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