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EXIM ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I have not been very good at keeping a proper record of all the people who have
sent in patches and other contributions to Exim. I am going to try to do better
in the future by keeping a record in this file. First, I'll put a list of all
those I can recover from the past; then I'll create a new list to which I'll
add new contributors in future. Some regular contributors may appear in both.

I'm going to record people who send in actual patches or who help in detailed
ways. I'm not going to list people who just make a suggestion or report a
bug. I hope that is a reasonable approach.

If you should be on one of these lists and are not, please accept my apologies,
and let me know! Any omissions are solely due to my incompetence. In
particular, the "past" list has certainly lost the names of people who sent in
relatively small patches.

Philip Hazel

Lists created: 20 November 2002
Last updated (by PH):  22 August 2007

  Note: at current time, Exim is maintained in git; the commit messages
  typically credit sources, at the very least.  Also the ChangeLog file
  will record who provided patches.  This file is not very up-to-date.
  -Phil Pennock, 2012

THE OLD LIST

Alan Barratt              First code for relay checking
Malcolm Beattie           Interface to embedded Perl
Philip Blundell           First support for IPv6
Piete Brooks              Running the first live version
                            Implementing multiple-system compilation
Matthew Byng-Maddick      First code for dsearch lookup
Steve Campbell            Extensions to eximstats
                            Steve is now the maintainer of eximstats
Brian Candler             LDAP support enhancement
Petr Cech                 PostgreSQL interface
Steve Clarke              Best way to find the load average in Linux
Energis Ltd               Resources for the exim.org site
Yann Golanski             Numerical hash function
Jason Gunthorpe           IPv6 support (Linux)
Michael Haardt            LDAP support enhancement
Steve Haslam              First code for TLS
Kjetil Torgrim Homme      Suggested patch for macro extensions
John Horne                Proof-reading documentation (repeatedly)
Pierre Humblet            Cygwin support
Paul Kelly                MySQL interface
                            First code for Oracle interface
Ian Kirk                  Radius support
Stuart Levy               Replacement for broken inet_ntoa() on IRIX
Stuart Lynne              First code for LDAP
Nigel Metheringham        Setting up the web site and mailing list
                            Managing the web site and mailing list
                            Interface to Berkeley DB
                            Support for cdb
                            Support for maildir
Barry Pederson            LDAP support enhancement
Marc Prud'hommeaux        SPA client authentication
Alexander Sabourenkov     pwcheck daemon support
Peter Savitch             LDAP support enhancement
Robert Wal                whoson lookup
Joachim Wieland           Researching strace and stolen subprocesses in Linux


THE NEW LIST

Alexander Alekseev        Use of function attribute checks in gcc
Justo Alonso              Suggested patch for maildir++ maildirsize file support
Anton Altaparmakov        Patches to get cyrus_sasl fully working
Simon Arlott              Patch for $dnslist_matched.
Claus Assmann             Example code for OpenSSL CRL support
Robert Bannocks           Patch for LDAP reference problem on Solaris
Ian Bell                  Analysis of a bug and an infelicity in clock tick code
                          Patch for ${quote_local_part
Peter Benie               A number mistakes found by analysing the code
Johannes Berg             Suggested patch for authentication client $auth<n> support
                          Suggested patch for acl_not_smtp_start
Matt Bernstein            LMTP over socket
                          Suggested patch for dnslists '&' feature
Mike Bethune              Help with debugging an elusive ALRM signal bug
Ard Biesheuvel            Lookup code for accessing an Interbase database
Richard Birkett           Fix for empty -f address crash
Dean Brooks               Fix for ratelimit per_rcpt in acl_not_smtp.
Nick Burrett              Patch for CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in exicyclog
Matthew Byng-Maddick      Patch for qualify_domain in redirect router
                          Patch for ignore_target_hosts in ipliteral router
                          The cyrus_sasl authenticator
Steve Campbell            eximstats extensions and continued maintenance
Brian Candler             Use h_errno for gethostbyname()
                          Suggested patch for .ifdef etc
                          Several minor fixes and suggestions
Pete Carah                Patch for change to radiusclient API
Oliver Cook               Suggested patch for exigrep & rejected messages
                            Patch to add sender/host info to local_scan() rejects
                            Suggested patch to add queue time to "Completed"
Ted Cooper                Suggested patch for NOTQUIT ACL
Jennifer Corley           Designing the new Exim logo
John Dalbec               Patch for quota_warn_threshold bug
Vivek Dasmohapatra        Suggested patch for CRL support
Dennis Davis              Suggested server_condition for all authenticators
Andrew Doran              Patch for NetBSD configuration files
                          Patch for ifreq alignment and size problems
Michael Deutschmann       Suggested patch for treating bind() failure like connect()
                          Patch for $sender_data and $recipient_data
                          Suggested patch for null address match lookup bug
                          Suggested patch for verify = not_blind
                          Patch for alternate TXT lookup in DNS lists
Oliver Eikemeier          Patch to skip Received: if expansion is empty
                          Patch for "eqi"
Nico Erfurth              Fix for bug in ${readfile}
                            Patch for router_home_directory
                            Patch for ACL crash (try to test sender after ETRN)
                            Suggested patch for lookup search bug
                            Suggested patch for advertise_condition
                            Patch for missing HELO in checkaccess
                            Patch for raw headers
                            Patch for lsearch lookups tidying
                            Patch for .include_if_exists
                            Patch for partial- not recognized in host list
                            Lots more patches for bug fixes, enhancements, and
                              code refactorings - too many to record details!
Jochen Erwied             Fix for BDB 4.1 API
Stefan Esser              Fix for DNS RR parsing bug
Peter Evans               Suggested using modification time of "new" for time
                            of "mailbox last read" for maildir
Andrew Findlay            Patch to close writing end of ${readsocket
Michael Fischer
  v. Mollard              Suggested patch for exigrep -t option
Kevin Fleming             Callout cache code
                            Patch for authenticated_sender
Tony Finch                Expansion extensions
                            Timezone addition to log timestamps
                            A number of useful code criticisms
                            Timezone patch for exiwhat
                            Patch for more daemon exiwhat information
                            Patch for -dd
                            Patch for mxh lookup type in dnsdb
                            Patch for defer_foo in dndsb
                            Patch for ${dlfunc
                            Patch for $message_linecount
                            ... and many more
Graeme Fowler             Suggested patch for /noupdate with ratelimit
Ian Freislich             Patch for spamd timeout problem
Giuliano Gavazzi          Patches for OSX compilation
Dominic Germain           Patch for exiqgrep MacOS X bug
Oliver Gorwits            $load_average patch
                          Patch for additional syslog facilities
James Grinter             Suggested patches for header manipulation functions
                            and recipient remove for local_scan() use
Lukasz Grochal            Patch for saslauthd buglet
Pavel Gulchouck           Diagnosis of return_path_on_delivery crash
Michael Haardt            Tidies to make the code stricter
                          Refactoring to allow for other filter types
                          Suggested patch for appendfile "folder" extension
                          Module to support Sieve (RFC 3028) filters and
                            continued maintenance of same
                          Patch for faster sort algorithm in queue.c
                          Patch for LDAP timeout handling
                            ... and several more
Thomas Hager              Patch for saslauthd crash bug
Richard Hall              Fix for file descriptor leak in redirection
Jori Hamalainen           Patch to add features to exiqsumm
                          Patch to speed up exigrep
Steve Haslam              Lots of stuff, including
                            HMAC computations
                            Better error messages for BDB
Sheldon Hearn             Suggested patch for smtp_accept_max_nonmail_hosts
                          Fix for compile error with OpenSSL 0.9.8e
Bryan Henderson           Patch to use RM_COMMAND everywhere during building
Jakob Hirsch              Patch for % operator
                          Patch for arbitrarily named ACL variables
Magnus Holmgren           Patch for filter_prepend_home
                          Patch for "h" flag in Domain Keys
                          Patch for $sending_ip_address/$sending_port
                          Patch for ${rfc2047d:
                            ... and several more
                          Lots of other maintenance support
Kjetil Torgrim Homme      Patch for require_files problem on NFS file systems
Tom Hughes                Suggested patch for $n bug in pipe command from filter
Pierre Humblet            Continued Cygwin support
Peter Ilieve              Suggested patch for lookup search bug
John Jetmore              Writing and maintaining the 'exipick' utility
                          Much helpful testing of the test suite & elsewhere
                          Patch for -Mset
                          Patch for TLS testing with -bh/-bhc/-bs
                          Patch for exigrep -v functionality
Bob Johannessen           Patch for Sieve envelope tests bug
                          Patch for negative uid/gid bug
Brad Jorsch               Patch for bitwise logical operators
                          Patch for using "message" on acceptance
                          Patch to add == and =& to dnslists
Christian Kellner         Patch for LDAP dereferencing
Alex Kiernan              Patches for libradius
                          Diagnosis of milliwait clock-backwards bug
                          Patch for BDB 4.3 API change
Tom Kistner               SPA server code
                          Writing and maintaining the content scanning
                            extension (exiscan)
J�rgen Kreileder          Fix for cyrus_sasl advertisement problem
Friso Kuipers             Patch for GDBM problem
Matthias Lederhofer       Diagnosing and patching obscure and subtle socket bug
Chris Liddiard            Fix for bug in exiqsumm
Chris Lightfoot           Patch for -restore-times in exim_lock
Edgar Lovecraft           Patch for ${str2b64:
Torsten Luettgert         Suggested patch for proper integer overflow detection
David Madole              Patch for SPA forced expansion failure bug
Lars Mainka               Patch for OpenSSL crl collections
Andrey Malyshev           Patch for $address_data after redirection bug
Lionel Elie Mamane        Patch for IPv4/IPv6 listen() problem on USAGI Linux
                          Patch for recognizing IPv6 "scoped addresses"
                          Patch for callout caching bug
Everton da Silva Marques  Suggested patch for SRV handling
                          Suggested patch for SRV/MX lookup retry option
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos   GnuTLS proof of concept code
                          Update to RSA and D-H parameter caching code
Komar Maxim               Patch for check_rfc2047_length
Andy Mell                 Fix for rejectlog regeneration bug
Marc Merlin               Many suggestions and patches for callouts and
                            SMTP error message features
Andreas Metzler           Patch for message_id_header_domain
                          Suggested patch for multi-config files in scripts bug
                          GnuTLS non-existent parameter file bug fix
Alex Miller               Suggested readline() patch
                          Patch for LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE handling
                          Support for the DrWeb content scanner
Arkadiusz Miskiewicz      Patch to add timeout to reads in malware.c
Martin Mrazik             Patches for problems in the test suite
Andreas Mueller           Patch for logging uncompleted SMTP transactions
Pete Naylor               Patch for LDAP TCP connect timeout setting
Alexander Newmann         Diagnosing and patching obscure and subtle socket bug
Matthew Newton            Patch for exicyclog log location problem
Marcin Owsiany            Diagnosis of a tricky timeout failure bug
Andrey Panin              Dovecot authenticator
Eric Parusel              Patch for tls_remember_esmtp
Gaige Paulsen             Amended Darwin config files
Richard Premdas           Patch for PAM buglet
Jason Pyeron              Suggested patch for ignoring Sendmail's -O option
Mark Rigby-Jones          Patch for race condition during MBX locking
Robert Roselius           Patch for OpenSSL workaround for bad clients
Larry Rosenman            OpenUNIX config files
Alexander Sabourenkov     Patch to add saslauthd daemon support
                          Patch for MySQL non-data queries
David Saez                Suggested patch for $sender_hostname lookup if needed
                          Support for the clamd virus scanner
                          Suggested patch for increased number of ACL variables
Jonathan Sambrook         Suggested patch for expanding uid and gid lists
Peter Savitch             Diagnosis of FPE bug when statvfs() fails on spool
Harald Schueler           Patch for dn_expand() failure on truncated data
Heiko Schlichting         Diagnosis of intermittent daemon crash bug
Heiko Schlitterman        Proposed patch for +pid
Stephan Schulz            Patch for $host_data caching error
Lai Zit Seng              Patch for radiusclient 0.4.9 interface bugs
Tony Sheen                Log files with datestamped names and auto rollover
Martin Sluka              Patch for exigrep to include non-message lines
Adam Stephens             Suggested patch for IGNOREQUOTA in LMTP
Russell Stuart            Diagnosis of obscure batch multiple delivery bug
Tamas Tevesz              Patch for crypt16() support
Johan Thelmen             Support for the F-Secure virus scanner
William Thompson          Suggested patch for acl_smtp_helo
                          Suggested patch for nested ACL "drop" bug
                          Suggested patch for continuation lines in file ACLs
                          Patch for != support in DNS lists
Adam Thornton             Patch for SMTP port expansion
Daniel Tiefnig            Much helpful testing of the test suite
Rein Tollevik             Patch to fix search cache missing tidyup
Stefan Traby              Threaded Perl support
Samuli Tuomola            OS files for QNX 6.2.0
Dave Turner               Suggested patch for sender rewriting brokenness
Steve Usher               Unbuffered I/O patch for Dovecot authentication
Carlos Villegas           Suggested patch for "headers" in filter files
Matthias Waffenschmidt    Patch for build-time Perl bug in configure script
                          Queue run abandon log message tidy up
Norihisa Washitake        Suggested patch for RFC 2047 header decoding
Chris Webb                Patch for support of an SPF lookup method.
Florian Weimer            Patch for minor format string issue
                          Noticing the unwanted (and time-wasting) GnuTLS
                            RSA_EXPORT code, and supplying a patch to remove it
Joachim Wieland           Patches for PostgreSQL socket support and other
                            PostgreSQL functionality
                          Patch for hosts_avoid_esmtp
Stephen Wilcox            Patch for ignore_enotdir problem
Alain Williams            Suggested patch for exicyclog options
                          PATCH for LDAP referrals option
David Woodhouse           SQLite support proof of concept code
                          control=freeze/no_tell basic code
Erik ?                    patch to use select() instead of poll() on OS X
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