4015 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4016 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4017 messages matching specified criteria.
4018
4019 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4020
4021 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4022 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4023
4024 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4025 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4026 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4027 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4028 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4029 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4030 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4031 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4032 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4033 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4034
4035 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4036 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4037 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4038
4039 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4040
4041 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4042 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4043 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4044 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4045 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4046 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4047 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4048 the variable.
4049
4050 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4051 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4052
4053 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4054
4055 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4056
4057 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4058
4059 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4060 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4061 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4062 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4063 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4064 size of the count of files.
4065
4066 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4067
4068 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4069 used in LMTP mode:
4070
4071 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4072 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4073 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4074 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4075
4076 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4077 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4078 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4079
4080 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4081 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4082 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4083 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4084 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4085
4086 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4087 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4088
4089 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4090 will now be deprecated.
4091
4092 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4093
4094 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4095 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4096 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4097
4098 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4099 with very large, slow to parse queues
4100
4101 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4102
4103 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4104
4105 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4106 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4107 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4108 SMTP output lines.
4109
4110 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4111 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4112 Sieve code now uses this.
4113
4114 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4115 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4116
4117 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4118 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4119
4120 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4121
4122 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4123 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4124 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4125 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4126 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4127
4128 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4129 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4130 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4131 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4132
4133 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4134
4135 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4136
4137 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4138 is preferred over IPv4.
4139
4140 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4141 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4142 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4143 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4144 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4145 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4146 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4147
4148 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4149 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4150 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4151
4152 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4153
4154 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4155 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4156 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4157 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4158 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4159 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4160 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4161 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4162 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4163 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4164 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4165
4166 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4167 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4168 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4169
4170
4171 Exim version 4.60
4172 -----------------
4173
4174 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4175
4176 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4177 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4178
4179 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4180 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4181 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4182
4183 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4184
4185 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4186 not a single digit.
4187
4188 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4189 string.
4190
4191 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4192 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4193 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4194 silly things.
4195
4196 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4197 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4198
4199 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4200 inside the third argument.
4201
4202 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4203 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4204 "/bin:/usr/bin".
4205
4206 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4207 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4208
4209 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4210 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4211
4212 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4213
4214 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4215 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4216 this:
4217
4218 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4219
4220 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4221 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4222 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4223 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4224 identical. For example:
4225
4226 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4227
4228 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4229 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4230 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4231
4232 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4233 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4234 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4235 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4236
4237 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4238 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4239 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4240 message.
4241
4242 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4243
4244 o fixes some comments
4245 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4246 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4247 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4248 and documents the missing references header update
4249
4250 and most important:
4251
4252 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4253 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4254 result)
4255
4256 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4257 Electronic Mail") by including:
4258
4259 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4260
4261 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4262 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4263 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4264 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4265 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4266
4267 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4268
4269 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4270
4271 The auto-replied keyword:
4272
4273 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4274 message by an automatic process,
4275
4276 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4277
4278 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4279 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4280
4281 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4282 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4283 other messages.
4284
4285 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4286 to the default Received: header definition.
4287
4288 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4289
4290 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4291 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4292 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4293
4294 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4295 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4296 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4297
4298 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4299 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4300 and treats the condition as false.
4301
4302 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4303
4304 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4305 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4306 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4307 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4308 not changing the active code.
4309
4310 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4311 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4312
4313 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4314 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4315
4316 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4317 (Bugzilla #53).
4318
4319 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4320 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4321 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4322 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4323 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4324 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4325 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4326 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4327 the text comparison.
4328
4329 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4330 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4331 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4332 The same fix has been applied.
4333
4334
4335 Exim version 4.54
4336 -----------------
4337
4338 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4339 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4340 It now does.
4341
4342 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4343 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4344
4345 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4346
4347 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4348 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4349 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4350 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4351 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4352
4353 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4354 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4355 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4356 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4357 or /domain=).
4358
4359 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4360 testing suite.
4361
4362
4363
4364 Exim version 4.53
4365 -----------------
4366
4367 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4368 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4369
4370 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4371
4372 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4373
4374 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4375 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4376 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4377
4378 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4379 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4380 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4381
4382 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4383 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4384 operating systems.
4385
4386 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4387 ${stat: expansion item.
4388
4389 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4390 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4391
4392 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4393 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4394 file for comments.
4395
4396 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4397
4398 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4399 setting.
4400
4401 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4402 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4403
4404 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4405
4406 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4407 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4408 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4409 the end of the subprocess.
4410
4411 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4412 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4413 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4414 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4415 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4416
4417 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4418
4419 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4420
4421 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4422 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4423
4424 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4425
4426 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4427
4428 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4429 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4430 HP-UX compiler.
4431
4432 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4433
4434 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4435 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4436 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4437
4438 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4439 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4440
4441 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4442 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4443
4444 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4445 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4446
4447 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4448 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4449
4450 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4451 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4452 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4453 contributed by a Radius user.
4454
4455 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4456 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4457
4458 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4459 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4460
4461 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4462 available.
4463
4464 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4465 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4466 received.
4467
4468 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4469 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4470 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4471 header lines when this was not necessary.
4472
4473 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4474
4475 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4476 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4477 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4478 exists".
4479
4480 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4481 -bV or -d is used.
4482
4483 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4484 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4485 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4486 return code was incorrect.
4487
4488 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4489
4490 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4491
4492 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4493
4494 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4495
4496 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4497 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4498 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4499 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4500 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4501 settings.
4502
4503 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4504
4505 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4506 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4507 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4508 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4509 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4510 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4511 which is clearly wrong.
4512
4513 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4514
4515 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4516 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4517 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4518 subsequently added.
4519
4520 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4521 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4522
4523 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4524
4525 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4526 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4527
4528 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4529 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4530
4531 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4532 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4533
4534 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4535 recipients, not senders.
4536
4537 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4538 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4539
4540 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4541
4542 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4543
4544 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4545 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4546 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4547 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4548
4549 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4550
4551 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4552 clock is set back in time.
4553
4554 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4555 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4556
4557 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4558 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4559
4560 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4561 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4562 (see PH/47 above).
4563
4564 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4565 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4566 header rewrites.
4567
4568 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4569 type ("H").
4570
4571 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4572
4573 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4574 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4575 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4576
4577 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4578 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4579 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4580 helo verification defer as a failure.
4581
4582 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4583 actual error message.
4584
4585
4586 Exim version 4.52
4587 -----------------
4588
4589 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4590
4591 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4592 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4593 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4594 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4595
4596 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4597
4598 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4599 can still be requested.
4600
4601 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4602 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4603 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4604 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4605
4606 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4607 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4608 circumstances, but probably never did.
4609
4610 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4611 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4612 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4613 in the header line.
4614
4615 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4616
4617 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4618 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4619
4620 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4621
4622 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4623
4624 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4625 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4626 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4627 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4628 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4629 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4630
4631 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4632 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4633 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4634 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4635 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4636 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4637
4638 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4639 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4640
4641 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4642 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4643
4644 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4645 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4646
4647 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4648
4649 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4650
4651 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4652
4653 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4654
4655 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4656
4657 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4658
4659 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4660
4661 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4662 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4663 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4664
4665 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4666 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4667 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4668 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4669
4670 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4671 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4672 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4673
4674 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4675 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4676 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4677 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4678
4679 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4680 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4681 to be made).
4682
4683 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4684 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4685 should work with maildirs and everything.
4686
4687 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4688 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4689
4690 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4691 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4692
4693 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4694 function for BDB 4.3.
4695
4696 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4697
4698 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4699 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4700 involved.
4701
4702 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4703 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4704 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4705 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4706 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4707 formatting function string_vformat().
4708
4709 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4710 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4711 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4712 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4713 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4714 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4715 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4716 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4717
4718 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4719 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4720 details.
4721
4722 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4723 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4724
4725 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4726 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4727 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4728 test. It is now used for both.
4729
4730 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4731 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4732 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4733 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4734 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4735 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4736
4737 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4738 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4739 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4740 string_vformat().
4741
4742 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4743 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4744 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4745
4746 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4747 experimental DomainKeys support:
4748
4749 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4750 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4751 the control was given.
4752
4753 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4754
4755 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4756
4757 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4758
4759 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4760 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4761 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4762 db.h files).
4763
4764 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4765 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4766 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4767 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4768 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4769 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4770 course.
4771
4772 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4773 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4774 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4775 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4776 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4777 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4778
4779 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4780 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4781 do -d+all out of habit.
4782
4783 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4784 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4785 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4786
4787 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4788 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4789 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4790 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4791 record types that Exim uses.
4792
4793 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4794 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4795 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4796 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4797 non-existent file that was broken.
4798
4799 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4800 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4801
4802 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4803 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4804 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4805
4806 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4807
4808 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4809 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4810 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4811 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4812 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4813 same time.
4814
4815 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4816 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4817 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4818 at a slight CPU cost.
4819
4820 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4821 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4822
4823 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4824 by Marc Sherman.
4825
4826 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4827
4828 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4829 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4830
4831
4832 Exim version 4.51
4833 -----------------
4834
4835 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4836 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4837
4838 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4839
4840 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4841
4842 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4843 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4844
4845 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4846 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4847 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4848 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4849 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4850 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4851 file.
4852
4853 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4854 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4855 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4856 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4857 these two options.
4858
4859 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4860 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4861 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4862 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4863 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4864 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4865 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4866 address.
4867
4868 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4869 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4870
4871 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4872 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4873 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4874 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4875 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4876 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4877
4878 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4879 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4880 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4881 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4882
4883 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4884 Finch).
4885
4886 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4887 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4888
4889 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4890 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4891 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4892 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4893 message.
4894
4895 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4896
4897 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4898 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4899
4900 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4901 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4902 to what was transported.)
4903
4904 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4905
4906 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4907 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4908 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4909 spamd_address settings.
4910
4911 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4912 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4913 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4914 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4915 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4916
4917 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4918
4919 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4920 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4921 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4922 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4923 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4924
4925 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4926 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4927
4928 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4929 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4930 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4931 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4932 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4933 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4934 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4935 for failure.
4936
4937 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4938 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4939 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4940 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4941 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4942 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4943 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4944 "input=".
4945
4946 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4947
4948 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4949 driver and ACL definitions.
4950
4951 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4952 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4953
4954 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4955 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4956 understands it better than I do:
4957
4958 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4959 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4960
4961 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4962 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4963 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4964 => three warnings about OTP not working
4965 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4966
4967 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4968 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4969 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4970 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4971 for each call.)
4972 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4973 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4974
4975 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4976 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4977 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4978
4979 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4980 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4981 specified.
4982
4983 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4984 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4985 "Linux".
4986
4987 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4988 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4989 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4990
4991 warn !verify = sender
4992 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4993
4994 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4995 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4996
4997 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4998
4999 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5000 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5001
5002 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5003 nomenclature these days.)
5004
5005 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5006 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5007
5008 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5009 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5010 . First host does not offer TLS;
5011 . First host accepts first address;
5012 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5013 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5014 . Second host accepts second address.
5015 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5016 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5017 address.
5018
5019 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5020 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5021 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5022 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5023 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5024
5025 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5026 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5027
5028 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5029 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5030
5031 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5032 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5033 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5034
5035 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5036 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5037 overlooked.
5038
5039 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5040
5041 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5042 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5043 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5044 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5045 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5046 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5047 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5048
5049 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5050 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5051 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5052 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5053 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5054
5055 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5056 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5057 routed further.
5058
5059 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5060 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5061 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5062 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5063 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5064 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5065
5066 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5067
5068 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5069 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5070 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5071 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5072 printable escape sequences.
5073
5074 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5075 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5076 body only.
5077
5078 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5079 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5080 are as follows:
5081
5082 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5083 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5084 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5085 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5086 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5087
5088 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5089 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5090 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5091
5092 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5093
5094 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5095 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5096 play with."
5097
5098 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5099 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5100 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5101 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5102 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5103 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5104 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5105 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5106 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5107 the log output.
5108
5109 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5110 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5111 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5112 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5113 "make".
5114
5115
5116 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5117 ----------------------------------------
5118
5119 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5120 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5121 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5122 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5123 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5124 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5125 from 4.43.
5126
5127 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5128 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5129 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5130 historical information.
5131
5132
5133 Exim version 4.50
5134 -----------------
5135
5136 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5137
5138 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5139 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5140
5141 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5142 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5143 place.
5144
5145 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5146 filter fails to execute.
5147
5148 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5149 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5150 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5151 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5152 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5153
5154 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5155
5156 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5157 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5158 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5159 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5160
5161 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5162 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5163 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5164 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5165 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5166
5167 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5168
5169 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5170
5171 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5172 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5173 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5174 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5175
5176 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5177 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5178 sender verification.
5179
5180 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5181 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5182
5183 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5184
5185 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5186 connection timeout.
5187
5188 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5189 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5190
5191 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5192 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5193
5194 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5195 information about exactly what failed.
5196
5197 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5198
5199 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5200 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5201 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5202
5203 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5204 It is now set to "smtps".
5205
5206 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5207 ignore_target_hosts.
5208
5209 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5210 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5211 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5212 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5213 "[x.x.x.x]".
5214
5215 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5216 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5217 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5218
5219 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5220 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5221 wake it up if nothing else does.
5222
5223 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5224 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5225 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5226 end up negative.
5227
5228 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5229 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5230
5231 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5232
5233 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5234 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5235 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5236 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5237 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5238 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5239 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5240 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5241
5242 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5243 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5244 than one IP address.
5245
5246 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5247 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5248 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5249 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5250
5251 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5252 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5253 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5254 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5255 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5256 1024 to 2048 bytes.
5257
5258 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5259 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5260 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5261 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5262
5263 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5264 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5265 respected.
5266
5267 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5268 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5269 $sender_host_address.
5270
5271 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5272 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5273 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5274 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5275 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5276 very small.
5277
5278 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5279
5280 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5281 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5282
5283 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5284 just the host names, not the priorities.
5285
5286 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5287 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5288 controlled by a keyword.
5289
5290 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5291 multiple records are returned.
5292
5293 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5294 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5295 domain.
5296
5297 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5298
5299 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5300 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5301
5302 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5303 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5304 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5305
5306 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5307
5308 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5309
5310 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5311
5312 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5313 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5314 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5315 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5316 because the tests only now provoked it.
5317
5318 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5319 (this can affect the format of dates).
5320
5321 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5322 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5323 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5324 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5325
5326 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5327
5328 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5329 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5330 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5331 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5332
5333 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5334 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5335 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5336
5337 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5338 autoreply.
5339
5340 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5341 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5342 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5343 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5344 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5345 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5346 is going on).
5347
5348 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5349 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5350 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5351 the line.
5352
5353 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5354 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5355 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5356
5357 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5358 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5359 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5360 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5361 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5362 so I produce this patch..."
5363
5364 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5365 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5366 is not defined.
5367
5368 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5369 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5370 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5371 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5372 CAN-2005-0021
5373
5374 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5375
5376 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5377 long debug lines gets shown.
5378
5379 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5380 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5381
5382 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5383
5384 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5385 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5386 of $primary_hostname.
5387
5388 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5389 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5390 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5391 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5392 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5393 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5394 by change 4.50/55 above.
5395
5396 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5397 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5398 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5399 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5400 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5401 running as the user.
5402 CAN-2005-0021
5403
5404 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5405 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5406 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5407 CAN-2005-0022
5408
5409 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5410 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5411
5412 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5413 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5414 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5415 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5416 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5417
5418 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5419 This has been fixed.
5420
5421 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5422 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5423 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5424 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5425 the caching.)
5426
5427 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5428
5429 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5430 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5431 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5432 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5433
5434 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5435 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5436
5437 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5438 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5439 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5440
5441 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5442 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5443 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5444 message there.
5445
5446 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5447 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5448 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5449
5450 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5451 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5452 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5453 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5454
5455 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5456 during host lookups.
5457
5458 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5459 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5460
5461 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5462
5463 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5464 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5465 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5466 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5467 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5468 background.
5469
5470 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5471 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5472
5473 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5474 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5475 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5476
5477 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5478
5479 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5480 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5481 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5482 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5483 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5484 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5485 process earlier.
5486
5487 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5488 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5489 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5490 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5491 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5492
5493 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5494 tables).
5495
5496 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5497
5498 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5499 "vacation" handling.
5500
5501 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5502 OS variants using glibc.
5503
5504 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5505
5506
5507 ----------------------------------------------------
5508 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5509 ----------------------------------------------------
5510
5511
5512 Exim version 4.44
5513 -----------------
5514
5515 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5516 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5517 transport
5518
5519 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5520 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5521 place.
5522
5523 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5524 filter fails to execute.
5525
5526 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5527 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5528 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5529 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5530 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5531
5532 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5533 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5534 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5535 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5536
5537 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5538 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5539 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5540 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5541 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5542
5543 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5544
5545 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5546 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5547 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5548 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5549
5550 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5551 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5552 sender verification.
5553
5554 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5555 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5556
5557 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5558 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5559
5560 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5561 ignore_target_hosts.
5562
5563 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5564 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5565 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5566 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5567 "[x.x.x.x]".
5568
5569 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5570 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5571 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5572
5573 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5574 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5575 wake it up if nothing else does.
5576
5577 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5578 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5579 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5580 end up negative.
5581
5582 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5583 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5584
5585 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5586
5587 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5588 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5589 empty pattern.
5590
5591 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5592 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5593 one IP address.
5594
5595 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5596 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5597 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5598 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5599 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5600 1024 to 2048 bytes.
5601
5602 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5603 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5604 respected.
5605
5606 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5607 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5608 $sender_host_address.
5609
5610 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5611
5612 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5613 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5614 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5615
5616 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5617 As per change 25.
5618
5619 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5620 (this can affect the format of dates).
5621
5622 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5623 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5624 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5625 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5626
5627 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5628 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5629 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5630
5631 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5632 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5633 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5634 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5635
5636 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5637 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5638 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5639
5640 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5641 autoreply.
5642
5643 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5644 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5645 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5646 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5647 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5648 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5649 is going on).
5650
5651 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5652 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5653 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5654 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5655 CAN-2005-0021
5656
5657 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5658 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5659 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5660 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5661 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5662 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5663 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5664
5665 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5666 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5667 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5668 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5669 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5670 running as the user.
5671 CAN-2005-0021
5672
5673 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5674 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5675 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5676 CAN-2005-0022
5677
5678 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5679 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5680 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5681 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5682 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5683
5684 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5685 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5686 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5687 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5688 the caching.)
5689
5690 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5691 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5692 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5693 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5694 because the tests only now provoked it.
5695
5696
5697 Exim version 4.43
5698 -----------------
5699
5700 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5701 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5702 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5703 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5704 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5705 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5706 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5707
5708 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5709 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5710 the delivery.
5711
5712 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5713
5714 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5715
5716 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5717 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5718 to local_scan().
5719
5720 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5721 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5722 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5723 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5724 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5725
5726 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5727 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5728
5729 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5730
5731 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5732
5733 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5734 header_sender only.
5735
5736 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5737 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5738
5739 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5740 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5741 affecting debugging statements).
5742
5743 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5744
5745 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5746 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5747 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5748 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5749 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5750 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5751 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5752 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5753 after the received time, and all would be well.
5754
5755 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5756 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5757 condition in an expansion string.
5758
5759 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5760
5761 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5762 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5763 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5764 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5765 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5766 job under whatever limits there are.
5767
5768 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5769
5770 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5771 space).
5772
5773 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5774 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5775 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5776 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5777 return path is set.
5778
5779 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5780 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5781 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5782 binary data in such strings.
5783
5784 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5785
5786 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5787 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5788 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5789 failure, which is pointless.
5790
5791 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5792
5793 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5794
5795 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5796 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5797 Sender: header lines.
5798
5799 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5800 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5801 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5802
5803 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5804 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5805 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5806 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5807 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5808 happens.
5809
5810 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5811 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5812 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5813 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5814 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5815
5816 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5817 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5818 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5819 1024.
5820
5821 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5822 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5823
5824 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5825 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5826
5827 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5828
5829 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5830
5831 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5832
5833 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5834 syntax error.
5835
5836 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5837
5838 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5839
5840 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5841 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5842 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5843 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5844
5845 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5846 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5847
5848
5849 Exim version 4.42
5850 -----------------
5851
5852 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5853 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5854 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5855 it was not quoted.
5856 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5857 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5858 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5859 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5860 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5861 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5862
5863 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5864 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5865 verification failure".
5866
5867 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5868 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5869 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5870 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5871
5872 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5873 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5874 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5875 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5876 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5877 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5878 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5879 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5880 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5881 treated as a timeout.
5882
5883 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5884 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5885 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5886 not set for Exim filters).
5887
5888 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5889 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5890 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5891
5892 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5893
5894 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5895 try to make them clearer.
5896
5897 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5898 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5899
5900 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5901
5902 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5903
5904 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5905 only the Cygwin environment.
5906
5907 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5908 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5909 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5910 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5911 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5912
5913 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5914 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5915 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5916 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5917 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5918 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5919 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5920
5921 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5922 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5923
5924 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5925
5926 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5927 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5928 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5929
5930 To: susanne@some.where
5931
5932 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5933 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5934 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5935 of addresses in From: header lines).
5936
5937 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5938 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5939 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5940
5941 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5942 treated as non-personal.
5943
5944 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5945 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5946
5947 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5948
5949 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5950
5951 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5952 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5953 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5954
5955 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5956 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5957
5958 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5959 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5960 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5961 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5962 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5963 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5964
5965 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5966 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5967 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5968 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5969 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5970 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5971 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5972 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5973
5974 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5975
5976 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5977 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5978
5979 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5980 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5981 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5982
5983 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5984 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5985
5986 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5987 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5988 rather than long int.
5989
5990 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5991
5992 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5993
5994
5995 Exim version 4.41
5996 -----------------
5997
5998 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5999 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6000 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6001 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6002 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6003 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6004
6005
6006 Exim version 4.40
6007 -----------------
6008
6009 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6010 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6011
6012 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6013 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6014 socklen_t is defined.
6015
6016 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6017 always exist.
6018
6019 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6020 configured.
6021
6022 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6023 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6024 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6025 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6026 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6027
6028 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6029 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6030 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6031 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6032
6033 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6034 of flapping under certain conditions.
6035
6036 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6037 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6038 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6039
6040 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6041
6042 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6043
6044 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6045 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6046 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6047 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6048
6049 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6050 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6051 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6052 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6053 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6054 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6055 preserved with the message after it was received.
6056
6057 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6058 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6059 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6060 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6061 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6062 test suite worked just fine.
6063
6064 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6065 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6066 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6067
6068 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6069 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6070 string.
6071
6072 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6073 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6074 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6075 does not fully solve it.
6076
6077 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6078 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6079 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6080 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6081 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6082
6083 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6084 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6085 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6086
6087 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6088 string, for example:
6089
6090 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6091
6092 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6093 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6094 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6095 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6096 the routers could not see them.
6097
6098 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6099 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6100
6101 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6102 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6103 output).
6104
6105 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6106 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6107 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6108 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6109 that needed quoting.
6110
6111 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6112 was not being matched caselessly.
6113
6114 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6115 backslashes.
6116
6117 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6118 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6119 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6120 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6121 when use_sender is false.
6122
6123 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6124
6125 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6126
6127 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6128
6129 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6130 the configuration file.
6131
6132 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6133 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6134
6135 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6136
6137 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6138 bytes in the message body.
6139
6140 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6141 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6142 delivery.
6143
6144 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6145
6146 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6147
6148 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6149 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6150 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6151 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6152 another IP address.
6153
6154
6155 Exim version 4.34
6156 -----------------
6157
6158 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6159 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6160
6161 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6162 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6163 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6164 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6165 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6166
6167 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6168 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6169
6170 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6171 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6172 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6173
6174 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6175 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6176 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6177
6178 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6179 for routers.
6180
6181 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6182 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6183 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6184 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6185 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6186 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6187 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6188
6189
6190 Exim version 4.33
6191 -----------------
6192
6193 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6194 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6195 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6196 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6197 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6198 default (and expected) setting.
6199
6200 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6201 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6202 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6203 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6204
6205 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6206 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6207
6208 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6209 in domain lists.
6210
6211 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6212 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6213 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6214 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6215 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6216 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6217
6218 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6219 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6220 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6221
6222 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6223 part (NOT match_host).
6224
6225 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6226
6227 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6228 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6229 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6230 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6231 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6232 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6233 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6234 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6235 the same named file.
6236
6237 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6238 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6239 when Exim is built.
6240
6241 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6242 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6243 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6244 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6245 a host name.
6246
6247 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6248 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6249 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6250
6251 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6252
6253 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6254
6255 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6256
6257 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6258 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6259
6260 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6261 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6262 before starting the TLS session.
6263
6264 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6265
6266 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6267 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6268
6269 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6270 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6271 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6272 colon in the middle).
6273
6274
6275 Exim version 4.32
6276 -----------------
6277
6278 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6279 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6280 multiple configurations are in use.
6281
6282 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6283 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6284 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6285 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6286 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6287 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6288
6289 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6290 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6291
6292 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6293 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6294 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6295
6296 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6297 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6298 occurs.
6299
6300 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6301 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6302
6303 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6304
6305 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6306 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6307
6308 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6309
6310 -prval:sval
6311
6312 is equivalent to
6313
6314 -oMr rval -oMs sval
6315
6316 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6317 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6318 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6319 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6320 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6321
6322 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6323 Exim's behaviour:
6324
6325 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6326 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6327 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6328 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6329 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6330 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6331
6332 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6333 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6334 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6335 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6336 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6337 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6338 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6339 string.
6340
6341 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6342 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6343 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6344 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6345 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6346
6347 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6348
6349 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6350 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6351 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6352
6353 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6354
6355 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6356 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6357 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6358 information.
6359
6360 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6361 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6362
6363 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6364 Three changes have been made:
6365
6366 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6367 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6368 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6369 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6370 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6371
6372 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6373 been restored.
6374
6375 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6376 the modified behaviour.
6377
6378
6379 Exim version 4.31
6380 -----------------
6381
6382 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6383 Larry Rosenman.
6384
6385 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6386 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6387
6388 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6389 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6390 try to track down a specific problem.
6391
6392 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6393 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6394 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6395
6396 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6397 warning.
6398
6399 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6400 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6401 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6402 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6403 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6404 some earlier ones do not.
6405
6406 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6407
6408 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6409 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6410 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6411 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6412 address literals are enabled, of course).
6413
6414 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6415
6416 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6417 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6418 by a command such as
6419
6420 exim -f "" ...
6421
6422 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6423
6424 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6425
6426 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6427 remained set. It is now erased.
6428
6429 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6430 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6431
6432 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6433 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6434 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6435 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6436 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6437 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6438 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6439 appropriate error code.
6440
6441 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6442 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6443 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6444 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6445 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6446 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6447
6448 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6449 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6450 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6451
6452 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6453 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6454 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6455 terminate the header.
6456
6457 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6458 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6459 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6460
6461 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6462 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6463 (4.30/29). In particular:
6464
6465 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6466 imposed.
6467
6468 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6469 to write a maildirsize file.
6470
6471 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6472 the transport, the new value overrides.
6473
6474 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6475 count.
6476
6477 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6478 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6479 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6480 space or a tab.
6481
6482 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6483 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6484 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6485 the fallback hosts.
6486
6487 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6488 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6489 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6490
6491 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6492 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6493 using a union.
6494
6495 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6496 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6497 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6498
6499 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6500
6501 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6502
6503 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6504
6505 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6506 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6507 become corrupted.
6508
6509 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6510 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6511 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6512 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6513 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6514 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6515 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6516 too great.
6517
6518 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6519 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6520 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6521 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6522 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6523 incorrectly.
6524
6525 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6526 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6527 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6528 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6529 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6530 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6531 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6532 cached value only when the same options are set.
6533
6534 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6535
6536 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6537 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6538 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6539 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6540 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6541
6542 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6543 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6544 it is clearly obsolete.
6545
6546 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6547 transport.
6548
6549 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6550 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6551 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6552 times.
6553
6554 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6555 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6556 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6557 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6558 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6559
6560 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6561 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6562 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6563 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6564
6565 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6566
6567 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6568
6569 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6570 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6571 2^31.
6572
6573 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6574 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6575 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6576 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6577 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6578 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6579 $localpart_data.
6580
6581 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6582 with the -f command-line option.
6583
6584 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6585 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6586 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6587 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6588 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6589 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6590
6591 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6592 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6593 line.
6594
6595 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6596 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6597 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6598 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6599 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6600 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6601 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6602 buffer is too small.
6603
6604 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6605 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6606
6607 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6608 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6609 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6610 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6611 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6612 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6613 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6614 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6615 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6616
6617 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6618 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6619 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6620
6621 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6622 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6623 ACL").
6624
6625 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6626 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6627 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6628 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6629 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6630
6631 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6632 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6633 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6634 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6635 is set.
6636
6637 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6638
6639 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6640
6641 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6642 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6643
6644 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6645 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6646 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6647
6648 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6649 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6650 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6651 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6652 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6653
6654 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6655 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6656 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6657 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6658 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6659 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6660 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6661
6662 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6663 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6664 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6665 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6666 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6667 the test of how many are available.
6668
6669 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6670 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6671 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6672 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6673 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6674 new message is started.
6675
6676 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6677 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6678
6679 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6680 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6681
6682 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6683 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6684 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6685 is no long logged.
6686
6687 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6688 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6689 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6690 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6691 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6692 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6693 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6694
6695 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6696 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6697 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6698 interpreted as octal.
6699
6700 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6701 setting.
6702
6703 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6704 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6705 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6706 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6707 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6708 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6709
6710 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6711 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6712 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6713 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6714
6715 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6716 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6717 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6718 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6719
6720 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6721 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6722 is a bug fix.
6723
6724 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6725 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6726
6727 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6728
6729 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6730 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6731 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6732 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6733
6734 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6735 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6736 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6737 supplied", which is not helpful.
6738
6739 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6740 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6741 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6742
6743 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6744 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6745 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6746 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6747 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6748 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6749 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6750 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6751
6752 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6753 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6754 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6755 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6756 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6757
6758 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6759 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6760 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6761 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6762 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6763 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6764
6765 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6766 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6767 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6768
6769 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6770
6771 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6772 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6773 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6774 variables.
6775
6776 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6777
6778 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6779 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6780 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6781 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6782 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6783 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6784 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6785 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6786
6787 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6788 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6789 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6790 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6791 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6792
6793 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6794 Haardt.
6795
6796 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6797 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6798 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6799 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6800 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6801 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6802 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6803 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6804 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6805
6806
6807 Exim version 4.30
6808 -----------------
6809
6810 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6811 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6812 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6813
6814 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6815 fixed.
6816
6817 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6818 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6819 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6820
6821 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6822 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6823 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6824 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6825 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6826 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6827
6828 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6829 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6830 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6831 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6832 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6833 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6834 the Exim test suite.
6835
6836 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6837 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6838 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6839 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6840
6841 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6842 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6843 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6844 specify it in this variable.
6845
6846 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6847 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6848 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6849 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6850
6851 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6852 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6853 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6854 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6855
6856 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6857 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6858 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6859 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6860 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6861
6862 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6863
6864 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6865 they are logged.
6866
6867 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6868 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6869 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6870 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6871 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6872
6873 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6874 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6875
6876 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6877 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6878 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6879 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6880 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6881
6882 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6883 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6884
6885 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6886 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6887 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6888
6889 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6890 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6891
6892 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6893 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6894
6895 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6896 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6897 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6898
6899 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6900 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6901
6902 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6903 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6904 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6905 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6906
6907 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6908
6909 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6910 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6911 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6912 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6913
6914 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6915
6916 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6917 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6918
6919 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6920
6921 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6922 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6923 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6924 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6925 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6926 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6927
6928 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6929
6930 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6931 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6932 this.
6933
6934 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6935
6936 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6937 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6938
6939 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6940 550 Sender verify failed
6941
6942 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6943 the final line of the response.
6944
6945 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6946 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6947 all other user lookups.
6948
6949 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6950 delivery time.
6951
6952 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6953 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6954 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6955 result into an int without checking.
6956
6957 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6958 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6959 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6960
6961 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6962 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6963 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6964 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6965
6966 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6967 correctly.
6968
6969 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6970 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6971
6972 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6973 to the empty sender.
6974
6975 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6976 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6977 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6978 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6979 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6980 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6981 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6982 panic log.
6983
6984 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6985 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6986 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6987 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6988 used.
6989
6990 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6991 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6992
6993 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6994 timestamps.
6995
6996 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6997 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6998
6999 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7000
7001 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7002 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7003 logs.
7004
7005 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7006 as soon as it is encountered.
7007
7008 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7009
7010 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7011 rewritten to "<>".
7012
7013 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7014 recognizes a tab character.
7015
7016 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7017 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7018 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7019 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7020
7021 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7022
7023 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7024 crash.
7025
7026 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7027
7028 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7029
7030 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7031 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7032 2822.
7033
7034 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7035 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7036 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7037 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7038 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7039
7040 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7041 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7042
7043 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7044 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7045 list (.included file names were always shown).
7046
7047 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7048 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7049 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7050 root at that time.
7051
7052 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7053 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7054
7055 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7056
7057 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7058
7059 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7060
7061 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7062 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7063 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7064 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7065 failures to open the logs.
7066
7067 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7068 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7069 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7070 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7071 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7072 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7073 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7074
7075
7076 Exim version 4.24
7077 -----------------
7078
7079 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7080 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7081 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7082 change 4.23/1.
7083
7084 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7085 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7086 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7087
7088 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7089 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7090 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7091
7092 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7093 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7094 causing some misleading effects.
7095
7096 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7097 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7098 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7099
7100 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7101 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7102 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7103 queue-runner function directly.
7104
7105
7106 Exim version 4.23
7107 -----------------
7108
7109 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7110 HEADERS_CHARSET.
7111
7112 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7113 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7114 was always written to the default place.
7115
7116 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7117 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7118 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7119
7120 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7121
7122 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7123
7124 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7125 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7126 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7127
7128 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7129 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7130 must start.
7131
7132 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7133 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7134 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7135
7136 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7137 command line option is disabled.
7138
7139 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7140 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7141
7142 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7143
7144 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7145
7146 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7147 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7148
7149 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7150
7151 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7152 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7153 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7154 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7155 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7156 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7157
7158 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7159 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7160 timeout.
7161
7162 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7163 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7164
7165 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7166 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7167
7168 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7169 received was valid base64.
7170
7171 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7172 name of the variable that was being set.
7173
7174 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7175
7176 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7177 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7178 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7179 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7180 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7181 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7182
7183 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7184
7185 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7186 nor realm was specified.
7187
7188 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7189 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7190 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7191 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7192
7193 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7194 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7195 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7196
7197 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7198 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7199 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7200
7201 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7202 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7203 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7204 some systems use these upper case variants.
7205
7206 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7207 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7208 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7209 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7210
7211 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7212
7213 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7214 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7215
7216 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7217 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7218 expansion variable.
7219
7220 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7221
7222 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7223 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7224 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7225 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7226
7227 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7228 using it.
7229
7230 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7231 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7232 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7233
7234 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7235 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7236
7237 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7238 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7239 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7240 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7241
7242 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7243 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7244 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7245
7246 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7247
7248 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7249 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7250 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7251 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7252 aborted.
7253
7254 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7255 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7256 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7257
7258 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7259
7260 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7261 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7262
7263 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7264 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7265
7266 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7267 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7268 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7269 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7270 when emails are that large.
7271
7272
7273
7274 Exim version 4.22
7275 -----------------
7276
7277 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7278 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7279
7280 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7281 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7282 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7283
7284 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7285 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7286 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7287
7288 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7289 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7290 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7291 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7292 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7293
7294 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7295 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7296 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7297 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7298 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7299 ever.
7300
7301 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7302 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7303 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7304 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7305 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7306 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7307 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7308 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7309 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7310 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7311 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7312 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7313 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7314 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7315
7316 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7317 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7318 parameterised it.
7319
7320 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7321 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7322 error should be diagnosed.
7323
7324 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7325 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7326 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7327 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7328 appeared instead of "NULL".
7329
7330 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7331 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7332 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7333 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7334 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7335 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7336 proceeds).
7337
7338 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7339 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7340 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7341
7342
7343 Exim version 4.21
7344 -----------------
7345
7346 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7347 or receiver verification errors.
7348
7349 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7350 name.
7351
7352 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7353 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7354 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7355 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7356
7357 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7358 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7359 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7360 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7361 shouldn't happen again.
7362
7363 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7364 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7365 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7366
7367 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7368 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7369
7370 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7371
7372 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7373 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7374
7375 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7376 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7377 RFC.
7378
7379 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7380 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7381 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7382
7383 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7384 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7385 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7386 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7387
7388 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7389 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7390 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7391 to define what should happen).
7392
7393 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7394 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7395 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7396
7397 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7398
7399 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7400
7401 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7402 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7403
7404 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7405 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7406 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7407 structure in all cases.
7408
7409 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7410 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7411 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7412 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7413
7414 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7415 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7416 domain name.
7417
7418 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7419 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7420
7421 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7422 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7423
7424 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7425 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7426 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7427
7428 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7429 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7430 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7431
7432 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7433 the book and for uniformity.
7434
7435 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7436
7437 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7438 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7439 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7440 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7441 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7442 non-existent command as the problem.
7443
7444 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7445 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7446 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7447
7448 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7449
7450 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7451 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7452 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7453
7454 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7455 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7456 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7457 timestamps using strftime().
7458
7459 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7460 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7461
7462 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7463 transport-time rewrites.
7464
7465 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7466 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7467 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7468 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7469
7470 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7471 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7472
7473 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7474 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7475 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7476 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7477 comma and a space.
7478
7479 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7480 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7481 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7482 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7483 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7484 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7485 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7486
7487 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7488 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7489 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7490 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7491 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7492
7493 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7494 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7495 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7496 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7497 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7498 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7499 remaining text gets split now.
7500
7501 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7502 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7503 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7504 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7505
7506 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7507 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7508 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7509 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7510 $return_path.
7511
7512 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7513 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7514 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7515 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7516 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7517 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7518 passed through if needed.
7519
7520 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7521 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7522 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7523 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7524 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7525 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7526
7527 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7528 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7529 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7530 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7531 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7532
7533 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7534 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7535 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7536 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7537 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7538
7539 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7540 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7541 noticed.
7542
7543 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7544 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7545 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7546 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7547 mayhem of various kinds.
7548
7549 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7550 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7551 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7552 the right test for positive values.
7553
7554 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7555 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7556 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7557 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7558 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7559 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7560 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7561 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7562 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7563 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7564 envelope.
7565
7566 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7567 module.
7568
7569 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7570 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7571 forbidding it.
7572
7573 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7574 the existing equality matching.
7575
7576 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7577 dealing with inode numbers.
7578
7579 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7580 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7581 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7582
7583 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7584 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7585 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7586 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7587 local_scan().
7588
7589 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7590 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7591 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7592 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7593 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7594 relay addresses has also been removed.
7595
7596 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7597
7598 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7599 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7600 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7601
7602 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7603 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7604 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7605 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7606 processing applies to CR:
7607
7608 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7609 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7610
7611 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7612 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7613 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7614 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7615
7616 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7617 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7618 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7619
7620 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7621 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7622 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7623 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7624 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7625 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7626 arisen.
7627
7628 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7629 program routers.
7630
7631 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7632 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7633 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7634 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7635 adds:
7636
7637 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7638
7639 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7640
7641 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7642
7643 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7644 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7645 not considered personal.
7646
7647 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7648
7649 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7650
7651 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7652
7653 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7654 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7655 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7656 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7657 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7658 header lines, and spool format errors.
7659
7660 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7661 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7662 for more flexibility.
7663
7664 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7665 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7666 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7667
7668 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7669 Sabourenkov.
7670
7671 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7672 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7673 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7674 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7675 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7676 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7677 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7678 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7679 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7680
7681 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7682 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7683 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7684 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7685 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7686 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7687 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7688
7689 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7690 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7691 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7692
7693 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7694 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7695 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7696 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7697 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7698 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7699 instead of killing the process with assert().
7700
7701 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7702 than Unicode encoding.
7703
7704 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7705 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7706 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7707 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7708
7709 77. Added process_log_path.
7710
7711 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7712 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7713
7714 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7715 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7716
7717 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7718 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7719 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7720
7721 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7722 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7723 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7724 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7725 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7726 were applied:
7727
7728 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7729 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7730 as invalid.
7731
7732 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7733 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7734 they will be used during message reception.
7735
7736
7737 Exim version 4.20
7738 -----------------
7739
7740 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7741
7742 ****