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