1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
2 -------------------------------------------
7 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
8 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
9 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
11 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
13 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
16 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
18 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
20 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
22 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
23 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
25 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
26 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
28 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
29 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
31 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
32 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
33 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
35 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
37 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
38 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
40 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
42 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
44 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
45 non-compliant senders.
46 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
48 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
49 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
50 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
52 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
53 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
54 in spool file corruption.
56 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
57 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
58 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
61 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
62 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
63 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
65 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
66 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
68 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
70 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
72 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
74 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
75 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
76 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
78 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
79 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
80 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
81 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
83 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
84 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
86 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
87 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
88 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
89 resolver implementation change.
91 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
92 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
94 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
96 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
98 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
99 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
101 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
102 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
104 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
105 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
107 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
108 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
109 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
110 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
111 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
113 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
115 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
116 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
117 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
119 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
121 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
122 read-only, out of scope).
123 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
125 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
126 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
127 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
128 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
130 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
132 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
133 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
134 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
135 real issues in debug logging.
137 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
138 assignment on my part. Fixed.
140 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
141 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
142 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
144 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
145 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
146 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
149 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
150 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
152 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
153 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
154 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
155 needs to override this, it can.
157 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
158 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
159 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
161 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
162 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
163 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
164 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
166 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
172 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
173 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
175 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
177 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
180 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
181 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
183 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
184 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
185 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
187 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
188 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
189 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
190 not safe for signals.
192 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
193 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
194 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
195 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
198 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
200 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
201 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
202 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
203 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
204 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
206 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
207 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
208 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
209 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
210 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
211 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
213 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
214 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
215 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
216 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
218 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
219 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
220 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
221 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
223 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
224 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
225 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
226 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
227 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
228 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
229 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
230 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
231 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
233 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
234 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
235 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
236 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
238 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
239 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
240 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
241 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
242 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
243 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
244 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
245 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
246 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
247 details in the main documentation.
249 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
251 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
253 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
254 repository when doing development or release builds.
256 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
257 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
259 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
260 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
263 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
265 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
266 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
268 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
269 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
271 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
272 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
274 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
275 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
277 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
278 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
280 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
282 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
285 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
286 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
287 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
289 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
291 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
293 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
294 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
300 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
302 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
303 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
305 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
307 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
309 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
312 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
313 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
315 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
316 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
318 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
321 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
324 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
325 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
327 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
328 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
329 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
330 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
332 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
333 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
339 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
342 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
343 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
344 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
346 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
347 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
349 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
350 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
351 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
353 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
354 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
356 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
357 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
359 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
360 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
362 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
363 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
365 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
366 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
368 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
371 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
372 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
374 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
375 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
377 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
378 SQL string expansion failure details.
379 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
381 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
382 Patch from Simon Arlott.
384 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
385 extern declarations in function scope.
386 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
388 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
389 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
390 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
393 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
394 Patch from Mark Zealey.
396 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
397 Patch from Mark Zealey.
399 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
400 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
402 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
403 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
405 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
406 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
409 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
411 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
413 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
414 Patch by Simon Arlott
416 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
417 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
423 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
424 consequences so log it to the panic log.
426 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
427 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
429 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
431 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
432 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
433 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
435 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
436 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
437 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
439 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
440 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
441 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
442 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
444 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
445 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
446 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
447 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
449 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
450 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
451 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
454 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
457 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
458 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
459 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
460 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
461 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
467 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
468 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
469 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
471 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
472 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
474 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
476 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
478 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
480 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
482 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
484 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
485 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
486 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
487 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
489 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
490 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
491 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
492 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
493 more caution in buffer sizes.
495 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
497 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
499 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
501 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
503 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
505 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
507 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
509 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
510 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
511 ignore trailing whitespace.
513 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
515 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
518 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
519 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
521 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
522 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
523 Notification from John Horne.
525 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
528 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
529 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
532 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
535 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
536 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
537 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
539 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
540 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
541 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
544 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
545 option (effectively making it always true).
547 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
548 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
550 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
551 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
553 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
554 run-time user, instead of root.
556 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
557 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
559 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
560 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
563 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
564 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
565 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
567 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
569 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
575 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
576 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
579 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
580 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
583 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
584 Patch from Alain Williams
586 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
588 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
589 Patch from Andreas Metzler
591 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
592 Patch from Kirill Miazine
594 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
596 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
598 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
599 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
601 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
603 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
605 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
606 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
607 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
609 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
610 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
612 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
613 Patch by Simon Arlott
615 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
616 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
622 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
624 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
626 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
628 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
630 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
636 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
637 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
639 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
640 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
643 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
644 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
645 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
647 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
648 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
650 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
651 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
652 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
653 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
655 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
656 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
657 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
659 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
661 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
663 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
664 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
666 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
668 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
669 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
670 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
671 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
673 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
674 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
676 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
678 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
680 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
681 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
683 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
684 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
686 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
687 that they are available at delivery time.
689 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
691 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
692 incoming_port log selectors.
694 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
695 setting expands to an empty string.
697 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
698 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
700 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
701 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
703 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
704 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
706 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
707 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
709 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
710 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
712 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
713 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
715 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
717 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
718 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
720 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
721 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
723 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
725 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
726 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
728 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
730 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
732 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
735 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
736 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
738 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
739 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
741 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
742 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
744 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
745 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
747 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
748 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
750 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
751 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
753 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
754 plus update to original patch.
756 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
758 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
759 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
761 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
763 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
765 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
767 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
769 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
770 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
772 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
773 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
775 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
776 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
778 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
779 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
781 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
783 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
785 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
787 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
793 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
794 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
795 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
797 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
798 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
799 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
800 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
801 build errors in sieve.c.
803 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
804 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
805 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
807 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
809 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
811 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
813 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
819 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
821 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
822 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
823 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
824 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
825 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
826 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
827 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
828 for iplsearch lookups.
830 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
831 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
832 previously such lookups could never work.
834 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
835 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
836 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
838 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
841 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
842 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
843 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
844 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
845 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
846 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
848 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
849 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
851 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
852 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
853 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
854 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
855 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
856 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
858 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
861 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
863 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
864 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
867 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
868 by clients under certain conditions.
870 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
871 "_responses" off the end of the name.
873 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
875 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
876 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
878 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
880 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
882 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
884 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
885 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
887 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
889 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
890 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
892 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
894 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
896 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
897 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
898 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
899 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
901 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
902 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
903 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
905 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
906 and InterBase are left for another time.)
908 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
910 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
912 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
914 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
915 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
916 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
922 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
923 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
926 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
927 issue a MAIL command.
929 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
931 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
933 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
934 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
935 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
936 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
937 item. This has been fixed.
939 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
940 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
942 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
943 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
945 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
946 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
947 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
949 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
951 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
952 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
953 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
954 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
955 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
957 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
958 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
959 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
961 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
962 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
963 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
964 the server_setid option was incorrect.
966 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
968 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
970 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
971 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
972 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
973 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
974 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
976 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
978 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
979 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
980 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
983 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
985 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
987 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
989 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
991 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
993 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
994 no_callout_flush is set.
996 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
997 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
998 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1001 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1003 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1004 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1005 other ACL rejections are.
1007 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1008 with slight modification.
1010 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1011 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1013 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1014 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1017 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1018 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1020 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1022 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1023 expansion side effects.
1025 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1026 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1027 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1030 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1031 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1032 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1034 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1035 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1036 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1037 were accidentally chopped off.
1039 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1040 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1041 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1042 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1043 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1044 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1045 pipelining has not been advertised.
1047 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1049 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1050 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1051 This has been fixed.
1053 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1054 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1055 reported on Solaris.
1057 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1058 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1059 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1060 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1061 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1062 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1063 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1065 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1068 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1070 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1072 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1073 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1074 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1075 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1076 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1077 criteria to be more general.
1079 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1080 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1081 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1082 host_all_ignored option.
1084 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1085 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1086 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1087 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1088 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1089 is what is supposed to happen).
1091 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1092 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1093 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1094 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1095 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1098 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1099 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1100 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1101 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1102 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1103 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1106 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1108 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1109 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1111 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1112 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1114 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1116 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1118 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
1119 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1120 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1121 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1122 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1123 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1124 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1125 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
1126 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
1127 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1128 least in a lot of common cases.
1130 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1131 advertised in response to EHLO.
1137 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1138 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1140 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1141 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1143 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1144 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1145 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1147 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1148 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1149 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1150 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1151 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1157 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1158 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1161 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1162 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1163 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1165 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1166 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1167 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1168 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1169 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1170 rather than extend the field.
1176 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1177 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1178 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1179 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1182 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1183 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1184 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1186 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1187 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1188 hence the _LINUX specificness.
1190 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1191 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1192 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1195 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1196 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1197 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1198 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1199 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1200 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1201 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1202 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1203 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1204 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1205 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1207 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1210 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1211 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1212 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1213 ignores EPIPE as well.
1215 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1216 (quoted-printable decoding).
1218 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
1219 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
1221 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1223 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1225 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1227 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
1228 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
1230 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1233 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1234 miscellaneous code fixes
1236 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1239 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1240 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1241 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1242 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1243 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1244 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1245 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1246 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
1248 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
1249 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
1250 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1251 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1253 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1254 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1255 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1256 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1257 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1258 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1259 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1260 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1261 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1263 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1266 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1267 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1268 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1269 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1270 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1271 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1272 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1273 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1275 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1276 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1279 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1280 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1281 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1282 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1283 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1284 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1285 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1286 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1287 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1288 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1289 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1290 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1291 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1293 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1294 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1295 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1296 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1297 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1298 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1299 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1301 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1302 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1303 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1304 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1305 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1306 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1307 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1308 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1309 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1310 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1312 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1313 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1314 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1315 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1316 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1318 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1319 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1320 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1321 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1322 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1323 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1324 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1326 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1327 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1328 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1329 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1330 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1331 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1334 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
1335 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1336 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1339 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1340 if any retry times were supplied.
1342 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1343 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1344 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1346 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1348 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1350 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1351 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1352 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1353 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
1354 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1355 before) are ignored.
1357 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1358 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1360 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1361 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1362 committing the later change.]
1364 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1365 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1366 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1367 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1368 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1369 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1370 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1371 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1372 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1374 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1375 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1376 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1377 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1378 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1379 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1380 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1381 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1382 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1384 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1385 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1386 hammering the server.
1388 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1389 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1391 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1393 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1394 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1395 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1397 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1398 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1399 one case where this was not true.
1401 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1402 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1403 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1404 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1407 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1408 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1409 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1410 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1411 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1412 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1413 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1414 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1415 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1418 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1419 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1420 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1421 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1423 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1424 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1426 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1427 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1428 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1430 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1432 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1434 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1436 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1437 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1438 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1439 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1441 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1442 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1444 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1445 be meaningful with "accept".
1447 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1448 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1450 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1451 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1452 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1454 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1455 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1456 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1457 there is data to show.
1458 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1460 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1461 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1462 as well as the number of messages.
1464 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1465 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1466 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1468 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1469 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1470 have a flag are now skipped.
1472 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1473 Added the -emptyok flag.
1475 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1476 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1478 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1479 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1480 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1482 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1485 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1486 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1488 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1490 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1491 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1493 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1495 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1496 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1497 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1498 contravention of the specifications.
1500 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1501 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1502 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
1504 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1505 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1506 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1508 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1510 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1511 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1512 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1513 some point in the past.
1515 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1516 transport during callout processing was broken.
1518 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1519 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1521 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1522 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1524 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1525 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1527 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1533 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1534 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1536 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1537 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1538 there is data to show.
1539 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1541 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1542 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1544 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1545 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
1547 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1548 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
1550 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1551 submissions from trusted users.
1553 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1554 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1556 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1557 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1558 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1559 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1560 there is now a framework to start from.
1562 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1563 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1564 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1566 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1568 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1570 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1572 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1573 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1574 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1576 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1579 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1580 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1581 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1583 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1584 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1585 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1588 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1589 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1590 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1591 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1592 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1594 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1595 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1597 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1599 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1600 operations in malware.c.
1602 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1605 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1606 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1607 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1610 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1611 statements to "add_header".
1613 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1614 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1616 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1617 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1620 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
1624 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1625 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1626 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
1629 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1630 don't think Precedence: ever was.
1632 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1633 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1635 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1636 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1637 any possible encoding problems.
1639 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1640 but not after initializing Perl.
1642 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1643 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1644 apparently, which is not desirable.
1646 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1649 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1652 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1654 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1655 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1656 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1657 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1659 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1660 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1661 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1663 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1664 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1665 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1668 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1669 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1670 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1671 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1672 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1678 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1679 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1681 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1684 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1685 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1686 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1687 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1688 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1689 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1690 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1691 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1694 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1696 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1697 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1698 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1700 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1701 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1702 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1705 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1706 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1708 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1709 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1710 option (which defaults to 0600).
1712 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1714 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1715 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1716 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1717 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1718 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1719 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1720 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1722 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1728 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1729 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1730 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1731 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1732 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1733 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1736 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1737 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1739 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1741 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1742 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1743 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1744 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1745 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1748 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1749 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1751 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1752 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1753 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1754 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1755 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1757 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1758 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1759 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1760 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1762 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1763 be the same on different OS.
1765 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1768 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1769 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1771 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1774 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1775 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1776 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1777 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1778 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1779 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1782 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1783 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1784 when Exim was called.
1786 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1787 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1789 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1790 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1791 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1792 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1794 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1795 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1796 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1797 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1800 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1801 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1802 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1804 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1805 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1806 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1808 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1811 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1812 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1813 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1814 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1815 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1816 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1817 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1818 values from the SRV records were lost.
1820 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1821 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1822 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1824 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1825 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1826 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1828 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1829 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1830 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1831 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1832 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1833 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1834 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1835 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1836 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
1837 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
1839 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1840 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1841 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1843 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1844 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1846 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1847 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1848 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1849 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1852 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1853 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1854 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1856 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1857 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1858 PH/23 above applies.
1860 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1861 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1862 (for which there is an explicit test).
1864 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1866 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1867 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1868 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1869 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1870 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1872 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1873 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1874 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1875 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1877 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1878 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1879 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1881 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1883 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1885 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1886 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1887 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1889 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1890 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1891 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1892 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1893 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1895 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1896 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1897 the message gets confusing).
1899 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1900 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1901 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1902 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1904 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1905 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1906 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1907 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1910 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1911 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1912 the different processes.
1914 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1916 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1918 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1919 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1921 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1922 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1924 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1925 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1926 messages matching specified criteria.
1928 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1930 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1931 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1933 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1934 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1935 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1936 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1937 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1938 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1939 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1940 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1941 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1942 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1944 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1945 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1946 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1948 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1950 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1951 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1952 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1953 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1954 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1955 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1956 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1959 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1960 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1962 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1964 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1966 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1968 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1969 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1970 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1971 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1972 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1973 size of the count of files.
1975 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1977 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1980 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1981 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1982 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1983 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1985 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1986 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1987 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1989 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1990 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1991 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1992 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1993 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1995 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1996 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1998 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1999 will now be deprecated.
2001 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2003 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2004 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2005 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2007 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2008 with very large, slow to parse queues
2010 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2012 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2014 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2015 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2016 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2019 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2020 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2021 Sieve code now uses this.
2023 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2024 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2026 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2027 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2029 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2031 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2032 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2033 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2034 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2035 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2037 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2038 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2039 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2040 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2042 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2044 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2046 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2047 is preferred over IPv4.
2049 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2050 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2051 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2052 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2053 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2054 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2055 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2057 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2058 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2059 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2061 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2063 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2064 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2065 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2066 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2067 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2068 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2069 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2070 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2071 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2072 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2073 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2075 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2076 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2077 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2083 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2085 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2086 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2088 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2089 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2090 statements are most likely to be submissions.
2092 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2094 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2097 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2100 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2101 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2102 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2105 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2106 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2108 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2109 inside the third argument.
2111 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2112 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2115 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2116 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
2118 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2119 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2121 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2123 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2124 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2127 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2129 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2130 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2131 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2132 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2133 identical. For example:
2135 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2137 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2138 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2139 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2141 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2142 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2143 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2144 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2146 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2147 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2148 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2151 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2153 o fixes some comments
2154 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2155 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2156 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2157 and documents the missing references header update
2161 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2162 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2165 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2166 Electronic Mail") by including:
2168 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2170 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2171 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2172 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2173 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2174 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2176 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2178 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2180 The auto-replied keyword:
2182 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2183 message by an automatic process,
2185 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2187 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2188 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2190 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2191 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2194 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2195 to the default Received: header definition.
2197 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2199 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2200 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2201 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2203 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2204 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2205 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2207 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2208 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2209 and treats the condition as false.
2211 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2213 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2214 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2215 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2216 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2217 not changing the active code.
2219 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2220 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2222 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2223 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2225 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2228 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2229 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2230 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2231 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2232 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2233 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2234 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2235 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2236 the text comparison.
2238 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2239 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2240 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2241 The same fix has been applied.
2247 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2248 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2251 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2252 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2254 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2256 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2257 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2258 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2259 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2260 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2262 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2263 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2264 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2265 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2268 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2276 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2277 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2279 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2281 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2283 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2284 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2285 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2287 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2288 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2289 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2291 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2292 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2295 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2296 ${stat: expansion item.
2298 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2299 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2301 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2302 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2305 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2307 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2310 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2311 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2313 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2315 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2316 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2317 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2318 the end of the subprocess.
2320 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2321 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2322 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2323 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2324 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2326 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2328 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2330 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2331 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2333 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2335 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2337 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2338 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2341 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2343 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2344 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2345 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2347 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2348 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2350 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2351 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2353 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2354 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2356 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2357 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2359 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2360 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2361 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2362 contributed by a Radius user.
2364 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2365 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2367 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2368 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2370 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2373 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2374 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2377 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2378 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2379 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2380 header lines when this was not necessary.
2382 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2384 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2385 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2386 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2389 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2392 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2393 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
2394 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2395 return code was incorrect.
2397 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2399 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2401 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2403 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2405 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2406 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2407 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2408 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2409 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2412 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2414 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2415 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2416 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2417 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2418 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2419 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2420 which is clearly wrong.
2422 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2424 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2425 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2426 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2429 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2430 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2432 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2434 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2435 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2437 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2438 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2440 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2441 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2443 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2444 recipients, not senders.
2446 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2447 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2449 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2451 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2453 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2454 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2455 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2456 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2458 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2460 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2461 clock is set back in time.
2463 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2464 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2466 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2467 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2469 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2470 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2473 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2474 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2477 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2480 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2482 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2483 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2484 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2486 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2487 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2488 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2489 helo verification defer as a failure.
2491 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2492 actual error message.
2498 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2500 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2501 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2502 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2503 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2505 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2507 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2508 can still be requested.
2510 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2511 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2512 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2513 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2515 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2516 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2517 circumstances, but probably never did.
2519 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2520 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2521 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2524 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2526 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2527 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
2529 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2531 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2533 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2534 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2535 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2536 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2537 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2538 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
2540 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2541 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2542 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2543 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2544 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2545 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2547 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2548 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2550 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2551 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2553 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2554 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2556 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2558 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2560 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2562 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2564 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2566 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2568 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2570 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2571 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2572 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2574 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2575 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2576 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2577 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2579 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2580 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2581 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2583 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2584 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2585 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2586 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2588 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2589 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2592 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2593 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2594 should work with maildirs and everything.
2596 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2597 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2599 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2602 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2603 function for BDB 4.3.
2605 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2607 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2608 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2611 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2612 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2613 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
2614 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2615 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2616 formatting function string_vformat().
2618 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2619 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2620 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2621 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2622 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2623 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2624 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2625 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2627 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2628 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2631 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2632 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2634 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2635 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2636 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2637 test. It is now used for both.
2639 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2640 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2641 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2642 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2643 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2644 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2646 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2647 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2648 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2651 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2652 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2653 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
2655 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2656 experimental DomainKeys support:
2658 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2659 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2660 the control was given.
2662 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2664 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2666 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2668 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2669 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2670 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2673 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
2674 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2675 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2676 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2677 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2678 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2681 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2682 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2683 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2684 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2685 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2686 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2688 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2689 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2690 do -d+all out of habit.
2692 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2693 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2696 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2697 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2698 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2699 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2700 record types that Exim uses.
2702 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2703 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2704 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2705 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2706 non-existent file that was broken.
2708 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2709 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2711 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2712 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2713 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2715 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2717 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2718 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2719 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2720 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2721 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2724 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2725 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2726 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2727 at a slight CPU cost.
2729 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2730 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2732 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2735 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2737 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2738 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2744 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2745 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2747 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
2749 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2751 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2752 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2754 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2755 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2756 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2757 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2758 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2759 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2762 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2763 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2764 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2765 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2768 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2769 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2770 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2771 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2772 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2773 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2774 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
2777 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2778 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2780 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2781 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2782 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2783 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2784 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2785 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2787 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2788 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2789 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2790 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2792 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2795 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2796 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
2798 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2799 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
2800 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2801 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2804 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2806 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2807 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2809 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2810 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2811 to what was transported.)
2813 TF/01 Added $received_time.
2815 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2816 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2817 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2818 spamd_address settings.
2820 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2821 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2822 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2823 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2824 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2826 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2828 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2829 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2830 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2831 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2832 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2834 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2835 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2837 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2838 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2839 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2840 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2841 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2842 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2843 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2846 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2847 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2848 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2849 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2850 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2851 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2852 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2855 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2857 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2858 driver and ACL definitions.
2860 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2861 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2863 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2864 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2865 understands it better than I do:
2867 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2868 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2870 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2871 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2872 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2873 => three warnings about OTP not working
2874 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2876 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2877 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2878 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2879 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2881 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2882 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2884 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2885 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2886 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2888 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2889 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2892 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2893 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2896 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2897 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2898 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2900 warn !verify = sender
2901 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2903 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2904 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2906 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2908 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2909 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2911 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2912 nomenclature these days.)
2914 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2915 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2917 PH/30 In these circumstances:
2918 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2919 . First host does not offer TLS;
2920 . First host accepts first address;
2921 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2922 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2923 . Second host accepts second address.
2924 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2925 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2928 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2929 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2930 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2931 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2932 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2934 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2935 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2937 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2938 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
2940 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2941 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2942 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2944 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2945 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2948 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2950 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2951 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2952 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2953 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2954 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2955 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2956 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2958 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2959 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2960 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2961 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2962 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2964 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2965 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2968 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2969 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2970 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2971 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2972 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2973 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2975 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2977 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2978 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2979 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2980 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2981 printable escape sequences.
2983 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2984 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2987 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2988 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2991 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2992 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2993 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2994 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2995 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2997 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2998 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2999 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3001 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3003 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3004 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3007 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3008 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3009 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3010 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3011 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3012 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3013 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3014 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3015 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3018 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3019 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3020 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3021 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3025 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3026 ----------------------------------------
3028 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3029 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3030 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3031 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3032 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3033 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3036 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
3037 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3038 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3039 historical information.
3045 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3047 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3048 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3050 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3051 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3054 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3055 filter fails to execute.
3057 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3058 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3059 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3060 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3061 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3063 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3065 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3066 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3067 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3068 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3070 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3071 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3072 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3073 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3074 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3076 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3078 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3080 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3081 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3082 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3083 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3085 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3086 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3087 sender verification.
3089 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3090 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3092 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3094 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3097 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3098 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3100 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3101 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3103 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3104 information about exactly what failed.
3106 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3108 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3109 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3110 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3112 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3113 It is now set to "smtps".
3115 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3116 ignore_target_hosts.
3118 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3119 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3120 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3121 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3124 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3125 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3126 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3128 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3129 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3130 wake it up if nothing else does.
3132 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3133 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3134 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3137 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3138 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3140 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3142 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3143 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3144 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3145 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3146 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3147 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3148 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3149 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3151 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3152 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3153 than one IP address.
3155 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3156 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3157 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3158 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3160 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3161 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3162 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3163 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3164 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3167 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3168 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3169 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3170 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3172 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3173 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3176 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3177 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3178 $sender_host_address.
3180 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3181 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3182 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3183 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3184 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3187 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3189 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3190 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3192 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3193 just the host names, not the priorities.
3195 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
3196 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3197 controlled by a keyword.
3199 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
3200 multiple records are returned.
3202 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3203 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3206 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3208 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3209 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3211 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3212 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3213 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3215 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3217 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3219 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3221 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3222 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3223 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3224 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3225 because the tests only now provoked it.
3227 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3228 (this can affect the format of dates).
3230 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3231 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3232 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3233 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3235 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3237 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3238 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3239 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3240 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3242 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3243 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3244 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3246 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3249 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3250 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3251 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3252 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3253 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3254 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3257 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3258 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3259 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3262 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3263 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3264 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3266 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3267 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3268 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3269 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3270 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3271 so I produce this patch..."
3273 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3274 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3277 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3278 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3279 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3280 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3283 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3285 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3286 long debug lines gets shown.
3288 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3289 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3291 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3293 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3294 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3295 of $primary_hostname.
3297 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3298 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3299 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3300 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3301 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3302 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3303 by change 4.50/55 above.
3305 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3306 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3307 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3308 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3309 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3310 running as the user.
3313 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3314 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3315 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3318 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3319 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3321 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3322 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3323 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3324 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3325 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3327 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3328 This has been fixed.
3330 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3331 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3332 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3333 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3336 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3338 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3339 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3340 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3341 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3343 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3344 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3346 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3347 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3348 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3350 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3351 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3352 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3355 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3356 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3357 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3359 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3360 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3361 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3362 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3364 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3365 during host lookups.
3367 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3368 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3370 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3372 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3373 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3374 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3375 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3376 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3379 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3380 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3382 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3383 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3384 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3386 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3388 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3389 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3390 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3391 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3392 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3393 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3396 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3397 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3398 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3399 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3400 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3402 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3405 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3407 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3408 "vacation" handling.
3410 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3411 OS variants using glibc.
3413 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3416 ----------------------------------------------------
3417 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3418 ----------------------------------------------------
3424 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3425 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3428 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3429 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3432 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3433 filter fails to execute.
3435 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3436 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3437 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3438 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3439 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3441 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3442 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3443 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3444 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3446 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3447 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3448 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3449 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3450 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3452 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3454 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3455 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3456 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3457 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3459 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3460 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3461 sender verification.
3463 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3464 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3466 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3467 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3469 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3470 ignore_target_hosts.
3472 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3473 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3474 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3475 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3478 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3479 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3480 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3482 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3483 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3484 wake it up if nothing else does.
3486 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3487 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3488 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3491 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3492 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3494 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
3496 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3497 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3500 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3501 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3504 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3505 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3506 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3507 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3508 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3511 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3512 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3515 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3516 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3517 $sender_host_address.
3519 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3521 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3522 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3523 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3525 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
3528 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3529 (this can affect the format of dates).
3531 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3532 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3533 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3534 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3536 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3537 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3538 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3540 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3541 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3542 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3543 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3545 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3546 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3547 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3549 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3552 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3553 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3554 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3555 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3556 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3557 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3560 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3561 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3562 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3563 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3566 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3567 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3568 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3569 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3570 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3571 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3572 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3574 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3575 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3576 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3577 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3578 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3579 running as the user.
3582 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3583 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3584 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3587 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3588 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3589 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3590 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3591 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3593 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3594 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3595 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3596 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3599 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3600 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3601 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3602 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3603 because the tests only now provoked it.
3609 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3610 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3611 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3612 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3613 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3614 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3615 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3617 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3618 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3621 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3623 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3625 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3626 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3629 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3630 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3631 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3632 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3633 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3635 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3636 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3638 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3640 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3642 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3645 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3646 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3648 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3649 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3650 affecting debugging statements).
3652 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3654 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3655 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3656 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3657 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3658 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3659 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3660 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3661 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3662 after the received time, and all would be well.
3664 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3665 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3666 condition in an expansion string.
3668 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3670 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3671 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3672 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3673 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3674 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3675 job under whatever limits there are.
3677 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3679 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3682 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3683 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3684 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3685 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3688 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3689 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3690 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3691 binary data in such strings.
3693 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3695 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3696 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3697 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3698 failure, which is pointless.
3700 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3702 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3704 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3705 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3706 Sender: header lines.
3708 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3709 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3710 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3712 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3713 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3714 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3715 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3716 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3719 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3720 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3721 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3722 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3723 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3725 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3726 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3727 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3730 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3731 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3733 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3734 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3736 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3738 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3740 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3742 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3745 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3747 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3749 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3750 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3751 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3752 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3754 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3755 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3761 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3762 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3763 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3765 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3766 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3767 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3768 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3769 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3770 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3772 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3773 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3774 verification failure".
3776 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3777 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3778 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3779 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3781 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3782 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3783 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3784 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3785 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3786 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3787 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3788 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3789 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3790 treated as a timeout.
3792 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3793 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3794 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3795 not set for Exim filters).
3797 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3798 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3799 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3801 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3803 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3804 try to make them clearer.
3806 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3807 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3809 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3811 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3813 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3814 only the Cygwin environment.
3816 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3817 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3818 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3819 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3820 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3822 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3823 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3824 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3825 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3826 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3827 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3828 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3830 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3831 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3833 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3835 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3836 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3837 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3839 To: susanne@some.where
3841 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3842 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3843 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3844 of addresses in From: header lines).
3846 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3847 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3848 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3850 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3851 treated as non-personal.
3853 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3854 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3856 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3858 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3860 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3861 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3862 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3864 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3865 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3867 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3868 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3869 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3870 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3871 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3872 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3874 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3875 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3876 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3877 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3878 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3879 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3880 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3881 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3883 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3885 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3886 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3888 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3889 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3890 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3892 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3893 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3895 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3896 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3897 rather than long int.
3899 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3901 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3907 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3908 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3909 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3910 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3911 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3912 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3918 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3919 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3921 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3922 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3923 socklen_t is defined.
3925 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3928 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3931 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3932 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3933 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3934 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3935 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3937 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3938 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3939 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3940 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3942 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3943 of flapping under certain conditions.
3945 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3946 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3947 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3949 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3951 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3953 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3954 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3955 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3956 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3958 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3959 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3960 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3961 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3962 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3963 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3964 preserved with the message after it was received.
3966 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3967 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3968 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3969 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3970 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3971 test suite worked just fine.
3973 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3974 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3975 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3977 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3978 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3981 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3982 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3983 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3984 does not fully solve it.
3986 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3987 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3988 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3989 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3990 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3992 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3993 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3994 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3996 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3997 string, for example:
3999 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4001 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4002 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4003 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4004 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4005 the routers could not see them.
4007 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4008 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4010 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4011 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4014 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4015 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4016 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4017 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4018 that needed quoting.
4020 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4021 was not being matched caselessly.
4023 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4026 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4027 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4028 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4029 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4030 when use_sender is false.
4032 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4034 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4036 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4038 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4039 the configuration file.
4041 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4042 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4044 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4046 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4047 bytes in the message body.
4049 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4050 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4053 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4055 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4057 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4058 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4059 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4060 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4067 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4068 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4070 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4071 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4072 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4073 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4074 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4076 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4077 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4079 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4080 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4081 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4083 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4084 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4085 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4087 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4090 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4091 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4092 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4093 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4094 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4095 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4096 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4102 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4103 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4104 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4105 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4106 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4107 default (and expected) setting.
4109 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4110 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4111 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4112 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4114 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4115 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4117 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4120 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4121 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4122 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4123 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4124 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4125 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4127 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4128 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4129 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4131 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4132 part (NOT match_host).
4134 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4136 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4137 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4138 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4139 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4140 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4141 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4142 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4143 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4144 the same named file.
4146 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4147 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4150 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4151 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4152 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4153 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4156 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4157 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4158 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4160 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4162 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4164 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4166 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4167 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4169 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4170 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4171 before starting the TLS session.
4173 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4175 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4176 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4178 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4179 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4180 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4181 colon in the middle).
4187 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4188 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4189 multiple configurations are in use.
4191 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4192 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4193 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4194 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4195 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4196 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4198 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4199 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4201 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4202 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4203 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4205 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4206 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4209 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4210 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4212 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4214 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4215 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4217 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4225 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4226 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4227 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4228 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4229 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4231 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4234 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4235 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4236 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4237 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4238 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4239 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4241 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4242 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4243 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4244 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4245 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4246 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4247 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4250 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4251 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4252 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4253 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4254 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4256 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4258 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4259 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4260 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4262 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4264 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4265 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4266 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4269 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4270 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4272 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4273 Three changes have been made:
4275 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4276 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4277 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4278 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4279 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4281 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4284 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4285 the modified behaviour.
4291 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4294 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4295 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4297 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4298 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4299 try to track down a specific problem.
4301 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4302 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4303 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4305 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4308 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4309 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4310 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4311 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4312 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4313 some earlier ones do not.
4315 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4317 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4318 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4319 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4320 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4321 address literals are enabled, of course).
4323 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4325 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4326 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4327 by a command such as
4331 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4333 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4335 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4336 remained set. It is now erased.
4338 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4339 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4341 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4342 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4343 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4344 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4345 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4346 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4347 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4348 appropriate error code.
4350 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4351 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4352 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4353 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4354 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4355 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4357 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4358 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4359 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4361 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4362 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4363 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4364 terminate the header.
4366 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4367 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4368 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4370 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4371 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4372 (4.30/29). In particular:
4374 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4377 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4378 to write a maildirsize file.
4380 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4381 the transport, the new value overrides.
4383 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4386 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4387 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4388 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4391 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4392 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4393 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4396 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4397 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4398 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4400 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4401 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4404 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4405 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4406 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4408 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4410 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4412 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4414 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4415 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4418 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4419 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4420 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4421 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4422 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4423 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4424 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4427 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4428 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4429 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4430 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4431 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4434 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4435 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4436 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4437 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4438 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4439 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4440 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4441 cached value only when the same options are set.
4443 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4445 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4446 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4447 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4448 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4449 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4451 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4452 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4453 it is clearly obsolete.
4455 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4458 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4459 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4460 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4463 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4464 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4465 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4466 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4467 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4469 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4470 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4471 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4472 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4474 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4476 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4478 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4479 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4482 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4483 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4484 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4485 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4486 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4487 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4490 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4491 with the -f command-line option.
4493 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4494 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4495 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4496 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4497 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4498 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4500 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4501 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4504 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4505 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4506 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4507 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4508 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4509 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4510 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4511 buffer is too small.
4513 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4514 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4516 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4517 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4518 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4519 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4520 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4521 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4522 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4523 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4524 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4526 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4527 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4528 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4530 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4531 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4534 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4535 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4536 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4537 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4538 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4540 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4541 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4542 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4543 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4546 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4548 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4550 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4551 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4553 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4554 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4555 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4557 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4558 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4559 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4560 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4561 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4563 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4564 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4565 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4566 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4567 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4568 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4569 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4571 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4572 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4573 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4574 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4575 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4576 the test of how many are available.
4578 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4579 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4580 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4581 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4582 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4583 new message is started.
4585 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4586 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4588 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4589 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4591 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4592 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4593 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4596 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4597 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4598 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4599 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4600 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4601 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4602 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4604 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4605 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4606 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4607 interpreted as octal.
4609 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4612 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4613 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4614 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4615 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4616 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4617 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4619 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4620 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4621 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4622 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4624 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4625 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4626 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4627 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4629 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4630 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4633 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4634 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4636 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4638 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4639 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4640 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4641 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4643 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4644 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4645 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4646 supplied", which is not helpful.
4648 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4649 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4650 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4652 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4653 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4654 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4655 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4656 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4657 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4658 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4659 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4661 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4662 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4663 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4664 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4665 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4667 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4668 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4669 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4670 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4671 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4672 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4674 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4675 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4676 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4678 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
4680 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4681 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4682 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4685 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4687 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4688 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4689 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4690 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4691 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4692 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4693 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4694 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4696 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4697 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4698 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4699 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4700 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4702 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4705 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4706 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4707 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4708 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4709 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4710 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4711 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4712 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4713 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4719 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4720 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4721 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4723 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4726 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4727 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4728 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4730 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4731 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4732 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4733 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4734 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4735 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4737 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4738 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4739 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4740 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4741 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4742 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4743 the Exim test suite.
4745 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4746 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4747 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4748 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4750 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4751 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4752 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4753 specify it in this variable.
4755 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4756 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4757 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4758 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4760 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4761 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4762 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4763 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4765 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4766 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4767 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4768 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4769 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4771 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4773 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4776 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4777 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4778 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4779 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4780 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4782 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4783 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4785 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4786 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4787 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4788 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4789 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4791 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4792 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4794 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4795 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4796 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4798 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4799 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4801 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4802 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4804 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4805 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4806 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4808 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4809 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4811 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4812 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4813 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4814 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4816 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4818 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4819 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4820 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4821 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4823 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4825 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4826 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4828 25. Added .include_if_exists.
4830 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4831 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4832 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4833 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4834 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4835 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4837 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4839 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4840 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4843 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4845 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4846 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4848 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4849 550 Sender verify failed
4851 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4852 the final line of the response.
4854 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4855 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4856 all other user lookups.
4858 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4861 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4862 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4863 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4864 result into an int without checking.
4866 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4867 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4868 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4870 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4871 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4872 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4873 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4875 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4878 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4879 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4881 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4882 to the empty sender.
4884 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4885 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4886 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4887 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4888 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4889 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4890 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4893 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4894 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4895 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4896 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4899 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4900 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4902 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4905 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4906 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4908 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4910 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4911 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4914 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4915 as soon as it is encountered.
4917 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4919 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4922 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4923 recognizes a tab character.
4925 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4926 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4927 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4928 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4930 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4932 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4935 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4937 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4939 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4940 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4943 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4944 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4945 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4946 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4947 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4949 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4950 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4952 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4953 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4954 list (.included file names were always shown).
4956 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4957 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4958 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4961 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4962 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4964 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4966 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4968 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4970 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4971 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4972 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4973 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4974 failures to open the logs.
4976 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4977 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4978 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4979 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4980 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4981 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4982 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4988 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4989 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4990 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4993 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4994 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4995 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4997 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4998 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4999 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5001 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5002 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5003 causing some misleading effects.
5005 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5006 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5007 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5009 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5010 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5011 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5012 queue-runner function directly.
5018 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5021 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5022 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5023 was always written to the default place.
5025 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5026 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5027 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5029 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5031 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5033 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5034 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5035 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5037 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5038 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5041 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5042 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5043 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5045 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5046 command line option is disabled.
5048 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5049 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5051 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5053 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5055 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5056 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5058 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5060 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5061 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5062 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5063 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5064 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5065 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5067 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5068 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5071 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5072 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5074 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5075 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5077 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5078 received was valid base64.
5080 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5081 name of the variable that was being set.
5083 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5085 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5086 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5087 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5088 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5089 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5090 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5092 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5094 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5095 nor realm was specified.
5097 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5098 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5099 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5100 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5102 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5103 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5104 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5106 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5107 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5108 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5110 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5111 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5112 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5113 some systems use these upper case variants.
5115 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5116 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5117 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5118 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5120 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5122 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5123 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5125 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5126 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5129 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5131 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5132 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5133 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5134 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5136 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5139 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5140 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5141 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5143 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5144 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5146 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5147 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5148 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5149 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5151 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5152 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5153 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5155 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5157 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5158 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5159 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5160 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5163 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5164 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5165 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5167 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5169 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5170 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5172 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5173 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5175 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5176 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5177 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5178 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5179 when emails are that large.
5186 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5187 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5189 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5190 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5191 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5193 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5194 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5195 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5197 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5198 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5199 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5200 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5201 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5203 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5204 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5205 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5206 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5207 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5210 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5211 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5212 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5213 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5214 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5215 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5216 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5217 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5218 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5219 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5220 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5221 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5222 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5223 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5225 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5226 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5229 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5230 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5231 error should be diagnosed.
5233 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5234 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5235 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5236 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5237 appeared instead of "NULL".
5239 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5240 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5241 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5242 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5243 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5244 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5247 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5248 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5249 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5255 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5256 or receiver verification errors.
5258 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5261 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5262 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5263 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5264 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5266 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5267 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5268 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5269 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5270 shouldn't happen again.
5272 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5273 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5274 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5276 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5277 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5279 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5281 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5282 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5284 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5285 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5288 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5289 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5290 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5292 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5293 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5294 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5295 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5297 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5298 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5299 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5300 to define what should happen).
5302 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5303 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5304 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5306 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5308 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5310 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5311 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5313 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5314 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5315 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5316 structure in all cases.
5318 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5319 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5320 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5321 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5323 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5324 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5327 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5328 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5330 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5331 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5333 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5334 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5335 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5337 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5338 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5339 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5341 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5342 the book and for uniformity.
5344 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5346 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5347 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5348 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5349 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5350 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5351 non-existent command as the problem.
5353 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5354 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5355 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5357 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5359 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5360 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5361 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5363 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5364 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5365 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5366 timestamps using strftime().
5368 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5369 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5371 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5372 transport-time rewrites.
5374 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5375 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5376 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5377 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5379 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5380 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5382 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5383 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5384 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5385 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5388 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5389 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5390 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5391 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5392 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5393 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5394 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5396 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5397 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5398 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5399 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5400 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5402 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5403 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5404 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5405 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5406 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5407 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5408 remaining text gets split now.
5410 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5411 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5412 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5413 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5415 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5416 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5417 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5418 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5421 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5422 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5423 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5424 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5425 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5426 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5427 passed through if needed.
5429 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5430 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5431 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5432 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5433 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5434 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5436 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5437 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5438 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5439 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5440 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5442 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5443 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5444 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5445 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5446 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5448 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5449 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5452 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5453 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5454 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5455 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5456 mayhem of various kinds.
5458 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5459 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5460 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5461 the right test for positive values.
5463 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5464 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5465 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5466 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5467 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5468 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5469 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5470 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5471 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5472 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5475 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5478 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5479 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5482 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5483 the existing equality matching.
5485 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5486 dealing with inode numbers.
5488 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5489 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5490 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5492 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5493 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5494 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5495 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5498 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5499 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5500 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5501 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5502 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5503 relay addresses has also been removed.
5505 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5507 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5508 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5509 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5511 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5512 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5513 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5514 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5515 processing applies to CR:
5517 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5518 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5520 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5521 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5522 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5523 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5525 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5526 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5527 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5529 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5530 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5531 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5532 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5533 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5534 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5537 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5540 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5541 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5542 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5543 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5546 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5548 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5550 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5552 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5553 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5554 not considered personal.
5556 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5558 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5560 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5562 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5563 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5564 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5565 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5566 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5567 header lines, and spool format errors.
5569 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5570 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5571 for more flexibility.
5573 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5574 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5575 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5577 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5580 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5581 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5582 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5583 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5584 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5585 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5586 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5587 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5588 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5590 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5591 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5592 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5593 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5594 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5595 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5596 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5598 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5599 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5600 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5602 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5603 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5604 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5605 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5606 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5607 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5608 instead of killing the process with assert().
5610 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5611 than Unicode encoding.
5613 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5614 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5615 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5616 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5618 77. Added process_log_path.
5620 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5621 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5623 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5624 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5626 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5627 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5628 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5630 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5631 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5632 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5633 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5634 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5637 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5638 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5641 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5642 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5643 they will be used during message reception.
5649 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.