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