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