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