Minor Makefile fix for test_host (code-testing utility).

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-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.256 2005/11/14 11:32:16 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.285 2006/02/07 14:20:58 ph10 Exp $

 
 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
 -------------------------------------------
 
 
 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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+Exim version 4.61
+-----------------
+
+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).
+
+

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 Exim version 4.60
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@@ -74,6 +161,98 @@ PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
       even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
       message.
 
       even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
       message.
 

+PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
+
+      o  fixes some comments
+      o  adds the (disabled) notify extension core
+      o  adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
+      o  points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
+         and documents the missing references header update
+
+      and most important:
+
+      o  fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
+         multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
+         result)
+
+PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
+      Electronic Mail") by including:
+
+        Auto-submitted: auto-generated
+
+      in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
+      warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
+      also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
+      hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
+      to another message, thes have all been changed to:
+
+        Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
+
+      in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
+
+        The auto-replied keyword:
+
+        -  SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
+           message by an automatic process,
+
+        -  MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
+
+        -  MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
+           Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
+
+        -  MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
+           processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
+           other messages.
+
+PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
+      to the default Received: header definition.
+
+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.
+

 
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@@ -103,6 +282,7 @@ PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
       testing suite.
 
 
       testing suite.
 
 

+

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