1 $Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.130 2005/05/03 08:38:13 ph10 Exp $
3 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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10 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
11 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
13 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
15 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
17 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
18 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
20 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
21 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
22 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
23 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
24 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
25 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
28 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
29 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
30 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
31 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
34 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
35 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
36 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
37 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
38 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
39 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
40 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
43 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
44 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
46 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
47 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
48 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
49 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
50 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
51 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
53 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
54 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
55 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
56 SMTP commands that take arguments.
58 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
61 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
62 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
64 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
65 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
66 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
67 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
70 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
72 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
73 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
75 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
76 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
77 to what was transported.)
79 TF/01 Added $received_time.
81 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
82 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
83 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
84 spamd_address settings.
86 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
87 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
88 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
89 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
90 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
92 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
94 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
95 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
96 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
97 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
98 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
100 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
101 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
103 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
104 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
105 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
106 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
107 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
108 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
109 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
112 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
113 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
114 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
115 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
116 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
117 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
118 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
121 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
123 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
124 driver and ACL definitions.
126 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
127 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
129 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
130 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
131 understands it better than I do:
133 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
134 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
136 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
137 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
138 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
139 => three warnings about OTP not working
140 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
142 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
143 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
144 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
145 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
147 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
148 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
150 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
151 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
152 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
154 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
155 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
158 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
159 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
162 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
163 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
164 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
166 warn !verify = sender
167 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
169 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
170 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
172 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
174 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
175 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
177 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
178 nomenclature these days.)
180 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
181 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
183 PH/30 In these circumstances:
184 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
185 . First host does not offer TLS;
186 . First host accepts first address;
187 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
188 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
189 . Second host accepts second address.
190 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
191 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
194 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
195 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
196 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
197 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
198 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
200 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
201 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
203 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
204 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
206 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
207 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
208 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
210 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
211 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
214 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
216 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
217 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
218 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
219 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
220 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
221 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
222 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
224 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
225 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
226 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
227 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
228 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
230 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
231 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
234 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
235 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
236 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
237 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
238 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
239 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
241 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
243 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
244 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
245 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
246 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
247 printable escape sequences.
249 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
250 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
253 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
254 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
257 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
258 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
259 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
260 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
261 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
263 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
264 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
265 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
267 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
270 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
271 ----------------------------------------
273 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
274 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
275 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
276 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
277 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
278 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
281 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
282 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
283 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
284 historical information.
290 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
292 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
293 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
295 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
296 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
299 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
300 filter fails to execute.
302 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
303 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
304 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
305 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
306 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
308 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
310 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
311 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
312 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
313 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
315 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
316 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
317 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
318 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
319 control that does not make sense is encountered.
321 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
323 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
325 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
326 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
327 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
328 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
330 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
331 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
334 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
335 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
337 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
339 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
342 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
343 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
345 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
346 the spool by the -Mrm option.
348 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
349 information about exactly what failed.
351 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
353 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
354 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
355 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
357 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
358 It is now set to "smtps".
360 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
363 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
364 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
365 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
366 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
369 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
370 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
371 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
373 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
374 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
375 wake it up if nothing else does.
377 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
378 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
379 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
382 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
383 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
385 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
387 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
388 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
389 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
390 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
391 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
392 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
393 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
394 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
396 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
397 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
400 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
401 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
402 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
403 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
405 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
406 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
407 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
408 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
409 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
412 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
413 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
414 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
415 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
417 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
418 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
421 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
422 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
423 $sender_host_address.
425 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
426 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
427 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
428 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
429 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
432 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
434 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
435 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
437 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
438 just the host names, not the priorities.
440 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
441 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
442 controlled by a keyword.
444 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
445 multiple records are returned.
447 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
448 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
451 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
453 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
454 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
456 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
457 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
458 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
460 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
462 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
464 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
466 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
467 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
468 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
469 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
470 because the tests only now provoked it.
472 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
473 (this can affect the format of dates).
475 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
476 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
477 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
478 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
480 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
482 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
483 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
484 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
485 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
487 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
488 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
489 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
491 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
494 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
495 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
496 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
497 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
498 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
499 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
502 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
503 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
504 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
507 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
508 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
509 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
511 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
512 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
513 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
514 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
515 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
516 so I produce this patch..."
518 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
519 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
522 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
523 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
524 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
525 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
528 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
530 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
531 long debug lines gets shown.
533 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
534 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
536 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
538 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
539 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
540 of $primary_hostname.
542 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
543 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
544 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
545 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
546 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
547 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
548 by change 4.50/55 above.
550 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
551 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
552 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
553 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
554 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
558 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
559 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
560 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
563 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
564 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
566 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
567 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
568 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
569 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
570 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
572 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
575 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
576 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
577 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
578 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
581 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
583 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
584 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
585 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
586 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
588 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
589 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
591 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
592 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
593 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
595 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
596 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
597 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
600 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
601 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
602 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
604 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
605 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
606 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
607 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
609 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
612 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
613 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
615 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
617 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
618 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
619 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
620 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
621 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
624 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
625 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
627 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
628 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
629 for the non-SMTP ACL.
631 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
633 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
634 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
635 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
636 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
637 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
638 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
641 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
642 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
643 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
644 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
645 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
647 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
650 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
652 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
655 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
656 OS variants using glibc.
658 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
661 ----------------------------------------------------
662 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
663 ----------------------------------------------------
669 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
670 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
673 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
674 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
677 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
678 filter fails to execute.
680 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
681 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
682 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
683 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
684 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
686 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
687 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
688 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
689 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
691 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
692 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
693 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
694 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
695 control that does not make sense is encountered.
697 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
699 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
700 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
701 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
702 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
704 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
705 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
708 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
709 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
711 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
712 the spool by the -Mrm option.
714 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
717 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
718 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
719 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
720 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
723 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
724 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
725 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
727 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
728 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
729 wake it up if nothing else does.
731 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
732 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
733 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
736 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
737 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
739 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
741 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
742 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
745 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
746 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
749 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
750 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
751 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
752 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
753 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
756 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
757 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
760 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
761 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
762 $sender_host_address.
764 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
766 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
767 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
768 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
770 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
773 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
774 (this can affect the format of dates).
776 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
777 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
778 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
779 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
781 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
782 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
783 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
785 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
786 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
787 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
788 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
790 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
791 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
792 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
794 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
797 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
798 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
799 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
800 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
801 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
802 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
805 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
806 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
807 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
808 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
811 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
812 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
813 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
814 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
815 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
816 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
817 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
819 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
820 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
821 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
822 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
823 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
827 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
828 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
829 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
832 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
833 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
834 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
835 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
836 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
838 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
839 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
840 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
841 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
844 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
845 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
846 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
847 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
848 because the tests only now provoked it.
854 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
855 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
856 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
857 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
858 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
859 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
860 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
862 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
863 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
866 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
868 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
870 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
871 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
874 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
875 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
876 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
877 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
878 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
880 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
881 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
883 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
885 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
887 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
890 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
891 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
893 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
894 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
895 affecting debugging statements).
897 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
899 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
900 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
901 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
902 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
903 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
904 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
905 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
906 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
907 after the received time, and all would be well.
909 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
910 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
911 condition in an expansion string.
913 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
915 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
916 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
917 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
918 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
919 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
920 job under whatever limits there are.
922 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
924 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
927 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
928 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
929 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
930 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
933 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
934 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
935 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
936 binary data in such strings.
938 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
940 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
941 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
942 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
943 failure, which is pointless.
945 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
947 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
949 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
950 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
951 Sender: header lines.
953 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
954 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
955 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
957 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
958 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
959 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
960 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
961 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
964 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
965 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
966 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
967 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
968 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
970 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
971 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
972 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
975 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
976 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
978 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
979 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
981 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
983 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
985 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
987 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
990 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
992 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
994 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
995 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
996 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
997 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
999 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
1000 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
1006 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
1007 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
1008 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
1010 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
1011 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
1012 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
1013 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
1014 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
1015 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
1017 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
1018 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
1019 verification failure".
1021 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
1022 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
1023 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
1024 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
1026 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
1027 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
1028 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
1029 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
1030 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
1031 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
1032 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
1033 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
1034 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
1035 treated as a timeout.
1037 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
1038 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
1039 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
1040 not set for Exim filters).
1042 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
1043 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
1044 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
1046 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
1048 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
1049 try to make them clearer.
1051 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
1052 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
1054 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
1056 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
1058 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
1059 only the Cygwin environment.
1061 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
1062 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
1063 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
1064 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
1065 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
1067 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
1068 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
1069 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
1070 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
1071 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
1072 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
1073 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
1075 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
1076 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
1078 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
1080 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
1081 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
1082 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
1084 To: susanne@some.where
1086 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
1087 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
1088 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
1089 of addresses in From: header lines).
1091 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
1092 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
1093 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
1095 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
1096 treated as non-personal.
1098 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
1099 because it now seems ill-conceived.
1101 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
1103 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
1105 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
1106 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
1107 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
1109 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
1110 ACL and the local_scan() function.
1112 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
1113 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
1114 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
1115 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
1116 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
1117 (I found it when inspecting the code).
1119 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
1120 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
1121 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
1122 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
1123 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
1124 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
1125 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
1126 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
1128 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
1130 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
1131 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
1133 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
1134 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
1135 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
1137 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
1138 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
1140 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
1141 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
1142 rather than long int.
1144 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1146 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
1152 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
1153 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
1154 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
1155 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
1156 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
1157 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
1163 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
1164 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
1166 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
1167 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
1168 socklen_t is defined.
1170 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
1173 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
1176 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
1177 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
1178 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
1179 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
1180 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
1182 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
1183 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
1184 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
1185 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
1187 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
1188 of flapping under certain conditions.
1190 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
1191 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
1192 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
1194 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1196 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
1198 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
1199 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
1200 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
1201 the duration of the SMTP connection.
1203 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
1204 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
1205 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
1206 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
1207 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
1208 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
1209 preserved with the message after it was received.
1211 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
1212 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
1213 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
1214 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
1215 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
1216 test suite worked just fine.
1218 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
1219 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
1220 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
1222 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
1223 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
1226 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
1227 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
1228 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
1229 does not fully solve it.
1231 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
1232 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
1233 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
1234 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
1235 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
1237 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
1238 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
1239 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
1241 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
1242 string, for example:
1244 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
1246 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
1247 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
1248 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
1249 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
1250 the routers could not see them.
1252 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
1253 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
1255 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
1256 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
1259 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
1260 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
1261 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
1262 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
1263 that needed quoting.
1265 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
1266 was not being matched caselessly.
1268 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
1271 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
1272 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
1273 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
1274 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
1275 when use_sender is false.
1277 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
1279 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
1281 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
1283 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
1284 the configuration file.
1286 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
1287 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
1289 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
1291 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
1292 bytes in the message body.
1294 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
1295 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
1298 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
1300 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
1302 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
1303 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
1304 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
1305 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
1312 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
1313 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
1315 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
1316 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
1317 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
1318 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
1319 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
1321 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
1322 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
1324 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
1325 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
1326 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
1328 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
1329 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
1330 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
1332 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
1335 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
1336 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
1337 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
1338 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
1339 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
1340 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
1341 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
1347 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
1348 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
1349 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
1350 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
1351 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
1352 default (and expected) setting.
1354 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
1355 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
1356 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
1357 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
1359 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
1360 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
1362 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
1365 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
1366 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
1367 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
1368 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
1369 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
1370 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
1372 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
1373 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
1374 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
1376 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
1377 part (NOT match_host).
1379 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
1381 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
1382 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
1383 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
1384 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
1385 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
1386 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
1387 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
1388 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
1389 the same named file.
1391 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
1392 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
1395 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
1396 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
1397 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
1398 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
1401 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
1402 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
1403 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
1405 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
1407 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
1409 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
1411 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
1412 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
1414 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
1415 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
1416 before starting the TLS session.
1418 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
1420 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
1421 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
1423 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
1424 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
1425 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
1426 colon in the middle).
1432 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
1433 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
1434 multiple configurations are in use.
1436 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
1437 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
1438 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
1439 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
1440 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
1441 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
1443 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
1444 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
1446 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
1447 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
1448 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
1450 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
1451 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
1454 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
1455 that used bh_ and bheader_.
1457 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
1459 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
1460 allowing one more file than it should have been.
1462 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
1470 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
1471 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
1472 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
1473 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
1474 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
1476 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
1479 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
1480 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
1481 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
1482 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
1483 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
1484 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
1486 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
1487 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
1488 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
1489 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
1490 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
1491 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
1492 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
1495 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
1496 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
1497 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
1498 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
1499 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
1501 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
1503 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
1504 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
1505 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
1507 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
1509 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
1510 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
1511 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
1514 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
1515 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
1517 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
1518 Three changes have been made:
1520 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
1521 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
1522 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
1523 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
1524 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
1526 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
1529 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
1530 the modified behaviour.
1536 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
1539 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
1540 indeed breaks things for older releases.
1542 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
1543 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
1544 try to track down a specific problem.
1546 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
1547 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
1548 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
1550 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
1553 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
1554 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
1555 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
1556 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
1557 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
1558 some earlier ones do not.
1560 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
1562 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
1563 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
1564 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
1565 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
1566 address literals are enabled, of course).
1568 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
1570 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
1571 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
1572 by a command such as
1576 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
1578 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
1580 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
1581 remained set. It is now erased.
1583 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
1584 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
1586 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
1587 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
1588 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
1589 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
1590 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
1591 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
1592 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
1593 appropriate error code.
1595 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
1596 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
1597 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
1598 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
1599 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
1600 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
1602 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
1603 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
1604 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
1606 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
1607 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
1608 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
1609 terminate the header.
1611 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
1612 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
1613 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
1615 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
1616 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
1617 (4.30/29). In particular:
1619 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
1622 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
1623 to write a maildirsize file.
1625 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
1626 the transport, the new value overrides.
1628 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
1631 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
1632 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
1633 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
1636 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
1637 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
1638 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
1641 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
1642 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
1643 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
1645 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
1646 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
1649 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
1650 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
1651 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
1653 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
1655 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
1657 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
1659 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
1660 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
1663 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
1664 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
1665 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
1666 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
1667 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
1668 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
1669 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
1672 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
1673 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
1674 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
1675 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
1676 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
1679 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
1680 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
1681 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
1682 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
1683 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
1684 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
1685 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
1686 cached value only when the same options are set.
1688 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
1690 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
1691 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
1692 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
1693 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
1694 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
1696 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
1697 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
1698 it is clearly obsolete.
1700 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
1703 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
1704 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
1705 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
1708 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
1709 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
1710 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
1711 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
1712 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
1714 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
1715 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
1716 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
1717 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
1719 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
1721 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
1723 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
1724 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
1727 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
1728 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
1729 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
1730 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
1731 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
1732 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
1735 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
1736 with the -f command-line option.
1738 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
1739 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
1740 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
1741 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
1742 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
1743 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1745 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
1746 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
1749 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
1750 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
1751 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
1752 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
1753 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
1754 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
1755 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
1756 buffer is too small.
1758 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
1759 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
1761 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
1762 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
1763 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
1764 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
1765 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
1766 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
1767 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
1768 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
1769 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
1771 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
1772 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
1773 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
1775 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
1776 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
1779 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
1780 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
1781 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
1782 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
1783 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
1785 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
1786 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
1787 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
1788 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
1791 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
1793 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
1795 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
1796 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
1798 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
1799 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
1800 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
1802 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
1803 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
1804 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
1805 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
1806 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
1808 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
1809 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
1810 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
1811 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
1812 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
1813 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
1814 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
1816 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
1817 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
1818 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
1819 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
1820 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
1821 the test of how many are available.
1823 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
1824 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
1825 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
1826 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
1827 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
1828 new message is started.
1830 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
1831 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
1833 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
1834 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
1836 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
1837 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
1838 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
1841 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
1842 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
1843 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
1844 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
1845 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
1846 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
1847 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
1849 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
1850 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
1851 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
1852 interpreted as octal.
1854 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
1857 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
1858 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
1859 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
1860 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
1861 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
1862 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
1864 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
1865 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
1866 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
1867 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
1869 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
1870 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
1871 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
1872 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
1874 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
1875 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
1878 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
1879 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
1881 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1883 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
1884 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
1885 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
1886 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
1888 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
1889 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
1890 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
1891 supplied", which is not helpful.
1893 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
1894 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
1895 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
1897 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
1898 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
1899 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
1900 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
1901 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
1902 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
1903 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
1904 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
1906 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
1907 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
1908 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
1909 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
1910 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
1912 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
1913 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
1914 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
1915 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
1916 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
1917 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
1919 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
1920 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
1921 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
1923 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
1925 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
1926 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
1927 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
1930 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
1932 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
1933 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
1934 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
1935 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
1936 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
1937 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
1938 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
1939 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
1941 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
1942 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
1943 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
1944 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
1945 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
1947 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
1950 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
1951 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
1952 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
1953 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
1954 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
1955 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
1956 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
1957 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
1958 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
1964 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
1965 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
1966 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
1968 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
1971 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
1972 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
1973 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
1975 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
1976 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
1977 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
1978 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
1979 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
1980 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
1982 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
1983 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
1984 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
1985 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
1986 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
1987 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
1988 the Exim test suite.
1990 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
1991 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
1992 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
1993 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
1995 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
1996 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
1997 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
1998 specify it in this variable.
2000 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
2001 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
2002 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
2003 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
2005 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
2006 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
2007 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
2008 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
2010 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
2011 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
2012 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
2013 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
2014 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
2016 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
2018 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
2021 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
2022 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
2023 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
2024 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
2025 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
2027 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
2028 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
2030 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
2031 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
2032 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
2033 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
2034 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
2036 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
2037 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
2039 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
2040 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2041 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
2043 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
2044 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
2046 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
2047 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
2049 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
2050 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
2051 to get rid of the compiler warning.
2053 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
2054 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
2056 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
2057 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
2058 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
2059 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
2061 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
2063 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
2064 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
2065 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
2066 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
2068 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
2070 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
2071 line; previously there was no indication of these.
2073 25. Added .include_if_exists.
2075 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
2076 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
2077 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
2078 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
2079 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
2080 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
2082 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
2084 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
2085 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
2088 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
2090 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
2091 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
2093 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
2094 550 Sender verify failed
2096 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
2097 the final line of the response.
2099 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
2100 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
2101 all other user lookups.
2103 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
2106 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
2107 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
2108 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
2109 result into an int without checking.
2111 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
2112 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
2113 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
2115 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
2116 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
2117 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
2118 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
2120 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
2123 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
2124 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
2126 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
2127 to the empty sender.
2129 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
2130 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
2131 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
2132 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
2133 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
2134 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
2135 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
2138 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
2139 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
2140 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
2141 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
2144 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
2145 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
2147 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
2150 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
2151 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
2153 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
2155 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
2156 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
2159 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
2160 as soon as it is encountered.
2162 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
2164 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
2167 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
2168 recognizes a tab character.
2170 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
2171 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
2172 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
2173 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
2175 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
2177 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
2180 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
2182 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
2184 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
2185 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
2188 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
2189 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
2190 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
2191 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
2192 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
2194 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
2195 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
2197 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
2198 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
2199 list (.included file names were always shown).
2201 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
2202 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
2203 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
2206 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
2207 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
2209 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
2211 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
2213 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
2215 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
2216 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
2217 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
2218 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
2219 failures to open the logs.
2221 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
2222 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
2223 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
2224 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
2225 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
2226 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
2227 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
2233 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
2234 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
2235 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
2238 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
2239 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
2240 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
2242 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
2243 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
2244 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
2246 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
2247 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
2248 causing some misleading effects.
2250 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
2251 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
2252 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
2254 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
2255 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
2256 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
2257 queue-runner function directly.
2263 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
2266 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
2267 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
2268 was always written to the default place.
2270 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
2271 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
2272 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
2274 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
2276 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
2278 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
2279 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
2280 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
2282 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
2283 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
2286 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
2287 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
2288 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
2290 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
2291 command line option is disabled.
2293 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
2294 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
2296 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
2298 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
2300 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
2301 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
2303 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
2305 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
2306 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
2307 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
2308 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
2309 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
2310 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
2312 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
2313 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
2316 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
2317 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
2319 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
2320 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
2322 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
2323 received was valid base64.
2325 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
2326 name of the variable that was being set.
2328 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
2330 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
2331 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
2332 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
2333 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
2334 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
2335 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
2337 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
2339 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
2340 nor realm was specified.
2342 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
2343 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
2344 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
2345 errors are given to SMTP connections.
2347 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
2348 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
2349 failing to send a response to QUIT.
2351 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
2352 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
2353 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
2355 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
2356 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
2357 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
2358 some systems use these upper case variants.
2360 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
2361 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
2362 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
2363 socket" when it tried to send the third.
2365 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
2367 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
2368 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
2370 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
2371 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
2374 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
2376 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
2377 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
2378 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
2379 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
2381 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
2384 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
2385 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
2386 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
2388 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
2389 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
2391 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
2392 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
2393 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
2394 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
2396 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
2397 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
2398 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
2400 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
2402 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
2403 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
2404 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
2405 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
2408 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
2409 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
2410 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
2412 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
2414 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
2415 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
2417 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
2418 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
2420 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
2421 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
2422 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
2423 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
2424 when emails are that large.
2431 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
2432 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
2434 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
2435 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
2436 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
2438 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
2439 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
2440 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
2442 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
2443 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
2444 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
2445 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
2446 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
2448 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
2449 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
2450 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
2451 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
2452 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
2455 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
2456 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
2457 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
2458 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
2459 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
2460 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
2461 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
2462 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
2463 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
2464 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
2465 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
2466 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
2467 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
2468 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
2470 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
2471 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
2474 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
2475 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
2476 error should be diagnosed.
2478 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
2479 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
2480 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
2481 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
2482 appeared instead of "NULL".
2484 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
2485 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
2486 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
2487 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
2488 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
2489 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
2492 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
2493 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
2494 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
2500 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
2501 or receiver verification errors.
2503 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
2506 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
2507 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
2508 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
2509 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
2511 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
2512 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
2513 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
2514 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
2515 shouldn't happen again.
2517 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
2518 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
2519 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
2521 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
2522 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
2524 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
2526 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
2527 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
2529 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
2530 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
2533 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
2534 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
2535 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
2537 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
2538 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
2539 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
2540 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
2542 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
2543 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
2544 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
2545 to define what should happen).
2547 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
2548 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
2549 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
2551 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
2553 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
2555 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
2556 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
2558 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
2559 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
2560 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
2561 structure in all cases.
2563 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
2564 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
2565 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
2566 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
2568 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
2569 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
2572 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
2573 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
2575 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
2576 MD5 (which is deprecated).
2578 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
2579 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
2580 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
2582 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
2583 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
2584 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
2586 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
2587 the book and for uniformity.
2589 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
2591 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
2592 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
2593 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
2594 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
2595 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
2596 non-existent command as the problem.
2598 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
2599 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
2600 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
2602 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
2604 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
2605 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
2606 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
2608 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
2609 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
2610 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
2611 timestamps using strftime().
2613 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
2614 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
2616 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
2617 transport-time rewrites.
2619 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
2620 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
2621 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
2622 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
2624 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
2625 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
2627 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
2628 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
2629 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
2630 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
2633 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
2634 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
2635 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
2636 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
2637 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
2638 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
2639 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
2641 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
2642 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
2643 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
2644 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
2645 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
2647 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
2648 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
2649 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
2650 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
2651 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
2652 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
2653 remaining text gets split now.
2655 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
2656 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
2657 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
2658 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
2660 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
2661 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
2662 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
2663 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
2666 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
2667 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
2668 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
2669 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
2670 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
2671 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
2672 passed through if needed.
2674 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
2675 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
2676 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
2677 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
2678 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
2679 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
2681 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
2682 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
2683 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
2684 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
2685 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
2687 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
2688 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
2689 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
2690 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
2691 incorrect size information for certain domains.
2693 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
2694 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
2697 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
2698 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
2699 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
2700 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
2701 mayhem of various kinds.
2703 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
2704 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
2705 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
2706 the right test for positive values.
2708 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
2709 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
2710 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
2711 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
2712 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
2713 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
2714 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
2715 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
2716 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
2717 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
2720 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
2723 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
2724 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
2727 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
2728 the existing equality matching.
2730 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
2731 dealing with inode numbers.
2733 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
2734 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
2735 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
2737 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
2738 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
2739 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
2740 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
2743 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
2744 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
2745 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
2746 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
2747 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
2748 relay addresses has also been removed.
2750 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
2752 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
2753 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
2754 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
2756 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
2757 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
2758 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
2759 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
2760 processing applies to CR:
2762 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
2763 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
2765 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
2766 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
2767 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
2768 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
2770 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
2771 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
2772 This is a VOB (very old bug).
2774 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
2775 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
2776 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
2777 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
2778 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
2779 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
2782 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
2785 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
2786 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
2787 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
2788 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
2791 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2793 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
2795 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
2797 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
2798 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
2799 not considered personal.
2801 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
2803 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
2805 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
2807 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
2808 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
2809 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
2810 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
2811 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
2812 header lines, and spool format errors.
2814 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
2815 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
2816 for more flexibility.
2818 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
2819 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
2820 consulting and updating the callout cache.
2822 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
2825 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
2826 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
2827 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
2828 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
2829 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
2830 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
2831 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
2832 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
2833 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
2835 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
2836 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
2837 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
2838 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
2839 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
2840 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
2841 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
2843 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
2844 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
2845 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
2847 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
2848 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
2849 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
2850 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
2851 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
2852 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
2853 instead of killing the process with assert().
2855 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
2856 than Unicode encoding.
2858 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
2859 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
2860 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
2861 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
2863 77. Added process_log_path.
2865 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
2866 check_log_inodes was ignored.
2868 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
2869 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
2871 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
2872 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
2873 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
2875 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
2876 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
2877 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
2878 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
2879 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
2882 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
2883 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
2886 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
2887 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
2888 they will be used during message reception.
2894 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
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