1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
2 -------------------------------------------
7 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
8 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
9 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
11 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
13 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
16 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
18 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
20 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
22 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
23 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
25 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
26 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
28 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
29 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
31 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
32 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
33 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
35 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
37 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
38 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
40 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
42 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
44 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
45 non-compliant senders.
46 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
48 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
49 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
50 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
52 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
53 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
54 in spool file corruption.
56 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
57 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
58 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
61 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
62 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
63 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
65 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
66 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
68 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
70 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
72 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
74 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
75 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
76 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
78 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
79 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
80 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
81 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
83 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
84 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
86 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
87 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
88 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
89 resolver implementation change.
91 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
92 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
94 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
96 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
98 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
99 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
101 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
102 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
104 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
105 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
107 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
108 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
109 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
110 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
111 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
113 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
115 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
116 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
117 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
119 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
121 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
122 read-only, out of scope).
123 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
125 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
126 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
127 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
128 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
130 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
132 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
133 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
134 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
135 real issues in debug logging.
137 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
138 assignment on my part. Fixed.
140 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
141 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
142 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
144 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
145 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
146 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
149 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
150 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
152 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
153 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
154 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
155 needs to override this, it can.
157 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
158 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
159 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
165 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
166 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
168 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
170 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
173 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
174 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
176 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
177 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
178 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
180 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
181 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
182 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
183 not safe for signals.
185 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
186 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
187 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
188 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
191 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
193 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
194 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
195 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
196 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
197 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
199 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
200 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
201 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
202 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
203 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
204 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
206 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
207 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
208 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
209 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
211 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
212 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
213 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
214 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
216 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
217 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
218 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
219 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
220 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
221 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
222 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
223 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
224 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
226 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
227 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
228 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
229 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
231 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
232 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
233 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
234 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
235 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
236 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
237 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
238 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
239 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
240 details in the main documentation.
242 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
244 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
246 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
247 repository when doing development or release builds.
249 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
250 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
252 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
253 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
256 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
258 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
259 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
261 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
262 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
264 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
265 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
267 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
268 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
270 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
271 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
273 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
275 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
278 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
279 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
280 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
282 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
284 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
286 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
287 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
293 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
295 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
296 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
298 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
300 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
302 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
305 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
306 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
308 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
309 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
311 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
314 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
317 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
318 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
320 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
321 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
322 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
323 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
325 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
326 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
332 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
335 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
336 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
337 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
339 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
340 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
342 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
343 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
344 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
346 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
347 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
349 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
350 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
352 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
353 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
355 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
356 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
358 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
359 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
361 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
364 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
365 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
367 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
368 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
370 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
371 SQL string expansion failure details.
372 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
374 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
375 Patch from Simon Arlott.
377 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
378 extern declarations in function scope.
379 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
381 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
382 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
383 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
386 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
387 Patch from Mark Zealey.
389 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
390 Patch from Mark Zealey.
392 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
393 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
395 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
396 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
398 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
399 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
402 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
404 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
406 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
407 Patch by Simon Arlott
409 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
410 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
416 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
417 consequences so log it to the panic log.
419 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
420 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
422 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
424 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
425 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
426 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
428 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
429 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
430 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
432 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
433 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
434 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
435 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
437 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
438 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
439 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
440 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
442 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
443 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
444 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
447 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
450 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
451 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
452 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
453 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
454 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
460 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
461 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
462 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
464 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
465 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
467 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
469 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
471 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
473 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
475 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
477 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
478 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
479 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
480 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
482 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
483 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
484 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
485 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
486 more caution in buffer sizes.
488 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
490 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
492 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
494 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
496 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
498 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
500 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
502 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
503 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
504 ignore trailing whitespace.
506 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
508 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
511 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
512 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
514 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
515 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
516 Notification from John Horne.
518 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
521 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
522 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
525 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
528 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
529 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
530 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
532 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
533 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
534 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
537 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
538 option (effectively making it always true).
540 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
541 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
543 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
544 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
546 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
547 run-time user, instead of root.
549 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
550 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
552 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
553 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
556 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
557 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
558 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
560 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
562 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
568 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
569 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
572 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
573 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
576 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
577 Patch from Alain Williams
579 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
581 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
582 Patch from Andreas Metzler
584 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
585 Patch from Kirill Miazine
587 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
589 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
591 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
592 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
594 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
596 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
598 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
599 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
600 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
602 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
603 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
605 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
606 Patch by Simon Arlott
608 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
609 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
615 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
617 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
619 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
621 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
623 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
629 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
630 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
632 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
633 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
636 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
637 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
638 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
640 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
641 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
643 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
644 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
645 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
646 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
648 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
649 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
650 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
652 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
654 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
656 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
657 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
659 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
661 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
662 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
663 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
664 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
666 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
667 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
669 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
671 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
673 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
674 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
676 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
677 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
679 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
680 that they are available at delivery time.
682 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
684 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
685 incoming_port log selectors.
687 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
688 setting expands to an empty string.
690 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
691 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
693 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
694 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
696 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
697 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
699 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
700 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
702 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
703 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
705 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
706 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
708 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
710 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
711 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
713 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
714 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
716 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
718 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
719 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
721 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
723 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
725 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
728 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
729 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
731 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
732 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
734 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
735 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
737 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
738 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
740 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
741 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
743 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
744 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
746 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
747 plus update to original patch.
749 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
751 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
752 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
754 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
756 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
758 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
760 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
762 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
763 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
765 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
766 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
768 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
769 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
771 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
772 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
774 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
776 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
778 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
780 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
786 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
787 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
788 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
790 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
791 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
792 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
793 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
794 build errors in sieve.c.
796 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
797 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
798 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
800 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
802 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
804 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
806 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
812 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
814 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
815 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
816 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
817 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
818 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
819 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
820 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
821 for iplsearch lookups.
823 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
824 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
825 previously such lookups could never work.
827 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
828 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
829 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
831 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
834 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
835 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
836 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
837 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
838 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
839 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
841 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
842 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
844 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
845 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
846 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
847 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
848 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
849 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
851 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
854 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
856 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
857 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
860 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
861 by clients under certain conditions.
863 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
864 "_responses" off the end of the name.
866 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
868 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
869 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
871 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
873 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
875 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
877 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
878 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
880 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
882 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
883 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
885 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
887 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
889 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
890 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
891 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
892 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
894 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
895 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
896 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
898 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
899 and InterBase are left for another time.)
901 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
903 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
905 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
907 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
908 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
909 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
915 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
916 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
919 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
920 issue a MAIL command.
922 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
924 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
926 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
927 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
928 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
929 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
930 item. This has been fixed.
932 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
933 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
935 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
936 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
938 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
939 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
940 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
942 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
944 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
945 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
946 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
947 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
948 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
950 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
951 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
952 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
954 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
955 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
956 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
957 the server_setid option was incorrect.
959 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
961 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
963 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
964 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
965 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
966 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
967 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
969 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
971 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
972 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
973 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
976 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
978 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
980 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
982 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
984 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
986 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
987 no_callout_flush is set.
989 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
990 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
991 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
994 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
996 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
997 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
998 other ACL rejections are.
1000 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1001 with slight modification.
1003 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1004 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1006 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1007 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1010 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1011 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1013 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1015 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1016 expansion side effects.
1018 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1019 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1020 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1023 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1024 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1025 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1027 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1028 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1029 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1030 were accidentally chopped off.
1032 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1033 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1034 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1035 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1036 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1037 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1038 pipelining has not been advertised.
1040 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1042 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1043 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1044 This has been fixed.
1046 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1047 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1048 reported on Solaris.
1050 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1051 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1052 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1053 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1054 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1055 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1056 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1058 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1061 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1063 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1065 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1066 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1067 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1068 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1069 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1070 criteria to be more general.
1072 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1073 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1074 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1075 host_all_ignored option.
1077 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1078 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1079 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1080 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1081 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1082 is what is supposed to happen).
1084 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1085 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1086 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1087 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1088 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1091 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1092 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1093 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1094 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1095 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1096 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1099 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1101 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1102 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1104 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1105 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1107 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1109 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1111 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
1112 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1113 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1114 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1115 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1116 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1117 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1118 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
1119 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
1120 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1121 least in a lot of common cases.
1123 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1124 advertised in response to EHLO.
1130 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1131 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1133 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1134 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1136 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1137 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1138 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1140 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1141 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1142 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1143 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1144 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1150 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1151 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1154 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1155 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1156 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1158 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1159 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1160 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1161 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1162 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1163 rather than extend the field.
1169 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1170 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1171 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1172 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1175 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1176 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1177 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1179 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1180 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1181 hence the _LINUX specificness.
1183 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1184 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1185 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1188 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1189 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1190 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1191 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1192 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1193 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1194 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1195 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1196 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1197 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1198 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1200 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1203 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1204 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1205 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1206 ignores EPIPE as well.
1208 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1209 (quoted-printable decoding).
1211 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
1212 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
1214 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1216 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1218 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1220 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
1221 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
1223 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1226 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1227 miscellaneous code fixes
1229 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1232 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1233 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1234 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1235 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1236 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1237 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1238 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1239 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
1241 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
1242 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
1243 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1244 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1246 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1247 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1248 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1249 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1250 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1251 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1252 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1253 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1254 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1256 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1259 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1260 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1261 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1262 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1263 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1264 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1265 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1266 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1268 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1269 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1272 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1273 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1274 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1275 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1276 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1277 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1278 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1279 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1280 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1281 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1282 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1283 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1284 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1286 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1287 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1288 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1289 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1290 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1291 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1292 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1294 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1295 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1296 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1297 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1298 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1299 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1300 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1301 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1302 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1303 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1305 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1306 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1307 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1308 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1309 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1311 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1312 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1313 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1314 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1315 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1316 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1317 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1319 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1320 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1321 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1322 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1323 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1324 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1327 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
1328 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1329 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1332 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1333 if any retry times were supplied.
1335 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1336 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1337 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1339 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1341 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1343 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1344 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1345 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1346 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
1347 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1348 before) are ignored.
1350 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1351 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1353 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1354 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1355 committing the later change.]
1357 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1358 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1359 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1360 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1361 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1362 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1363 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1364 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1365 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1367 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1368 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1369 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1370 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1371 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1372 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1373 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1374 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1375 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1377 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1378 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1379 hammering the server.
1381 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1382 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1384 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1386 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1387 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1388 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1390 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1391 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1392 one case where this was not true.
1394 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1395 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1396 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1397 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1400 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1401 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1402 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1403 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1404 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1405 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1406 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1407 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1408 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1411 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1412 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1413 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1414 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1416 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1417 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1419 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1420 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1421 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1423 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1425 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1427 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1429 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1430 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1431 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1432 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1434 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1435 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1437 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1438 be meaningful with "accept".
1440 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1441 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1443 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1444 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1445 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1447 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1448 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1449 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1450 there is data to show.
1451 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1453 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1454 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1455 as well as the number of messages.
1457 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1458 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1459 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1461 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1462 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1463 have a flag are now skipped.
1465 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1466 Added the -emptyok flag.
1468 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1469 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1471 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1472 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1473 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1475 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1478 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1479 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1481 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1483 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1484 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1486 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1488 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1489 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1490 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1491 contravention of the specifications.
1493 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1494 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1495 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
1497 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1498 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1499 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1501 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1503 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1504 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1505 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1506 some point in the past.
1508 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1509 transport during callout processing was broken.
1511 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1512 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1514 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1515 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1517 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1518 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1520 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1526 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1527 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1529 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1530 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1531 there is data to show.
1532 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1534 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1535 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1537 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1538 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
1540 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1541 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
1543 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1544 submissions from trusted users.
1546 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1547 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1549 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1550 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1551 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1552 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1553 there is now a framework to start from.
1555 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1556 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1557 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1559 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1561 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1563 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1565 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1566 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1567 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1569 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1572 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1573 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1574 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1576 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1577 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1578 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1581 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1582 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1583 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1584 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1585 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1587 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1588 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1590 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1592 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1593 operations in malware.c.
1595 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1598 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1599 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1600 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1603 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1604 statements to "add_header".
1606 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1607 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1609 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1610 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1613 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
1617 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1618 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1619 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
1622 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1623 don't think Precedence: ever was.
1625 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1626 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1628 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1629 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1630 any possible encoding problems.
1632 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1633 but not after initializing Perl.
1635 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1636 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1637 apparently, which is not desirable.
1639 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1642 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1645 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1647 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1648 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1649 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1650 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1652 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1653 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1654 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1656 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1657 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1658 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1661 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1662 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1663 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1664 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1665 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1671 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1672 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1674 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1677 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1678 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1679 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1680 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1681 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1682 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1683 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1684 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1687 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1689 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1690 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1691 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1693 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1694 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1695 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1698 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1699 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1701 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1702 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1703 option (which defaults to 0600).
1705 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1707 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1708 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1709 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1710 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1711 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1712 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1713 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1715 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1721 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1722 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1723 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1724 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1725 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1726 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1729 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1730 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1732 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1734 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1735 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1736 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1737 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1738 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1741 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1742 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1744 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1745 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1746 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1747 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1748 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1750 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1751 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1752 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1753 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1755 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1756 be the same on different OS.
1758 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1761 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1762 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1764 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1767 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1768 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1769 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1770 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1771 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1772 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1775 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1776 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1777 when Exim was called.
1779 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1780 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1782 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1783 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1784 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1785 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1787 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1788 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1789 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1790 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1793 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1794 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1795 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1797 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1798 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1799 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1801 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1804 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1805 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1806 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1807 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1808 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1809 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1810 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1811 values from the SRV records were lost.
1813 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1814 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1815 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1817 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1818 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1819 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1821 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1822 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1823 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1824 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1825 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1826 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1827 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1828 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1829 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
1830 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
1832 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1833 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1834 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1836 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1837 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1839 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1840 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1841 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1842 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1845 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1846 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1847 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1849 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1850 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1851 PH/23 above applies.
1853 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1854 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1855 (for which there is an explicit test).
1857 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1859 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1860 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1861 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1862 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1863 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1865 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1866 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1867 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1868 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1870 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1871 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1872 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1874 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1876 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1878 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1879 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1880 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1882 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1883 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1884 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1885 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1886 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1888 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1889 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1890 the message gets confusing).
1892 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1893 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1894 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1895 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1897 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1898 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1899 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1900 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1903 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1904 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1905 the different processes.
1907 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1909 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1911 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1912 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1914 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1915 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1917 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1918 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1919 messages matching specified criteria.
1921 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1923 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1924 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1926 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1927 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1928 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1929 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1930 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1931 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1932 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1933 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1934 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1935 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1937 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1938 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1939 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1941 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1943 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1944 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1945 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1946 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1947 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1948 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1949 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1952 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1953 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1955 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1957 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1959 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1961 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1962 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1963 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1964 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1965 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1966 size of the count of files.
1968 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1970 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1973 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1974 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1975 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1976 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1978 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1979 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1980 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1982 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1983 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1984 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1985 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1986 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1988 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1989 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1991 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1992 will now be deprecated.
1994 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1996 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1997 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1998 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2000 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2001 with very large, slow to parse queues
2003 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2005 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2007 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2008 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2009 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2012 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2013 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2014 Sieve code now uses this.
2016 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2017 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2019 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2020 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2022 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2024 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2025 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2026 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2027 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2028 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2030 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2031 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2032 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2033 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2035 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2037 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2039 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2040 is preferred over IPv4.
2042 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2043 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2044 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2045 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2046 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2047 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2048 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2050 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2051 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2052 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2054 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2056 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2057 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2058 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2059 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2060 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2061 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2062 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2063 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2064 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2065 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2066 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2068 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2069 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2070 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2076 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2078 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2079 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2081 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2082 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2083 statements are most likely to be submissions.
2085 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2087 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2090 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2093 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2094 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2095 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2098 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2099 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2101 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2102 inside the third argument.
2104 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2105 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2108 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2109 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
2111 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2112 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2114 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2116 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2117 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2120 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2122 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2123 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2124 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2125 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2126 identical. For example:
2128 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2130 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2131 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2132 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2134 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2135 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2136 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2137 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2139 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2140 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2141 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2144 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2146 o fixes some comments
2147 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2148 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2149 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2150 and documents the missing references header update
2154 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2155 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2158 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2159 Electronic Mail") by including:
2161 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2163 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2164 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2165 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2166 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2167 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2169 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2171 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2173 The auto-replied keyword:
2175 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2176 message by an automatic process,
2178 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2180 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2181 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2183 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2184 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2187 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2188 to the default Received: header definition.
2190 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2192 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2193 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2194 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2196 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2197 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2198 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2200 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2201 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2202 and treats the condition as false.
2204 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2206 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2207 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2208 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2209 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2210 not changing the active code.
2212 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2213 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2215 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2216 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2218 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2221 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2222 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2223 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2224 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2225 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2226 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2227 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2228 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2229 the text comparison.
2231 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2232 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2233 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2234 The same fix has been applied.
2240 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2241 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2244 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2245 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2247 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2249 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2250 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2251 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2252 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2253 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2255 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2256 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2257 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2258 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2261 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2269 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2270 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2272 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2274 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2276 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2277 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2278 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2280 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2281 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2282 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2284 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2285 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2288 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2289 ${stat: expansion item.
2291 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2292 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2294 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2295 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2298 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2300 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2303 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2304 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2306 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2308 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2309 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2310 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2311 the end of the subprocess.
2313 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2314 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2315 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2316 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2317 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2319 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2321 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2323 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2324 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2326 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2328 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2330 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2331 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2334 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2336 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2337 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2338 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2340 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2341 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2343 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2344 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2346 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2347 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2349 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2350 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2352 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2353 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2354 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2355 contributed by a Radius user.
2357 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2358 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2360 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2361 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2363 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2366 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2367 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2370 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2371 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2372 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2373 header lines when this was not necessary.
2375 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2377 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2378 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2379 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2382 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2385 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2386 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
2387 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2388 return code was incorrect.
2390 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2392 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2394 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2396 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2398 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2399 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2400 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2401 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2402 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2405 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2407 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2408 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2409 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2410 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2411 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2412 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2413 which is clearly wrong.
2415 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2417 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2418 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2419 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2422 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2423 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2425 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2427 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2428 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2430 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2431 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2433 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2434 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2436 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2437 recipients, not senders.
2439 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2440 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2442 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2444 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2446 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2447 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2448 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2449 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2451 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2453 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2454 clock is set back in time.
2456 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2457 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2459 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2460 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2462 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2463 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2466 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2467 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2470 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2473 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2475 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2476 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2477 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2479 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2480 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2481 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2482 helo verification defer as a failure.
2484 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2485 actual error message.
2491 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2493 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2494 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2495 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2496 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2498 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2500 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2501 can still be requested.
2503 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2504 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2505 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2506 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2508 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2509 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2510 circumstances, but probably never did.
2512 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2513 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2514 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2517 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2519 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2520 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
2522 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2524 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2526 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2527 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2528 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2529 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2530 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2531 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
2533 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2534 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2535 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2536 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2537 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2538 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2540 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2541 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2543 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2544 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2546 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2547 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2549 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2551 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2553 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2555 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2557 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2559 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2561 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2563 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2564 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2565 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2567 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2568 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2569 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2570 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2572 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2573 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2574 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2576 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2577 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2578 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2579 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2581 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2582 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2585 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2586 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2587 should work with maildirs and everything.
2589 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2590 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2592 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2595 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2596 function for BDB 4.3.
2598 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2600 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2601 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2604 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2605 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2606 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
2607 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2608 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2609 formatting function string_vformat().
2611 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2612 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2613 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2614 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2615 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2616 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2617 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2618 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2620 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2621 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2624 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2625 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2627 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2628 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2629 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2630 test. It is now used for both.
2632 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2633 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2634 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2635 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2636 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2637 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2639 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2640 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2641 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2644 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2645 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2646 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
2648 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2649 experimental DomainKeys support:
2651 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2652 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2653 the control was given.
2655 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2657 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2659 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2661 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2662 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2663 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2666 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
2667 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2668 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2669 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2670 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2671 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2674 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2675 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2676 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2677 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2678 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2679 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2681 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2682 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2683 do -d+all out of habit.
2685 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2686 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2689 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2690 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2691 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2692 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2693 record types that Exim uses.
2695 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2696 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2697 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2698 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2699 non-existent file that was broken.
2701 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2702 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2704 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2705 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2706 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2708 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2710 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2711 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2712 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2713 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2714 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2717 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2718 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2719 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2720 at a slight CPU cost.
2722 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2723 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2725 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2728 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2730 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2731 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2737 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2738 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2740 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
2742 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2744 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2745 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2747 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2748 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2749 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2750 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2751 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2752 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2755 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2756 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2757 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2758 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2761 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2762 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2763 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2764 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2765 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2766 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2767 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
2770 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2771 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2773 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2774 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2775 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2776 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2777 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2778 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2780 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2781 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2782 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2783 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2785 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2788 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2789 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
2791 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2792 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
2793 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2794 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2797 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2799 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2800 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2802 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2803 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2804 to what was transported.)
2806 TF/01 Added $received_time.
2808 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2809 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2810 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2811 spamd_address settings.
2813 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2814 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2815 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2816 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2817 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2819 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2821 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2822 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2823 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2824 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2825 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2827 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2828 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2830 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2831 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2832 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2833 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2834 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2835 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2836 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2839 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2840 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2841 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2842 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2843 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2844 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2845 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2848 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2850 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2851 driver and ACL definitions.
2853 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2854 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2856 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2857 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2858 understands it better than I do:
2860 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2861 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2863 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2864 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2865 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2866 => three warnings about OTP not working
2867 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2869 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2870 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2871 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2872 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2874 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2875 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2877 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2878 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2879 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2881 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2882 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2885 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2886 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2889 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2890 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2891 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2893 warn !verify = sender
2894 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2896 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2897 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2899 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2901 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2902 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2904 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2905 nomenclature these days.)
2907 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2908 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2910 PH/30 In these circumstances:
2911 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2912 . First host does not offer TLS;
2913 . First host accepts first address;
2914 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2915 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2916 . Second host accepts second address.
2917 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2918 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2921 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2922 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2923 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2924 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2925 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2927 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2928 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2930 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2931 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
2933 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2934 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2935 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2937 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2938 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2941 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2943 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2944 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2945 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2946 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2947 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2948 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2949 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2951 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2952 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2953 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2954 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2955 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2957 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2958 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2961 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2962 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2963 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2964 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2965 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2966 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2968 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2970 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2971 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2972 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2973 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2974 printable escape sequences.
2976 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2977 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2980 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2981 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2984 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2985 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2986 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2987 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2988 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2990 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2991 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2992 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2994 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2996 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2997 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3000 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3001 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3002 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3003 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3004 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3005 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3006 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3007 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3008 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3011 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3012 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3013 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3014 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3018 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3019 ----------------------------------------
3021 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3022 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3023 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3024 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3025 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3026 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3029 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
3030 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3031 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3032 historical information.
3038 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3040 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3041 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3043 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3044 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3047 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3048 filter fails to execute.
3050 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3051 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3052 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3053 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3054 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3056 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3058 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3059 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3060 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3061 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3063 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3064 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3065 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3066 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3067 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3069 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3071 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3073 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3074 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3075 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3076 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3078 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3079 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3080 sender verification.
3082 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3083 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3085 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3087 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3090 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3091 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3093 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3094 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3096 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3097 information about exactly what failed.
3099 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3101 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3102 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3103 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3105 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3106 It is now set to "smtps".
3108 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3109 ignore_target_hosts.
3111 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3112 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3113 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3114 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3117 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3118 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3119 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3121 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3122 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3123 wake it up if nothing else does.
3125 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3126 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3127 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3130 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3131 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3133 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3135 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3136 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3137 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3138 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3139 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3140 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3141 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3142 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3144 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3145 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3146 than one IP address.
3148 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3149 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3150 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3151 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3153 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3154 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3155 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3156 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3157 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3160 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3161 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3162 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3163 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3165 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3166 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3169 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3170 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3171 $sender_host_address.
3173 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3174 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3175 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3176 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3177 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3180 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3182 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3183 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3185 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3186 just the host names, not the priorities.
3188 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
3189 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3190 controlled by a keyword.
3192 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
3193 multiple records are returned.
3195 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3196 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3199 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3201 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3202 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3204 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3205 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3206 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3208 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3210 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3212 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3214 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3215 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3216 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3217 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3218 because the tests only now provoked it.
3220 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3221 (this can affect the format of dates).
3223 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3224 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3225 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3226 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3228 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3230 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3231 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3232 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3233 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3235 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3236 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3237 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3239 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3242 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3243 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3244 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3245 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3246 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3247 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3250 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3251 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3252 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3255 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3256 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3257 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3259 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3260 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3261 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3262 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3263 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3264 so I produce this patch..."
3266 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3267 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3270 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3271 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3272 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3273 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3276 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3278 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3279 long debug lines gets shown.
3281 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3282 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3284 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3286 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3287 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3288 of $primary_hostname.
3290 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3291 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3292 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3293 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3294 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3295 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3296 by change 4.50/55 above.
3298 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3299 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3300 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3301 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3302 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3303 running as the user.
3306 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3307 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3308 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3311 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3312 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3314 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3315 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3316 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3317 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3318 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3320 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3321 This has been fixed.
3323 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3324 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3325 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3326 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3329 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3331 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3332 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3333 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3334 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3336 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3337 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3339 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3340 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3341 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3343 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3344 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3345 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3348 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3349 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3350 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3352 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3353 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3354 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3355 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3357 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3358 during host lookups.
3360 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3361 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3363 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3365 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3366 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3367 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3368 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3369 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3372 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3373 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3375 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3376 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3377 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3379 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3381 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3382 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3383 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3384 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3385 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3386 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3389 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3390 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3391 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3392 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3393 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3395 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3398 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3400 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3401 "vacation" handling.
3403 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3404 OS variants using glibc.
3406 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3409 ----------------------------------------------------
3410 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3411 ----------------------------------------------------
3417 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3418 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3421 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3422 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3425 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3426 filter fails to execute.
3428 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3429 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3430 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3431 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3432 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3434 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3435 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3436 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3437 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3439 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3440 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3441 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3442 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3443 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3445 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3447 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3448 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3449 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3450 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3452 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3453 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3454 sender verification.
3456 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3457 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3459 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3460 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3462 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3463 ignore_target_hosts.
3465 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3466 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3467 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3468 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3471 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3472 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3473 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3475 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3476 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3477 wake it up if nothing else does.
3479 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3480 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3481 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3484 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3485 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3487 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
3489 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3490 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3493 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3494 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3497 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3498 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3499 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3500 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3501 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3504 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3505 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3508 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3509 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3510 $sender_host_address.
3512 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3514 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3515 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3516 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3518 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
3521 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3522 (this can affect the format of dates).
3524 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3525 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3526 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3527 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3529 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3530 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3531 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3533 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3534 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3535 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3536 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3538 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3539 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3540 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3542 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3545 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3546 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3547 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3548 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3549 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3550 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3553 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3554 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3555 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3556 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3559 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3560 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3561 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3562 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3563 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3564 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3565 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3567 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3568 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3569 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3570 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3571 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3572 running as the user.
3575 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3576 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3577 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3580 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3581 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3582 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3583 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3584 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3586 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3587 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3588 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3589 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3592 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3593 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3594 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3595 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3596 because the tests only now provoked it.
3602 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3603 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3604 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3605 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3606 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3607 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3608 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3610 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3611 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3614 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3616 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3618 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3619 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3622 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3623 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3624 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3625 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3626 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3628 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3629 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3631 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3633 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3635 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3638 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3639 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3641 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3642 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3643 affecting debugging statements).
3645 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3647 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3648 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3649 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3650 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3651 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3652 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3653 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3654 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3655 after the received time, and all would be well.
3657 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3658 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3659 condition in an expansion string.
3661 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3663 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3664 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3665 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3666 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3667 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3668 job under whatever limits there are.
3670 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3672 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3675 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3676 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3677 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3678 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3681 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3682 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3683 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3684 binary data in such strings.
3686 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3688 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3689 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3690 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3691 failure, which is pointless.
3693 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3695 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3697 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3698 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3699 Sender: header lines.
3701 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3702 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3703 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3705 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3706 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3707 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3708 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3709 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3712 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3713 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3714 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3715 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3716 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3718 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3719 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3720 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3723 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3724 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3726 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3727 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3729 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3731 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3733 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3735 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3738 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3740 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3742 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3743 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3744 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3745 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3747 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3748 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3754 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3755 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3756 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3758 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3759 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3760 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3761 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3762 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3763 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3765 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3766 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3767 verification failure".
3769 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3770 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3771 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3772 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3774 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3775 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3776 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3777 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3778 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3779 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3780 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3781 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3782 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3783 treated as a timeout.
3785 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3786 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3787 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3788 not set for Exim filters).
3790 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3791 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3792 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3794 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3796 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3797 try to make them clearer.
3799 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3800 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3802 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3804 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3806 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3807 only the Cygwin environment.
3809 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3810 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3811 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3812 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3813 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3815 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3816 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3817 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3818 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3819 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3820 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3821 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3823 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3824 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3826 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3828 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3829 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3830 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3832 To: susanne@some.where
3834 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3835 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3836 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3837 of addresses in From: header lines).
3839 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3840 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3841 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3843 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3844 treated as non-personal.
3846 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3847 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3849 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3851 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3853 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3854 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3855 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3857 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3858 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3860 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3861 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3862 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3863 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3864 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3865 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3867 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3868 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3869 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3870 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3871 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3872 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3873 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3874 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3876 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3878 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3879 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3881 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3882 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3883 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3885 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3886 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3888 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3889 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3890 rather than long int.
3892 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3894 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3900 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3901 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3902 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3903 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3904 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3905 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3911 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3912 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3914 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3915 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3916 socklen_t is defined.
3918 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3921 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3924 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3925 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3926 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3927 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3928 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3930 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3931 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3932 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3933 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3935 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3936 of flapping under certain conditions.
3938 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3939 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3940 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3942 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3944 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3946 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3947 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3948 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3949 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3951 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3952 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3953 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3954 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3955 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3956 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3957 preserved with the message after it was received.
3959 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3960 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3961 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3962 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3963 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3964 test suite worked just fine.
3966 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3967 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3968 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3970 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3971 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3974 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3975 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3976 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3977 does not fully solve it.
3979 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3980 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3981 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3982 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3983 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3985 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3986 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3987 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3989 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3990 string, for example:
3992 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3994 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3995 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3996 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3997 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3998 the routers could not see them.
4000 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4001 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4003 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4004 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4007 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4008 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4009 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4010 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4011 that needed quoting.
4013 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4014 was not being matched caselessly.
4016 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4019 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4020 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4021 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4022 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4023 when use_sender is false.
4025 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4027 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4029 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4031 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4032 the configuration file.
4034 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4035 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4037 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4039 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4040 bytes in the message body.
4042 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4043 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4046 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4048 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4050 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4051 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4052 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4053 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4060 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4061 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4063 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4064 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4065 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4066 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4067 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4069 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4070 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4072 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4073 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4074 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4076 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4077 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4078 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4080 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4083 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4084 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4085 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4086 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4087 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4088 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4089 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4095 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4096 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4097 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4098 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4099 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4100 default (and expected) setting.
4102 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4103 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4104 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4105 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4107 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4108 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4110 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4113 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4114 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4115 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4116 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4117 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4118 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4120 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4121 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4122 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4124 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4125 part (NOT match_host).
4127 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4129 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4130 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4131 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4132 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4133 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4134 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4135 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4136 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4137 the same named file.
4139 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4140 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4143 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4144 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4145 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4146 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4149 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4150 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4151 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4153 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4155 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4157 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4159 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4160 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4162 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4163 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4164 before starting the TLS session.
4166 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4168 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4169 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4171 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4172 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4173 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4174 colon in the middle).
4180 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4181 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4182 multiple configurations are in use.
4184 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4185 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4186 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4187 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4188 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4189 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4191 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4192 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4194 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4195 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4196 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4198 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4199 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4202 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4203 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4205 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4207 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4208 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4210 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4218 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4219 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4220 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4221 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4222 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4224 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4227 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4228 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4229 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4230 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4231 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4232 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4234 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4235 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4236 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4237 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4238 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4239 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4240 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4243 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4244 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4245 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4246 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4247 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4249 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4251 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4252 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4253 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4255 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4257 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4258 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4259 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4262 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4263 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4265 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4266 Three changes have been made:
4268 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4269 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4270 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4271 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4272 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4274 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4277 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4278 the modified behaviour.
4284 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4287 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4288 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4290 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4291 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4292 try to track down a specific problem.
4294 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4295 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4296 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4298 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4301 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4302 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4303 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4304 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4305 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4306 some earlier ones do not.
4308 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4310 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4311 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4312 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4313 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4314 address literals are enabled, of course).
4316 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4318 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4319 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4320 by a command such as
4324 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4326 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4328 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4329 remained set. It is now erased.
4331 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4332 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4334 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4335 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4336 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4337 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4338 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4339 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4340 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4341 appropriate error code.
4343 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4344 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4345 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4346 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4347 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4348 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4350 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4351 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4352 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4354 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4355 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4356 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4357 terminate the header.
4359 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4360 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4361 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4363 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4364 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4365 (4.30/29). In particular:
4367 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4370 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4371 to write a maildirsize file.
4373 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4374 the transport, the new value overrides.
4376 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4379 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4380 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4381 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4384 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4385 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4386 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4389 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4390 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4391 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4393 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4394 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4397 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4398 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4399 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4401 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4403 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4405 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4407 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4408 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4411 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4412 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4413 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4414 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4415 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4416 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4417 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4420 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4421 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4422 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4423 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4424 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4427 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4428 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4429 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4430 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4431 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4432 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4433 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4434 cached value only when the same options are set.
4436 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4438 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4439 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4440 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4441 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4442 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4444 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4445 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4446 it is clearly obsolete.
4448 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4451 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4452 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4453 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4456 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4457 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4458 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4459 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4460 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4462 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4463 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4464 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4465 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4467 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4469 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4471 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4472 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4475 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4476 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4477 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4478 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4479 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4480 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4483 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4484 with the -f command-line option.
4486 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4487 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4488 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4489 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4490 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4491 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4493 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4494 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4497 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4498 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4499 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4500 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4501 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4502 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4503 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4504 buffer is too small.
4506 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4507 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4509 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4510 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4511 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4512 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4513 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4514 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4515 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4516 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4517 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4519 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4520 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4521 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4523 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4524 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4527 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4528 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4529 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4530 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4531 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4533 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4534 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4535 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4536 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4539 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4541 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4543 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4544 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4546 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4547 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4548 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4550 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4551 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4552 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4553 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4554 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4556 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4557 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4558 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4559 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4560 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4561 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4562 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4564 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4565 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4566 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4567 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4568 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4569 the test of how many are available.
4571 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4572 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4573 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4574 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4575 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4576 new message is started.
4578 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4579 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4581 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4582 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4584 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4585 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4586 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4589 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4590 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4591 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4592 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4593 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4594 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4595 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4597 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4598 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4599 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4600 interpreted as octal.
4602 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4605 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4606 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4607 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4608 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4609 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4610 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4612 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4613 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4614 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4615 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4617 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4618 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4619 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4620 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4622 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4623 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4626 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4627 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4629 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4631 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4632 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4633 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4634 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4636 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4637 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4638 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4639 supplied", which is not helpful.
4641 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4642 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4643 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4645 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4646 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4647 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4648 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4649 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4650 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4651 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4652 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4654 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4655 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4656 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4657 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4658 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4660 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4661 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4662 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4663 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4664 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4665 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4667 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4668 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4669 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4671 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
4673 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4674 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4675 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4678 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4680 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4681 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4682 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4683 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4684 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4685 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4686 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4687 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4689 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4690 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4691 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4692 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4693 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4695 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4698 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4699 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4700 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4701 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4702 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4703 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4704 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4705 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4706 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4712 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4713 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4714 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4716 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4719 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4720 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4721 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4723 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4724 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4725 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4726 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4727 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4728 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4730 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4731 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4732 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4733 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4734 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4735 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4736 the Exim test suite.
4738 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4739 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4740 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4741 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4743 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4744 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4745 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4746 specify it in this variable.
4748 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4749 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4750 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4751 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4753 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4754 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4755 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4756 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4758 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4759 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4760 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4761 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4762 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4764 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4766 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4769 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4770 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4771 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4772 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4773 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4775 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4776 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4778 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4779 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4780 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4781 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4782 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4784 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4785 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4787 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4788 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4789 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4791 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4792 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4794 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4795 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4797 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4798 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4799 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4801 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4802 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4804 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4805 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4806 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4807 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4809 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4811 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4812 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4813 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4814 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4816 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4818 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4819 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4821 25. Added .include_if_exists.
4823 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4824 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4825 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4826 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4827 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4828 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4830 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4832 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4833 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4836 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4838 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4839 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4841 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4842 550 Sender verify failed
4844 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4845 the final line of the response.
4847 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4848 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4849 all other user lookups.
4851 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4854 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4855 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4856 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4857 result into an int without checking.
4859 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4860 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4861 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4863 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4864 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4865 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4866 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4868 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4871 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4872 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4874 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4875 to the empty sender.
4877 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4878 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4879 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4880 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4881 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4882 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4883 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4886 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4887 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4888 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4889 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4892 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4893 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4895 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4898 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4899 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4901 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4903 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4904 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4907 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4908 as soon as it is encountered.
4910 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4912 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4915 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4916 recognizes a tab character.
4918 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4919 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4920 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4921 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4923 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4925 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4928 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4930 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4932 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4933 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4936 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4937 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4938 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4939 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4940 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4942 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4943 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4945 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4946 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4947 list (.included file names were always shown).
4949 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4950 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4951 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4954 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4955 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4957 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4959 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4961 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4963 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4964 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4965 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4966 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4967 failures to open the logs.
4969 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4970 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4971 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4972 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4973 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4974 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4975 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4981 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4982 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4983 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4986 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4987 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4988 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4990 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4991 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4992 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
4994 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
4995 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
4996 causing some misleading effects.
4998 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
4999 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5000 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5002 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5003 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5004 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5005 queue-runner function directly.
5011 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5014 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5015 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5016 was always written to the default place.
5018 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5019 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5020 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5022 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5024 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5026 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5027 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5028 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5030 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5031 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5034 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5035 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5036 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5038 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5039 command line option is disabled.
5041 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5042 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5044 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5046 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5048 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5049 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5051 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5053 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5054 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5055 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5056 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5057 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5058 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5060 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5061 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5064 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5065 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5067 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5068 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5070 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5071 received was valid base64.
5073 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5074 name of the variable that was being set.
5076 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5078 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5079 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5080 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5081 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5082 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5083 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5085 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5087 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5088 nor realm was specified.
5090 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5091 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5092 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5093 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5095 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5096 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5097 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5099 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5100 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5101 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5103 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5104 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5105 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5106 some systems use these upper case variants.
5108 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5109 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5110 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5111 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5113 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5115 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5116 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5118 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5119 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5122 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5124 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5125 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5126 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5127 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5129 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5132 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5133 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5134 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5136 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5137 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5139 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5140 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5141 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5142 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5144 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5145 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5146 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5148 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5150 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5151 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5152 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5153 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5156 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5157 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5158 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5160 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5162 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5163 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5165 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5166 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5168 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5169 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5170 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5171 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5172 when emails are that large.
5179 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5180 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5182 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5183 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5184 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5186 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5187 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5188 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5190 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5191 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5192 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5193 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5194 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5196 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5197 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5198 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5199 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5200 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5203 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5204 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5205 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5206 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5207 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5208 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5209 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5210 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5211 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5212 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5213 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5214 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5215 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5216 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5218 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5219 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5222 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5223 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5224 error should be diagnosed.
5226 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5227 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5228 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5229 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5230 appeared instead of "NULL".
5232 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5233 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5234 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5235 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5236 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5237 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5240 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5241 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5242 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5248 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5249 or receiver verification errors.
5251 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5254 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5255 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5256 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5257 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5259 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5260 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5261 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5262 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5263 shouldn't happen again.
5265 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5266 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5267 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5269 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5270 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5272 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5274 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5275 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5277 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5278 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5281 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5282 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5283 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5285 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5286 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5287 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5288 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5290 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5291 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5292 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5293 to define what should happen).
5295 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5296 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5297 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5299 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5301 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5303 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5304 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5306 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5307 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5308 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5309 structure in all cases.
5311 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5312 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5313 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5314 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5316 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5317 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5320 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5321 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5323 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5324 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5326 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5327 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5328 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5330 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5331 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5332 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5334 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5335 the book and for uniformity.
5337 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5339 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5340 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5341 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5342 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5343 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5344 non-existent command as the problem.
5346 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5347 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5348 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5350 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5352 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5353 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5354 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5356 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5357 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5358 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5359 timestamps using strftime().
5361 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5362 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5364 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5365 transport-time rewrites.
5367 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5368 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5369 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5370 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5372 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5373 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5375 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5376 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5377 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5378 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5381 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5382 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5383 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5384 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5385 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5386 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5387 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5389 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5390 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5391 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5392 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5393 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5395 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5396 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5397 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5398 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5399 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5400 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5401 remaining text gets split now.
5403 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5404 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5405 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5406 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5408 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5409 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5410 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5411 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5414 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5415 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5416 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5417 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5418 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5419 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5420 passed through if needed.
5422 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5423 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5424 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5425 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5426 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5427 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5429 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5430 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5431 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5432 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5433 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5435 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5436 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5437 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5438 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5439 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5441 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5442 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5445 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5446 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5447 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5448 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5449 mayhem of various kinds.
5451 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5452 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5453 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5454 the right test for positive values.
5456 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5457 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5458 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5459 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5460 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5461 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5462 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5463 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5464 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5465 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5468 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5471 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5472 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5475 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5476 the existing equality matching.
5478 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5479 dealing with inode numbers.
5481 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5482 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5483 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5485 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5486 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5487 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5488 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5491 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5492 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5493 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5494 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5495 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5496 relay addresses has also been removed.
5498 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5500 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5501 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5502 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5504 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5505 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5506 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5507 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5508 processing applies to CR:
5510 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5511 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5513 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5514 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5515 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5516 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5518 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5519 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5520 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5522 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5523 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5524 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5525 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5526 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5527 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5530 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5533 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5534 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5535 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5536 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5539 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5541 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5543 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5545 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5546 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5547 not considered personal.
5549 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5551 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5553 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5555 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5556 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5557 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5558 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5559 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5560 header lines, and spool format errors.
5562 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5563 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5564 for more flexibility.
5566 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5567 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5568 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5570 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5573 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5574 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5575 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5576 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5577 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5578 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5579 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5580 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5581 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5583 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5584 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5585 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5586 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5587 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5588 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5589 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5591 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5592 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5593 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5595 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5596 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5597 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5598 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5599 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5600 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5601 instead of killing the process with assert().
5603 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5604 than Unicode encoding.
5606 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5607 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5608 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5609 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5611 77. Added process_log_path.
5613 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5614 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5616 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5617 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5619 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5620 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5621 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5623 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5624 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5625 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5626 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5627 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5630 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5631 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5634 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5635 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5636 they will be used during message reception.
5642 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.