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