Added DCC entry to Changelog as GF/01 (2nd attempt)

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@@ -96,6 +96,51 @@ PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
       protocol violation error.  Also, make Exim more robust to bad
       data from the Dovecot auth socket.
 
       protocol violation error.  Also, make Exim more robust to bad
       data from the Dovecot auth socket.
 

+TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
+
+      When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
+      recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
+      hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
+      any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
+      the retry rules.
+
+      So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
+      deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
+      address never reaches the final cutoff time.
+
+      This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
+      their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
+      to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
+      in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
+
+      This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
+      final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
+      this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
+      domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
+      the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
+      this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
+      delivery, as in LMTP.
+
+      I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
+      redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
+
+TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
+
+      Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
+
+        Resent-From: f
+
+      When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
+      the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
+      a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
+      username as equal to the username.
+
+      This change corrects that bug.
+
+GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
+      Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
+      Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
+

 
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