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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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10
11JH/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
14JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
15 non-signal-safe functions being used.
16
17JH/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
21JH/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
25JH/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
32PP/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
35JH/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
43JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
44 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
45
46JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
47 legitimate.
48
49JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
50 Previously this would segfault.
51
52JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
53 segfault.
54
55JH/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
62JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
63
64JH/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
69JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
70
71JH/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
76JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
77
78JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
79
80JH/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
84JH/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
88PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
89
90JH/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
95PP/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
99PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
100
101JH/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
107JH/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
111JH/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
115JH/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 removed using
117 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
118
119JH/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
123JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
124 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
125 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
126 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
127
128JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
129 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
130 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
131
132JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
133 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
134 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
135 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
136
137JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
138 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
139
140JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
141 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
142 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
143 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
144
145JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
146 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
147 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
148
149JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
150 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
151 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
152 the previous G, M, k.
153
154JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
155 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
156 it was unset.
157
158JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
159 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
160 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
161 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
162
163JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
164 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
165
166JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
167 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
168 off past the nul-terimation.
169
170JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
171 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
172 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
173 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
174 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
175
176JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
177
178JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
179 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
180 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
181 actually does fail.
182
183AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
184 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
185
186JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
187 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
188 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
189
190JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
191 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
192 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
193
194JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
195 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
196
197
198Exim version 4.91
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200
201GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
202 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
203 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
204 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
205 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
206 be defined in redis_servers.
207
208GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
209 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
210
211JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
212 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
213 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
214 extant use locations.
215
216JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
217 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
218
219JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
220 Previously only the last row was returned.
221
222JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
223 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
224 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
225 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
226 input.
227
228JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
229 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
230 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
231 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
232 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
233 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
234 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
235 Main pool for expansions.
236 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
237 active in the testsuite.
238 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
239
240JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
241 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
242 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
243 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
244 round-robin DNS.
245
246JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
247 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
248 failure response.
249
250JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
251 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
252 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
253
254JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
255 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
256 ClamAV interface method is removed.
257
258JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
259 rows affected is given instead).
260
261JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
262 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
263
264JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
265 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
266 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
267 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
268 for all multi-message initiating connections.
269
270JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
271 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
272 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
273
274JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
275 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
276 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
277 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
278 separate.
279
280JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
281 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
282 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
283 fake-reject.
284
285HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
286
287JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
288 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
289
290PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
291 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
292 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
293
294JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
295 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
296 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
297 and send a quit.
298
299JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
300 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
301
302JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
303 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
304 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
305
306JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
307 for the build is renamed.
308
309JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
310 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
311 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
312
313JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
314 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
315 result replacing the original.
316
317JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
318 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
319 and the resources needed to be freed.
320
321JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
322
323JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
324 was not propagated.
325
326JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
327 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
328 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
329 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
330
331JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
332 length value. Previously this would segfault.
333
334HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
335 newer versions of the scanner.
336
337JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
338 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
339 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
340 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
341 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
342 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
343 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
344
345JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
346 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
347 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
348 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
349 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
350 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
351 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
352 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
353 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
354 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
355
356JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
357 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
358
359JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
360
361HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
362 allows proper process termination in container environments.
363
364JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
365 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
366
367JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
368 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
369 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
370
371JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
372 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
373 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
374 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
375
376JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
377 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
378 would be spooled.
379
380PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
381 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
382
383HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
384 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
385 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
386 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
387 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
388
389JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
390 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
391 lines.
392
393JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
394 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
395
396PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
397 suffix list.
398
399JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
400 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
401 "bare" representation.
402
403JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
404 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
405 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
406 corrupted the output.
407
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411
412JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
413 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
414 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
415 pairs of long lines into single ones.
416
417PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
418 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
419
420JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
421 This permits better logging.
422
423JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
424 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
425 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
426 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
427 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
428 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
429
430JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
431 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
432 "exiwhat" output.
433
434PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
435 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
436 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
437
438JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
439 than 255 are no longer allowed.
440
441JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
442 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
443 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
444 client, there is no benefit for these.
445 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
446 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
447 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
448 is used (3.2.4 +).
449
450PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
451 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
452
453JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
454 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
455 erroneously found still-pending ones.
456
457JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
458 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
459
460JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
461 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
462 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
463 signature and again for transmission.
464
465JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
466 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
467 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
468
469JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
470 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
471 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
472 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
473 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
474 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
475 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
476
477JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
478 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
479 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
480 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
481
482PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
483 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
484 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
485 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
486 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
487 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
488 processing options.
489
490JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
491 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
492 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
493 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
494 connections.
495
496PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
497 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
498 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
499 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
500 versions.
501
502JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
503 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
504 inaccessible.
505
506JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
507 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
508 banner-time rejection.
509
510JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
511 callout/hold.
512
513PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
514 is the name of a transport.
515 Fixes bug 2140.
516
517HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
518
519JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
520 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
521
522JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
523 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
524 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
525 during compilation.
526
527JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
528 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
529 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
530 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
531
532JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
533 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
534 initial verify call returned a defer.
535
536JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
537 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
538
539JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
540 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
541
542JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
543 if present. Previously it was ignored.
544
545JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
546 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
547
548JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
549 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
550 extensible.
551
552PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
553 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
554
555PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
556 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
557 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
558
559JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
560 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
561 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
562 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
563
564HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
565 and confused the parent.
566
567JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
568 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
569
570JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
571 for log purposes.
572
573JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
574 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
575 out-of-order delivery.
576
577JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
578 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
579 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
580 error for the HELO.
581
582JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
583 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
584 desynchronisation.
585
586JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
587 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
588 one run was done. Bug 2189.
589
590JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
591 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
592 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
593 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
594 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
595 message is still "Temporary local problem".
596
597JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
598 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
599 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
600
601HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
602 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
603 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
604
605JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
606 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
607 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
608 though a different problem.
609
610
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613
614JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
615 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
616
617JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
618
619PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
620 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
621
622JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
623 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
624
625JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
626 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
627 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
628 before acknowledging the chunk.
629
630PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
631 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
632 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
633
634JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
635 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
636 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
637 should.
638
639JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
640 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
641 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
642
643JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
644 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
645
646JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
647 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
648 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
649 body hash calculated value.
650
651JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
652 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
653 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
654
655JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
656
657JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
658 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
659
660JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
661 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
662 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
663
664JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
665 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
666 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
667 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
668 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
669 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
670
671JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
672 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
673 past that check, despite the cost.
674
675JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
676 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
677 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
678
679PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
680 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
681 TLS library to consume.
682
683PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
684
685PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
686
687JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
688 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
689 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
690 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
691 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
692 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
693 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
694
695PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
696
697PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
698
699PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
700 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
701 should be warning-free.
702
703JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
704
705HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
706 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
707
708HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
709 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
710 general solution here.
711
712PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
713 already-broken messages in the queue.
714
715JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
716
717JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
718
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722
723JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
724 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
725
726JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
727 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
728 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
729
730JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
731 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
732 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
733 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
734 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
735 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
736 if one fails this test.
737 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
738 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
739
740JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
741 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
742
743JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
744 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
745
746JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
747 in rewrites and routers.
748
749JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
750 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
751
752JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
753 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
754
755JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
756
757JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
758 certificate).
759
760JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
761 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
762 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
763 connection after a verify cache hit.
764 Do not update it with the verify result either.
765
766JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
767 when routing results in more than one destination address.
768
769JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
770 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
771 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
772 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
773 when the cutthrough connection is made).
774
775JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
776 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
777
778JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
779 Previously they were not counted.
780
781JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
782 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
783 that needed the lookup.
784
785JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
786 distinguished as "(=".
787
788JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
789 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
790
791JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
792
793JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
794 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
795
796JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
797 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
798
799JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
800 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
801 compatible.
802
803JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
804 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
805 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
806 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
807
808JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
809
810JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
811 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
812 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
813
814JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
815 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
816 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
817 be lost.
818
819JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
820 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
821 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
822 itself :(
823
824JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
825 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
826 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
827
828JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
829 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
830 options.
831
832JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
833
834PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
835 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
836
837PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
838 are not in the system include path.
839
840JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
841 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
842 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
843 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
844
845JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
846 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
847 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
848
849JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
850
851HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
852 an incoming connection.
853
854HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
855 to rspamd.
856
857HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
858 fallback to "prime256v1".
859
860JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
861 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
862
863
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866
867JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
868 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
869 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
870 client dropping the TLS connection.
871
872TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
873 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
874
875TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
876 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
877 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
878 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
879 outgoing I= field.
880
881JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
882 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
883 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
884 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
885 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
886 check on the next write.
887
888HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
889 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
890 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
891 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
892 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
893
894JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
895 mime_regex ACL conditions.
896
897JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
898 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
899 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
900
901JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
902 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
903 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
904 an authenticate fail is not an error.
905
906HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
907 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
908
909JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
910 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
911
912JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
913 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
914 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
915 distinct.
916
917JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
918
919JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
920
921JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
922
923JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
924 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
925
926JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
927 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
928
929JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
930
931JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
932 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
933
934JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
935
936JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
937 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
938
939JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
940
941JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
942 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
943 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
944 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
945 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
946 they will retry in-clear.
947 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
948 at installation time.
949
950HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
951 with the $config_file variable.
952
953JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
954 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
955 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
956 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
957 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
958
959GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
960 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
961 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
962 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
963 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
964
965JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
966
967JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
968 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
969 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
970 list order is no longer honoured.
971
972JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
973 for DKIM processing.
974
975JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
976 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
977
978JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
979 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
980 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
981 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
982
983JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
984 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
985
986JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
987 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
988
989JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
990 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
991
992JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
993
994JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
995 cached by the daemon.
996
997JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
998 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
999
1000JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1001 keys are given for lookup.
1002
1003JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1004 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1005 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1006 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1007
1008JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1009 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1010 server-side so match that on older versions.
1011
1012JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1013 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1014 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1015
1016JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1017 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1018
1019JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1020 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1021 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1022 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1023 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1024 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1025 initial truncated version.
1026
1027JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1028
1029JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1030
1031JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1032 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1033
1034JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
188b6fee 1035
188b6fee 1036HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
2ea97746
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1037
1038JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1039 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1040 induced overflows.
1041
1042JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1043 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1044 stage.
1045
1046JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1047 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1048
1049JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1050 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1051 former class.
1052
1053JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1054 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1055 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1056
1057JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1058 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1059 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1060 extraction. Accept either.
1061
1062
1063Exim version 4.86
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1065
1066JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1067 expanded.
1068
1069JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1070
1071JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1072 it.
1073
1074JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1075 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1076 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1077 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1078
1079JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1080 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1081 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1082
1083JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1084 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1085 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1086 TLS connections
1087
1088JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1089 sites use this now.
1090
1091JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1092 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1093 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1094 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1095 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1096
1097JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1098 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1099 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1100
1101JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1102
1103JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1104 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1105
1106JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1107 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1108
1109JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1110 /defer_ok option.
1111
1112JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1113 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1114
1115JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1116 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1117 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1118
1119JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1120 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1121 specify a port-range.
1122
1123JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1124 timeout value per server.
1125
1126JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1127 now have the list separator specified.
1128
1129JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1130 option values.
1131
1132JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1133 under OpenSSL.
1134
1135JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1136
1137JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1138 rather than the verbs used.
1139
1140JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1141 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1142
1143JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1144
1145HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1146 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1147
1148JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1149 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1150
1151HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1152 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1153
1154JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1155
1156JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1157
1158JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1159 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1160 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1161 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1162
1163JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1164
1165JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1166 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1167
1168JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1169 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1170
1171JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1172
1173JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1174
1175JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1176
1177JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1178 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1179
1180JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1181 added for tls authenticator.
1182
1183HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1184
1185
1186Exim version 4.85
1187-----------------
1188
1189TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1190 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1191 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1192 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1193 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1194 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1195 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1196
1197TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1198 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1199 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1200 function when detected.
1201
1202JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1203 cause callback expansion.
1204
1205TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1206 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1207 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1208 instead of bool when processing it.
1209
1210JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1211 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1212
1213JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1214
1215JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1216
1217TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1218
1219TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1220 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1221
1222JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1223 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1224 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1225 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1226 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1227 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1228
1229JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1230 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1231 exceeded it.
1232
1233JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1234 version 3.3.6 or later.
1235
1236JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1237 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1238 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1239 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1240 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1241 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1242 option is defined.
1243
1244TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1245 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1246
1247JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1248 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1249 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1250 matches.
1251
1252JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1253 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1254 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1255
1256JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1257 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1258
1259JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1260 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1261 syntax errors.
1262
1263JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1264
1265JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1266 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1267
1268TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1269 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1270 tarball.
1271
1272JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1273
1274JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1275 Bug 1561.
1276
1277JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1278 output list separator was used.
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1281Exim version 4.84
1282-----------------
1283TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1284 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1285 return.
1286
1287JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2ea97746 1288 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1289
1290JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1291
1292TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2ea97746 1293 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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1295
1296Exim version 4.83
1297-----------------
1298
1299TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1300
1301 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1302 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1303 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1304 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1305 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1306 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1307
1308TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1309 utilities have not been installed.
1310
1311JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1312 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1313
1314TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1315 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1316
1317TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1318 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1319 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1320 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1321
1322JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1323
1324TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1325 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1326
1327PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1328 not dns_use_dnssec.
1329
1330JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1331
1332TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1333 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1334 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1335
1336TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1337 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1338 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1339 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1340 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1341 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1342
1343JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1344
1345JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1346 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1347
1348JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1349 failed delivery.
1350
1351JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1352
1353JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1354
1355JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1356 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1357
1358JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1359 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1360
1361TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1362
1363JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1364
1365JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1366 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1367
1368 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1369 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1370 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1371
1372TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1373 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1374 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1375 analysis.
1376
1377JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1378
1379JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1380 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1381 lookup).
1382
1383TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1384 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1385 Schlichting.
1386
1387JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1388 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1389
1390TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1391 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1392
1393JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1394
1395TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1396 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1397 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1398
1399JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1400 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1401
1402JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1403 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1404 hosts_request_ocsp.
1405
1406JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1407 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1408 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1409
1410JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1411
1412TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1413 Christian Aistleitner.
1414
1415JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1416
1417TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1418 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1419
1420JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1421 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1422
1423JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1424 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1425
1426TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1427 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1428
1429TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1430 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1431
1432TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1433 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1434 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1435
1436JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1437
1438PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1439 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1440 Jasper Wallace.
1441
1442JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1443
1444TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1445 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1446 CVE-2014-2972
1447
1448
1449Exim version 4.82
1450-----------------
1451
1452PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1453
1454PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1455 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1456
1457PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1458 by GnuTLS.
1459
1460PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1461 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1462 routines.
1463
1464PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1465
1466PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1467 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1468 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1469 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1470 using channel bindings instead).
1471
1472PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1473 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1474 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1475 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1476 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1477 Bugzilla 1117.
1478
1479TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1480
1481TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1482
1483TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1484 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1485
1486TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1487 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1488 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1489
1490TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1491
1492TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1493
1494TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1495 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1496
1497JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1498
1499JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1500
1501PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1502
1503NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1504 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1505
1506JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1507
1508PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1509 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1510 function.
1511
1512PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1513 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1514
1515JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1516 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1517 "acl = name arg..."
1518
1519JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1520
1521JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1522
1523JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1524 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1525
1526JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1527 Bugzilla 884.
1528
1529JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1530 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1531
1532JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1533 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1534
1535PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1536 CVE-2012-5671
1537 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1538
1539JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1540 authenticators.
1541
1542JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1543 for control.
1544
1545PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1546
1547PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1548 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1549 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1550 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1551
1552TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1553
1554 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1555 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1556 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1557 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1558 the retry rules.
1559
1560 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1561 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1562 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1563
1564 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1565 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1566 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1567 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1568
1569 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1570 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1571 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1572 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1573 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1574 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1575 delivery, as in LMTP.
1576
1577 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1578 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1579
1580TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1581
1582 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1583
1584 Resent-From: f
1585
1586 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1587 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1588 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1589 username as equal to the username.
1590
1591 This change corrects that bug.
1592
1593GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1594 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1595 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1596
1597TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1598
1599PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1600 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1601 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1602 NULL dereference and crash.
1603
1604JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1605
1606PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1607 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1608 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1609
1610SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1611
1612JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1613 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1614 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1615 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1616 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1617 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1618 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2ea97746 1619 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
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1621 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1622 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1623
1624PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1625 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1626
1627PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1628 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1629 Bugzilla 880.
1630
1631PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1632 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1633 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1634 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1635 an empty string is now equivalent.
1636
1637PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1638 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1639 not performing validation itself.
1640
1641PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1642 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1643
1644JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1645 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1646
2ea97746 1647TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
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1649PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1650 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1651 other false fix of the same issue.
1652 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1653 Bugzilla 1363.
1654
1655PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1656 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1657
1658PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1659 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1660 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1661
1662PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1663 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1664 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1665
1666TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1667
1668JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1669
1670TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1671 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1672
1673TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1674 Alexander Miroch.
1675
1676TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1677 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1678 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1679 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1680 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1681
1682TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1683 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1684
1685TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1686 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1687 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1688
1689TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1690 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1691 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1692 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1693
1694TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1695
1696TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1697 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1698 from multiple comments on this bug.
1699
1700TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1701
1702TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1703 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1704 interaction.
1705
1706TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1707 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1708
1709TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1710 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1711
1712
1713Exim version 4.80.1
1714-------------------
1715
1716PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1717 CVE-2012-5671
1718 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1719
1720
1721Exim version 4.80
1722-----------------
1723
1724PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1725 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1726 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1727
1728NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1729
1730NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1731 improved.
1732
1733NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1734
1735PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1736
1737PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1738
1739PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1740 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1741
1742PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1743 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1744
1745PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1746 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1747
1748PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1749 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1750 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
1751
1752PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1753
1754PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1755 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1756
1757PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1758
1759PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
1760
1761PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1762 non-compliant senders.
1763 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1764
1765NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2ea97746 1766 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
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1767 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1768
1769PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1770 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1771 in spool file corruption.
1772
1773PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1774 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1775 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1776 "Got SSL error 2".
1777
1778TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1779 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1780 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1781
1782JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1783 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1784
1785JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1786
1787PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1788 diagnostics.
1789 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1790
2ea97746 1791PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
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1792 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1793 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1794
1795PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1796 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
1797 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1798 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
1799
1800PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1801 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1802
1803PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1804 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1805 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1806 resolver implementation change.
1807
1808PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1809 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1810
1811PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1812
1813PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1814
1815PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1816 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1817
1818PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1819 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1820
1821JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1822 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1823
1824PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1825 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1826 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1827 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1828 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1829
1830PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1831
1832PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1833 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1834 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1835
1836JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1837
1838PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1839 read-only, out of scope).
1840 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1841
1842PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1843 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1844 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1845 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1846
1847PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1848
1849PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1850 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1851 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1852 real issues in debug logging.
1853
1854PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1855 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1856
1857PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1858 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1859 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1860
1861PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1862 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1863 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1864 problems.
1865
1866PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1867 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1868
1869PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1870 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1871 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1872 needs to override this, it can.
1873
1874PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1875 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1876 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1877
1878PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1879 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1880 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1881 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1882
1883PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1884
1885
1886Exim version 4.77
1887-----------------
1888
1889PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1890 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1891
1892TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1893
1894TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1895 whitespace trailer
1896
1897TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1898 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1899
1900TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1901 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1902 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1903
1904 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1905 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1906 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1907 not safe for signals.
1908
1909 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1910 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1911 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1912 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1913 exiwhat.
1914
1915TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1916
1917 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1918 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1919 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1920 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2ea97746 1921 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
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1922
1923 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1924 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1925 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1926 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1927 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1928 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1929
1930 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1931 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1932 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1933 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1934
1935 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1936 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1937 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1938 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1939
1940 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1941 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1942 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1943 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1944 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1945 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1946 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1947 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1948 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1949
1950 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1951 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1952 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1953 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1954
1955 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1956 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1957 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1958 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1959 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1960 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1961 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1962 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1963 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1964 details in the main documentation.
1965
1966TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1967
1968TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1969
1970TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1971 repository when doing development or release builds.
1972
1973PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1974 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
1975
1976PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1977 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1978 Bugzilla 97.
1979
1980PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1981
1982PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
1983 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1984
1985PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1986 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1987
1988PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
1989 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1990
1991PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1992 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
1993
1994PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1995 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1996
1997PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1998 Bugzilla 1156.
1999 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2000 Bugzilla 1095.
2001
2002PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2003 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2004 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2005
2006PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2007
2008PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2009
2010PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2011 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2012
2013
2014Exim version 4.76
2015-----------------
2016
2017PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2018
2019PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2020 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2021
2022PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2023
2024PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2025
2026PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2027 Bugzilla 1098.
2028
2029PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2030 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2031
2032TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2033 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2034
2035PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2036 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2037
2038PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2039 Bugzilla 1104.
2040
2041TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2042 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2043
2044TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2045 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2046 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2047 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2048
2049PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2050 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2051
2052
2053Exim version 4.75
2054-----------------
2055
2ea97746 2056NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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2057 Bugzilla 1073
2058
2059TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2060 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2061 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2062
2063TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2064 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2065
2066PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2067 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2068 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2069
2070PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2071 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2072
2073PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2074 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2075
2076NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2077 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2078
2079NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2080 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2081
2082PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2083 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2084
2085NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2086 Fixes bug 943.
2087
2088PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2089 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2090
2091PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2092 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2093
2094PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2095 SQL string expansion failure details.
2096 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2097
2098PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2099 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2100
2101PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2102 extern declarations in function scope.
2103 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2104
2105PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2106 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2107 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2108 a kernel bug).
2109
2110PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2111 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2112
2113PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2114 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2115
2116PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2117 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2118
2119PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2120 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2121
2122NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2123 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2124 Dennis Davis.
2125
2ea97746 2126PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
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2127
2128PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2129
2130NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2131 Patch by Simon Arlott
2132
2133TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2134 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2135
2136
2137Exim version 4.74
2138-----------------
2139
2140TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2141 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2142
2143TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2144 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2145
2146TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2147
2148DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2149 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2150 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2151
2152PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2153 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2154 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2155
2156PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2157 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2158 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2159 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2160
2161PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2162 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2163 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2164 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2165
2166PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2167 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2168 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2169 arbitrary files.
2170
2171PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2172 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2173
2174PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2175 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2176 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2177 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2178 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2179
2180
2181Exim version 4.73
2182-----------------
2183
2184PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2185 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2186 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2187
2188PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2189 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2190
2191JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2192
2193PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2194
2195PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2196
2197PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2198
2199PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2200
2201PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2202 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2203 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2204 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2205
2206PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2207 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2208 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2209 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2210 more caution in buffer sizes.
2211
2212PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2213
2214PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2215
2216PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2217
2218PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2219
2220PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2221
2222PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2223
2224PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2225
2226PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2227 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2228 ignore trailing whitespace.
2229
2230JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2231
2232JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2233 "exim" to be used
2234
2235PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2236 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2237
2238PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2239 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2240 Notification from John Horne.
2241
2242PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2243 compatible.
2244
2245PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2246 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2247 it normally works.
2248
2249DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2250 access.
2251
2252DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2253 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2254 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2255
2256DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2257 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2258 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2259 configuration file.
2260
2261DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2262 option (effectively making it always true).
2263
2264DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2265 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2266
2267DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2268 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2269
2270PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2271 run-time user, instead of root.
2272
2273PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2274 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2275
2276DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2277 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2278 arguments.
2279
2280DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2281 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2282 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2283
2284DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2285
2286NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2287
2288
2289Exim version 4.72
2290-----------------
2291
2292JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2293 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2294 typos
2295
2296JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2297 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2298 (Finput)
2299
2300NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2301 Patch from Alain Williams
2302
2303NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2304
2305NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2306 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2307
2308NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2309 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2310
2311NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2312
2313JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2314
2315NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2316 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2317
2318TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2319
2320TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2321
2322MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2323 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2324 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2325
2326NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2327 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2328
2329NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2330 Patch by Simon Arlott
2331
2332PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2333 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2334
2335
2336Exim version 4.71
2337-----------------
2338
2339TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2340
2341NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2342
2343NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2344
2345NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2346
2347NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2348
2349
2350Exim version 4.70
2351-----------------
2352
2353TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2354 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2355
2356TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2357 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2358 Hirsch).
2359
2360TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2361 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2362 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2363
2364TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2365 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2366
2367NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2368 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2369 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2370 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2371
2372NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2373 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2374 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2375
2376TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2377
2378TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2379
2380NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2381 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2382
2383NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2384
2385TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2386 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2387 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2388 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2389
2390NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2391 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2392
2393TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2394
2395NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2396
2397NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2398 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2399
2400TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2401 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2402
2403TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2404 that they are available at delivery time.
2405
2406TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2407
2408TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2409 incoming_port log selectors.
2410
2411TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2412 setting expands to an empty string.
2413
2414NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2415 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2416
2417NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2418 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2419
2420NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2421 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2422
2423NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2424 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2425
2426NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2427 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2428
2429NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2430 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2431
2432NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2433
2434NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2435 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2436
2437NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2438 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2439
2440TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2441
2442NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2443 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2444
2445NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2446
2447NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2448
2449NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2450 lsearch.
2451
2452NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2453 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2454
2455NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2456 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2457
2458NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2459 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2460
2461NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2462 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2463
2464NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2465 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2466
2467NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2468 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2469
2470NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2471 plus update to original patch.
2472
2473NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2474
2475NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2476 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2477
2478NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2479
2480NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2481
2482NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2483
2484NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2485
2486NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2487 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2488
2489NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2490 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2491
2492NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2493 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2494
2495NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2496 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2497
2498NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2499
2500NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2501
2502NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2503
2504NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2505
2506
2507Exim version 4.69
2508-----------------
2509
2510TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2511 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2512 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2513
2514 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2515 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2516 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2517 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2518 build errors in sieve.c.
2519
2520NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2521 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2522 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2523
2524SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2525
2526NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2527
2528NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2529
2530NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2531
2532
2533Exim version 4.68
2534-----------------
2535
2536PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2537
2538PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2539 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2540 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2541 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2542 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2543 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2544 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2545 for iplsearch lookups.
2546
2547 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2548 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2549 previously such lookups could never work.
2550
2ea97746 2551 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
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2552 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2553 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2554
2555TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2556 version.
2557
2558MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2559 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2560 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2561 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2562 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2563 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2564
2565TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2566 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2567
2568MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2569 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2570 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2571 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2572 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2573 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2574
2575PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2576 local_scan API.
2577
2578PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2579
2580PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2581 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2582 encrypted.
2583
2584PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2585 by clients under certain conditions.
2586
2587PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2588 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2589
2590PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2591
2592PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2593 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2594
2595PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2596
2597PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2598
2599PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2600
2601PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2602 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2603
2604PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2605
2606PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2607 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2608
2609PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2610
2611PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2612
2613PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2614 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2615 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2616 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2617
2618PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2619 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2620 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2621
2622PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2623 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2624
2625PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2626
2627PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2628
2629PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2630
2631PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2632 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2633 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2634
2635
2636Exim version 4.67
2637-----------------
2638
2639MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2640 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2641 Jan Srzednicki.
2642
2643PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2644 issue a MAIL command.
2645
2646PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2647
2648 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2649
2650 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2651 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2652 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2653 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2654 item. This has been fixed.
2655
2656PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2657 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2658
2659PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2660 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2661
2662PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2663 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2664 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2665
2666SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2667
2668PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2669 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2670 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2671 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2672 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2673
2674MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2675 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2676 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2677
2678PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2679 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2680 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2681 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2682
2683PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2684
2685PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2686
2687PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2688 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2689 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2690 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2691 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2692
2693PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2694
2695PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2696 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2697 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2698 values).
2699
2700PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2701
2702PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2703
2704PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2705
2706PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2707
2708PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2709
2710PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2711 no_callout_flush is set.
2712
2713PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2714 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2715 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2716 fixed.
2717
2718PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2719
2720PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2ea97746 2721 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
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2722 other ACL rejections are.
2723
2724PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2725 with slight modification.
2726
2727PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2728 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2729
2730PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2731 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2732 connection.
2733
2734PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2735 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2736
2737SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2738
2739PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2740 expansion side effects.
2741
2742PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2743 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2744 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2745 be the same.
2746
2747MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2748 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2749 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2750
2751PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2752 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2753 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2754 were accidentally chopped off.
2755
2756PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2757 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2758 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2759 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2760 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2761 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2762 pipelining has not been advertised.
2763
2764PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2765
2766PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2767 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2768 This has been fixed.
2769
2770PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2771 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2772 reported on Solaris.
2773
2774PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2775 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2776 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2777 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2778 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2779 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2780 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2781
2782PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2783 cpus.
2784
2785PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2786
2787PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2788
2789PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2790 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
2791 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2792 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2793 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2794 criteria to be more general.
2795
2796PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2797 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2798 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2799 host_all_ignored option.
2800
2801PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2802 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2803 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2804 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2805 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2806 is what is supposed to happen).
2807
2808PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2809 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2810 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2811 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2812 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2813 uses the Exim user.
2814
2815PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2816 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2817 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2818 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2819 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2820 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2821 users.
2822
2823PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2824
2825SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2826 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2827 (Jez Hancock).
2828 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2829 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2830
2831SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2832
2833PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2834
2835PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2836 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2837 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2838 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2839 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2840 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2841 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2842 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2843 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2844 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2845 least in a lot of common cases.
2846
2847PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2848 advertised in response to EHLO.
2849
2850
2851Exim version 4.66
2852-----------------
2853
2854PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2855 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2856
2857 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2858 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2859
2860 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2861 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2862 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2863
2864 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2865 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2866 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2867 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2868 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2869
2870
2871Exim version 4.65
2872-----------------
2873
2874TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2875 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2876 versions. (#438)
2877
2878MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2879 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2880 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2881
2882PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2883 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2884 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2885 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2886 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2887 rather than extend the field.
2888
2889
2890Exim version 4.64
2891-----------------
2892
2893TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2894 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2895 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2896 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2897 these files.
2898
2899TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2900 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2901 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2902
2903TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2904 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2905 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2906
2907TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2908 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2909 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2910 in the field name.
2911
2912PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2913 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2914 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2915 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2916 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2917 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2918 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2919 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2920 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2921 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2922 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2923
2924PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2925 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2926
2927PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2928 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2929 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2930 ignores EPIPE as well.
2931
2932PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2933 (quoted-printable decoding).
2934
2935PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
2936 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
2937
2938PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2939
2940PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2941
2942PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2943
2944PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
2945 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
2946
2947JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2948 in 4.64-PH/09.
2949
2950JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2951 miscellaneous code fixes
2952
2953PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2954 rejections.
2955
2956PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2957 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2958 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2959 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2960 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2961 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2962 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2963 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
2964
2965PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
2966 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
2967 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2968 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2969 function.
2970 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2971 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2972 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2973 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2974 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2975 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2976 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2977 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2978 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2979
2980PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2981 decoding.
2982
2983PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2984 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2985 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2986 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2987 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2988 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2989 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2990 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2991
2992PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2993 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2994 list.
2995
2996PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2997 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2998 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2999 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3000 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3001 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3002 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3003 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3004 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3005 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3006 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3007 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3008 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3009
3010PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3011 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3012 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3013 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3014 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3015 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3016 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3017
3018PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3019 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3020 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3021 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3022 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3023 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3024 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3025 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3026 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3027 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3028
3029PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3030 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3031 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3032 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3033 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3034
3035PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3036 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3037 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3038 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3039 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3040 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3041 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3042
3043PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3044 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3045 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3046 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3047 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3048 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3049 been verified.
3050
3051PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3052 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3053 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3054 and authorization.)
3055
3056PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3057 if any retry times were supplied.
3058
3059PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3060 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3061 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3062
3063PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3064
3065PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3066
3067PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3068 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3069 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3070 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3071 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3072 before) are ignored.
3073
3074PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3075 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3076
3077PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3078 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3079 committing the later change.]
3080
3081PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3082 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3083 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3084 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3085 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3086 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3087 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3088 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3089 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3090
3091 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3092 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3093 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3094 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3095 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3096 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3097 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3098 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3099 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3100
3101 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3102 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3103 hammering the server.
3104
3105PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3106 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3107
3108PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3109
3110PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3111 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3112 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3113
3114PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3115 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3116 one case where this was not true.
3117
3118PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3119 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3120 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3121 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3122 fails.
3123
3124PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3125 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3126 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3127 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2ea97746 3128 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
420a0d19
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3129 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3130 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3131 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3132 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3133 smtp transport.
3134
3135PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3136 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3137 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3138 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3139
3140PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3141 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3142
3143PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3144 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3145 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3146
3147PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3148
3149PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3150
3151PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3152
3153PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3154 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3155 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3156 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3157
3158PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3159 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3160
3161PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3162 be meaningful with "accept".
3163
3164SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3165 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3166
3167SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3168 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3169 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3170
3171SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3172 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3173 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3174 there is data to show.
3175 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3176
3177SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3178 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3179 as well as the number of messages.
3180
3181SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3182 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3183 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3184
3185SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3186 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3187 have a flag are now skipped.
3188
3189SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3190 Added the -emptyok flag.
3191
3192SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3193 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3194
3195JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3196 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2ea97746 3197 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
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3198
3199JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3200 match 4.64-PH/13
3201
3202JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3203 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3204
3205JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3206
3207JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3208 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3209
3210PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3211
3212PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3213 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3214 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3215 contravention of the specifications.
3216
3217PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3218 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3219 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3220
3221PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3222 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3223 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3224
3225PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3226
3227MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3228 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3229 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3230 some point in the past.
3231
3232PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3233 transport during callout processing was broken.
3234
3235PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3236 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3237
3238PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3239 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3240
3241PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3242 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3243
3244PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3245
3246
3247Exim version 4.63
3248-----------------
3249
3250SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3251 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3252
3253SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3254 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3255 there is data to show.
3256 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3257
3258SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3259 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3260
3261TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3262 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3263
3264TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3265 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3266
3267TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3268 submissions from trusted users.
3269
3270TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3271 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3272
3273TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3274 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3275 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3276 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3277 there is now a framework to start from.
3278
3279PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3280 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3281 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3282
3283PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3284
3285PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3286
3287PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3288
3289PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3290 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3291 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3292
3293PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3294 libradius.
3295
3296PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3297 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3298 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3299
3300PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3301 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3302 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3303 its arguments.
3304
3305PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3306 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3307 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3308 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3309 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3310
3311PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3312 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3313
3314PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3315
3316PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3317 operations in malware.c.
3318
3319PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3320 signatures.
3321
3322PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3323 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3324 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3325 all.
3326
3327PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3328 statements to "add_header".
3329
3330PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3331 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3332
3333PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3334 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3335 latter.
3336
3337PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3338 so that it is now:
3339
3340 ${if or { \
3341 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3342 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3343 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3344 }{no}{yes}}
3345
3346 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3347 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3348
3349PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3350 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3351
3352PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3353 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3354 any possible encoding problems.
3355
3356PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3357 but not after initializing Perl.
3358
3359PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3360 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3361 apparently, which is not desirable.
3362
3363PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3364 queries.
3365
3366JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3367 --not options
3368
3369JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3370
3371PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3372 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3373 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3374 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3375
3376PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3377 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3378 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3379
3380PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3381 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3382 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3383 0.12.
3384
3385PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3386 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3387 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3388 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3389 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3390
3391
3392Exim version 4.62
3393-----------------
3394
3395TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3396 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3397
3398PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3399 patch).
3400
3401PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3402 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3403 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3404 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3405 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3406 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3407 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3408 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3409 451 error is used.
3410
3411PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3412
3413PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3414 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3415 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3416
3417PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3418 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3419 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3420 odd errors.
3421
3422PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3423 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3424
3425PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3426 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3427 option (which defaults to 0600).
3428
3429PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3430
3431PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3432 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3433 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3434 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3435 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3436 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3437 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3438
3439PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3440
3441
3442Exim version 4.61
3443-----------------
3444
3445PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3446 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3447 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3448 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3449 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3450 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3451 addresses as local.
3452
3453PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3454 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3455
3456PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3457
3458PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3459 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3460 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3461 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3462 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3463 grumble.
3464
3465PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3466 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3467
3468PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3469 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3470 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3471 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3472 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3473
3474PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3475 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3476 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3477 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3478
3479PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3480 be the same on different OS.
3481
3482PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3483 testing.
3484
3485JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3486 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3487
3488JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3489 in 4.61-PH/06
3490
3491PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3492 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3493 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3494 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3495 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3496 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3497 bounce message.
3498
3499PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3500 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3501 when Exim was called.
3502
3503PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3504 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3505
3506PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3507 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3508 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3509 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3510
3511PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3512 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3513 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3514 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3515 changes:
3516
3517 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3518 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2ea97746 3519 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
420a0d19
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3520
3521 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3522 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3523 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3524
3525PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3526 feature).
3527
3528PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3529 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3530 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3531 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3532 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3533 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3534 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3535 values from the SRV records were lost.
3536
3537PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3538 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3539 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3540
3541PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3542 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3543 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3544
3545PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3546 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3547 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3548 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3549 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3550 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3551 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3552 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3553 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3554 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3555
3556PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3557 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3558 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3559
3560PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3561 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3562
3563PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3564 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3565 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3566 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3567 is given.
3568
3569PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3570 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3571 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3572
3573PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3574 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3575 PH/23 above applies.
3576
3577PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3578 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3579 (for which there is an explicit test).
3580
3581PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3582
3583PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3584 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3585 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3586 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3587 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3588
3589PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3590 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3591 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3592 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3593
3594PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3595 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3596 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3597
3598PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3599
3600PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3601
3602PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3603 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3604 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3605
3606PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3607 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3608 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3609 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3610 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3611
3612PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3613 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3614 the message gets confusing).
3615
3616PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3617 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3618 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3619 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3620
3621PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3622 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3623 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3624 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3625 same order.
3626
3627PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3628 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3629 the different processes.
3630
3631PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3632
3633PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3634
3635JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3636 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3637
3638JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3639 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3640
3641JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3642 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3643 messages matching specified criteria.
3644
3645PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3646
3647PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3648 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3649
3650PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3651 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3652 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3653 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3654 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3655 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3656 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3657 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3658 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3659 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3660
3661PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3662 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3663 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3664
3665PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3666
3667PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3668 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3669 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3670 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3671 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3672 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3673 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3674 the variable.
3675
3676PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3677 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3678
3679PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3680
3681PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3682
3683PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3684
3685PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3686 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3687 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3688 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3689 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3690 size of the count of files.
3691
3692PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3693
3694PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3695 used in LMTP mode:
3696
3697 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3698 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3699 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3700 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3701
3702 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3703 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3704 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3705
3706PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3707 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3708 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3709 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3710 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3711
3712PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3713 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3714
3715PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3716 will now be deprecated.
3717
3718PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3719
3720JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3721 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3722 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3723
3724JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3725 with very large, slow to parse queues
3726
3727JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3728
3729JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3730
3731PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3732 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3733 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3734 SMTP output lines.
3735
3736PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3737 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3738 Sieve code now uses this.
3739
3740PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3741 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3742
3743PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3744 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3745
3746PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3747
3748PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3749 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3750 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3751 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3752 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3753
3754PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3755 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3756 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3757 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3758
3759PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3760
3761PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3762
3763PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3764 is preferred over IPv4.
3765
3766PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3767 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3768 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3769 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3770 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3771 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3772 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3773
3774PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3775 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3776 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3777
3778PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3779
3780PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3781 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3782 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3783 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3784 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3785 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3786 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3787 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3788 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3789 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3790 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3791
3792PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3793 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3794 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3795
3796
3797Exim version 4.60
3798-----------------
3799
3800PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3801
3802 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3803 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3804
3805 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3806 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3807 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3808
3809PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3810
3811 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3812 not a single digit.
3813
3814 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3815 string.
3816
3817 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3818 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3819 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3820 silly things.
3821
3822 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3823 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3824
3825 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3826 inside the third argument.
3827
3828PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3829 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3830 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3831
3832PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3833 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3834
3835PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3836 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3837
3838 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3839
3840 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3841 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3842 this:
3843
3844 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3845
3846PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3847 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3848 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3849 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3850 identical. For example:
3851
3852 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3853
3854 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3855 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3856 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3857
3858PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3859 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3860 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3861 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3862
3863PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3864 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3865 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3866 message.
3867
3868PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3869
3870 o fixes some comments
3871 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3872 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3873 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3874 and documents the missing references header update
3875
3876 and most important:
3877
3878 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2ea97746 3879 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
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3880 result)
3881
3882PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3883 Electronic Mail") by including:
3884
3885 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3886
3887 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2ea97746 3888 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
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3889 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3890 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3891 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3892
3893 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3894
3895 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3896
3897 The auto-replied keyword:
3898
3899 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3900 message by an automatic process,
3901
3902 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3903
3904 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3905 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3906
3907 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3908 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3909 other messages.
3910
3911PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3912 to the default Received: header definition.
3913
3914PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3915
3916PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3917 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3918 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3919
3920PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3921 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3922 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3923
3924PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3925 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3926 and treats the condition as false.
3927
3928PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3929
3930PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3931 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3932 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3933 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3934 not changing the active code.
3935
3936 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3937 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3938
3939 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3940 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3941
3942PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3943 (Bugzilla #53).
3944
3945PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3946 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3947 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3948 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3949 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3950 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3951 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3952 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3953 the text comparison.
3954
3955PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3956 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3957 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3958 The same fix has been applied.
3959
3960
3961Exim version 4.54
3962-----------------
3963
3964PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3965 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3966 It now does.
3967
3968PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3969 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3970
3971PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3972
3973PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3974 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3975 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3976 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3977 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3978
3979TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3980 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3981 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3982 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3983 or /domain=).
3984
3985PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3986 testing suite.
3987
3988
3989
3990Exim version 4.53
3991-----------------
3992
3993TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3994 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3995
3996PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3997
3998PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3999
4000PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4001 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4002 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4003
4004PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4005 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4006 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4007
4008PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4009 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4010 operating systems.
4011
4012PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4013 ${stat: expansion item.
4014
4015PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4016 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4017
4018PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4019 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4020 file for comments.
4021
4022PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4023
4024PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4025 setting.
4026
4027PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4028 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4029
4030TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4031
4032PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4033 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4034 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4035 the end of the subprocess.
4036
4037PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4038 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4039 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4040 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4041 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4042
4043JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4044
4045TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4046
4047PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4048 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4049
4050PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4051
4052PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4053
4054PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4055 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4056 HP-UX compiler.
4057
4058PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4059
4060PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4061 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4062 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4063
4064PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4065 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4066
4067PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4068 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4069
4070PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4071 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4072
4073 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4074 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4075
4076 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4077 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4078 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4079 contributed by a Radius user.
4080
4081PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4082 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4083
4084TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4085 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4086
4087PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4088 available.
4089
4090PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4091 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4092 received.
4093
4094PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4095 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4096 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4097 header lines when this was not necessary.
4098
4099PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4100
4101PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4102 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4103 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4104 exists".
4105
4106PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4107 -bV or -d is used.
4108
4109PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4110 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4111 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4112 return code was incorrect.
4113
4114PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4115
4116PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4117
4118TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4119
4120PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4121
4122PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4123 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4124 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4125 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4126 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4127 settings.
4128
4129PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4130
4131PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4132 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4133 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4134 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4135 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4136 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4137 which is clearly wrong.
4138
4139PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4140
4141PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4142 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4143 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4144 subsequently added.
4145
4146PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4147 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4148
4149PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4150
4151PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4152 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4153
4154PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4155 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4156
4157PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4158 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4159
4160PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4161 recipients, not senders.
4162
4163TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4164 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4165
4166PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4167
4168PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4169
4170PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4171 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4172 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4173 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4174
4175TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4176
4177TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4178 clock is set back in time.
4179
4180TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4181 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4182
4183TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4184 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4185
4186PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4187 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4188 (see PH/47 above).
4189
4190TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4191 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4192 header rewrites.
4193
4194PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4195 type ("H").
4196
4197PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4198
4199TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4200 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4201 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4202
4203TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4204 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4205 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4206 helo verification defer as a failure.
4207
4208PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4209 actual error message.
4210
4211
4212Exim version 4.52
4213-----------------
4214
4215TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4216
4217PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4218 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4219 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4220 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4221
4222TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4223
4224PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4225 can still be requested.
4226
4227PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4228 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4229 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4230 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4231
4232TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4233 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4234 circumstances, but probably never did.
4235
4236PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4237 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4238 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4239 in the header line.
4240
4241TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4242
4243TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4244 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4245
4246TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4247
4248TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4249
4250PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4251 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4252 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2ea97746 4253 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
420a0d19
CE
4254 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4255 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4256
4257PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4258 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4259 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4260 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4261 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4262 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4263
4264TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4265 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4266
4267PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4268 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4269
4270SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4271 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4272
2ea97746 4273SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
420a0d19
CE
4274
4275SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4276
4277SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4278
4279SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4280
4281SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4282
4283SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4284
4285TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4286
4287TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4288 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4289 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4290
4291TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4292 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4293 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4294 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4295
4296PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4297 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4298 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4299
4300PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4301 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4302 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4303 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4304
4305PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4306 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4307 to be made).
4308
4309PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4310 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4311 should work with maildirs and everything.
4312
4313TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4314 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4315
4316TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4317 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4318
4319PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4320 function for BDB 4.3.
4321
4322PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4323
4324PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4325 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4326 involved.
4327
4328PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4329 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4330 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4331 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4332 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4333 formatting function string_vformat().
4334
4335PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4336 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4337 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4338 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4339 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4340 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4341 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4342 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4343
4344TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4345 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4346 details.
4347
4348PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4349 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4350
4351PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4352 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4353 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4354 test. It is now used for both.
4355
4356PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4357 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4358 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4359 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4360 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4361 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4362
4363PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4364 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4365 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4366 string_vformat().
4367
4368PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4369 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4370 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4371
4372PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4373 experimental DomainKeys support:
4374
4375 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4376 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4377 the control was given.
4378
4379 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4380
4381PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4382
4383PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4384
4385PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4386 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4387 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4388 db.h files).
4389
4390PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4391 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4392 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4393 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4394 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4395 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4396 course.
4397
4398PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4399 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4400 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4401 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4402 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4403 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4404
4405PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4406 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4407 do -d+all out of habit.
4408
4409PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4410 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4411 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4412
4413PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4414 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4415 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4416 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4417 record types that Exim uses.
4418
4419PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4420 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4421 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4422 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4423 non-existent file that was broken.
4424
4425TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4426 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4427
4428TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4429 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4430 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4431
4432TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4433
4434PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4435 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4436 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4437 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4438 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4439 same time.
4440
4441SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4442 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4443 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4444 at a slight CPU cost.
4445
4446SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4447 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4448
4449SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4450 by Marc Sherman.
4451
4452SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4453
4454PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4455 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4456
4457
4458Exim version 4.51
4459-----------------
4460
4461TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4462 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4463
4464TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4465
4466TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4467
4468PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4469 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4470
4471PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4472 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4473 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4474 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4475 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4476 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4477 file.
4478
4479PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4480 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4481 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4482 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4483 these two options.
4484
4485PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4486 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4487 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4488 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4489 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4490 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4491 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4492 address.
4493
4494PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4495 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4496
4497PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4498 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4499 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4500 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4501 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4502 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4503
4504PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4505 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4506 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4507 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4508
4509PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4510 Finch).
4511
4512PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4513 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4514
4515PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4516 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4517 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4518 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4519 message.
4520
4521PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4522
4523PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4524 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4525
4526PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4527 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4528 to what was transported.)
4529
4530TF/01 Added $received_time.
4531
4532PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4533 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4534 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4535 spamd_address settings.
4536
4537PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4538 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4539 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4540 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4541 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4542
4543PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4544
4545PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4546 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4547 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4548 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4549 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4550
4551PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4552 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4553
4554PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4555 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4556 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4557 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4558 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4559 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4560 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4561 for failure.
4562
4563PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4564 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4565 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4566 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4567 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4568 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4569 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4570 "input=".
4571
4572PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4573
4574PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4575 driver and ACL definitions.
4576
4577PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4578 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4579
4580PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4581 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4582 understands it better than I do:
4583
4584 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4585 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4586
4587 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4588 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4589 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4590 => three warnings about OTP not working
4591 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4592
4593 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4594 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4595 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4596 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4597 for each call.)
4598 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4599 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4600
4601 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4602 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4603 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4604
4605PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4606 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4607 specified.
4608
4609PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4610 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4611 "Linux".
4612
4613PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4614 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4615 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4616
4617 warn !verify = sender
4618 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4619
4620 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4621 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4622
4623PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4624
4625 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4626 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4627
4628 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4629 nomenclature these days.)
4630
4631PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4632 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4633
4634PH/30 In these circumstances:
4635 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4636 . First host does not offer TLS;
4637 . First host accepts first address;
4638 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4639 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4640 . Second host accepts second address.
4641 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4642 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4643 address.
4644
4645PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4646 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4647 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4648 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4649 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4650
4651PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4652 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4653
4654PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4655 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4656
4657PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4658 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4659 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4660
4661PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4662 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4663 overlooked.
4664
4665PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4666
4667PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4668 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4669 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4670 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4671 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4672 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4673 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4674
4675 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4676 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4677 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4678 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4679 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4680
4681 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4682 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4683 routed further.
4684
4685PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4686 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4687 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4688 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4689 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4690 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4691
4692PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4693
4694PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4695 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4696 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4697 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4698 printable escape sequences.
4699
4700PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4701 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4702 body only.
4703
4704PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4705 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4706 are as follows:
4707
4708 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4709 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4710 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4711 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4712 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4713
4714 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4715 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4716 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4717
4718PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4719
4720PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4721 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4722 play with."
4723
4724PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4725 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4726 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4727 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4728 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4729 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4730 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4731 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4732 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4733 the log output.
4734
4735PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4736 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4737 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4738 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4739 "make".
4740
4741
4742A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4743----------------------------------------
4744
4745Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4746changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4747needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4748in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4749that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4750release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4751from 4.43.
4752
4753I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
47544.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4755those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4756historical information.
4757
4758
4759Exim version 4.50
4760-----------------
4761
4762 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4763
4764 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
4765 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
4766
4767 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4768 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4769 place.
4770
4771 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4772 filter fails to execute.
4773
4774 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4775 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4776 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4777 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4778 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4779
4780 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4781
4782 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4783 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4784 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4785 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4786
4787 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4788 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4789 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4790 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4791 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4792
4793 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4794
479510. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4796
479711. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4798 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4799 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4800 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4801
480212. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4803 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4804 sender verification.
4805
480613. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4807 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4808
480914. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4810
481115. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4812 connection timeout.
4813
481416. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4815 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4816
481717. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4818 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4819
482018. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4821 information about exactly what failed.
4822
482319. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4824
482520. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4826 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4827 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4828
482921. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4830 It is now set to "smtps".
4831
483222. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4833 ignore_target_hosts.
4834
483523. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4836 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4837 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4838 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4839 "[x.x.x.x]".
4840
484124. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4842 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4843 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4844
484525. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4846 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4847 wake it up if nothing else does.
4848
484926. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4850 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4851 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4852 end up negative.
4853
485427. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4855 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4856
485728. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4858
485929. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4860 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4861 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4862 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4863 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4864 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4865 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4866 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4867
486830. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4869 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4870 than one IP address.
4871
487231. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4873 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4874 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4875 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4876
487732. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4878 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4879 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4880 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4881 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4882 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4883
488433. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4885 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4886 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4887 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4888
488934. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4890 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4891 respected.
4892
489335. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4894 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4895 $sender_host_address.
4896
489736. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4898 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4899 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4900 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4901 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4902 very small.
4903
490437. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4905
4906 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4907 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4908
4909 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4910 just the host names, not the priorities.
4911
4912 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4913 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4914 controlled by a keyword.
4915
4916 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
4917 multiple records are returned.
4918
491938. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4920 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4921 domain.
4922
492339. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4924
492540. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4926 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4927
492841. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4929 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4930 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4931
493242. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4933
493443. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4935
493644. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4937
493845. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4939 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4940 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4941 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4942 because the tests only now provoked it.
4943
494446. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4945 (this can affect the format of dates).
4946
494747. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4948 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4949 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4950 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4951
495248. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4953
495449. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4955 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4956 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4957 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4958
495950. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4960 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4961 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4962
496351. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4964 autoreply.
4965
496652. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4967 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4968 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4969 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4970 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4971 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4972 is going on).
4973
497453. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4975 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4976 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4977 the line.
4978
497954. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4980 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4981 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4982
4983 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4984 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4985 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4986 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4987 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4988 so I produce this patch..."
4989
4990 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4991 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4992 is not defined.
4993
499455. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4995 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4996 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4997 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4998 CAN-2005-0021
4999
500056. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5001
500257. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5003 long debug lines gets shown.
5004
500558. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5006 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5007
500859. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5009
5010 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5011 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5012 of $primary_hostname.
5013
501460. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5015 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5016 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5017 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5018 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5019 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5020 by change 4.50/55 above.
5021
5022 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5023 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5024 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5025 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5026 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5027 running as the user.
5028 CAN-2005-0021
5029
503061. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5031 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5032 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5033 CAN-2005-0022
5034
503562. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5036 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5037
503863. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5039 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5040 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5041 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5042 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5043
504464. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5045 This has been fixed.
5046
504765. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5048 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5049 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5050 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5051 the caching.)
5052
505366. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5054
505567. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5056 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5057 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5058 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5059
506068. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5061 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5062
506369. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5064 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5065 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5066
506770. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5068 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5069 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5070 message there.
5071
507271. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5073 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5074 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5075
507672. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5077 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5078 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5079 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5080
508173. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5082 during host lookups.
5083
508474. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5085 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5086
5087 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5088
508975. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5090 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5091 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5092 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5093 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5094 background.
5095
509676. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5097 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5098
509977. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5100 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5101 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5102
510378. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5104
510579. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5106 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5107 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5108 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5109 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5110 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5111 process earlier.
5112
511380. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5114 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5115 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5116 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5117 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5118
511981. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5120 tables).
5121
512282. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5123
512483. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5125 "vacation" handling.
5126
512784. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5128 OS variants using glibc.
5129
513085. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5131
5132
5133----------------------------------------------------
5134See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5135----------------------------------------------------
5136
5137
5138Exim version 4.44
5139-----------------
5140
5141 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5142 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5143 transport
5144
5145 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5146 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5147 place.
5148
5149 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5150 filter fails to execute.
5151
5152 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5153 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5154 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5155 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5156 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5157
5158 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5159 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5160 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5161 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5162
5163 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5164 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5165 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5166 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5167 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5168
5169 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5170
5171 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5172 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5173 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5174 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5175
5176 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5177 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5178 sender verification.
5179
518010. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5181 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5182
518311. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5184 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5185
518612. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5187 ignore_target_hosts.
5188
518913. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5190 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5191 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5192 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5193 "[x.x.x.x]".
5194
519514. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5196 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5197 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5198
519915. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5200 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5201 wake it up if nothing else does.
5202
520316. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5204 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5205 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5206 end up negative.
5207
520817. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5209 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5210
521118. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5212
521319. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5214 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5215 empty pattern.
5216
521720. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5218 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5219 one IP address.
5220
522121. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5222 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5223 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5224 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5225 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5226 1024 to 2048 bytes.
5227
522822. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5229 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5230 respected.
5231
523223. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5233 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5234 $sender_host_address.
5235
523624. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5237
523825. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5239 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5240 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5241
524226. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5243 As per change 25.
5244
524527. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5246 (this can affect the format of dates).
5247
524828. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5249 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5250 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5251 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5252
525329. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5254 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5255 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5256
525730. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5258 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5259 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5260 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5261
526231. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5263 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5264 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5265
526631. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5267 autoreply.
5268
526932. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5270 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5271 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5272 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5273 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5274 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5275 is going on).
5276
527733. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5278 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5279 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5280 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5281 CAN-2005-0021
5282
528334. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5284 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5285 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5286 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5287 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5288 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5289 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5290
5291 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5292 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5293 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5294 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5295 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5296 running as the user.
5297 CAN-2005-0021
5298
529935. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5300 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5301 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5302 CAN-2005-0022
5303
530436. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5305 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5306 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5307 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5308 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5309
531037. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5311 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5312 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5313 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5314 the caching.)
5315
531638. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5317 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5318 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5319 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5320 because the tests only now provoked it.
5321
5322
5323Exim version 4.43
5324-----------------
5325
5326 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5327 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5328 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5329 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5330 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5331 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5332 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5333
5334 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5335 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5336 the delivery.
5337
5338 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5339
5340 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5341
5342 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5343 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5344 to local_scan().
5345
5346 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5347 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5348 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5349 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5350 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5351
5352 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5353 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5354
5355 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5356
5357 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5358
535910. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5360 header_sender only.
5361
536211. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5363 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5364
536512. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5366 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5367 affecting debugging statements).
5368
536913. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5370
537114. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5372 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5373 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5374 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5375 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5376 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5377 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5378 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5379 after the received time, and all would be well.
5380
538115. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5382 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5383 condition in an expansion string.
5384
538516. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5386
538717. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5388 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5389 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5390 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5391 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5392 job under whatever limits there are.
5393
539418. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5395
539619. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5397 space).
5398
539920. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5400 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5401 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5402 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5403 return path is set.
5404
540521. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5406 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5407 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5408 binary data in such strings.
5409
541022. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5411
541223. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5413 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5414 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5415 failure, which is pointless.
5416
541724. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5418
541925. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5420
542126. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5422 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5423 Sender: header lines.
5424
542527. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5426 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5427 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5428
542928. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5430 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5431 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5432 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5433 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5434 happens.
5435
543629. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5437 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5438 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5439 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5440 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5441
544230. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5443 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5444 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5445 1024.
5446
544731. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5448 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5449
545032. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5451 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5452
545333. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5454
545532. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5456
545733. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5458
545934. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5460 syntax error.
5461
546235. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5463
546436. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5465
546637. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5467 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5468 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5469 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5470
547138. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5472 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5473
5474
5475Exim version 4.42
5476-----------------
5477
5478 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5479 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5480 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5481 it was not quoted.
5482 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5483 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5484 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5485 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5486 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5487 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5488
5489 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5490 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5491 verification failure".
5492
5493 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5494 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5495 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5496 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5497
5498 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5499 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5500 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5501 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5502 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5503 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5504 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5505 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5506 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5507 treated as a timeout.
5508
5509 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5510 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5511 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5512 not set for Exim filters).
5513
5514 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5515 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5516 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5517
5518 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5519
5520 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5521 try to make them clearer.
5522
5523 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5524 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5525
5526 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5527
5528 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5529
553010. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5531 only the Cygwin environment.
5532
553311. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5534 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5535 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5536 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5537 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5538
553912. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5540 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5541 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5542 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5543 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5544 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5545 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5546
554713. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5548 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5549
555014. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5551
5552 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5553 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5554 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5555
5556 To: susanne@some.where
5557
5558 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5559 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5560 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5561 of addresses in From: header lines).
5562
5563 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5564 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5565 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5566
5567 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5568 treated as non-personal.
5569
5570 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5571 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5572
557315. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5574
557516. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5576
557717. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5578 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5579 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5580
558118. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5582 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5583
558419. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5585 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5586 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5587 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5588 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5589 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5590
559120. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5592 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5593 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5594 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5595 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5596 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5597 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5598 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5599
5600 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5601
560221. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5603 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5604
560522. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5606 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5607 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5608
560923. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5610 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5611
561224. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5613 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5614 rather than long int.
5615
561625. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5617
561826. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5619
5620
5621Exim version 4.41
5622-----------------
5623
5624 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5625 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5626 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5627 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5628 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5629 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5630
5631
5632Exim version 4.40
5633-----------------
5634
5635 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5636 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5637
5638 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5639 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5640 socklen_t is defined.
5641
5642 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5643 always exist.
5644
5645 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5646 configured.
5647
5648 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5649 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5650 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5651 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5652 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5653
5654 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5655 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5656 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5657 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5658
5659 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5660 of flapping under certain conditions.
5661
5662 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5663 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5664 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5665
5666 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5667
566810. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5669
567011. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5671 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5672 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5673 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5674
567512. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5676 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5677 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5678 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5679 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5680 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5681 preserved with the message after it was received.
5682
568313. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5684 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5685 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5686 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5687 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5688 test suite worked just fine.
5689
569014. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5691 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5692 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5693
569415. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5695 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5696 string.
5697
569816. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5699 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5700 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5701 does not fully solve it.
5702
570317. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5704 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5705 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5706 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5707 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5708
570918. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5710 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5711 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5712
571319. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5714 string, for example:
5715
5716 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5717
5718 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5719 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5720 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5721 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5722 the routers could not see them.
5723
572420. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5725 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5726
572721. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5728 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5729 output).
5730
573122. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5732 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5733 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5734 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5735 that needed quoting.
5736
573723. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5738 was not being matched caselessly.
5739
574024. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5741 backslashes.
5742
574325. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5744 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5745 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5746 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5747 when use_sender is false.
5748
574926. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5750
575127. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5752
575328. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5754
575529. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5756 the configuration file.
5757
575830. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5759 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5760
576131. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5762
576332. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5764 bytes in the message body.
5765
576633. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5767 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5768 delivery.
5769
577034. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5771
577235. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5773
577436. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5775 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5776 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5777 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5778 another IP address.
5779
5780
5781Exim version 4.34
5782-----------------
5783
5784 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5785 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5786
5787 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5788 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5789 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5790 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5791 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5792
5793 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5794 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5795
5796 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5797 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5798 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5799
5800 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5801 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5802 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5803
5804 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5805 for routers.
5806
5807 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5808 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5809 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5810 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5811 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5812 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5813 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5814
5815
5816Exim version 4.33
5817-----------------
5818
5819 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5820 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5821 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5822 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5823 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5824 default (and expected) setting.
5825
5826 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5827 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5828 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5829 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5830
5831 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5832 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5833
5834 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5835 in domain lists.
5836
5837 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5838 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5839 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5840 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5841 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5842 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5843
5844 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5845 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5846 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5847
5848 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5849 part (NOT match_host).
5850
5851 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5852
5853 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5854 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5855 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5856 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5857 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5858 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5859 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5860 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5861 the same named file.
5862
586310. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5864 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5865 when Exim is built.
5866
586711. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5868 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5869 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5870 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5871 a host name.
5872
587312. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5874 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5875 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5876
587713. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5878
587914. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5880
588115. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5882
588316. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5884 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5885
588617. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5887 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5888 before starting the TLS session.
5889
589018. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5891
589219. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5893 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5894
589520. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5896 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5897 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5898 colon in the middle).
5899
5900
5901Exim version 4.32
5902-----------------
5903
5904 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5905 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5906 multiple configurations are in use.
5907
5908 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5909 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5910 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5911 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5912 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5913 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5914
5915 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5916 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5917
5918 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5919 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5920 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5921
5922 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5923 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5924 occurs.
5925
5926 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5927 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5928
5929 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5930
5931 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5932 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5933
5934 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5935
5936 -prval:sval
5937
5938 is equivalent to
5939
5940 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5941
5942 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5943 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5944 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5945 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5946 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5947
594810. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5949 Exim's behaviour:
5950
5951 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5952 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5953 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5954 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5955 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5956 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5957
5958 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5959 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5960 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5961 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5962 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5963 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5964 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5965 string.
5966
5967 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5968 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5969 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5970 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5971 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5972
597311. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5974
597512. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5976 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5977 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5978
597913. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5980
598114. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5982 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5983 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5984 information.
5985
598615. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5987 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5988
598916. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5990 Three changes have been made:
5991
5992 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5993 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5994 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5995 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5996 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5997
5998 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5999 been restored.
6000
6001 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6002 the modified behaviour.
6003
6004
6005Exim version 4.31
6006-----------------
6007
6008 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6009 Larry Rosenman.
6010
6011 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6012 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6013
6014 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6015 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6016 try to track down a specific problem.
6017
6018 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6019 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6020 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6021
6022 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6023 warning.
6024
6025 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6026 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6027 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6028 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6029 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6030 some earlier ones do not.
6031
6032 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6033
6034 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6035 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6036 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6037 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6038 address literals are enabled, of course).
6039
6040 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6041
604210. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6043 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6044 by a command such as
6045
6046 exim -f "" ...
6047
6048 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6049
605011. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6051
605212. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6053 remained set. It is now erased.
6054
605513. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6056 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6057
605814. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6059 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6060 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6061 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6062 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6063 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6064 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6065 appropriate error code.
6066
606715. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6068 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6069 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6070 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6071 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6072 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6073
607416. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6075 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6076 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6077
607817. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6079 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6080 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6081 terminate the header.
6082
608318. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6084 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6085 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6086
608719. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6088 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6089 (4.30/29). In particular:
6090
6091 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6092 imposed.
6093
6094 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6095 to write a maildirsize file.
6096
6097 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6098 the transport, the new value overrides.
6099
6100 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6101 count.
6102
610320. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6104 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6105 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6106 space or a tab.
6107
610821. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6109 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6110 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6111 the fallback hosts.
6112
611322. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6114 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6115 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6116
611723. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6118 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6119 using a union.
6120
612124. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6122 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6123 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6124
612525. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6126
612726. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6128
612927. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6130
613128. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6132 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6133 become corrupted.
6134
613529. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6136 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6137 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6138 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6139 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6140 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6141 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6142 too great.
6143
614430. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6145 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6146 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6147 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6148 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6149 incorrectly.
6150
615131. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6152 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6153 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6154 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6155 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6156 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6157 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6158 cached value only when the same options are set.
6159
616032. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6161
616233. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6163 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6164 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6165 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6166 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6167
616834: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6169 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6170 it is clearly obsolete.
6171
617235. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6173 transport.
6174
617536. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6176 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6177 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6178 times.
6179
618037. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6181 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6182 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6183 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6184 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6185
618638. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6187 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6188 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6189 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6190
619139. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6192
6193 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6194
6195 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6196 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6197 2^31.
6198
619940. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6200 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6201 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6202 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6203 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6204 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6205 $localpart_data.
6206
620741. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6208 with the -f command-line option.
6209
621042. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6211 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6212 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6213 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6214 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6215 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6216
621743. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6218 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6219 line.
6220
622144. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6222 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6223 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6224 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6225 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6226 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6227 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6228 buffer is too small.
6229
623045. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6231 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6232
623346. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6234 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6235 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6236 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6237 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6238 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6239 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6240 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6241 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6242
624347. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6244 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6245 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6246
624748. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6248 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6249 ACL").
6250
625149. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6252 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6253 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6254 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6255 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6256
625750. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6258 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6259 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6260 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6261 is set.
6262
626351. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6264
626552. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6266
626753. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6268 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6269
627054. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6271 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6272 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6273
627455. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6275 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6276 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6277 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6278 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6279
628056. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6281 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6282 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6283 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6284 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6285 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6286 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6287
628857. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6289 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6290 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6291 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6292 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6293 the test of how many are available.
6294
629558. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6296 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6297 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
2ea97746 6298 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6299 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6300 new message is started.
6301
630259. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6303 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6304
630560. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6306 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6307
630861. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6309 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6310 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6311 is no long logged.
6312
631362. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6314 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6315 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6316 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6317 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6318 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6319 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6320
632163. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6322 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6323 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6324 interpreted as octal.
6325
632664. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6327 setting.
6328
632965. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6330 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6331 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6332 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6333 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6334 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6335
633666. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6337 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6338 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6339 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6340
6341 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6342 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6343 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6344 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6345
6346 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6347 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6348 is a bug fix.
6349
6350 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6351 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6352
635367. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6354
635568. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6356 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6357 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6358 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6359
636069. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6361 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6362 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6363 supplied", which is not helpful.
6364
636570. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6366 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6367 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6368
636971. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6370 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6371 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6372 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6373 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6374 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6375 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6376 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6377
637872. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6379 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6380 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6381 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6382 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6383
638473. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6385 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6386 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6387 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
2ea97746 6388 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6389 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6390
639174. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6392 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6393 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6394
639575. Added write_rejectlog option.
6396
639776. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6398 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6399 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6400 variables.
6401
640277. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6403
640478. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6405 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6406 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6407 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6408 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6409 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6410 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6411 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6412
641379. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6414 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6415 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6416 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6417 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6418
641980. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6420 Haardt.
6421
642281. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6423 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6424 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6425 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6426 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6427 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6428 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6429 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6430 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6431
6432
6433Exim version 4.30
6434-----------------
6435
6436 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6437 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6438 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6439
6440 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6441 fixed.
6442
6443 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6444 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6445 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6446
6447 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6448 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6449 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6450 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6451 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
2ea97746 6452 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6453
6454 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6455 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6456 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6457 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6458 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6459 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6460 the Exim test suite.
6461
6462 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6463 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6464 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6465 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6466
6467 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6468 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6469 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6470 specify it in this variable.
6471
6472 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6473 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6474 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6475 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6476
6477 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6478 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6479 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6480 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6481
6482 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6483 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6484 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6485 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6486 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6487
6488 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6489
649010. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6491 they are logged.
6492
649311. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6494 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6495 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6496 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6497 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6498
649912. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6500 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6501
650213. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6503 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
2ea97746 6504 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6505 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6506 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6507
650814. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6509 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6510
651115. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6512 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6513 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6514
651516. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6516 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6517
651817. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6519 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6520
652118. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6522 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6523 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6524
652519. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6526 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6527
652820. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6529 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6530 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6531 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6532
653321. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6534
653522. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6536 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6537 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6538 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6539
654023. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6541
654224. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6543 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6544
654525. Added .include_if_exists.
6546
654726. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6548 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6549 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6550 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6551 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6552 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6553
655427. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6555
655628. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6557 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6558 this.
6559
656029. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6561
656230. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6563 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6564
6565 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6566 550 Sender verify failed
6567
6568 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6569 the final line of the response.
6570
657131. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6572 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6573 all other user lookups.
6574
657532. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6576 delivery time.
6577
657833. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6579 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6580 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6581 result into an int without checking.
6582
658334. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6584 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
2ea97746 6585 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6586
658735. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6588 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6589 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6590 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6591
659236. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6593 correctly.
6594
659537. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6596 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6597
659838. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6599 to the empty sender.
6600
660139. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6602 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6603 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6604 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6605 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6606 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6607 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6608 panic log.
6609
661040. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6611 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6612 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6613 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6614 used.
6615
661641. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6617 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6618
661942. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6620 timestamps.
6621
662243. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6623 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6624
662544. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6626
662745. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6628 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6629 logs.
6630
663146. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6632 as soon as it is encountered.
6633
663447. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6635
663648. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6637 rewritten to "<>".
6638
663949. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6640 recognizes a tab character.
6641
664250. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6643 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6644 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6645 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6646
664751. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6648
664952. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6650 crash.
6651
665253. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6653
665454. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6655
665655. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6657 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6658 2822.
6659
666056. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6661 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6662 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6663 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6664 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6665
666657. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6667 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6668
666958. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6670 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6671 list (.included file names were always shown).
6672
667359. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6674 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6675 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6676 root at that time.
6677
667860. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6679 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6680
668161. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6682
668362. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6684
668563. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6686
668764. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6688 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6689 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6690 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6691 failures to open the logs.
6692
669365. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6694 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6695 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6696 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6697 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6698 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6699 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6700
6701
6702Exim version 4.24
6703-----------------
6704
6705 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6706 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6707 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6708 change 4.23/1.
6709
6710 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6711 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6712 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6713
6714 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6715 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6716 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6717
6718 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6719 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6720 causing some misleading effects.
6721
6722 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6723 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6724 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6725
6726 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6727 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6728 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6729 queue-runner function directly.
6730
6731
6732Exim version 4.23
6733-----------------
6734
6735 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6736 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6737
6738 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6739 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6740 was always written to the default place.
6741
6742 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6743 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6744 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6745
6746 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6747
6748 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6749
6750 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6751 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6752 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6753
6754 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6755 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6756 must start.
6757
6758 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6759 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6760 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6761
6762 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6763 command line option is disabled.
6764
6765 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6766 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6767
6768 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6769
6770 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6771
6772 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6773 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6774
677510. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6776
677711. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6778 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6779 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6780 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6781 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6782 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6783
678412. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6785 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6786 timeout.
6787
678813. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6789 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6790
679114. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6792 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6793
679415. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6795 received was valid base64.
6796
679716. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6798 name of the variable that was being set.
6799
680017. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6801
680218. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6803 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6804 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6805 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6806 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6807 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6808
680919. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6810
681120. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6812 nor realm was specified.
6813
681421. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6815 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6816 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6817 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6818
681922. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6820 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6821 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6822
682323. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6824 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6825 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6826
682724. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6828 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6829 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6830 some systems use these upper case variants.
6831
683225. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6833 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6834 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6835 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6836
683726. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6838
683927. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6840 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6841
684228. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6843 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6844 expansion variable.
6845
684629. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6847
684830. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6849 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6850 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6851 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6852
685331. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6854 using it.
6855
685632. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6857 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6858 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6859
686033. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6861 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6862
686334. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6864 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6865 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6866 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6867
686835. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6869 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6870 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6871
687236. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6873
687437. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6875 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6876 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6877 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6878 aborted.
6879
688038. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6881 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6882 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6883
688439. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6885
688640. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6887 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6888
688941. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6890 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6891
689242. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6893 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6894 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6895 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6896 when emails are that large.
6897
6898
6899
6900Exim version 4.22
6901-----------------
6902
6903 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6904 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6905
6906 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6907 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6908 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6909
6910 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6911 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6912 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6913
6914 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6915 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6916 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6917 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6918 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6919
6920 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6921 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6922 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6923 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6924 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6925 ever.
6926
6927 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6928 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6929 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6930 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6931 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6932 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6933 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6934 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6935 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6936 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6937 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6938 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6939 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6940 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6941
6942 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6943 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6944 parameterised it.
6945
6946 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6947 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6948 error should be diagnosed.
6949
6950 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6951 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6952 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6953 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6954 appeared instead of "NULL".
6955
695610. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6957 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6958 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6959 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6960 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6961 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6962 proceeds).
6963
6964 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6965 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6966 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6967
6968
6969Exim version 4.21
6970-----------------
6971
6972 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6973 or receiver verification errors.
6974
6975 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6976 name.
6977
6978 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6979 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6980 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6981 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6982
6983 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6984 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6985 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6986 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6987 shouldn't happen again.
6988
6989 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6990 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6991 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6992
6993 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6994 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6995
6996 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6997
6998 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6999 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7000
7001 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7002 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7003 RFC.
7004
700510. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7006 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7007 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7008
700911. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7010 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7011 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7012 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7013
701412. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7015 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7016 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7017 to define what should happen).
7018
701913. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7020 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7021 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7022
702314. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7024
702515. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7026
702716. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7028 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7029
2ea97746 703017. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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7031 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7032 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7033 structure in all cases.
7034
7035 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7036 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7037 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7038 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7039
704018. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7041 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7042 domain name.
7043
704419. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7045 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7046
704720. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7048 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7049
705021. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7051 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7052 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7053
705422. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7055 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7056 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7057
705823. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7059 the book and for uniformity.
7060
706124. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7062
706325. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
2ea97746 7064 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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7065 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7066 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7067 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7068 non-existent command as the problem.
7069
707026. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7071 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7072 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7073
707427. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7075
707628. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7077 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7078 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7079
708029. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7081 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7082 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7083 timestamps using strftime().
7084
708530. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7086 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7087
708832. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7089 transport-time rewrites.
7090
709133. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7092 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7093 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7094 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7095
709634. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7097 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7098
709935. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7100 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7101 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7102 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7103 comma and a space.
7104
710536. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7106 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7107 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7108 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7109 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7110 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7111 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7112
711337. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7114 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7115 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7116 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7117 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7118
711938. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7120 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7121 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7122 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7123 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7124 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7125 remaining text gets split now.
7126
712739. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7128 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7129 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7130 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7131
713240. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7133 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7134 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7135 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7136 $return_path.
7137
713841. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7139 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7140 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7141 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7142 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7143 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7144 passed through if needed.
7145
714642. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7147 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7148 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7149 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7150 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7151 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7152
715343. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7154 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7155 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7156 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7157 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7158
715944. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7160 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7161 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7162 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7163 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7164
716545. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7166 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7167 noticed.
7168
716946. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7170 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7171 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7172 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7173 mayhem of various kinds.
7174
717547. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7176 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
2ea97746 7177 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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7178 the right test for positive values.
7179
718048. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7181 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7182 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7183 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7184 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7185 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7186 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7187 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7188 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7189 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7190 envelope.
7191
719249. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7193 module.
7194
719550. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7196 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7197 forbidding it.
7198
719951. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7200 the existing equality matching.
7201
720252. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7203 dealing with inode numbers.
7204
720553. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7206 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7207 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7208
720954. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7210 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7211 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7212 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7213 local_scan().
7214
721555. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7216 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7217 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7218 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7219 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7220 relay addresses has also been removed.
7221
722256. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7223
722457. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7225 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7226 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7227
722858. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7229 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7230 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7231 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7232 processing applies to CR:
7233
7234 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7235 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7236
7237 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7238 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7239 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7240 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7241
724259. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7243 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7244 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7245
724660. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7247 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7248 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7249 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7250 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7251 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7252 arisen.
7253
725461. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7255 program routers.
7256
725762. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7258 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7259 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7260 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7261 adds:
7262
7263 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7264
7265 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7266
7267 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7268
726963. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7270 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7271 not considered personal.
7272
727364. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7274
727565. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7276
727766. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7278
727967. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7280 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7281 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7282 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7283 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7284 header lines, and spool format errors.
7285
728668. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7287 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7288 for more flexibility.
7289
729069. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7291 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7292 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7293
729470. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7295 Sabourenkov.
7296
729771. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7298 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7299 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7300 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7301 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7302 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7303 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7304 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7305 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7306
730772. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7308 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7309 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7310 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7311 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7312 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7313 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7314
731573. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7316 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7317 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7318
731974. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7320 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7321 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7322 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7323 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7324 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7325 instead of killing the process with assert().
7326
732775. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7328 than Unicode encoding.
7329
733076. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7331 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7332 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7333 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7334
733577. Added process_log_path.
7336
733778. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7338 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7339
734079. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7341 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7342
734380. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7344 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7345 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7346
734781. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7348 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7349 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7350 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7351 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7352 were applied:
7353
7354 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7355 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7356 as invalid.
7357
735882. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7359 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7360 they will be used during message reception.
7361
7362
7363Exim version 4.20
7364-----------------
7365
7366The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7367
7368****