-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.340 2006/04/18 11:13:19 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.431 2006/11/13 11:56:41 ph10 Exp $
Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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+Exim version 4.64
+-----------------
+
+TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
+ leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
+ While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
+ filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
+ these files.
+
+TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
+ processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
+ triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
+
+TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
+ in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
+ hence the _LINUX specificness.
+
+TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
+ there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
+ header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
+ in the field name.
+
+PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
+ callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
+ is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
+ verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
+ the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
+ case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
+ rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
+ address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
+ Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
+ left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
+ RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
+
+PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
+ gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
+
+PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
+ manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
+ session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
+ ignores EPIPE as well.
+
+PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
+ (quoted-printable decoding).
+
+PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
+ later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
+
+PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
+
+PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
+
+PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
+
+PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
+ to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
+
+JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
+ in 4.64-PH/09.
+
+JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
+ miscellaneous code fixes
+
+PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
+ rejections.
+
+PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
+ hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
+ probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
+ callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
+ changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
+ instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
+ there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
+ addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
+
+PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
+ tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
+ (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
+ overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
+ function.
+ (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
+ hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
+ (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
+ Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
+ (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
+ (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
+ service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
+ interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
+ changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
+
+PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
+ decoding.
+
+PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
+ address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
+ -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
+ successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
+ with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
+ failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
+ with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
+ parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
+
+PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
+ look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
+ list.
+
+PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
+ RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
+ they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
+ wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
+ cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
+ To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
+ host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
+ containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
+ sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
+ transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
+ host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
+ of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
+ (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
+
+PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
+ spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
+ switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
+ overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
+ Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
+ str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
+ character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
+
+PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
+ flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
+ turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
+ set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
+ be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
+ verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
+ came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
+ while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
+ the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
+ trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
+
+PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
+ with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
+ came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
+ but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
+ code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
+
+PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
+ feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
+ embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
+ only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
+ always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
+ effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
+ RSA_EXPORT functionality.
+
+PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
+ authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
+ (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
+ to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
+ if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
+ local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
+ been verified.
+
+PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
+ authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
+ succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
+ and authorization.)
+
+PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
+ if any retry times were supplied.
+
+PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
+ connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
+ situation, the verify now always succeeds.
+
+PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
+
+PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
+
+PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
+ headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
+ removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
+ from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
+ before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
+ before) are ignored.
+
+PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
+ Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
+
+PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
+ correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
+ committing the later change.]
+
+PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
+ address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
+ messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
+ so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
+ for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
+ hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
+ the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
+ of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
+ was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
+
+ (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
+ of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
+ for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
+ candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
+ successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
+ reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
+ This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
+ previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
+ harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
+
+ (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
+ routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
+ hammering the server.
+
+PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
+ in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
+
+PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
+
+PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
+ given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
+ for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
+
+PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
+ being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
+ one case where this was not true.
+
+PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
+ written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
+ panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
+ removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
+ fails.
+
+PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
+ runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
+ that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
+ message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
+ things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
+ server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
+ I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
+ based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
+ can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
+ smtp transport.
+
+PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
+ remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
+ happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
+ same for both kinds of LMTP.
+
+PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
+ in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
+
+PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
+ and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
+ been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
+
+PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
+
+PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
+
+PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
+
+
+Exim version 4.63
+-----------------
+
+SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
+ parser. This improves both readability and performance.
+
+SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
+ Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
+ there is data to show.
+ Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
+
+SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
+ as the number of messages in eximstats.
+
+TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
+ does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
+
+TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
+ with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
+
+TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
+ submissions from trusted users.
+
+TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
+ Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
+
+TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
+ by adding some example configuration directives to the default
+ configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
+ directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
+ there is now a framework to start from.
+
+PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
+ functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
+ without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
+
+PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
+
+PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
+
+PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
+
+PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
+ directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
+ was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
+
+PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
+ libradius.
+
+PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
+ bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
+ because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
+
+PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
+ security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
+ PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
+ its arguments.
+
+PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
+ are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
+ person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
+ (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
+ about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
+
+PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
+ systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
+
+PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
+
+PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
+ operations in malware.c.
+
+PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
+ signatures.
+
+PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
+ syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
+ both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
+ all.
+
+PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
+ statements to "add_header".
+
+PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
+ not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
+
+PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
+ and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
+ latter.
+
+PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
+ so that it is now:
+
+ ${if or { \
+ { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
+ { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
+ { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
+ }{no}{yes}}
+
+ The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
+ don't think Precedence: ever was.
+
+PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
+ in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
+
+PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
+ This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
+ any possible encoding problems.
+
+PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
+ but not after initializing Perl.
+
+PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
+ output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
+ apparently, which is not desirable.
+
+PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
+ queries.
+
+JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
+ --not options
+
+JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
+
+PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
+ authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
+ values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
+ and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
+
+PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
+ tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
+ tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
+
+PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
+ that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
+ This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
+ 0.12.
+
+PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
+ However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
+ including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
+ lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
+ one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
+
+
Exim version 4.62
-----------------
PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
patch).
+PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
+ "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
+ Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
+ tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
+ kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
+ Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
+ 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
+ if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
+ 451 error is used.
+
+PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
+
+PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
+ errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
+ messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
+
+PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
+ addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
+ File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
+ odd errors.
+
+PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
+ "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
+
+PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
+ of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
+ option (which defaults to 0600).
+
+PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
+
+PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
+ folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
+ up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
+ used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
+ was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
+ excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
+ processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
+
+PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
+
Exim version 4.61
-----------------
when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
"time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
+ [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
$1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
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