Sort out group syntax problems, particularly with verify=header_sender.

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-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.402 2006/10/03 10:25:55 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.406 2006/10/10 15:36:50 ph10 Exp $

 
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@@ -91,6 +91,43 @@ PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
       with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
       parentage before showing the successful verification of 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.
+

 
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