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