-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.260 2005/11/14 16:09:54 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.312 2006/02/22 15:10:28 ph10 Exp $
Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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+Exim version 4.61
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+
+PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
+ system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
+ systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
+ code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
+ IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
+ that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
+ addresses as local.
+
+PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
+ [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
+
+PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
+
+PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
+ decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
+ lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
+ invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
+ newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
+ grumble.
+
+PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
+ was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
+
+PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
+ for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
+ numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
+ spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
+ release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
+
+PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
+ passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
+ process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
+ 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
+
+PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
+ be the same on different OS.
+
+PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
+ testing.
+
+JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
+ whether --show-vars was specified or not
+
+JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
+ in 4.61-PH/06
+
+PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
+ syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
+ generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
+ autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
+ name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
+ it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
+ bounce message.
+
+PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
+ the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
+ when Exim was called.
+
+PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
+ an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
+
+PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
+ compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
+ recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
+ literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
+
+PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
+ used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
+ ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
+ non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
+ changes:
+
+ (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
+ in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
+ suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
+
+ (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
+ outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
+ the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
+
+PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
+ feature).
+
+PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
+ additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
+ Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
+ major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
+ type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
+ fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
+ address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
+ values from the SRV records were lost.
+
+PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
+ using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
+ rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
+
+PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
+ adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
+ errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
+
+PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
+ failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
+ it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
+ message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
+ behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
+ "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
+ 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.
+
+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
+ expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
+
+PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
+ decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
+
+PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
+ mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
+ filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
+ on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
+ is given.
+
+PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
+ never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
+ message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
+
+PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
+ 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
+ PH/23 above applies.
+
+PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
+ occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
+ (for which there is an explicit test).
+
+PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
+
+PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
+ the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
+ that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
+ address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
+ could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
+
+PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
+ allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
+ submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
+ documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
+
+PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
+ ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
+ results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
+
+PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
+
+PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
+
+PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
+ needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
+ tidied the source and removed it altogether.
+
+PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
+ log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
+ selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
+ information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
+ in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
+
+PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
+ is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
+ the message gets confusing).
+
+PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
+ names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
+ is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
+ characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
+
+PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
+ special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
+ sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
+ order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
+ same order.
+
+PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
+ bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
+ the different processes.
+
+PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
+
+PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
+
+JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
+ a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
+
+JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
+ a warning to be raised on newish perls.
+
+JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
+ on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
+ messages matching specified criteria.
+
+PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
+
+PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
+ that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
+
+PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
+ message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
+ the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
+ files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
+ files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
+ being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
+ created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
+ argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
+ mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
+ content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
+
+PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
+ to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
+ and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
+
+PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
+
+
Exim version 4.60
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PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
+PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
+ variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
+ they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
+
+PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
+ checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
+ overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
+
+PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
+ contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
+ and treats the condition as false.
+
+PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
+
+PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
+ extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
+ other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
+ nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
+ not changing the active code.
+
+ Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
+ helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
+
+ Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
+ sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
+
+PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
+ (Bugzilla #53).
+
+PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
+ canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
+ the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
+ addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
+ have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
+ addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
+ fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
+ by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
+ the text comparison.
+
+PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
+ given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
+ form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
+ The same fix has been applied.
+
Exim version 4.54
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PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
testing suite.
-PH/06 Add ${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}
- into the default Received: header string.
-
Exim version 4.53
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