1 $Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.214 2005/08/30 10:55:52 ph10 Exp $
3 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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9 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
10 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
12 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
14 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
16 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
17 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
18 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
20 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
21 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
22 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
24 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
25 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
28 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
29 ${stat: expansion item.
31 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
32 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
34 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
35 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
38 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
40 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
43 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
44 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
46 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
48 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
49 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
50 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
51 the end of the subprocess.
53 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
54 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
55 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
56 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
57 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
59 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
61 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
63 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
64 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
66 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
68 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
70 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
71 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
74 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
76 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
77 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
78 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
80 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
81 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
83 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
84 host errors such as "Connection refused".
86 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
87 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
89 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
90 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
92 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
93 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
94 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
95 contributed by a Radius user.
97 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
98 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
100 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
101 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
103 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
106 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
107 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
110 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
111 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
112 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
113 header lines when this was not necessary.
115 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
117 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
118 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
119 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
122 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
125 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
126 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
127 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed.
129 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
131 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
137 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
139 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
140 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
141 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
142 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
144 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
146 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
147 can still be requested.
149 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
150 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
151 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
152 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
154 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
155 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
156 circumstances, but probably never did.
158 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
159 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
160 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
163 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
165 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
166 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
168 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
170 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
172 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
173 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
174 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
175 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
176 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
177 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
179 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
180 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
181 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
182 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
183 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
184 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
186 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
187 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
189 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
190 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
192 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
193 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
195 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
197 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
199 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
201 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
203 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
205 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
207 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
209 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
210 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
211 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
213 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
214 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
215 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
216 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
218 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
219 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
220 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
222 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
223 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
224 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
225 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
227 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
228 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
231 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
232 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
233 should work with maildirs and everything.
235 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
236 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
238 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
241 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
242 function for BDB 4.3.
244 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
246 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
247 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
250 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
251 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
252 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
253 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
254 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
255 formatting function string_vformat().
257 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
258 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
259 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
260 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
261 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
262 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
263 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
264 falls back to the previous guessing code."
266 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
267 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
270 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
271 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
273 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
274 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
275 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
276 test. It is now used for both.
278 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
279 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
280 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
281 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
282 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
283 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
285 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
286 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
287 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
290 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
291 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
292 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
294 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
295 experimental DomainKeys support:
297 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
298 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
299 the control was given.
301 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
303 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
305 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
307 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
308 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
309 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
312 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
313 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
314 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
315 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
316 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
317 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
320 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
321 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
322 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
323 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
324 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
325 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
327 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
328 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
329 do -d+all out of habit.
331 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
332 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
335 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
336 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
337 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
338 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
339 record types that Exim uses.
341 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
342 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
343 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
344 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
345 non-existent file that was broken.
347 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
348 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
350 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
351 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
352 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
354 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
356 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
357 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
358 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
359 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
360 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
363 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
364 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
365 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
366 at a slight CPU cost.
368 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
369 as requested by Marc Sherman.
371 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
374 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
376 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
377 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
383 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
384 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
386 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
388 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
390 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
391 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
393 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
394 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
395 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
396 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
397 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
398 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
401 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
402 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
403 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
404 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
407 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
408 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
409 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
410 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
411 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
412 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
413 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
416 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
417 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
419 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
420 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
421 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
422 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
423 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
424 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
426 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
427 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
428 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
429 SMTP commands that take arguments.
431 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
434 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
435 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
437 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
438 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
439 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
440 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
443 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
445 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
446 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
448 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
449 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
450 to what was transported.)
452 TF/01 Added $received_time.
454 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
455 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
456 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
457 spamd_address settings.
459 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
460 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
461 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
462 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
463 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
465 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
467 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
468 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
469 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
470 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
471 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
473 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
474 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
476 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
477 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
478 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
479 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
480 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
481 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
482 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
485 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
486 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
487 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
488 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
489 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
490 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
491 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
494 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
496 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
497 driver and ACL definitions.
499 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
500 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
502 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
503 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
504 understands it better than I do:
506 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
507 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
509 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
510 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
511 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
512 => three warnings about OTP not working
513 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
515 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
516 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
517 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
518 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
520 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
521 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
523 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
524 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
525 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
527 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
528 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
531 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
532 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
535 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
536 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
537 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
539 warn !verify = sender
540 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
542 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
543 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
545 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
547 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
548 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
550 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
551 nomenclature these days.)
553 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
554 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
556 PH/30 In these circumstances:
557 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
558 . First host does not offer TLS;
559 . First host accepts first address;
560 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
561 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
562 . Second host accepts second address.
563 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
564 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
567 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
568 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
569 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
570 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
571 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
573 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
574 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
576 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
577 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
579 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
580 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
581 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
583 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
584 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
587 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
589 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
590 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
591 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
592 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
593 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
594 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
595 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
597 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
598 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
599 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
600 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
601 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
603 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
604 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
607 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
608 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
609 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
610 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
611 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
612 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
614 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
616 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
617 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
618 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
619 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
620 printable escape sequences.
622 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
623 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
626 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
627 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
630 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
631 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
632 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
633 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
634 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
636 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
637 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
638 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
640 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
642 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
643 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
646 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
647 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
648 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
649 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
650 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
651 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
652 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
653 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
654 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
657 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
658 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
659 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
660 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
664 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
665 ----------------------------------------
667 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
668 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
669 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
670 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
671 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
672 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
675 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
676 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
677 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
678 historical information.
684 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
686 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
687 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
689 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
690 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
693 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
694 filter fails to execute.
696 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
697 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
698 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
699 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
700 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
702 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
704 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
705 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
706 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
707 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
709 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
710 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
711 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
712 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
713 control that does not make sense is encountered.
715 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
717 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
719 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
720 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
721 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
722 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
724 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
725 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
728 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
729 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
731 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
733 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
736 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
737 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
739 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
740 the spool by the -Mrm option.
742 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
743 information about exactly what failed.
745 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
747 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
748 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
749 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
751 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
752 It is now set to "smtps".
754 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
757 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
758 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
759 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
760 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
763 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
764 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
765 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
767 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
768 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
769 wake it up if nothing else does.
771 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
772 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
773 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
776 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
777 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
779 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
781 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
782 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
783 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
784 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
785 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
786 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
787 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
788 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
790 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
791 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
794 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
795 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
796 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
797 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
799 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
800 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
801 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
802 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
803 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
806 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
807 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
808 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
809 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
811 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
812 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
815 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
816 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
817 $sender_host_address.
819 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
820 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
821 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
822 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
823 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
826 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
828 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
829 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
831 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
832 just the host names, not the priorities.
834 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
835 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
836 controlled by a keyword.
838 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
839 multiple records are returned.
841 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
842 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
845 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
847 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
848 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
850 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
851 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
852 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
854 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
856 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
858 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
860 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
861 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
862 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
863 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
864 because the tests only now provoked it.
866 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
867 (this can affect the format of dates).
869 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
870 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
871 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
872 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
874 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
876 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
877 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
878 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
879 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
881 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
882 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
883 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
885 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
888 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
889 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
890 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
891 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
892 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
893 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
896 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
897 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
898 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
901 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
902 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
903 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
905 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
906 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
907 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
908 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
909 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
910 so I produce this patch..."
912 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
913 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
916 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
917 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
918 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
919 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
922 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
924 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
925 long debug lines gets shown.
927 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
928 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
930 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
932 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
933 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
934 of $primary_hostname.
936 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
937 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
938 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
939 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
940 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
941 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
942 by change 4.50/55 above.
944 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
945 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
946 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
947 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
948 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
952 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
953 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
954 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
957 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
958 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
960 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
961 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
962 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
963 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
964 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
966 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
969 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
970 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
971 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
972 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
975 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
977 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
978 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
979 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
980 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
982 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
983 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
985 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
986 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
987 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
989 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
990 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
991 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
994 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
995 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
996 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
998 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
999 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
1000 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
1001 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
1003 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
1004 during host lookups.
1006 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
1007 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
1009 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
1011 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
1012 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
1013 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
1014 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
1015 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
1018 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
1019 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
1021 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
1022 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
1023 for the non-SMTP ACL.
1025 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
1027 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
1028 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
1029 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
1030 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
1031 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
1032 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
1035 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
1036 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
1037 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
1038 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
1039 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
1041 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
1044 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
1046 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
1047 "vacation" handling.
1049 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
1050 OS variants using glibc.
1052 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
1055 ----------------------------------------------------
1056 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
1057 ----------------------------------------------------
1063 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
1064 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
1067 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1068 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1071 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1072 filter fails to execute.
1074 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1075 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1076 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1077 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1078 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1080 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1081 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1082 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1083 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
1085 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1086 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1087 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1088 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1089 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1091 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1093 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1094 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1095 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1096 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1098 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1099 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1100 sender verification.
1102 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1103 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1105 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1106 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1108 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1109 ignore_target_hosts.
1111 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1112 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1113 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1114 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1117 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1118 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1119 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1121 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1122 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1123 wake it up if nothing else does.
1125 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1126 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1127 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1130 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1131 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1133 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
1135 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
1136 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
1139 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
1140 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
1143 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1144 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1145 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1146 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1147 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1150 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1151 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1154 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1155 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1156 $sender_host_address.
1158 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
1160 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
1161 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
1162 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
1164 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
1167 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
1168 (this can affect the format of dates).
1170 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
1171 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
1172 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
1173 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
1175 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
1176 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
1177 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
1179 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
1180 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
1181 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
1182 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
1184 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
1185 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
1186 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
1188 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
1191 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
1192 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
1193 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
1194 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
1195 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
1196 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
1199 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
1200 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
1201 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
1202 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
1205 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1206 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1207 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1208 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
1209 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1210 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1211 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
1213 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
1214 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
1215 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
1216 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
1217 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
1218 running as the user.
1221 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
1222 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
1223 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
1226 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1227 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1228 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1229 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1230 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1232 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1233 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1234 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1235 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1238 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1239 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1240 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1241 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1242 because the tests only now provoked it.
1248 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
1249 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
1250 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
1251 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
1252 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
1253 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
1254 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
1256 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
1257 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
1260 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
1262 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
1264 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
1265 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
1268 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
1269 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
1270 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
1271 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
1272 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
1274 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
1275 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
1277 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
1279 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
1281 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
1284 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
1285 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
1287 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
1288 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
1289 affecting debugging statements).
1291 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
1293 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
1294 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
1295 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
1296 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
1297 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
1298 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
1299 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
1300 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
1301 after the received time, and all would be well.
1303 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
1304 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
1305 condition in an expansion string.
1307 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
1309 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
1310 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
1311 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
1312 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
1313 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
1314 job under whatever limits there are.
1316 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
1318 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
1321 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
1322 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
1323 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
1324 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
1327 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
1328 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
1329 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
1330 binary data in such strings.
1332 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
1334 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
1335 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
1336 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
1337 failure, which is pointless.
1339 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
1341 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
1343 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
1344 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
1345 Sender: header lines.
1347 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
1348 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
1349 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
1351 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
1352 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
1353 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
1354 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
1355 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
1358 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
1359 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
1360 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
1361 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
1362 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
1364 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
1365 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
1366 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
1369 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
1370 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
1372 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
1373 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
1375 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
1377 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
1379 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
1381 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
1384 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
1386 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
1388 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
1389 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
1390 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
1391 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
1393 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
1394 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
1400 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
1401 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
1402 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
1404 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
1405 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
1406 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
1407 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
1408 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
1409 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
1411 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
1412 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
1413 verification failure".
1415 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
1416 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
1417 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
1418 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
1420 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
1421 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
1422 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
1423 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
1424 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
1425 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
1426 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
1427 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
1428 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
1429 treated as a timeout.
1431 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
1432 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
1433 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
1434 not set for Exim filters).
1436 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
1437 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
1438 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
1440 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
1442 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
1443 try to make them clearer.
1445 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
1446 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
1448 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
1450 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
1452 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
1453 only the Cygwin environment.
1455 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
1456 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
1457 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
1458 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
1459 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
1461 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
1462 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
1463 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
1464 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
1465 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
1466 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
1467 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
1469 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
1470 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
1472 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
1474 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
1475 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
1476 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
1478 To: susanne@some.where
1480 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
1481 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
1482 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
1483 of addresses in From: header lines).
1485 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
1486 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
1487 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
1489 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
1490 treated as non-personal.
1492 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
1493 because it now seems ill-conceived.
1495 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
1497 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
1499 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
1500 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
1501 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
1503 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
1504 ACL and the local_scan() function.
1506 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
1507 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
1508 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
1509 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
1510 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
1511 (I found it when inspecting the code).
1513 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
1514 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
1515 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
1516 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
1517 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
1518 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
1519 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
1520 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
1522 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
1524 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
1525 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
1527 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
1528 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
1529 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
1531 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
1532 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
1534 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
1535 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
1536 rather than long int.
1538 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1540 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
1546 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
1547 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
1548 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
1549 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
1550 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
1551 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
1557 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
1558 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
1560 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
1561 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
1562 socklen_t is defined.
1564 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
1567 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
1570 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
1571 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
1572 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
1573 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
1574 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
1576 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
1577 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
1578 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
1579 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
1581 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
1582 of flapping under certain conditions.
1584 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
1585 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
1586 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
1588 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1590 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
1592 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
1593 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
1594 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
1595 the duration of the SMTP connection.
1597 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
1598 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
1599 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
1600 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
1601 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
1602 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
1603 preserved with the message after it was received.
1605 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
1606 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
1607 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
1608 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
1609 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
1610 test suite worked just fine.
1612 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
1613 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
1614 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
1616 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
1617 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
1620 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
1621 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
1622 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
1623 does not fully solve it.
1625 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
1626 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
1627 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
1628 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
1629 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
1631 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
1632 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
1633 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
1635 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
1636 string, for example:
1638 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
1640 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
1641 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
1642 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
1643 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
1644 the routers could not see them.
1646 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
1647 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
1649 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
1650 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
1653 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
1654 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
1655 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
1656 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
1657 that needed quoting.
1659 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
1660 was not being matched caselessly.
1662 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
1665 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
1666 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
1667 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
1668 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
1669 when use_sender is false.
1671 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
1673 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
1675 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
1677 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
1678 the configuration file.
1680 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
1681 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
1683 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
1685 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
1686 bytes in the message body.
1688 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
1689 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
1692 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
1694 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
1696 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
1697 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
1698 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
1699 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
1706 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
1707 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
1709 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
1710 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
1711 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
1712 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
1713 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
1715 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
1716 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
1718 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
1719 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
1720 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
1722 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
1723 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
1724 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
1726 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
1729 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
1730 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
1731 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
1732 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
1733 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
1734 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
1735 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
1741 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
1742 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
1743 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
1744 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
1745 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
1746 default (and expected) setting.
1748 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
1749 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
1750 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
1751 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
1753 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
1754 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
1756 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
1759 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
1760 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
1761 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
1762 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
1763 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
1764 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
1766 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
1767 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
1768 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
1770 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
1771 part (NOT match_host).
1773 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
1775 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
1776 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
1777 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
1778 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
1779 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
1780 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
1781 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
1782 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
1783 the same named file.
1785 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
1786 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
1789 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
1790 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
1791 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
1792 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
1795 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
1796 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
1797 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
1799 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
1801 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
1803 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
1805 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
1806 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
1808 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
1809 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
1810 before starting the TLS session.
1812 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
1814 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
1815 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
1817 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
1818 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
1819 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
1820 colon in the middle).
1826 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
1827 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
1828 multiple configurations are in use.
1830 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
1831 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
1832 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
1833 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
1834 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
1835 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
1837 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
1838 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
1840 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
1841 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
1842 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
1844 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
1845 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
1848 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
1849 that used bh_ and bheader_.
1851 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
1853 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
1854 allowing one more file than it should have been.
1856 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
1864 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
1865 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
1866 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
1867 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
1868 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
1870 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
1873 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
1874 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
1875 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
1876 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
1877 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
1878 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
1880 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
1881 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
1882 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
1883 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
1884 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
1885 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
1886 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
1889 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
1890 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
1891 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
1892 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
1893 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
1895 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
1897 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
1898 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
1899 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
1901 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
1903 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
1904 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
1905 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
1908 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
1909 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
1911 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
1912 Three changes have been made:
1914 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
1915 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
1916 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
1917 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
1918 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
1920 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
1923 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
1924 the modified behaviour.
1930 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
1933 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
1934 indeed breaks things for older releases.
1936 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
1937 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
1938 try to track down a specific problem.
1940 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
1941 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
1942 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
1944 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
1947 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
1948 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
1949 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
1950 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
1951 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
1952 some earlier ones do not.
1954 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
1956 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
1957 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
1958 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
1959 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
1960 address literals are enabled, of course).
1962 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
1964 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
1965 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
1966 by a command such as
1970 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
1972 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
1974 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
1975 remained set. It is now erased.
1977 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
1978 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
1980 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
1981 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
1982 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
1983 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
1984 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
1985 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
1986 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
1987 appropriate error code.
1989 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
1990 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
1991 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
1992 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
1993 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
1994 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
1996 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
1997 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
1998 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
2000 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
2001 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
2002 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
2003 terminate the header.
2005 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
2006 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
2007 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
2009 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
2010 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
2011 (4.30/29). In particular:
2013 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
2016 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
2017 to write a maildirsize file.
2019 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
2020 the transport, the new value overrides.
2022 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
2025 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
2026 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
2027 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
2030 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
2031 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
2032 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
2035 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
2036 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
2037 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
2039 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
2040 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
2043 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
2044 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
2045 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
2047 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
2049 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
2051 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
2053 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
2054 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
2057 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
2058 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
2059 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
2060 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
2061 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
2062 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
2063 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
2066 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
2067 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
2068 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
2069 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
2070 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
2073 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
2074 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
2075 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
2076 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
2077 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
2078 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
2079 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
2080 cached value only when the same options are set.
2082 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
2084 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
2085 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
2086 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
2087 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
2088 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
2090 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
2091 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
2092 it is clearly obsolete.
2094 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
2097 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
2098 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
2099 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
2102 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
2103 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
2104 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
2105 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
2106 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
2108 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
2109 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
2110 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
2111 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
2113 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
2115 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
2117 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
2118 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
2121 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
2122 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
2123 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
2124 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
2125 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
2126 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
2129 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
2130 with the -f command-line option.
2132 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
2133 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
2134 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
2135 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
2136 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
2137 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2139 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
2140 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
2143 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
2144 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
2145 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
2146 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
2147 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
2148 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
2149 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
2150 buffer is too small.
2152 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
2153 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
2155 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
2156 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
2157 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
2158 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
2159 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
2160 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
2161 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
2162 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
2163 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
2165 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
2166 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
2167 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
2169 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
2170 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
2173 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
2174 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
2175 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
2176 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
2177 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
2179 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
2180 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
2181 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
2182 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
2185 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
2187 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
2189 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
2190 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
2192 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
2193 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
2194 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
2196 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
2197 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
2198 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
2199 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
2200 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
2202 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
2203 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
2204 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
2205 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
2206 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
2207 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
2208 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
2210 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
2211 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
2212 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
2213 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
2214 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
2215 the test of how many are available.
2217 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
2218 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
2219 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
2220 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
2221 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
2222 new message is started.
2224 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
2225 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
2227 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
2228 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
2230 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
2231 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
2232 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
2235 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
2236 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
2237 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
2238 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
2239 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
2240 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
2241 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
2243 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
2244 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
2245 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
2246 interpreted as octal.
2248 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
2251 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
2252 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
2253 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
2254 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
2255 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
2256 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
2258 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
2259 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
2260 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
2261 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
2263 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
2264 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
2265 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
2266 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
2268 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
2269 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
2272 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
2273 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
2275 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2277 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
2278 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
2279 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
2280 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
2282 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
2283 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
2284 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
2285 supplied", which is not helpful.
2287 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
2288 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
2289 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
2291 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
2292 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
2293 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
2294 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
2295 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
2296 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
2297 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
2298 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
2300 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
2301 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
2302 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
2303 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
2304 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
2306 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
2307 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
2308 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
2309 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
2310 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
2311 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
2313 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
2314 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
2315 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
2317 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
2319 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
2320 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
2321 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
2324 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
2326 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
2327 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
2328 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
2329 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
2330 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
2331 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
2332 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
2333 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
2335 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
2336 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
2337 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
2338 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
2339 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
2341 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
2344 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
2345 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
2346 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
2347 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
2348 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
2349 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
2350 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
2351 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
2352 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
2358 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
2359 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
2360 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
2362 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
2365 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
2366 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
2367 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
2369 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
2370 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
2371 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
2372 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
2373 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
2374 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
2376 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
2377 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
2378 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
2379 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
2380 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
2381 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
2382 the Exim test suite.
2384 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
2385 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
2386 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
2387 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
2389 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
2390 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
2391 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
2392 specify it in this variable.
2394 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
2395 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
2396 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
2397 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
2399 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
2400 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
2401 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
2402 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
2404 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
2405 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
2406 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
2407 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
2408 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
2410 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
2412 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
2415 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
2416 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
2417 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
2418 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
2419 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
2421 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
2422 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
2424 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
2425 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
2426 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
2427 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
2428 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
2430 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
2431 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
2433 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
2434 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2435 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
2437 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
2438 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
2440 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
2441 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
2443 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
2444 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
2445 to get rid of the compiler warning.
2447 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
2448 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
2450 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
2451 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
2452 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
2453 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
2455 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
2457 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
2458 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
2459 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
2460 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
2462 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
2464 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
2465 line; previously there was no indication of these.
2467 25. Added .include_if_exists.
2469 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
2470 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
2471 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
2472 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
2473 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
2474 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
2476 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
2478 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
2479 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
2482 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
2484 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
2485 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
2487 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
2488 550 Sender verify failed
2490 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
2491 the final line of the response.
2493 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
2494 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
2495 all other user lookups.
2497 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
2500 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
2501 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
2502 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
2503 result into an int without checking.
2505 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
2506 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
2507 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
2509 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
2510 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
2511 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
2512 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
2514 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
2517 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
2518 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
2520 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
2521 to the empty sender.
2523 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
2524 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
2525 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
2526 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
2527 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
2528 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
2529 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
2532 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
2533 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
2534 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
2535 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
2538 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
2539 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
2541 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
2544 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
2545 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
2547 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
2549 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
2550 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
2553 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
2554 as soon as it is encountered.
2556 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
2558 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
2561 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
2562 recognizes a tab character.
2564 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
2565 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
2566 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
2567 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
2569 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
2571 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
2574 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
2576 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
2578 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
2579 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
2582 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
2583 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
2584 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
2585 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
2586 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
2588 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
2589 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
2591 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
2592 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
2593 list (.included file names were always shown).
2595 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
2596 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
2597 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
2600 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
2601 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
2603 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
2605 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
2607 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
2609 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
2610 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
2611 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
2612 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
2613 failures to open the logs.
2615 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
2616 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
2617 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
2618 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
2619 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
2620 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
2621 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
2627 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
2628 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
2629 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
2632 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
2633 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
2634 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
2636 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
2637 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
2638 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
2640 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
2641 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
2642 causing some misleading effects.
2644 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
2645 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
2646 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
2648 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
2649 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
2650 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
2651 queue-runner function directly.
2657 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
2660 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
2661 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
2662 was always written to the default place.
2664 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
2665 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
2666 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
2668 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
2670 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
2672 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
2673 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
2674 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
2676 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
2677 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
2680 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
2681 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
2682 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
2684 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
2685 command line option is disabled.
2687 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
2688 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
2690 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
2692 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
2694 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
2695 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
2697 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
2699 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
2700 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
2701 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
2702 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
2703 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
2704 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
2706 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
2707 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
2710 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
2711 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
2713 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
2714 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
2716 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
2717 received was valid base64.
2719 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
2720 name of the variable that was being set.
2722 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
2724 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
2725 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
2726 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
2727 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
2728 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
2729 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
2731 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
2733 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
2734 nor realm was specified.
2736 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
2737 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
2738 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
2739 errors are given to SMTP connections.
2741 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
2742 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
2743 failing to send a response to QUIT.
2745 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
2746 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
2747 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
2749 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
2750 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
2751 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
2752 some systems use these upper case variants.
2754 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
2755 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
2756 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
2757 socket" when it tried to send the third.
2759 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
2761 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
2762 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
2764 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
2765 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
2768 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
2770 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
2771 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
2772 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
2773 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
2775 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
2778 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
2779 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
2780 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
2782 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
2783 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
2785 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
2786 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
2787 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
2788 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
2790 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
2791 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
2792 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
2794 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
2796 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
2797 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
2798 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
2799 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
2802 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
2803 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
2804 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
2806 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
2808 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
2809 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
2811 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
2812 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
2814 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
2815 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
2816 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
2817 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
2818 when emails are that large.
2825 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
2826 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
2828 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
2829 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
2830 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
2832 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
2833 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
2834 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
2836 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
2837 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
2838 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
2839 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
2840 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
2842 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
2843 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
2844 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
2845 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
2846 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
2849 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
2850 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
2851 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
2852 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
2853 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
2854 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
2855 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
2856 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
2857 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
2858 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
2859 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
2860 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
2861 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
2862 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
2864 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
2865 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
2868 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
2869 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
2870 error should be diagnosed.
2872 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
2873 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
2874 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
2875 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
2876 appeared instead of "NULL".
2878 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
2879 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
2880 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
2881 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
2882 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
2883 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
2886 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
2887 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
2888 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
2894 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
2895 or receiver verification errors.
2897 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
2900 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
2901 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
2902 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
2903 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
2905 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
2906 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
2907 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
2908 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
2909 shouldn't happen again.
2911 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
2912 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
2913 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
2915 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
2916 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
2918 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
2920 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
2921 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
2923 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
2924 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
2927 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
2928 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
2929 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
2931 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
2932 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
2933 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
2934 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
2936 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
2937 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
2938 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
2939 to define what should happen).
2941 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
2942 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
2943 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
2945 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
2947 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
2949 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
2950 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
2952 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
2953 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
2954 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
2955 structure in all cases.
2957 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
2958 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
2959 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
2960 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
2962 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
2963 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
2966 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
2967 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
2969 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
2970 MD5 (which is deprecated).
2972 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
2973 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
2974 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
2976 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
2977 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
2978 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
2980 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
2981 the book and for uniformity.
2983 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
2985 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
2986 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
2987 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
2988 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
2989 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
2990 non-existent command as the problem.
2992 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
2993 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
2994 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
2996 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
2998 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
2999 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
3000 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
3002 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
3003 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
3004 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
3005 timestamps using strftime().
3007 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
3008 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
3010 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
3011 transport-time rewrites.
3013 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
3014 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
3015 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
3016 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
3018 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
3019 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
3021 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
3022 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
3023 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
3024 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
3027 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
3028 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
3029 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
3030 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
3031 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
3032 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
3033 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
3035 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
3036 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
3037 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
3038 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
3039 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
3041 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
3042 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
3043 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
3044 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
3045 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
3046 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
3047 remaining text gets split now.
3049 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
3050 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
3051 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
3052 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
3054 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
3055 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
3056 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
3057 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
3060 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
3061 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
3062 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
3063 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
3064 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
3065 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
3066 passed through if needed.
3068 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
3069 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
3070 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
3071 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
3072 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
3073 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
3075 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
3076 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
3077 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
3078 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
3079 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
3081 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
3082 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
3083 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
3084 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
3085 incorrect size information for certain domains.
3087 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
3088 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
3091 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
3092 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
3093 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
3094 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
3095 mayhem of various kinds.
3097 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
3098 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
3099 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
3100 the right test for positive values.
3102 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
3103 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
3104 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
3105 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
3106 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
3107 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
3108 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
3109 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
3110 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
3111 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
3114 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
3117 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
3118 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
3121 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
3122 the existing equality matching.
3124 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
3125 dealing with inode numbers.
3127 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
3128 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
3129 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
3131 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
3132 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
3133 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
3134 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
3137 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
3138 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
3139 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
3140 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
3141 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
3142 relay addresses has also been removed.
3144 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
3146 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
3147 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
3148 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
3150 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
3151 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
3152 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
3153 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
3154 processing applies to CR:
3156 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
3157 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
3159 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
3160 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
3161 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
3162 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
3164 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
3165 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
3166 This is a VOB (very old bug).
3168 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
3169 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
3170 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
3171 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
3172 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
3173 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
3176 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
3179 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
3180 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
3181 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
3182 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
3185 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3187 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
3189 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
3191 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
3192 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
3193 not considered personal.
3195 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
3197 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
3199 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
3201 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
3202 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
3203 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
3204 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
3205 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
3206 header lines, and spool format errors.
3208 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
3209 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
3210 for more flexibility.
3212 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
3213 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
3214 consulting and updating the callout cache.
3216 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
3219 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
3220 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
3221 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
3222 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
3223 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
3224 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
3225 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
3226 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
3227 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
3229 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
3230 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
3231 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
3232 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
3233 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
3234 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
3235 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
3237 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
3238 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
3239 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
3241 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
3242 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
3243 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
3244 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
3245 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
3246 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
3247 instead of killing the process with assert().
3249 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
3250 than Unicode encoding.
3252 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
3253 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
3254 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
3255 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
3257 77. Added process_log_path.
3259 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
3260 check_log_inodes was ignored.
3262 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
3263 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
3265 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
3266 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
3267 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
3269 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
3270 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
3271 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
3272 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
3273 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
3276 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
3277 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
3280 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
3281 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
3282 they will be used during message reception.
3288 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
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